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Seminar series 2012/13
The School of Economics hosts two seminars per week, organised by Dr Alex Klein and Dr Zaki Wahhaj.
Research Seminar speakers are current School of Economics research students or staff, for whom the seminars are an opportunity to discuss current and developing research. The School Seminar speakers are usually (but not always) visiting academics from other universities in the UK and abroad.
Visitors in the 2011/12 series included Prof Guillaume Daudin from the
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille; Stephen Millard and Tony Yates from the
Bank of England; Dr Natalie Chen from the
University of Warwick; Dr Olivier Bonroy from the University of Grenoble; Dr Ioana Schiopu from
ESADE Business School, Barcelona; and Feng Zhu from the Bank for International Settlements.
Seminars for 2012/13
School Seminars
Seminars take place on Wednesday at 16:00-17:00 in KS15 in Keynes College, unless otherwise stated. This schedule may be subject to change during the term.
Summer term
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 02 May 13 Thursday 13:00 KLT1 |
India, 1947 to late 1980s: Planning, Populism and Financial Repression | Prof Partha Sen Delhi School of Economics |
| 08 May 13 15:45 KLT2 |
Motivations for efficiency and equity in the investment game (with Stefan Ambec and Laurent Muller) | Dr Alexis Garapin Universite Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble |
| 09 May 13 Thursday 13:00 KS6 |
Anyone for Social Security Reform? | Prof Partha Sen Delhi School of Economics |
| 15 May 13 | Estimation and interpretation of a production frontier with multiple time-varying individual effects | Dr Carlos Arias |
| 22 May 13 | Collusion and Extortion: The Twin Faces of Corruption (with Dilip Mookherjee) | Dr Ajit Mishra University of Bath |
| 28 May 13 Tuesday |
Under the Cover of Darkness: Using Daylight Saving Time to Measure How Ambient Light Influences Criminal Behavior | Dr Nicholas Sanders College of William and Mary |
| 29 May 13 | Structural changes in Spanish labour demand: Does Rodrik's conjecture hold? | Dr Hector Sala Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| 05 Jun 13 | Imperfect Information, Optimal Monetary Policy and Informational Consistency (with Joseph Pearlman and Bo Yang) |
Prof Paul Levine University of Surrey |
Spring term
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jan 13 | Winners and Losers from Globalization: Why both European and US Farmers were angry in the Grain Invasion era, 1870-1900 | Dr Paul Sharp University of Southern Denmark |
| 23 Jan 13 | New Keynesian Roots | Dr Andrew Blake Bank of England |
30 Jan 13 |
CISS – A portfolio-theoretic framework for the construction of composite financial stress indices | Manfred Kremer European Central Bank |
06 Feb 13 |
A Signaling Model of University Selection |
Prof Branko Urosevic National Bank of Serbia |
| 13 Feb 13 | Facing Misfortune: Expenditures on Magico-Religious Powers for Cure and Protection in Benin (with Joel Noret and Vincent Somville) | Dr Philippe LeMay-Boucher Heriot-Watt University |
| 20 Feb 13 |
Productive Inefficiency in Extended Agricultural Households: Evidence from Mali |
Prof Jean-Philippe Platteau |
| 27 Feb 13 13:00 |
Market Potential and Economic Performance in the Early 20th Century | Dr Chris Meissner University of California, Davis |
| 27 Feb 13 16:00 |
Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy: Was There a 'Free Lunch' in 1930s' Britain? | Prof Nicholas Crafts Warwick University |
| 06 Mar 13 16:30 |
The Mirage of Elite Schools: Evidence from Lottery-based School Admissions in China | Dr Hongliang Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 13 Mar 13 | Who really wants to be a millionaire? Evidence on risk aversion from gameshow data | Prof Ian Walker Lancaster University |
| 20 Mar 13 | Africa, ageing and agriculture: is Malthus relevant? | Prof Michael Lipton University of Sussex |
| 27 Mar 13 | The impact of the social status of government leaders on public deficits | Dr Bernd Hayo University of Marburg |
Autumn term
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 03 Oct 2012 |
Natural Resources, Trade Structure and Financial Development: Some Cross-Country Evidence | Dr Adeel Malik University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies |
| 10 Oct 2012 KLT6 |
Coping with Regional Inequality: Migration and Policy (Sweden 1860-2000) | Dr Kerstin Enflo Lund University |
