Economics and Finance Seminars
The Birkbeck Business School holds seminars in economics and finance most Wednesdays during term time from 12-1pm in Room 745, Malet Street Building (unless otherwise stated). Presentations are given by staff or invited external speakers.
All are welcome to attend.
2019
- 30 January: Georgios Efthyvoulou, University of Sheffield: 'Gender voting gap in the dawn of urbanisation: evidence from a quasi-experiment with Greek special elections'
- 6 February: Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Term limit extension and electoral participation: evidence from a diff-in-discontinuities design at the local level in Italy'
- 13 February: Tiago Cavalcanti, University of Cambridge
- 20 February: Ivan Petralla, University of Warwick
- 27 February: Hugo Molina, KU Leuven
- 6 March: Anna Raute, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Like mother, like daughter? Societal determinants of maternal labour supply: evidence from the German reunification', jointly with Barbara Boelmann, University College London and Uta Schönberg, University College London
- 13 March: Francesco Zanetti, University of Oxford
2018
- Matthias Parey, University of Essex: 'Tasks and technology: the labour market effects of innovation'
- Arno Hantzsche, National Institute of Economic and Social Research: Bremia: 'A study of the impact of Brexit based on bond prices'
- Michele Piffer, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Bayesian Structural VAR models: a new approach for prior beliefs on impulse responses', co-authored with Martin Bruns, DIW Berlin
- Greg Taylor, University of Oxford: 'A model of biased intermediation'
- Howard Kung, London Business School
- Jaime Millan, Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M): 'Liquidity constraints, opportunity cost and post-secondary education: evidence from Colombia'
- Tatiana Mayskaya, National Research University Higher School of Economics: 'Endogenous choice between ultimatum and dictator games: experimental evidence', jointly with Alexis Belianin, National Research University Higher School of Economics and Professor Alexander Matros, Lancaster University
- Ashwini Agrawal, London School of Economics: 'Takeovers and employee job search'
- Adriana Breccia, 'R&D appropriability and market structure in a preemption model'
- Professor Orazio Attanasio, University College London: 'Parental beliefs and investment in human capital'
- Professor Özgür Kibris, Sabanci Universitesi: 'A theory of reference point formation'
2017
- Professor Giovanni Mastrobuoni, University of Essex: 'Do security investments displace crime? Theory and evidence from Italian banks'
- Serena Trucchi, University College London: 'Consumption responses to a large shock to financial wealth: evidence from Italy'
- Konrad Mierendorff, University College London: 'Optimal sequential decision with limited attention'
- Stefan Lewellen, London Business School: 'The cross section of bank value'
- Anja Prummer, Queen Mary, University of London
- Professor Paola Conconi, Université Libre de Bruxelles: 'Abortion, environment, guns: how single-minded voters shape politicians' decisions'
2016
- Harjoat Bhamra, Imperial College London: 'Does household finance matter?'
- Alexi Anagnostopoulos, Stony Brook University: 'On the double taxation of corporate profits'
- Ethan Ilzetzki, London School of Economics: 'The effect of house prices on household borrowing: a new approach'
- Flavio Toxvaerd, University of Cambridge
- Kaustav Das, University of Exeter: 'Bilateral trading and incomplete information: price convergence in a small market'
- Johannes Abeler, University of Oxford: 'Preferences for truth-telling'
- Juan Block, University of Cambridge
- Simon Dietz, London School of Economics: 'Global population growth, technology and Malthusian constraints: a quantitative growth-theoretic perspective'
- Wei Cui, University College London: 'Search-based endogenous asset liquidity and the macroeconomy'
- Ani Guerdjikova, University of Cergy-Pontoise: 'Do markets prove pessimists right?'
