Previous events in the Department of Economics 2023 3rd May - 3 May 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Basit Zafar26th April - 26 April 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Benn Jann19th April - 19 April 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Oliver Linton23rd March - 23 March 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Deborah Gefang22nd March - 22 March 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Laura Bakkensen15th March - 15 March 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Jennifer Alix-Garcia8th March - 8 March 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Michael Weber1st March - 1 March 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Banu Demir Pakel27th February - 27 February 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Nick Crafts14th February - 14 February 2023 - Alan Walters Lecture: Maragarita Rubio 2022 7th December - External Seminar: Jagjit Chadha (NIESR)30th November - External Seminar: Elisabeth Falk (Bundesbank)23rd November - External Seminar: Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California)9th November - External Seminar: Matthew Kahn (University of Southern California)3rd November - GREADS Seminar: Esfandiar Maasoumi (Emory University)2nd November - External Seminar: Colette Bowe (Bank of England - External Member FPC)1st November - (CANCELLED) External Seminar: David Levine (European University Institute)26th October - External Seminar: Ellen Muir (Harvard University)19th October - External Seminar: Aldo Rustichini (University of Minesota)12th October - External Seminar: Carol Propper (Imperial College London)6th October - External Seminar: John List (University of Chicago)28th September - External Seminar: Alessandro Citanna New York University - Abu Dhabi21st September - On the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Earnings and Consumption Heterogeneity6th-7th June - Workshop - University of Birmingham (UoB) – Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam Big Data and Economics Research Network (BVRN)27th May - Private Provision of Public Goods: the Case of the UK Security Sector13th May - Simulations on the impact on individuals of USS pension reforms5th May - GREADS Seminar: Jesus Otero (Universidad del Rosario)4th May - External Seminar: Barbara Rossi (University of Pompeu Fabra)27th April - External Seminar: Bestsey Stevenson (University of Michigan)5th April - Peter Sinclair Townhall Lecture: Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)30th March - External Seminar: Sangeeta Pratap (City University of New York)23rd March - External Seminar: Barbara Rossi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Barcelona School of Economics)22nd March - Macro and Finance Seminar: Pedro Bordalo (Oxford University)17th March - GREADS Seminar: Christopher Baum (Boston College)16th March - GREADS Seminar: Lorenzo Trapani (University of Nottingham)16th March - External Seminar: Rod Garrat (UC Santa Barbara)15th March - Macro and Finance Seminar: Caroline Flammer (Boston University)9th March - External Seminar: David Colander (Middlebury College)2nd March - External Seminar: Mary Amiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)1st March - Macro and Finance Seminar: Andreas Fuster (Swiss Finance Institute)24th February - GREADS Seminar: Laetitia Lepetit (Université de Limoges)23rd February - External Seminar: Wei Xiong (Princeton/Cambridge University)17th February - GREADS Seminar: Tomas Del Barrio Castro (The University of the Balearic Islands)16th February - External Seminar: Jacquelyn Pless (MIT)15th February - Macro and Finance Seminar: Martin Ellison (Oxford University)9th February - External Seminar: Anya Samek (UC San Diego)8th February - Macro and Finance Seminar: David Aikman (KCL)3rd February - GREADS Seminar: Nicolas Van de Sijpe (University of Sheffield)3rd February - TEDE Seminar: Thomas Sampson (LSE)2nd February - External Seminar: Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po)27th January - TEDE Seminar: Matthew Ives (Oxford University) 2021 15th December - External Seminar: Sevgi Yuksel (UC Santa Barbara)8th December - External Seminar: Xiaojian Zhao (Monash University)2nd December - GREADS Seminar: John Muellbauer (University of Oxford)2nd December - TEDE Seminar: Jie Bai (Associated Editor: JDE)1st December - ERiE Seminar: Martin Scheffel (University of Bonn)1st December - External Seminar: Theresa Kuchler (New York University)25th November - GREADS Seminar: Joakim Westerlund (Lund University)25th November - TEDE Seminar: Sanchayan Banerjee (LSE)24th November - External Seminar: Robert Mendelsohn (Yale University)18th November - GREADS Seminar: Vasilis Sarafidis (BI Norwegian School of Economics)18th November - TEDE Seminar: Ludovica Gazze (Warwick University)17th November - External Seminar: David Levine (European University Institute)10th November - External Seminar: Juan Dolado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)4th November - Macro and Finance Seminar: Carola Binder (Haverford College)4th November - TEDE Seminar: Hans Koster (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)3rd November - External Seminar: Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego)28th October - GREADS Seminar: Violeta Dalla (University of Athens)27th October - External Seminar: Marta Serra-Garcia (UC San Diego)20th October - Peter Sinclair Townhall Lecture: Charles Goodhart (London School of Economics)13th October - Maxwell Fry Lecture: Alec Chrystal (Bayes Business School)12th October - Macro and Finance Seminar: Kenza Benhima (HEC-Lausanne)5th October - External Seminar: Yueran Ma (Chicago Booth)20th July - Workshop on the Economic Response to Covid-192nd June - External Seminar Series: Leonardo Melosi (Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago)27th May - GREADS Seminar Series: Markus Eberhardt (University of Nottingham)19th May - External Seminar Series: Nicolai Kuminoff (Arizona State University)12th May - External Seminar Series: Robin Lumsdaine (American University, DC)11th May - Macro and Finance Seminar: Matteo Iacoviello (US Federal Reserve Board)28th April - External Seminar Series: Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M University)27th April - Macro and Finance Seminar: Lemma Senbet (University of Maryland)21st April - External Seminar Series: Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois U-C)20th April - Macro and Finance Seminar: Tony Cookson (University of Colorado, Boulder)26th March - Macro and Finance Seminar: Alberto Cavallo (Havard Business School)24th March - Peter Sinclair Town Hall: Rachel Griffith (IFS/ Uni of Manchester)18th March - The role of schools in SARS-CoV-2 transmission11th March - Firm-level Risk Exposures and Stock Returns in the Wake of COVID-1910th March - External Seminar Series: Yuriy Gorodnichenko (UC - Berkeley)9th March - Macro and Finance Seminar: Alminas Zaldokas (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)3rd March - External Seminar Series: Utku Unver (Boston College)11th February - Empirical Framework with Repeated Games with Random States9th February - Macro and Finance Seminar: Federico Di Pace (Bank of England)2nd February - Macro and Finance Seminar: Liyan Hong (Boston College)28th January - Birmingham Econometrics Research Group (BERG) Seminar: Shixuan Wang27th January - Transport Infrastructure Improvements and Spatial Sorting: Evidence from Buenos Aires26th January - Endogenous Growth with Employee Spinouts, Noncompetes and Creative Destruction21st January - Birmingham Econometrics Research Group (BERG) Seminar: Jan Ditzen19th January - A Trade Model of the Banking Sector14th January - Birmingham Econometrics Research Group (BERG) Seminar: Ovidijus Stauskas 2020 3rd December - What moves treasury yields?24th November - Does mining fuel bubbles? An experimental study on cryptocurrency markets (with Marco Lambrecht and Yilong Xu)17th November - Behavioural, Experimental & Data Science Network (BEADS) Seminar11th November - 'What does it mean to 'build back better' and how will we do it?' with Diane Coyle4th November - The Grandkids Aren't Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Pollution Exposure14th October - How to make the world add up: Tim Harford discusses the pitfalls and the cognitive tools we can use to think clearly about the economy.7th October - Measuring trends and persistence in capital and labor misallocation20th May - Behavioural, Experimental & Data Science Network (BEADS) Seminar6th-27th May - Macroeconomics and Finance Research Group Seminar May29th April - Trade, Environment, Development and Energy (TEDE) Research Group Seminar11th March - Microeconomics Research Seminar4th March - Macroeconomics and Finance Research Group Seminar12th February - Macroeconomics and Finance Research Group Seminar22nd January - Trade, Environment, Development and Energy (TEDE) Research Seminar 2019 20th November - Trade, Environment, Development and Energy (TEDE) Research Group Seminar6th November - Behavioural, Experimental & Data Science Network Seminar24th October - Urban Analytics Workshop22nd May - External Seminar: Florian Englmaier8th May - External Seminar: Dimitris Korobilis21st March - Econometrics Research Group Seminar: Yu Aoki19th March - TEDE Seminar13th March - External Seminar: Ben Groom6th March - External Seminar: Mike Price4th March - TEDE Workshop26th February - Macroeconomics and Finance Research Group seminar: Roland Winkler13th February - External Seminar: Cyril Monnet12th February - Exchange Rate Undershooting: Evidence and Theory6th February - Macroeconomics and Finance Research Group Seminar: Paul Mizen30th January - External Seminar: David Hendry17th January - Econometrics Research Group Seminar: Arturas Juodis16th January - External Seminar: Liya Palagashvili 2018 18th December - TEDE Workshop: Air Pollution in China12th December - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Ronny Razin4th December - Credit Crunches, Asset Prices and Technological Change29th November - Econometrics Research Group Seminar - Christos Ioannidis27th November - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Paul Beaudry21st November - Economic Theory and Behavioural Economics