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50th Anniversary of Birkbeck Economics Department - PhD Alumni Conference

When: —
Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

No booking required

9.15 - 9.30: Registration and Welcome

  • Julian Swann (PVM for Research)
  • Pedro Gomes (Reader in Economics)

9.30 - 10.10: Keynote I, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square

  • Paul Ekins (University College London)
  • The 1.5 degrees celcius Climate and Energy Scenarios: Impacts on Economic Growth.

10.10 - 10.30: Coffee Break, Cinema Foyer

10.30 - 12.10: Parallel Sessions

Session 2a (five 20-minute presentations), Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, Chair: Gylfi Zoega

  • Simone Varotto (Henley Business School) - Correlation and Residential Mortgage Defaults
  • Andrea Nocera (UK Debt Management Office) - Causal Effects of the Fed's Large-scale Asset purchases on Firms' Capital Structure
  • Richard Harrison (BoE) - House Price Dynamics, Optimal LTV limits and the Liquidity Trap
  • Ali Chaudhary (State Bank of Pakistan) - Credit Access and Relational Contracts: An Experiment Testing Informational and Contractual Frictions in Pakistan
  • Rubens Morita (Birkbeck) - European Sovereign Bond and Stock Market Granger Causality Dynamics

Session 2b (five 20 minute presentations), Room B03, 43 Gordon Square, Chair: Emanuela Sciubba

  • Adriana Breccia (Risk Control Ltd.) - R&D Investment and Technological Appropriability in a Preemption Model
  • Carolyn St Aubyn (Birkbeck) -  A Model of Consumer Choice with Preferences for Consumption and Wealth
  • Georgios Ethyvoulou (Sheffield) - Micromotives and Macromoves: Political Preferences and Internal Migration in England and Wales
  • Paul Schweinzer (Klagenfurt) - Contesting Fake News
  • Hiba Sameen (Birkbeck) - Static Regulation and Technology Change: Cost-effective Prescribing under Financial Constraints

12.10 - 13.20: Lunch Break, Cinema Foyer

13.20 - 15.00: Parallel Sessions

Session 3a (five 20 minute presentations), Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, Chair: Pedro Gomes

  • Fernando Alexandre (Minho) - Investment Subsidies and Firms’ Productivity: How Effective are Booster Shots?
  • Yu Fu Chen (Dundee) - Solving the Life-Cycle Model with Labour Income Uncertainty: Some Implications of Income Volatility for Consumption Plan
  • Issam Samiri (NIESR) - Heterogeneous Supply of Labour, Productivity and Urban Effects
  • Federico di Pace (BoE) - Terms-of-Trade Shocks are Not All Alike
  • Joao Sousa (Birkbeck) - Do Civil and Military Spending Have Different Multipliers? Harnessing the Power of 142 years of In-Year Government Spending Shocks

Session 3b (five 20 minute presentations), Room B03, 43 Gordon Square, Chair: Haris Psaradakis

  • Ba Chu (Carleton) - Comparing Out-of-Sample Performance of Machine Learning Methods to Forecast U.S. GDP Growth
  • Paul Wohlfarth (SolBridge Business School) - Limits to Arbitrage and the Term Structure of CIP Violations
  • Alexander Karalis Isaac (Warwick) - The Effect of the Recent Stamp Duty Holiday on House Prices in the U.K
  • Christopher Martin (Bath) - Using Machine Learning to Analyse the UK Labour Market
  • Charisios Grivas (Birkbeck) - Testing For Exogeneity In Time-Varying Instrumental Variable Regressions: A Bootstrap Approach

15.00 - 15.20: Coffee Break, Cinema Foyer

15.20 - 16.40: Keynote II and III, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square

  • Stefan Szymanski (University of Michigan) - Optimal Labour Contracts under Observability: Evidence from English Professional Football
  • Francis Green (Institute of Education/UCL) - Risks to Job Quality from Digital Technologies

16.40 - 17.00: Closing Remarks

  • Yunus Aksoy, Professor of Economics
  • Ron Smith, Professor of Applied Economics

17.00 - 20.00: Reception at 5th Floor Terrace, Malet Street Building, Birkbeck

Organisers: Yunus Aksoy, Pedro Gomes and Hiba Sameen

With special thanks to the School of Business, Economics and Informatics.

 

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