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Research seminars 2011/12
The School of Economics hosts two seminars per week, organised by Dr Anna Stepanova and Dr Edward Cartwright.
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 2010/11 series included Prof Partha Sen from the Delhi School of Economics; Prof Margaret Stevens from the University of Oxford; Dr Robert Waschik from La Trobe University, Australia; Prof Alan Olmstead from the University of California Davis; Prof Peter Flaschel from the University of Bielefeld and Prof Jeff Bennett from the Australian National University.
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 | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
15 May 2012 (Tuesday) |
Point identification in the presence of measurement error in discrete variables: Application - wages and disability
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Eirini Saloniki
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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
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Eddie Gerba James Warren |
29 May 2012 (Tuesday) |
PhD workshop | Monica Paganini Iftikhar Ahmad Reinhold Heinlein |
06 Jun 2012 (Wednesday) |
PhD workshop | Christone Nyondo Nazia Mansoor Teresa Randazzo |
Spring term
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Autumn term
| Date | 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 |
School Seminars
Seminars take place on Wednesday at 16:00-17:00, in KS15 in Keynes College, unless indicated otherwise. This schedule may be subject to change during the term.
Summer term
| Date | Topic | Speaker | 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 |
Spring term
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Autumn term
| Date | 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 |
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(s) |
|---|---|---|
14 Feb 2012 |
'Options for the Euro'
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Luigi Speranza
Bill Allen
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| 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
Research seminars
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 07 Jun 2011 14:00 |
Fiscal decentalization and economic growth, as case study of Pakistan | Iftikhar Ahmad |
| 18 May 2011 13:00 |
Economics of hypercongestion | Prapakorn Winaisathaporn |
| 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 |
| 06 Apr 2011 13:00 |
Remittances and return migration: evidence from the Maghreb region | Teresa Randazzo |
| 30 Mar 2011 | Quantitative easing and bond yield: results from a macro finance yield curve | Alex Waters |
| 23 Mar 2011 | Effects of monetary policy on the $/£ exchange rate in a partly symmetric two country cointegrated VAR model | Reinhold Heinlein |
| 16 Mar 2011 13:00 |
Business cycle accounting for the UK: the missing investment wedge | James Warren |
| 16 Mar 2011 16:00 |
Information theory, rationality and equilibrium | Sylvain Barde |
| 02 Mar 2011 | Parameterising DSGE models: a comparison of Bayesian estimation and distance measures | Evren Caglar |
| 16 Feb 2011 | Spatial integration, threshold effects and asymmetry in Malawian maize markets | Christone Nyondo |
| 09 Feb 2011 | Specialization and convergence in export patterns in EU15 and Turkey | Gunes Bebek |
| 02 Feb 2011 | Impact of child obesity news on food consumption in the UK | Andres Silva |
| 26 Jan 2011 | MSc student dissertation discussions | |
| 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 |
| 24 Nov 2010 | How should we tax top income recipients? | Prof Chris Heady |
| 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 |
| 03 Nov 2010 |
Decision making under risk and uncertainty: a view from across the sciences | Prof Jagjit Chadha (Economics) and Dr David Roberts (DICE) |
| 27 Oct 2010 | General equilibrium approach to evaluate real option value of reserved environments (joint with Iain Fraser) [pdf] |
Dr Katsuyuki Shibayama |
| 06 Oct 2010 | Moral hazard, targeting and contract duration in agri-environmental policy | Prof Rob Fraser |
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 |