| 24 Oct 2012 |
External Referencing and Sequential Launching of Drugs | Dr Izabela Jelovac GATE, University of Lyon |
| 31 Oct 2012 |
Do credit market imperfections justify a central bank's response to asset price fluctuations? |
Dr Kengo Nutahara |
| 07 Nov 2012 |
Uncertain Fiscal Consolidations | Prof Campbell Leith University of Glasgow |
| 28 Nov 2012 |
Not Just Test Scores: Parents' demand response to school quality information | Dr Iftikhar Hussain University of Sussex |
| 05 Dec 2012 |
Identifying the Employment Effect of Invoking and Changing the Minimum Wage: A Spatial Analysis of the UK | Prof Peter Dolton University of Sussex |
12 Dec 2012 |
CISS – A portfolio-theoretic framework for the construction of composite financial stress indices |
Manfred Kremer |
Research Seminars
Seminars take place on Wednesday at 13:00-14:00, in KS15 in Keynes College, unless indicated otherwise. This schedule may be subject to change during the term.
Summer term
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08 May 13 KLT2 |
A Class-Free Information Criterion | Sylvain Barde |
| 15 May 13 | Immigrants' job mismatch and the penalty of over-education | Eleni Kalfa |
22 May 13 |
Determinants to Leave Agriculture and Change Occupational Sector: Evidence from an Enlarged EU | Barbara Tocco |
| 29 May 13 | Bond yields, monetary policy and fiscal policy | Isaac Sserwanja |
| 05 Jun 13 |
Decomposing Socioeconomic Inequality of Child Mortality in Pakistan |
Uzma Iram |
| 12 Jun 13 | A Choice Experiment Analysis of the Management of the Stray Dog Population in the UK | Christina Siettou |
Spring term
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jan 13 | Smallholder Farmers’ Market Participation and Transaction Costs: The role of mobile phones, radios and farmer organisations in marketing of cereals and legumes in Malawi | Lonester Sibande |
| 23 Jan 13 | Disequilibrium Dynamics in a Simple Production Economy | Rob Jump |
06 Feb 13 |
The impact of Trade Liberalisation on export growth and import growth in Sub-Saharan Africa | Olanrewaju Malik Kassim |
| 13 Feb 13 | The impact of one year more of compulsory children primary education on the mothers' labour supply in Brazil | Diego da Silva Rodrigues |
| 20 Feb 13 |
Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in an Open Economy DSGE Framework |
Aydan Dogan |
| 20 Mar 13 | Ex-post empirical evaluation of TIPs in Italy: a firm-level analysis | Alessandro Cusimano |
| 27 Mar 13 | Fiscal Decentralisation and Education sector, Evidence from Cross-country Analysis | Iftikhar Ahmad |
Autumn term
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 03 Sep 12 | Asset price bubbles in the Kiyotaki-Moore model” (joint with Tomohiro Hirano) | Masaru Inaba Kansai University |
| 03 Sep 12 | Asset Bubbles, Endogenous Growth, and Financial Frictions (joint with Noriyuki Yanagawa) | Tomohiro Hirano University of Tokyo |
| 12 Sep 12 13:00 in KS20 |
Conformism and Structural Change (with Taeko Hori and Kazuo Mino) |
Masako Ikefuji University of Southern Denmark, SDU |
12 Sep 12 |
Sustainability and robustness of long-term growth in endogenous growth theory | Ryo Horii Tohoku University, Japan |
| 3 Oct 12 | English Deficiency and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap in the UK | Yu Zhu |
| 10 Oct 12 | The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Technical Efficiency: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa Manufacturing | Monica Paganini |
| 17 Oct 12 | A Theory of Child Marriage | Zaki Wahhaj |
| 31 Oct 12 | Periodically Collapsing Bubbles in the Foreign Exchange Markets: New Evidence from a Sequential ADF test | Timo Betterdorf |
| 7 Nov 12 | Producing Leisure | Keisuke Otsu |
| 21 Nov 12 | Exchange Rate Flexibility, the International Balance Sheet and Economic Recovery | Jonathan Hughes |
| 28 Nov 12 | Adding to the central banker's toolkit: liquidity, the zero lower bound and macroprudential instruments |
Jack Meaning |
| 6 Dec 12 13:00 in KS4 |
An Experimental Investigation of Social Interactions | Thomas Singh |
Finance Seminars
The University of Kent Finance Seminars are organised jointly by Kent Business School, the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science and the School of Economics. Seminars take place on the second Tuesday of the month during term time. The organisers are Professor Jagjit Chadha (Economics), Professor Radu Tanaru (KBS) and Dr Jaideep Oberoi (SMSAS).
