Past External Seminars

2025-26


Date	Organiser	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
15/10/2025	Department	Sascha Becker	Warwick	Colonialism Inc.: The Private Interests Behind Germany's Imperial Ambitions
08/10/2025	Department	Thomas Buser	University of Amsterdam	A Competitive World

2024-25


Date	Organiser	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
23/06/2025	Department	Arup Bose	Indian Statistical Institute	Partitions, Trees and Random Matrices
20/05/2025	Department	Eleonora Guarnieri	University of Bristol	Male Domination and Cultural Extinction
14/05/2025	Department DREAM	Anastasios Karantounias	University of Surrey	Optimal Climate Policy in a Global Economy
13/05/2025	Department CEMAP	Ethan Ilzetzki	London School of Economics	Zipf's Law for International Currencies
07/05/2025	Department	James Best	Carnegie Mellon University	Divide or Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification
06/05/2025	Department	Melanie Xue	London School of Economics	Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China
30/04/2025	Department	Yan Chen	University of Michigan	Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter
29/04/2025	EMBR	Daniel Zizzo	University of Queensland	Why Behave like Sheep? Understanding Compliance and Peer Effects
28/04/2025	EMBR	Larbi Alaoui	Pompeu Fabra University	What's in a u?
19/03/2025	Department	Bernd Schwaab	European Central Bank	State space models with interacting location and scale
18/03/2025	Department	Barry Sopher	Rutgers University	Paradox Lost: The St. Petersburg Gamble Revisited
12/03/2025	Department	Oliver de Groot	University of Liverpool	Monetary Policy and Regional Inequality
03/05/2025	EMBR	Todd Kalpan	University of Exeter	Increasing Employment with Coarse Information
26/02/2025	Department	Thirthankar Roy	London School of Economics	Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics
24/02/2025	EMBR	Darren Duxbury	Newcastle University Business School	Decomposing Unrealized Returns into Adapted and Unadapted Components Using Reference Points
19/02/2025	Department	Raouf Boucekkine	Aix-Marseille Université	Epidemics, mental health and public trust
12/02/2025	Department	Matthew Embrey	Sussex University	Observations on Cooperation: An Experiment on Community Enforcement
05/02/2025	EMBR	Augustina Martinez	University of Leicester	Raise your voice! Activism and peer effects in online social networks
29/01/2025	Department	James Duffy	University of Oxford	Common Trends and Long-Run Identification in Nonlinear Structural VARs
28/01/2025	Department	Aaron Nicholas	Deakin Business School	Information disclosure and the responsibility-attributing social norm
22/01/2025	Department	Federica Romei	University of Oxford	Monopsony, Income Risk and R∗ Multiplicity
13/11/2024	Department	Matthew Collins	University of Galway	Free Primary Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
06/11/2024	Department	Dorothea Kubler	Technische Universität Berlin	The gender gap in gender-blind university admissions
22/10/2024	Department	Eilon Solan	Tel-Aviv University	Auctions: from Theory to Practice and Back
10/10/2024	Department	Dan Friedman	UC Santa Cruz	Flow Trading: A Laboratory Test
07/10/2024	EMBR	Matt van Essen	University of Tennessee	Equity Equilibrium for Cooperative Games

2023-24


Date	Organiser	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
29/05/2024	Department	Xin Gao	University of Birmingham	Reputational Cheap Talk vs. Reputational Delegation
22/05/2024	Department	Sergey Popov	Cardiff University	Tactical Refereeing and Signaling by Publishing
15/05/2024	DREAM	Emir Kamenica	University of Chicago	Commitment and randomization in communication
08/05/2024	Department	Amrit Amirapu	University of Kent	Climate Change and Political Participation: Evidence from India
01/05/2024	Department	Jean-Paul Carvalho	University of Oxford	Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
06/03/2024	Department	Federico Di Pace	ENSAI - CREST	Commodity Prices and Fiscal Pro-cyclicality?
21/02/2024	Department	Christoph Görtz	University of Birmingham	"Split Personalities: The Changing Nature of Technology Shocks" with Christopher Gunn and Thomas Lubik
14/02/2024	Department	Dominik Karos	Bielefeld University	Strategic News Selection in Social Media” (joint work with Jurek Preker)
07/02/2024	CEMAP	Tim Worral	Edinburgh University	Intergeneration Insurance
2024/01/2024	Department	Henrique Castro-Pires	University of Surrey	Monitoring, Performance Reviews, and Retaliation
17/01/2024	Department	Joosung Lee	Sungkyunkwan University	Matroid Search Problems and Greedy Pandora’s Rule
10/01/2024	Department	Joseph Pearlman	City, University of London	Imperfect Information and Hidden Dynamics
29/11/2023	Department	Kevin Sheedy	London School of Economics	The Macroeconomics of Liquidity in Financial Intermediation
22/11/2023	Department	Flavio Toxvaerd	Cambridge University	Manufacturer Certification in Second-Hand Markets
15/11/2023	Department	Andy Zapechelnyuk	Edinburgh University	“Fair Hiring Procedures” (joint with Karl Schlag)
08/11/2023	DREAM	Savitar Sundaresan	Imperial University	(In)efficiency in Information Acquisition and Aggregation through Prices
01/11/2023	Department	Michele Breton	HEC Montréal	International Environmental Agreements: Preferences, Stability and Effectiveness
18/10/2023	Department	Dimitri Migrow	Edinburgh University	Strategic Observational Learning
11/10/2023	Department	Gabrielle Demange	Paris School of Economics	Two-way dual communication in a social network

