Semester 1

• 4 October 2023 
  Mathias Hoffman (University of Zurich) – "Softening the Blow: U.S. State-Level Banking Deregulation and Sectoral Reallocation after the China Trade Shock"
• 18 October 2023
  Dana Sisak (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – "Information Sharing with Social Image Concerns and the Spread of Fake News"
• 1 November 2023
  Anandi Mani (University of Oxford) – "Customized Cash Transfers: Cash Flow preferences and Financial lives of the Poor in rural Kenya"
• 15 November 2023
  Michele Belot (Cornell University) – "Gender Diversity and Diversity of Ideas"
• 29 November 2023
  Dennie van Dolder (University of Essex) – "Impact or Responsibility? Giving in a Televised Natural Experiment"

Semester 2

• 14 February 2024
  Michael Kosfeld (Goethe University Frankfurt) – “Group Identity and Belief Formation: A Decomposition of Political Polarization”
• 28 February 2024
  Jack Willis (Columbia University) – "Land Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya"
• 13 March 2024
  Abigail Barr (University of Nottingham) – "Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? Evidence from the lab”
• 27 March 2024
  Laura Wherry (New York University) – “The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income” 
• 24 April 2024
  John Duffy  (UC Irvine) – Trade, Voting and ESG Policies: Theory and Evidence.
• 7 May 2024
  Banu Demir Pakel (University of Oxford) – Breaking Invisible Barriers: Does Fast Internet Improve Access to Input Markets?
• Tuesday 21 May 2024
  Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – "Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to Trump’s Trade War”.

Semester 1

• 5 October 2022: Ghazala Azmat (Paris Sciences Po) – “ICT and Student Learning”

• 12 October 2022: Thomas Lubik (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) – “Searching for Hysteresis”

• 19 October 2022: Anthony Savagar (University of Kent) – “Returns to Scale and Productivity in the Macroeconomy”

• 26 October 2022: Vladimir Tyazhelnikov (University of Sydney) – “Russian Counter-Sanctions and Smuggling: Forensics with Structural Gravity Estimation”

• 2 November 2022: Frank Schilbach (MIT Economics) – “Not Learning from Others” & “Learning in the Household”

• 9 November 2022: Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick) – “Antidepressant Use and School Academic Achievement”

• 23 November 2022: Imran Rasul (University College London) – “Distributional Impacts of Early Childhood Interventions Within Families: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria”

• 7 December 2022: Michael Vlassopoulos (University of Southampton) – “Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model”

Semester 2

• 15 February 2023: Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford) – “Violence Against Women at Work”

• 8 March 2023: Friederike Mengel (University of Essex) – “Influence in Social Network”

• 22 March 2023: Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University) – “Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics in Europe”

• 26 April 2023: Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol) – “The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws”

Semester 1

• 29 September 2021: Marta Serra-Garcia (UCSD) – “Cognitive Flexibility or Moral Commitment? Evidence of Anticipated Belief Distortion”

• 27 October 2021: Eyal Winter (Lancaster University & Hebrew University) – “On Stars and Galaxies: Exploiting Social Influence in Networks”

• 3 November 2021: Sebastian Stumpner (Banque du France) — "From Macro to Micro: Heterogeneous Exporters in the Pandemic"

• 17 November 2021: Nathan Lane (Oxford) – “Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea”

• 1 December 2021: Danila Serra (Texas A&M) – “Proud to belong: The impact of ethics training on police officers in Ghana”

Semester 2

• 19 January 2022: Alex Teytelboym (Oxford) – “Learning by Matching”

• 16 February 2022: Robert Dur (Erasmus University) - “How do voters think about policy experimentation?”

• 11 March 2022: Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) – “Authoritarian Policies, Trust and Public Service Utilization: Evidence from a Forced Sterilization Program in Perú”

• 23 March 2022: Melanie Xue (LSE) – “Women and Asylum”

• 6 April 2022: Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson School of Management) – “The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States”
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• 20 April 2022: Tim Lee (QMUL) –  “Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany”

• 18 May 2022: Cecilia Garcia Penalosa (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) – “Spreading the polarisation disease: From the labor market to social mobility”