Spring term
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
12 Mar 13 |
Trends and Cycles in Real Commodity Prices: 1650-2010 |
Prof Neil Kellard University of Essex Business School |
| 26 Mar 13 (Tuesday) 15:00 Lecture Theatre, KBS |
Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for Calibration and Estimation of Multi Factor s.d.e. Commodity Models | Gareth Peters University College London, Oxford-Man Institute and CSIRO Australia |
Autumn term
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker | 11 Sep 12 |
Continuous Workout Mortgages | Dr Rafal Wojakowski Lancaster Business School |
|---|---|---|
13 Nov 12 |
A General Decision-Tree Approach to Real Option Valuation | Prof Carol Alexander Sussex Business School |
| 11 Dec 12 KLT5 |
Optimal Portfolio Strategies under Transaction Costs: Numerical Solutions for State-Dependent Drift | Dr Huamao Wang
|
Past seminars
Seminars held in 2011/12
School seminars
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 05 Oct 2011 | Forecasting the European carbon market (with Lisa Tole) | Prof Gary Koop University of Strathclyde |
| 26 Oct 2011 | Anatomy of welfare reform: announcement and implementation effects | Prof Marco Francesconi University of Essex |
| 02 Nov 2011 13:00 |
Merger waves and distribution of Tobin's q | Dr Zafeira Kastrinaki Imperial College London |
| 02 Nov 2011 16:00 |
Parental consent for contraception and teenage pregnancy: the case of Texas | Prof David Paton University of Nottingham |
| 09 Nov 2011 13:00 |
Dengue outbreaks and the impact on school proficiency | Daniel Roland University of Sao Paulo |
| 09 Nov 2011 16:00 |
On the transmission of memory: inflation persistence and the great moderation | Prof Menelaos Karanasos Brunel University |
| 23 Nov 2011 |
Two unlikely twins: disaggregate data for Russia and the US, 1870-2000 (with Andrei Markevich, New Economic School, Moscow) | Dr Martin Uebele University of Münster |
| 25 Jan 2012 | An estimated DSGE model of energy, costs and inflation in the United Kingdom | Stephen Millard Bank of England |
01 Feb 2012 | Fertility convergence through internal migration: France in the 19th Century | Prof Guillaume Daudin Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille |
29 Feb 2012 | Forecasting the 2012 US Presidential Election | Dr James Reade University of Birmingham |
14 Mar 2012 | Trade as an Engine of Creative Destruction: Mexican experience with Chinese competition | Prof Alan Winters |
21 Mar 2012 16:30 |
Credence goods, experts and risk aversion | Dr Olivier Bonroy |
28 Mar 2012 | Inequality and education funding: Theory and evidence from the US school districts (with Calin Arcalean) | Dr Ioana Schiopu |
29 Mar 2012 (Thursday) |
A quantitative analysis of optimal sustainable monetary policies | Takeki Sunakwa |
04 Apr 2012 |
The impact of central bank balance sheet policies on the emerging economies | Feng Zhu Monetary and Economic Division, Bank for International Settlements |
04 Apr 2012 KS16 |
Taking Technology to Task: The Skill Content of Technological Change in Early Twentieth Century United States | Dr Rowena Gray |
16 May 2012 KLT3 |
Oil Prices, Profits and Recessions | Dr Natalie Chen |
23 May 2012 |
From time-varying macro-dynamics to time-varying estimates of DSGE parameters | Tony Yates Bank of England |
20 Jun 2012 |
Household leverage and fiscal multipliers | José Emilio Boscá |
18 Jul 2012
|
Entrepreneurship, determinants, effects and education | Professor Isabel Neira and Professor Loreto Fernández |
Research seminars