2022-23


Date	Organiser	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
21/06/2023	Department	Subhayu Bandyopadhyay	St. Louis Fed	Voluntary participation in a terror group and counterterrorism policy
20/06/2023	Department	Andre Hofmeyr	University of Cape Town	The Trust Game: Salience, Beliefs, and Social History
15/06/2023	Department	Simon Vicary	Newcastle University	Do the Poor Benefit from an Uncertain Tax Base?
14/06/2023	Department	Pinghan Liang	Sun Yat-Sen University	Breaking Drug Trafficking Chains: The Real Name Mailing Regulation and the Decline of Drug Use
07/06/2023	Department	Jörg Oechssler	University of Heidelberg	On the benefits of robo advice in financial markets
01/06/2023	DREAM	Savitar Sundaresan	Imperial University	(In)efficiency in Information Acquisition and Aggregation through Prices
31/05/2023	Department	Levent Neyse	DIW Berlin	Reproducibility and Household Panel Studies: Insights from the SOEP Innovation Sample
25/05/2023	QRFE	Fahad Saleh	University of Florida	The Need For Fees at a DEX: How Increases in DEX Fees Can Increase DEX Trading Volume
24/05/2023	Department	Hande Erkut	WZB Berlin	Repugnant transactions: The role of agency and severe consequences
17/05/2023	Department	Juan-José Ganuza	UPF	Renegotiation Discrimination and Favoritism in Symmetric Procurement Auctions
04/05/2023	QRFE	Jia Li	Singapore Management University	Optimal Inference for Spot Regressions
03/05/2023	Department	Philip Schnattinger	Bank of England	Credit Market Tightness and the Zombie Firm Share
15/03/2023	Department	Paola Conconi	University of Oxford	Multinational Ownership and Trade Participation
15/03/2023	Department	Daniel Li	University of Durham	Information Disclosure to Bidders with Heterogenous Preferences
14/03/2023	Department	Lucy Naga	University of Durham	Kantian Morality and Optimal Second-Best Commodity Taxation
08/03/2023	Department	Horst Zank	University of Manchester	Gain-Loss Utility for Prospect Theory
03/03/2023	Department	Yong Chao	University of Louisville	Tying as an Instrument of Vertical Integration
02/03/2023	Department	Yunus Aksoy	Birkbeck	Profits, Firm Ownership and Aggregate Demand Externalities
18/01/2023	Department	Ming Yang	UCL	Dynamic Contracting with Flexible Monitoring
11/01/2023	Department	Zafer Kanik	University of Glasgow	Skill-Substitutability, Wage Inequality, and Productivity Growth
07/12/2022	Department	Ian Jewitt	University of Oxford	Escaping the First Order Approach to Principal Agent Problems
30/11/2022	Department	Alejandro Caparros	University of Durham	Institution Formation in Coordination Games with Fixed Neighborhoods
30/11/2022	Department	Hisayuki Yoshimoto	University of Glasgow	Dynamic Incentives Behind Online Reviews: Theory and Evidence
23/11/2022	Department	Hyungseok Joo	University of Surrey	Expenditure Consolidation and Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Front- or Back-loaded
19/10/2022	Department	Andis Sofianos	University of Durham	Reverse Bayesianism: Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events
19/10/2022	Department	Aditya Goenka	University of Birmingham	Modelling optimal lockdowns with waning immunity