- Adrien Vigier, University of Oxford: 'Pundits and quacks: learning about analysts when fundamental asset values are unobserved'
- Suehyun Kwon, University College London: 'Incentive compatibility with endogenous states'
- Sujoy Mukerji, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Incomplete information games with ambiguity averse players'
- Tarun Ramadorai, Saïd Business School: 'Heterogeneous taxes and limited risk sharing: evidence from municipal bonds'
- Matthias Wibral, Maastricht University: 'How malleable are choice brackets? The case of myopic loss aversion'
- Pontus Rendhal, Centre for Economic Policy Research: 'Unemployment (fears) and deflationary spirals'
- Hamid Sabourian, University of Cambridge: 'Evolution of rules and equilibrium selection'
- Dong Lou, London School of Economics: 'The speed of communication'
2015
- Javier Coto-Martínez, Brunel University London
- Professor Özgür Kibris, Sabanci University: 'Limited attention with status quo bias'
- Alexander Karalis Isaac, Birkbeck, University of London: 'The low-variance, high-risk economy: lessons from the higher moments of MSI-VARs'
- Sarolta Laczó, University of Surrey: 'Pareto-improving optimal capital and labour taxes'
- Basile Grassi, University of Oxford: 'Large firm dynamics and the business cycle'
- Coen Teulings, University of Cambridge: 'Secular stagnation, rational bubbles, and fiscal policy'
- Carlo Favero, IGIER: 'Demographics and the behaviour of interest rates'
- Ed Hopkins, University of Edinburgh: 'Inequality, gender and risk-taking behaviour'
- Christoph Kuzmics, Bielefeld University: 'Communication before coordination with independent private values: how pedestrians avoid bumping into each other'
- Andrea Tamoni, London School of Economics: 'Horizon-specific macroeconomic risks and the cross-section of expected returns'
- Professor Sanjeev Goyal, University of Cambridge
- Richard Barwell, Royal Bank of Scotland: 'Macroprudential policy-practice ahead of theory'
- Stefan Trautmann, Heidelberg University: 'Ambiguity attitude = ambiguity aversion?'
- Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University: 'Dynamics of firms and trade in general equilibrium'
- Javier Ortega, City, University of London: 'Schooling, nation building and industrialization: a Gellnerian approach'
- Lucie Gadenne, University College London: 'Non-linear commodity taxation in developing countries: theory and an application to India'
- Giovanni Ricco, London Business School
- Aurélien Baillon, Erasmus University Rotterdam: 'Higher order ambiguity attitudes: theory and experiment'
- Erina Ytsma, London School of Economics: 'Lone stars or constellations? The impact of performance pay on matching assortativeness in academia'
- Erika Deserranno, London School of Economics: 'Financial incentives as signals: experimental evidence from the recruitment of health workers'
- Professor Thomas Cornelissen, University College London: 'Peer effects in the workplace'
- Konstantinos N Baltas, London School of Economics and Queen Mary, University of London: 'Assessing bank efficiency and stability'
- Tanya Wilson, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Anna Bindler, University College London: 'Still unemployed, what next? Crime and unemployment duration'
- Jevgenijs Steinbuks, World Bank Development Research Group: 'A nonlinear certainty equivalent method for dynamic stochastic problems'
- Peter McAdam, European Central Bank: 'Understanding the dynamics of the United States labour share'
- Professor Vasiliki Skreta, University College of London: 'Sales talk'
2014
- Marco Mariotti, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Stochastic complementarity'
- Andrea Ferrero, University of Oxford: 'What explains Japan's persistent deflation'
- Georgy Chabakauri, London School of Economics: 'Multi-asset noisy rational expectations equilibrium with contingent claims'
- Samuli Knupfer, London Business School: 'Match made at birth? What traits of a million Swedes tell us about CEOs'
- Yoshiyasu Ono, Osaka University: 'Difference or ratio: implications of status preference on stagnation'
- Matteo Barigozzi, London School of Economics: 'Dynamic factor models, cointegration and error correction mechanisms'
- Hubert Kempf, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: 'Deposit insurance and bank liquidation without commitment: can we sleep well?'
- Bryony Reich, University College London: 'Nation-building'
- Pasquale Della Corte, Imperial College London
- Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics
- Raoul Minetti, Michigan State University: 'Financial markets, industry dynamics and growth'
- Martin Cripps, University College London: 'Strategic experimentation in queues'
- Luca Benati, University of Bern: 'Economic policy uncertainty and the great recession'
- Oreste Tristani, European Central Bank: 'Credit spreads and credit policies'
- Haroon Mumtaz, Queen Mary University London
- Kai Christoffel, European Central Bank: 'Interest rates, money and banks in an estimated euro area model'
- Francesca Monti, Bank of England: 'Exploiting the monthly data-flow in structural forecasting'
- Pavol Povala, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Expecting the FED'
- Andrea Ferrero, Federal Reserve Bank of New York: 'What explains Japan's persistent deflation?'