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2011 | Efficient resource allocation for river connectivity and habitat restoration | Dr Jesse R O'Hanley (KBS) |
| 19 Oct 2011 | World, country and sectoral factors in international business cycles | Aikaterini Karadimitropoulou |
| 23 Nov 2011 | Visual attention and attribute attendance in economic choice experiments | Iain Fraser |
| 30 Nov 2011 | Do private pensions make it harder to tax the rich? | Chris Heady |
| 18 Jan 2012 | Stock or twist? A quantitative evaluation of unconventional monetary policies | Jack Meaning |
| 25 Jan 2012 | Investigating global imbalances: Evidence from a GVAR approach | Timo Bettendorf |
| 22 Feb 2012 | The socioeconomic and environmental determinants of child mortality in developing countries: Empirical findings from panel data techniques | Uzma Iram |
| 29 Feb 2012 |
A retrospective cohort study on investigating factors that influence 'consumer' choice when adopting a shelter dog | Christina Siettou |
| 14 Mar 2012 |
US monetary transmission to corporate bond yields | Isaac Sserwanja | 21 Mar 2012 |
Labour adjustments in and out agriculture in selected EU regions | Barbara Tocco |
28 Mar 2012 |
Determinants of Remittances: Evidence from Spain | Eleni Kalfa |
15 May 2012 (Tuesday) |
Point identification in the presence of measurement error in discrete variables: Application - wages and disability
|
Eirini Saloniki
|
16 May 2012 |
Of Ants and Voters: Maximum Entropy prediction of agent-based models with recruitment | Dr Sylvain Barde |
22 May 2012 (Tuesday) |
The US Business Cycle: The Balance Sheet Dimension
|
Eddie Gerba James Warren |
29 May 2012 (Tuesday) |
On the construction of two-country cointegrated VAR models with an application to the UK and US | Monica Paganini Iftikhar Ahmad Reinhold Heinlein |
06 Jun 2012 (Wednesday) |
Remittances and household expenditure behaviour in Senegal | Christone Nyondo Nazia Mansoor Teresa Randazzo |
Finance seminars
| Date/Venue | Topic | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
14 Feb 2012 |
'Options for the Euro'
Register your attendance here. |
Luigi Speranza
Bill Allen
|
| 27 Mar 2012 14:30 for 15:00 Kent Business School Symposium room |
On the valuation and capital cost of project flexibility within sequential investment | Prof Mark Shackleton Lancaster University |
| 3 Apr 2012 13:30 for 14:00 KLT2 |
Salvaging the C-CAPM: Currency Carry Trade Risk Premia and Conditioning Information | Prof Abhay Abhyankar Baillie Gifford Chair of Financial Markets University of Edinburgh Business School |
Seminars held in 2010/11
School seminars
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 06 Oct 2010 | Convergence in a two country specific factors model | Prof Partha Sen Delhi School of Economics |
| 13 Oct 2010 | Derivation of risk preferences from lottery sales data | Prof David Forrest University of Salford |
| 20 Oct 2010 | Explaining training systems: strategic complementarities and the substitutability of general and specific skills | Prof Margaret Stevens University of Oxford |
| 27 Oct 2010 | The double dividend hypothesis in a CGE model: Specific factors and variable labour supply | Dr Robert Waschik La Trobe University, Australia |
| 03 Nov 2010 | Monetary and fiscal policy under deep habits | Dr Ioana Moldovan University of Glasgow |
| 10 Nov 2010 | Age, wages and productivity: the effects of the National Minimum Wage on young workers | Dr Steven McIntosh University of Sheffield |
| 24 Nov 2010 | Envy and agricultural innovation: an experimental case study from Ethiopia (joint work with Bereket Kebede, UEA) | Prof Daniel Zizzo University of East Anglia |
