Events and seminars

Find out more about our next seminars with prominent international guest speakers and upcoming events.

Events 

 

Postgraduate Online Open Week - Economics PhD programme webinar

With Director of Studies, Dr Balazs Murakozy.

  • Date: Monday 18 November
  • Time: 12-1pm

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Postgraduate Online Open Week - Economics Master's programmes webinar

With Postgraduate Teaching Lead, Professor Ian Burn.

  • Date: Monday 18 November
  • Time: 1-2pm

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Seminars

Our group regularly organises seminar series with prominent international speakers, to present their latest research and ideas in economics:

 

Wednesday 20 November 2024

Why is Losing so Hard?

  • Speaker: Professor Peter Dolton, University of Sussex (England)
  • Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
  • Time: 2-3.15 pm
  • In person: 502 TR-4

Abstract:

We all experience shocks to our personal satisfaction.

This paper examines the causal effects of the exogenous outcomes of football matches on personal utility.

We calibrate these results relative to other activities and estimate the dynamic effects these exogenous events have over time.

The effect of attendance by being at the stadium for the match and the dynamic effects of football matches over time in different hours before and after the game are calibrated.

The extent to which our happiness is 'reference dependent' in the sense that it is influenced by what we would rationally expect the result to be beforehand – as based on the betting odds is considered.

We find evidence of 'loss aversion' as the defeat of our team makes us twice as unhappy as the gain of a win, and explore whether other behavioural theories can explain our empirical findings.

 

 

Past seminars

2024

Collusive Behaviour, Efficiency and Cheap Talk Negotiation in Repeated Games

Zero Lower Bound on Inflation Expectations

The information matrix test for Gaussian mixtures

Using Covariates to Improve the Efficacy of CUSUM Bubble Monitoring Procedures

Political Preferences and the Transport Infrastructure: Evidence from California's High-Speed Rail

Dividing a Commons with Tight Guarantees 

PCF-GAN: generating sequential data via the characteristic function of measures on the path space

Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities in China and India

Job Security and Liquid Wealth 

Deliver Us from Crime? Online Platforms, Gig Jobs and Offending 

Sequential Monitoring for Changes in Dynamic Semiparametric Risk Models 

Dynamic Deterrence of Police Patrolling 

Running Up that Hill: Fitness in the Face of Recession 

Detection of a structural break in intraday volatility pattern 

We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson 

The effects of sin taxes and advertising restrictions in a dynamic equilibrium 

Monetary Policy and Endogenous Financial Crises 

Inequality, Demand Composition, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy 

Coherent Distorted Beliefs 

Measurement, Measurement: How Well-Measured Business Income Affects Economic Inequality 

 

2023 

Sectoral Labour Flows 

Pre-school learning and parenting in early childhood: Experimental evidence from Ghana 

Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics in Europe 

Scaling Up the American Dream: a Dynamic Analysis 

Estimation of a dynamic threshold panel time series regression with cross-sectional dependence 

A model of approval with an application to list design 

Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution 

Fair hiring procedures 

10 May 2023 - Mariann Ollár, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

3 May 2023 - Giuseppe Moscelli, University of Surrey (England)

26 April 2023 - Emma Tominey, University of York (England)

22 March 2023 - Stephen Hansen, University College London (England)

15 March 2023 - Vincent Sterk, University College London (England)

8 March 2023 - Mingli Chen, University of Warwick (England)

22 February 2023 - José-Luis Peydró, Imperial College London (England) and UPF (Spain)

16 February 2023 - Steven Ongena, University of Zurich (Switzerland)

 

8 February 2023 - Ludovic Renou, Queen Mary University of London (England)

 

2022

7 December 2022 - Andrea Ferrero, University of Oxford (England)

23 November - Sanjit Dhami, University of Leicester (England)

16 November 2022 - Laura Coroneo, University of York (England)

2 November 2022 - Erik Plug, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

31 October 2022 - Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po (France)

26 October 2022 - Antonio Penta, UPF (Spain)

12 October 2022 - Robert Sauer, Royal Holloway, University of London (England)

28 September 2022 - Toomas Hinnosaar, University of Nottingham (England)

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