2013
- Dimitris Korobilis, University of Glasgow: 'A new index of financial conditions'
- Christian Julliard, London School of Economics: 'Network risk and key players: a structural analysis of interbank liquidity'
- Tiago Cavalcanti, University of Cambridge: '(Mis)allocation effects of an overpaid public sector'
- Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: 'Speculative runs on interest rate pegs', joint work with Christopher Phelan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Eric Swanson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: 'Risk aversion, risk primia and the labour magin with generalised recursive preferences'
- Michael Smith, University of Melbourne: 'Copula modelling of dependence in multivariate time series'
- Thomas Cornelissen, University College London: 'Early school exposure, test scores and non-cognitive outcomes'
- Ansgar Walther, University of Oxford: 'Jointly optimal regulation of bank capital and maturity structure'
- Jonathan Newton, University of Sydney: 'A one-shot deviation principle for stability in matching problems'
- Menelaos Karanasos, Brunel University: 'A unified theory for the time-varying models: foundations with applications in the presence of breaks and heteroscedasticity (and some results on campanion and Hessenberg matrices)'
- Han Ozsoylev, University of Oxford: 'Pricing liquidity and its risk'
- Federico di Pace, University of St Andrews
- Luca Gambetti, UAB: 'Noisy news in business cycles'
- Jihong Lee, Seoul National University: 'Repeated implementation with finite mechanisms and complexity'
- Nizar Allouch, Queen Mary, University of London: 'The cost of segregation in social networks'
- Stephen Hansen, University Pompeu Fabra: 'First impressions matter: signalling as a source of policy dynamics'
- Michael Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis: 'Measuring macro-financial conditions using a factor-augmented smooth-transition vector autoregression'
- Laura Coroneo, University of York: 'Unspanned macroeconomic factors in the yield curve'
- Mike Clements, University of Warwick: 'Subjective and ex-post forecast uncertainty: United States inflation and output growth'
- Tom Holden, University of Surrey: 'Medium-frequency cycles'
- Alberto Martin, CREI and University Pompeu Fabra: 'Bubbly collateral and economic activity'
- Luca Gelsomini, IÉSEG School of Management: 'Single-bank proprietary platforms'
- Amil Dasgupta, London School of Economics: 'Why is hedge fund activism procyclical?'
- Simon Price, Bank of England: 'Adaptive forecasting in the presence of recent and ongoing structural change'
- Ray Rees, University of Munich: 'Risk and saving in two-person households: more scope for precautionary saving'
- Guido Ascari, University of Pavia: 'Transparency, expectations anchoring and the inflation target'
- Tony Yates, Bank of England: 'From time-varying macro-dynamics to time-varying estimates of DSGE parameters'
2012
- Elena Carletti, European University Institute: 'Government guarantees and financial stability'
- Alessia Isopi, University of Manchester
- Dimitrios Tsocomos, Saïd Business School: 'Financial regulation in general equilibrium'
- Ana Galvao, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Anticipating early data revisions to United States output growth'
- Arina Nikandrova, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Optimal bid disclosure to influence information acquisition in sequential selling mechanisms'
- Ioana Moldovan, University of Glasgow: 'Stabilisation policy in a new Keynesian model with job search, skills erosion and growth effects'
- Francesco Ravazzolo, Norges Bank: 'Measuring sovereign contagion in Europe'
- Vincent Sterk, University College London: 'Job uncertainty and deep recessions'
- John Tilton, Colorado School of Mines: 'Depletion and the long-run availability of mineral commodities'
- Donna Harris, University of Oxford: 'In-group favouritism and out-group discrimination in naturally occurring groups'
- Demosthenes Tambakis, University of Cambridge: 'Systematic monetary policy and the forward premium puzzle'
- Joe Pearlman, City, University of London: 'Determinacy and identification with optimal rules'
- Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan: 'Forecasting the real price of oil and quantifying oil price risks'
- Sophocles Mavoeidis, University of Oxford: 'Empirical evidence on inflation expectations in the new Keynesian Phillips curve'
- Carol Propper, University of Bristol: 'The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from public hospitals'
- Gylfi Zoega, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Sticky prices in customer markets'
- Roman Pancs, University of Rochester: 'Comparing market structures: allocative and informational efficiencies of continuous trading, periodic auctions and dark pools, with a discussion of market unravelling'
- Roman Sustek, University of Southampton: 'Housing dynamics: an international perspective'
- Andrea Lamorgese, Banca d'Italia: 'Skill upgrading and trade in Italian manufacturing'
- Carlo Altavilla, University of Naples: 'Markets' beliefs about the effectiveness of non-standard monetary policy measures'
- Robert Evans, University of Cambridge: 'Bilateral trading and renegotiation'
- Pablo Beker, University of Warwick
2011
- Stefan Straetmans, Maastricht University: 'Big news'
- Jonathan Newton, The Univ of Sydney: 'Coalitional stochastic stability'
- Henrique Basso, University of Warwick: 'Awareness, persistent beliefs and credit cycles'
- Frank Smets, European Central Bank: 'Slow recoveries: a structural interpretation'
- Simone Manganelli, European Central Bank: 'VAR for VaR: measuring systemic risk using multivariate regression quantiles'
- Francisco Ruge Murcia, University de Montreal: 'Dissent in monetary policy decisions'