| Friday 03 Dec 2010 13:00 - 14:30 |
Adapting to climate: the transformation of North American wheat production, 1839-2009 | Prof Alan Olmstead University of California Davis |
| 26 Jan 2011 | Child mental health and educational attainment: multiple observers and the measurement error problem | Prof Steve Pudney University of Essex |
| 02 Feb 2011 | Betting market anomalies: evidence from British greyhound racing | Dr Robert Simmons University of Lancaster |
| 09 Feb 2011 | Free trade agreements and the consolidation of democracy | Dr Emanuel Ornelas London School of Economics |
| Tuesday 22 Mar 2011 |
Rent dissipation in the agricultural insurance industry | Prof Vince Smith Montana State University |
| 23 Mar 2011 |
Intergenerational externalities in childcare time and macroeconomic performance | Prof Nigar Hashimzade University of Reading |
| 30 Mar 2011 | Consistent model specification testing | Prof James Davidson University of Exeter |
| 18 May 2011 |
Stock market booms, endogenous credit creation and the implications of broad and narrow banking for macroeconomic stability [pdf] |
Prof Peter Flaschel University of Bielefeld |
| Friday 20 May 2011 13:00 |
Valuing Australia's environment using choice experiments | Prof Jeff Bennett Australian National University |
| 01 Jun 2011 13:00 |
Parents, television and cultural change | Esther Hauk IEA Barcelona |
| 01 Jun 2011 16:00 |
Learning and asset prices | Prof Albert Marcet London School of Economics |
Research seminars
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 06 Oct 2010 | Moral hazard, targeting and contract duration in agri-environmental policy | Prof Rob Fraser |
| 27 Oct 2010 | General equilibrium approach to evaluate real option value of reserved environments (joint with Iain Fraser) [pdf] |
Dr Katsuyuki Shibayama |
| 03 Nov 2010 |
Decision making under risk and uncertainty: a view from across the sciences | Prof Jagjit Chadha (Economics) and Dr David Roberts (DICE) |
| 10 Nov 2010 | Differences by degree: evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales [pdf] | Dr Yu Zhu |
| 24 Nov 2010 | How should we tax top income recipients? | Prof Chris Heady |
| 15 Dec 2010 | A discussion of the financial implications of the Browne and Comprehensive Spending Reviews for the University Sector | Dr Amanda Gosling and Prof Alan Carruth Chaired by Prof Rob Fraser |
| 26 Jan 2011 | MSc student dissertation discussions | |
| 02 Feb 2011 | Impact of child obesity news on food consumption in the UK | Andres Silva |
| 09 Feb 2011 | Specialization and convergence in export patterns in EU15 and Turkey | Gunes Bebek |
| 16 Feb 2011 | Spatial integration, threshold effects and asymmetry in Malawian maize markets | Christone Nyondo |
| 02 Mar 2011 | Parameterising DSGE models: a comparison of Bayesian estimation and distance measures | Evren Caglar |
| 16 Mar 2011 16:00 |
Information theory, rationality and equilibrium | Sylvain Barde |
| 16 Mar 2011 13:00 |
Business cycle accounting for the UK: the missing investment wedge | James Warren |
| 23 Mar 2011 | Effects of monetary policy on the $/£ exchange rate in a partly symmetric two country cointegrated VAR model | Reinhold Heinlein |
| 30 Mar 2011 | Quantitative easing and bond yield: results from a macro finance yield curve | Alex Waters |
| 06 Apr 2011 13:00 |
Remittances and return migration: evidence from the Maghreb region | Teresa Randazzo |
| 11 May 2011 13:00 |
Monetary oolicy, the financial accelerator model and asset price bubbles | Eddie Gerba |
