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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)