Academic Year 2012 - 2013
Internal Seminars take place on Mondays 12:00-13:00 in Economics Seminar Room C of the J.G. Smith building with a buffet lunch.
Autumn Term
1st October - Marco G Ercolani
"Convergence in crime rates across Police Force Areas of England and Wales: 1992-2010"
8th October - Kamilya Suleymenova
"Institutional transition, institutional distance and corruption"
15th October - Afrasiab Mirza
"Dynamic Prudential Regulation"
22nd October - James Reade
"Polls, Prediction Markets and US Political Elections"
29th October - Emiliya Lazarova
"'Should I Stay or Should I Go?' and Paths to Stability: An Exploratory Study"
5th November - Martin Kaae Jensen
"Distributional Comparative Statics"
12th November - Giovanna d'Adda
"Institutional Quality, Culture and Norms of Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Italy and Kosovo"
19th November - Christoph Görtz
“News and Financial Intermediation in Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations”
26th November - William Pouliot
"Testing for breaks in the intercept of linear regression models: which tests are better?"
3rd December - Alessandra Guariglia
"A balancing act: managing financial constraints and agency costs to minimize investment inefficiency in the Chinese market" (with J. Yang)
Spring Term
21st January - Pei Kuang
"Learning Dynamics with Data (Quasi-)differencing”
28th January - David G Dickinson
“Investigating the Impact of Non Performing Loans on Bank Lending using a Threshold Model”
4th February - John Regan
"The Effects of Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Randomized Field Experiment”
11th February - Giovanni Calice
"A Regime-Dependent Component Analysis of the CDS Index Term Premium: Evidence from the Financial Crisis"
18th February - Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay
"Political entry and coalition formation"
25th February - Corrado Di Maria
"Market Deregulation, Risk and Contract Choice in Coal-Fired Electricity Generation"
4th March - Marco Ercolani
"(Re)watching the watchmen: A statistical analysis of mark consistency across taught modules"
11th March - Rosa Fernandez
"Green Budgeting in Spain: A lost opportunity?"
