• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: Department of Economics

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 13:00 - Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrollment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns
  Teodora Boneva (University of Bonn)

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 13:00 - Making Managers Matter
  Matthias Heinz (University of Cologne)

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 13:00 - Taxation, Information and Withholding: Evidence from Costa Rica
  Anne Brockmeyer (World Bank)

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 13:00 - Migrants and the Making of America: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Immigration during the Age of Mass Migration
  Sandra Sequiera (LSE)

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 13:00 - Mining Matters: Natural Resource Extraction and Local Business Contraints
  Steven Poelhekke (University of Amsterdam)

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 13:00 - Cost-Benefit Analysis in Reasoning: Theory and Applications
  Larbi Alaoui (Pompeu Fabra University (UPF))

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 13:00 - Surprised by the Hot Hand Fallacy? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers
  Adam Sanjurjo (University of Alicante)

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 13:00 - A positive analysis of bank behaviour under capital requirements
  Frederic Malherbe (London Business School)

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 13:00 - Competing Sales Channels
  David Ronayne (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 13:00 - Optimal sequential treatment allocation with general welfare measures
  Anders Bredahl Kock (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 13:00 - The Long-Run Information Effect of Central Bank Text
  Michael McMahon (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 13:00 - The Value of a Coordination Game
  Willemien Kets (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 13:00 - The Nature of Firm Growth
  Petr Sedlacek (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 13:00 - Program Evaluation in the Presence of Strategic Interactions
  Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 13:00 - Trading Networks with Frictions
  Alex Teytelboym (University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 13:00 - ​Set Estimation of an Unknown Error Rate Using Random Revealed Preferences
  Aluma Dembo (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 May 2018

• 13:00 - Scientific Revolution: Institutions and the Intellectual Rise of the Western World
  Eric Chaney (University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 13:00 - Implementing Walrasian Equilibrium -- the Language of Product-Mix Auctions
  Elizabeth Baldwin (University of Oxford )

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Jakob Schneebacher (University of Oxford )

Thursday 14 June 2018

• 13:00 - Strategic Disaggregation in Matching Markets
  Stephen Nei (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 13:00 - Mis-Classified, Binary, Endogenous Regressors: Identification and Inference
  Francis DiTraglia (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 13:00 - A Road to Efficiency Through Communication and Commitment
  João Ramos (University of Southern Carolina)

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 13:00 - The Origins of Violence in Rwanda
  Leander Heldring (briq Institute Bonn)

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 13:00 - Breadth versus Depth
  Michael Richter (Royal Holloway)

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 13:00 - A New Engel on the Gains from Trade
  Thibault Fally (UC Berkeley)

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 13:00 - Job Displacement Insurance and Consumption: Evidence from Brazil
  Francois Gerard (Columbia University)

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 13:00 - Information Design, Inside Disclosures and Counter-Signalling
  Dan Quigley (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 13:00 - Stability in Matching Markets with Sizes
  David Delacretaz (University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 13:00 - Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences
  Hamish Low (University of Oxford), Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University)

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 13:00 - Estimating the Optimal Inflation Target from Micro Price Data
  Klaus Adam (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 13:00 - The Return of Regional Inequality: Europe from 1900 to Today
  Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin)

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 13:00 - Preferences for redistribution: The effect of Moscow redevelopment program
  Alexei Zakharov (Higher School of Economics)

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 13:00 - Revealing temptation through menu choice: a field study
  Severine Toussaert (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 13:00 - Comparing Predictive Accuracy in the Presence of a Loss Function Shape Parameter
  Sander Barendse (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 13:00 - Taxing multinationals beyond borders: Financial and locational responses to CFC rules
  Sarah Clifford (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 13:00 - The Bargaining Set of an Exchange Economy with Discrete Resources
  Ozgur Yilmaz (Koç University)

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 13:00 - A modest proposal for sharing consumption risk
  Martin Ellison (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2019

• 13:00 - Identification at the Zero Lower Bound
  Sophocles Mavroeidis (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 June 2019

• 13:00 - God Insures Those Who Pay. Formal insurance and religious offerings in Ghana
  Amma Panin (World Bank Office of the Chief Economist)

Thursday 13 June 2019

• 13:00 - Browsing versus Studying: A Pro-Market Case for Regulation
  Johannes Johnen (Université catholique de Louvain)

Thursday 20 June 2019

• 13:00 - Preferences for truth-telling
  Johannes Abeler (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 13:00 - Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World
  Giammario Impullitti (University of Nottingham)

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 13:00 - Posterior Average Effects
  Martin Weidner (University College London)

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 13:00 - The Polarizing Effects of Persuasive Communication: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
  Ceren Baysan (University of Essex)

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 13:00 - Exchange rate undershooting: Evidence and Theory
  Gernot Mueller (University of Tuebingen)

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 13:00 - Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea
  Nathaniel Lane (Monash University)

