Name: Francois Lafond
INET Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Thursday 7 March 2019

Can stimulating demand drive costs down? World War II as a natural experiment
Date: 7 March 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Venue: Eagle House, Walton Well Road OX2 6ED
Venue Details: INET Oxford Ground Floor meeting room
Organiser: Susan Mousley (INET Oxford Admin Team)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2019

Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach with the Lévy alpha stable distribution
Date: 5 December 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar room A
Organiser: Susan Mousley (INET Oxford Admin Team)
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is hosting:

Wednesday 19 October 2022

Modeling the microstructure and dynamics of complex technological systems
Date: 19 October 2022, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Sabine Brunswicker (Purdue University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organiser: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford)
Hosts: Francois Lafond (INET Oxford), Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 16 November 2022

Stranded economies? Green transition opportunities for brown industries
Date: 16 November 2022, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Pia Andres (Oxford Martin School / LSE)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organiser: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford)
Hosts: Francois Lafond (INET Oxford), Prof. Doyne Farmer

Thursday 24 November 2022

Rethinking economic complexity measures
Date: 24 November 2022, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Dr Muhammed A. Yildirim (Harvard University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organiser: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford)
Hosts: Francois Lafond (INET Oxford), Prof. Doyne Farmer

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 28 June 2018

Contagious disruptions and complexity traps in economic development
Date: 28 June 2018, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Prof Fernando Vega-Redondo (Bocconi University)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organiser: Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 2 November 2022

Rising temperatures, falling ratings: the effect of climate change on sovereign creditworthiness
Date: 2 November 2022, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Matthew Agarwala (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G or register to join online via Zoom
Organisers: Francois Lafond (INET Oxford), Prof. Doyne Farmer
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 1 March 2023

Inventing modern invention: the professionalization of technological progress in the US
Date: 1 March 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Frank Neffke (Complexity Science Hub Vienna)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 26 April 2023

Climate risks, investors’ expectations and financial stability
Date: 26 April 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Monday 15 May 2023

Data-driven agent-based modeling of the Hungarian housing market
Date: 15 May 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 17 May 2023

Income inequality in general equilibrium
Date: 17 May 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 24 May 2023

GNAR-edge model: A network autoregressive model for networks with time-varying edge weights
Date: 24 May 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 18 October 2023

The determinants of R&D decisions and the productivity growth effects of R&D policies
Date: 18 October 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Michael König ((VU Amsterdam))
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 25 October 2023

Using input-output modelling for WISE analysis
Date: 25 October 2023, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Kirsten Wiebe (SINTEF)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 1 November 2023

Beyond S-curves: review of machine learning approaches for technology forecasting
Date: 1 November 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Angelika Romanou (EPFL)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 8 November 2023

Aggregate demand and the Phillips curve
Date: 8 November 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Francois Geerolf (Sciences Po)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 15 November 2023

Narrative detection with language and graph models
Date: 15 November 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Michael McMahon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 31 January 2024

Network-based allocation of responsibility for GHG emissions
Date: 31 January 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Rosa van den Ende (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 7 February 2024

Carbon home bias
Date: 7 February 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Patrick Bolton (Imperial College London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Granular technologies to accelerate decarbonisation
Date: 28 February 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Prof Charlie Wilson (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxfordcharlie)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 1 May 2024

Financial regulation and supervision in a complex world: how can we green the financial system for nature?
Date: 1 May 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Nicola Ranger (Director of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 8 May 2024

Economic Complexity and geographical scales
Date: 8 May 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Andrea Tacchella (Enrico Fermi Research Center)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 15 May 2024

Timeliness criticality: A(n endogenous) mechanism for the “excess volatility puzzle”?
Date: 15 May 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Deb Panja (Utrecht University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Thursday 30 May 2024

How to behave in a complex open-ended environment?
Date: 30 May 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 23 October 2024

Evidence of a cascading positive tipping point towards electric vehicles
Date: 23 October 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Jean-Francois Mercure (University of Exeter)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Professor Doyne Farmer (INET Oxford)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

The realities of climate change transition in emerging markets: a practitioner’s perspective
Date: 30 October 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ekaterina Gratcheva
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: MRB Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Professor Doyne Farmer (INET Oxford)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

Agent-based models for policy – past, present, future
Date: 6 November 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Arzu Uluc (Bank of England)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Professor Doyne Farmer (INET Oxford)

Wednesday 13 November 2024

Pushing the model boundary: developing the approach to integrated assessment modelling
Date: 13 November 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Prof Steve Pye (UCL)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Professor Doyne Farmer (INET Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2024

Macro-financial transition risks along mitigation pathways: evidence from a hybrid agent-based integrated assessment model
Date: 20 November 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Francesco Lamperti (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa))
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Professor Doyne Farmer (INET Oxford)

Wednesday 22 January 2025

AI-generated production networks: Measurement and applications to global trade
Date: 22 January 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Prof Thiemo Fetzer (University of Warwick / University of Bonn)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 29 January 2025

Climate-induced cross-border migration at global scales
Date: 29 January 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Leonie Wenz (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 12 February 2025

Is science inevitable?
Date: 12 February 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Lingfei Wu (University of Pittsburgh)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 26 February 2025

Machine learning for economic ABMs: From fast calibration to AI-agents
Date: 26 February 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Aldo Glielmo (Bank of Italy)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Classical-evolutionary technological change
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Eric Kemp-Benedict (University of Leeds)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Prevention first vs. cap-and-trade policies in an agent-based integrated assessment model with GHG emissions
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Lilit Popoyan (Queen Mary University London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Macro-financial dynamics in energy transitions: a stock-flow consistent, input-output approach
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Andrew Jackson (University of Surrey)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 4 June 2025

The trouble with rational expectations in heterogeneous agent models: A challenge for macroeconomics
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Wednesday 22 October 2025

Uncovering utility functions from observational data
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Marta Grzeskiewicz (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Cities for everyone
Date: 12 November 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Rafael Prieto-Curiel (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Professor Doyne Farmer (INET Oxford)

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Mission analysis – how does the UK government model the transition to Clean Power 2030 and Accelerate to Net Zero by 2050, perspectives from the Chief Economist
Date: 3 December 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Donna Leong (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Hosts: TBA