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.

Browse our 2024 programme of events.

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'