| 11 May 2011 15:00 |
Marriage payments and bargaining power of women in rural bangladesh | Nazia Mansoor |
| 18 May 2011 13:00 |
Economics of hypercongestion | Prapakorn Winaisathaporn |
| Tuesday 07 Jun 2011 14:00 |
Fiscal decentalization and economic growth, as case study of Pakistan | Iftikhar Ahmad |
School seminars
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Jun 2011 13:00 |
Parents, television and cultural change | Esther Hauk IEA Barcelona |
| 01 Jun 2011 16:00 |
Learning and asset prices | Prof Albert Marcet London School of Economics |
| Friday 20 May 2011 13:00 |
Valuing Australia's environment using choice experiments | Prof Jeff Bennett Australian National University |
| 18 May 2011 |
Stock market booms, endogenous credit creation and the implications of broad and narrow banking for macroeconomic stability [pdf] |
Prof Peter Flaschel University of Bielefeld |
| 30 Mar 2011 | Consistent model specification testing | Prof James Davidson University of Exeter |
| 23 Mar 2011 |
Intergenerational externalities in childcare time and macroeconomic performance | Prof Nigar Hashimzade University of Reading |
| Tuesday 22 Mar 2011 |
Rent dissipation in the agricultural insurance industry | Prof Vince Smith Montana State University |
| 09 Feb 2011 | Free trade agreements and the consolidation of democracy | Dr Emanuel Ornelas London School of Economics |
| 02 Feb 2011 | Betting market anomalies: evidence from British greyhound racing | Dr Robert Simmons University of Lancaster |
| 26 Jan 2011 | Child mental health and educational attainment: multiple observers and the measurement error problem | Prof Steve Pudney University of Essex |
| Friday 03 Dec 2010 13:00 - 14:30 |
Adapting to climate: the transformation of North American wheat production, 1839-2009 | Prof Alan Olmstead University of California Davis |
| 24 Nov 2010 | Envy and agricultural innovation: an experimental case study from Ethiopia (joint work with Bereket Kebede, UEA) | Prof Daniel Zizzo University of East Anglia |
| 10 Nov 2010 | Age, wages and productivity: the effects of the National Minimum Wage on young workers | Dr Steven McIntosh University of Sheffield |
| 03 Nov 2010 | Monetary and fiscal policy under deep habits | Dr Ioana Moldovan University of Glasgow |
| 27 Oct 2010 | The double dividend hypothesis in a CGE model: Specific factors and variable labour supply | Dr Robert Waschik La Trobe University, Australia |
| 20 Oct 2010 | Explaining training systems: strategic complementarities and the substitutability of general and specific skills | Prof Margaret Stevens University of Oxford |
| 13 Oct 2010 | Derivation of risk preferences from lottery sales data | Prof David Forrest University of Salford |
| 06 Oct 2010 | Convergence in a two country specific factors model | Prof Partha Sen Delhi School of Economics |
Finance seminars
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2011 | Trading inefficiencies in CDS markets and their determinants | Radu Tunaru Kent Business School |
| 14 Jun 2011 | Inference in infinite superpositions of non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes using Bayesian Nonparametric methods | Jim Griffin SMSAS |
| 11 Oct 2011 |
A general equilibrium model of environmental option values | Katsuyuki Shibayama School of Economics |
| 08 Nov 2011 |
Who do firms vary their mix of fixed and floating rate debt so much? | Jaideep Oberoi SMSAS |
| 13 Dec 2011 |
Analysing the difference between forward and futures prices for the UK commercial property market | Silvia Stanescu Kent Business School |