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 13:00 - Fractured Land and the Puzzle of Political Unification and Fragmentation
  Mark Koyama (George Mason University)

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 13:00 - Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles (joint work with Christian Bayer and Ralph Luetticke)
  Benjamin Born (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

Wednesday 15 January 2020

• 13:00 - Carrots and Sticks: Targeting the Opposition in an Autocratic Regime
  Cathrin Mohr (LMU University of Munich)

Thursday 16 January 2020

• 13:00 - Corrective tax design in oligopoly
  Martin O’Connell (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

Monday 20 January 2020

• 11:00 - Sovereign Default in a Monetary Union
  Sergio de Ferra (Stockholm University)
• 13:00 - Financing Spreads and Development
  César Santos (Bank of Portugal and FGV EPGE)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 13:00 - Household Heterogeneity and the Transmission of Foreign Shocks
  Federica Romei (Stockholm School of Economics)

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 11:00 - Breaking Gender Barriers: Bringing Men into the Pink-Collar Jobs of the Future
  Alexia Delfino (London School of Economics)
• 13:00 - House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality and Portfolio Reshuffling
  Clara Martinez-Toledano (Paris School of Economics)

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 13:00 - Can Big Push Infrastructure Unlock Development? Evidence from Ethiopia
  Niclas Moneke (London School of Economics)

Monday 27 January 2020

• 13:00 - Willingness to Pay for Clean Air: Evidence from Air Purifier Markets in China
  Shuang Zhang (University of Colorado Boulder)

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Ian Jewitt (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 13:00 - Institutional Adaptation to Environmental Change
  Mattia Bertazzini (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 13:00 - Lehman Sisters
  Renee Adams (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 13:00 - Anticipatory utility and stochastic dominance
  Severine Toussaert (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 13:00 - Identifying Causal Effects in Experiments with Social Interactions and Non-compliance
  Frank Di Traglia (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 13:00 - Higher purchase: A field experiment in asset-based microfinance
  Simon Quinn (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 13:00 - What do we want? And when do we want it? Alternative objectives and their implications for experimental design.
  Max Kasy (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 May 2020

• 13:00 - A Multi-Risk SIR Model with Optimally Targeted Lockdowns (joint with Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov, and Ivan Werning)
  This seminar will take place on Zoom
  Michael Dennis Whinston (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Thursday 21 May 2020

• 13:00 - Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden
  This seminar will take place on Zoom
  Professor Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex)

Thursday 4 June 2020

• 13:00 - Estimating and Simulating a SIRD Model of COVID-19 for Many Countries, States, and Cities
  This seminar will take place on Zoom
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 18 June 2020

• 13:00 - Job Search and Self-Control: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
  This seminar will take place on Zoom
  Christian Meyer (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 13:00 - Why Does Capital Flow from Equal to Unequal Countries?
  Federica Romei (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 13:00 - Flexible Work Arrangements in Low Wage Jobs: Evidence from Job Vacancy Data
  Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 13:00 - Pay-for-performance incentives and individual creativity: Experimental evidence
  Eileen Tipoe (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 13:00 - Sovereign Risk Matters: Endogenous Default Risk and the Time-Varying Volatility of Interest Rate Spreads
  Sergio de Ferra (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 13:00 - The Media or the Message? Experimental Evidence on Mass Media and Modern Contraception Uptake in Burkina Faso (with Rachel Glennerster and Joanna Murray)
  Victor Pouliquen (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 13:00 - Identifying Behavioral Responses to Tax Reforms: New Insights and a New Approach
  Katrine Jakobsen (University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 13:00 - Structural transformation and U-shaped female labour supply
  Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 13:00 - The unbearable lightness of equilibria in a low interest rate environment (co-authored with Guido Ascari)
  Sophocles Mavroeidis (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 13:00 - Econometrics for Economic Theorists: structural models without error terms
  Ian Crawford (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 13:00 - Moment Conditions for Dynamic Panel Logit Models with Fixed Effects (joint work with Bo Honore)
  Martin Weidner (University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 13:00 - The Economic Impact of Recession Announcements
  Martin Ellison (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 13:00 - Can Big Push Infrastructure Unlock Development? Evidence from Ethiopia
  Niclas Moneke (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 April 2021

• 13:00 - The Equilibrium Existence Duality: Equilibrium with Indivisibilities & Income Effects
  Elizabeth Baldwin (University of Oxford )

Thursday 27 May 2021

• 13:00 - Productivity, profitability and aggregate economic growth
  Petr Sedlacek (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 June 2021

• 13:00 - Pre-analysis plans and mechanism design
  Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 June 2021

• 13:00 - Unravelling Deep Integration: Local Labour Market Effects of the Brexit Vote
  Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 October 2021

• 12:30 - Natalie Bau: Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence From India
  Natalie Bau (UCLA)