Seminar: Nika Koreli14th November - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Eyal Winter13th November - Dept of Economics Macro and Finance Research Group Seminar - Vito Polito7th November - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Jonathan Dingel1st November - Dept of Economics Experimental Seminar - Maja Adena31st October - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Andre Kurmann18th October - Econometrics Research Group Seminar: Dr Milda Norkute24th April - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Francesco Zanetti14th March - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Andrew Chesher12th March - Economics Internal Seminar Series: Jan Jozwik8th March - Econometrics Research Group Seminar: Dr Dooruj Rambaccussing7th March - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Stefano Bosi5th March - Economics Internal Seminar Series: Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay28th February - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Holger Breinlich26th February - Economics Internal Seminar Series: Yiannis Karavias22nd February - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Michael Vlassopoulos21st February - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Villeval Marie Claire19th February - Economics Internal Seminar Series: Raquel Ortega-Argilés15th February - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Yeliz Kaçamak14th February - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Hans-Theo Normann12th February - Economics Internal Seminar Series: Rebecca McDonald7th February - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Steve Machin5th February - Economics Internal Seminar Series: Michela Tincani1st February - Econometrics Research Group Seminar: Dr Francesco Bravo31st January - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Jim Malley29th January - Economics Internal Seminar Series: Amalia Di Girolamo24th January - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Dan Anderberg22nd January - Economics Internal Seminar Series: David Dickinson17th January - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Karl B Taylor15th January - Economics Internal Seminar Series: Wanyu Chung10th January - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series - Hans Koster 2016 30th November - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series: Makoto Shimoji24th November - Econometrics Research Group Seminar: Dr. Yongdeng Xu23rd November - Economic Theory and Behaviour Research Group Seminar: Afrasiab Mirza23rd November - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series: Liang Bai17th November - Econometrics Research Group Seminar: Dr. Nicky Grant16th November - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series: Thijs Van Rens10th November - Econometrics Research Group Seminar: Dr. Sotirios Kokas9th November - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series: Piero Gottardi8th November - Macro and Finance Research Group Seminar: Christoph Thoenissen7th November - Good Data Gone Bad: playing fast and loose with data!2nd November - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series: Mike Clements21st March - Institution and Firm Innovation14th March - A Dynamic Factor Model of Interest Rate Pass Through for four Large Euro Area Countries9th March - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series: Sujoy Mukerji8th March - Covariance forecasting in European equity markets7th March - In-house intangible capital; Firm-level evidence from UK manufacturing2nd March - Dept of Economics External Seminar Series: Andreas Lange1st March - Econometrics Seminar Series: Real-Time Data should be used in Forecasting Output Growth and Recessionary Events in the US 2015 12th November - Should Britain remain in the EU? A panel discussion9th November - Media and Political Positioning29th April - Prospects for Property Tax Reform: Sanity at Last?11th February - Geography, Ties, and Knowledge Flows: Evidence from Citations in Mathematics 2014 7th November - Crime, Policing and the Community15th October - Why London dominates and what the rest of the country should do about it?23rd May - Environmental and Energy Economics and Management (EEEM) research cluster's internal workshop15th February - Birmingham Macroeconomics and Econometrics Conference 2014 - Call for Papers5th February - Martin Wolf - "The Shift and the Shocks: lessons of the global financial crisis"22nd January - Professor Stephen Nickell - "Fiscal Responsibility in the UK" 2013 23rd October - Professor Rob Elliott inaugural lecture8th October - Military Conflict and the Economic Rise of Urban Europe1st May - Brit Grosskopf Inaugural lecture8th February - Macroeconomics and Econometrics Conference Call for Papers4th February - Prof Al Roth, Nobel Prize Winner - Guest Lecture29th January - Guest Lecture - David Smith Economics Editor of the Sunday Times 2011 26th October - Informality, Corruption and Inequality19th October - Setting the Right Example: A Signaling Theory of Parental Behaviour22nd-23rd September - Lessons from the Japanese Economic Experience