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 12:30 - Caterina Calsamiglia: The design of university entrance exams and its implications for gender gaps
  Caterina Calsamiglia

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 12:30 - Paola Conconi: Trade Protection Along Supply Chains (with Chad Bown, Aksel Erbahar, and Lorenzo Trimarchi)
  Please note this seminar will be in the Skills Lab for Week 5 only.
  Paola Conconi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 12:30 - David Hemous: Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition:  The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution
  David Hemous (University of Zurich)

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 12:30 - Antonio Penta: Attitudes towards success and failure
  Antonio Penta (ICREA, UPF and BSE)

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 12:30 - Race, Representation and Local Governments in the U.S. South: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act
  Andrea Bernini (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 12:30 - The Effects of Housing Vouchers on Labor Supply and Household Formation
  Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 12:30 - The Value of Infrastructure and Market Integration: Evidence from Renewable Expansion in Chile,” with Luis Gonzales and Koichiro Ito
  Mar Reguant (Northwestern University)

Tuesday 5 April 2022

• 12:30 - Modern Library Holding and Historic City Growth
  Eric Chanley (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 April 2022

• 12:30 - Perpetual Motion: Human Mobility and Spatial Frictions in Three African Countries,” joint work with Paul Blanchard (Trinity College Dublin) and Martina Kirchberger (Trinity College Dublin)
  Doug Gollin (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 12:30 - Modern Library Holding and Historic City Growth
  Eric Chanley (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 May 2022

• 12:30 - The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War II Italy
  Due to a newly confirmed schedule of a Department conference, this Thursday’s Department Seminar has been postponed until the future. Mattia will be invited to speak again once a new date is confirmed.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Mattia Bertazzini (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 May 2022

• 12:30 - The Unclaimed Property Puzzle: Billion Dollar Bills Lying on the Sidewalk
  This seminar series caters a light lunch from 12:30pm. The talk will begin at 1pm.
  Eva Vivalt (University of Toronto)

Thursday 2 June 2022

• 12:30 - Biases in job-finding beliefs and policy design, joint with Bruno Crépon.
  This seminar series caters a light lunch from 12:30pm. The talk will begin at 1pm.
  Christophe Gaillac (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 June 2022

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  This seminar series caters a light lunch from 12:30pm. The talk will begin at 1pm.
  Katharina Janezic (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 September 2022

• 12:45 - The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships
  Professor Abigail Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 September 2022

• 12:45 - Behavioral Economics at Work
  Professor David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh)

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 13:00 - The Refugee's Dilemma: Jewish Outmigration in Nazi Germany
  Mathias Thoenig (Université de Lausanne)

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 13:00 - Wealth Inequality and Public Finance in Pre-Industrial Germany, 1350 to 1800
  Victoria Gierok (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 13:00 - Visual Bias
  Giulia Caprini (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 13:00 - Heterogeneous Markups Cyclicality and Monetary Policy
  Andrea Chiavari (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 12:30 - The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War II Italy
  Catering will be served from 12:30 and the seminar will begin at 13:00
  Mattia Bertazzini (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 12:30 - Growth and the Fragmentation of Production (with Ezra Oberfield)
  Catering will be served from 12:30 and the seminar will begin at 13:00
  Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po)

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 13:00 - Natural Language Processing for Monetary Policy Analysis
  Speaker to present online. Catering will be available from 12:30 and the seminar will begin at 13:00.
  Max Ahrens (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 13:00 - Ricardian Structural Change
  Light catering will be served from 12:30. The talk will begin at 13:00
  Lidia Smitkova (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 13:00 - The Gravity of Violence -- Embedding Conflicts in Quantitative Spatial Models (Mathieu Couttenier, Julian Marcoux, Thierry Mayer, Mathias Thoenig)
  Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po)

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Jonathan Kolstad (Berkeley Haas)

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 13:00 - Treasury auctions during a crisis (joint with Seher Gupta)
  Rohit Lamba (Penn State)

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 13:00 - Multinational Ownership and Trade Participation
  https://conconi.ulb.be/CLMT.pdf
  Paola Conconi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 13:00 - Back to slack: capacity underutilisation in developing economies (with Tilman Graff, Felix Soliman)
  Lunch will be served from 12:30 and the seminar will begin at 1pm.
  Dennis Egger (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern University)

Monday 13 January 2025

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Niharika Singh (University of Notre Dame)

Tuesday 14 January 2025

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Luisa Cefala (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley)

Thursday 16 January 2025

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Abu Siddique (Royal Holloway University of London)

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 13:15 - Title TBC
  Lisa Ho (Yale Economic Growth Center with Inclusion Economics)

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Gabriela Deschamps (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Friday 24 January 2025

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Deivy Houeix (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Yasir Khan (University of Pittsburgh)

Monday 10 February 2025

• 13:15 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tishara Garg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Gaurab Aryal (Boston University)