Semester 1

• 7 October 2020, 12.00-13.15
  Francesco Bianchi (Duke University) - "Belief Distortions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations" with Sydney Ludvigson and Sai Ma
  Seminar via Zoom Meeting.
  King's staff and students will receive a link by email. If you are not part of King's College London and want to attend the seminar, you can register by writing to michele.piffer@kcl.ac.uk
• 21 October 2020
  Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University) - "Exposure to ethnic minorities changes attitudes to them"
• 11 November 2020
  Bard Harstad (University of Oslo) - "Trade and trees"
• 18 November 2020, 14.00-15.30 
  Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex) - Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden (joint work with Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Nina Schwarz).
• 25 November 2020
  Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics) - “Social learning in agriculture: does smallholder heterogeneity impede technology diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa?”
• 9 December 2020
  Sule Alan (European University Institute) - “Social Exclusion and Ethnic Segregation in Schools: The Role of Teacher’s Ethnic Prejudice”

Semester 2

• 27 January 2021
  Ralf Martin (Imperial College London) – "Clean industrial policy: standing on the shoulders of giant gnomes?"
• 10 February 2021
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne) – "Reconciliation Narratives - The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War"
• 3 March 2021
  Evi Pappa (University Carlos III de Madrid) – "What are the likely macroeconomic effects of the EU recovery plan?"

• 17 March 2021
  Uta Schoenberg (University College London) – “Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply – Evidence from the German reunification”

• 9 October 2019
  Antonio Cabrales (University College London) – 'Institutions and Prosocial Behavior'
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 13.00 – 14.00
• 23 October 2019
  Alessandro Riboni (École Polytechnique) – 'Fiscal rules as bargaining chips'
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 13 November 2019
  Thomas Buser (University of Amsterdam) – 'Can competitiveness predict education and labour market outcomes? Evidence from incentivised choices and survey measures'
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 27 November 2019
  Gilat Levy (London School of Economics) – 'Mis-specified politics and the recurrence of populism'
  Bush House, Room (S)2.04, 12.00 – 13.30
• 11 December 2019
  Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University) – 'Folklore'
  Bush House, Room (SE)1.01, 12.00 – 13.30

• 15 January 2020
  Julia Cagé (Sciences Po Paris) – 'It takes money to make MPs: New evidence from 150 years of British Campaign Spending'
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 29 January 2020
  Roland Bénabou (Princeton University) – 'Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Persuasion'
  Bush House, Room (S)2.02, 12.30 – 14.00
• 26 February 2020
  Noam Yuchtman (London School of Economics) – 'Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI firms in China' 
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 18 March 2020
  Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University) – “TBA”
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 25 March 2020
  Patrick Bolton (Columbia Business School) – “TBA”
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 8 April 2020
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne) – “TBA”
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30

• 3 October 2018: Vince Crawford - University of Oxford: "Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading"

• 17 October 2018: David Yanagizawa-Drott - University of Zurich: "Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia"

• 14 November 2018: Eric Chaney - University of Oxford: "Religion and the Rise and Fall of Islamic Science"

• 28 November 2018: Katia Zhuravskaya - Paris School of Economics: "Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers."
  • Please note: this seminar will take place in Bush House (SE)2.09 at 13:00-14:30

• 12 December 2018: Pramila Krishnan - University of Oxford:"Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods."

• 16 January 2019: Barbara Petrongolo - Queen Mary University London: "Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms".
• 30 January 2019: Matteo Iacoviello - Federal Reserve Board Washington DC: "Measuring Geopolitical Risk"
• 13 February 2019: Luigi Pascali - Universitat Pompeu Fabra: "Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy"
• 27 February 2019: Alessandra Casella - Columbia University: "An Experimental Study of Vote Trading"
• 13 March 2019: Laurent Bouton - Georgetown University: "Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions"
• 27 March 2019: Alessandro Tarozzi - Universitat Pompeu Fabra: "Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh"

Semester 1

• 28 September 2023 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Daniele Girardi (Department of Political Economy) – “A Local Projections Approach to Difference-in-Differences Event Studies”
• 12 October 2023 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Tatiana Kornienko (Department of Economics) – "Competitive Bidding, Predation, and Expropriation: A Unified Model"
• 26 October 2023 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Alex Armand (NOVA University Lisbon) – "It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, it’s Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance"
• 9 November 2023 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Ed Hopkins (Department of Economics) – 'College as a Signal of Self-Control: Theory and Evidence'
• 22 November 2023 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  David Chilosi (Department of Political Economy) – "How many jobs? Division of labour in early modern England and Wales"
• 7 December 2023 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Mehmet Ismail (Department of Political Economy) – 'Human and Machine Intelligence in n-Person Games with Partial Knowledge: Theory and Computation'

Semester 2

• 25 January 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Wookun Kim (Southern Methodist University) – 'Migration, Commuting, and the Spatial Distribution of Public Spending'
• 8 February 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Gabriel Leon-Ablan (Department of Political Economy) – “Activism and the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire”
• 9 February 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine) – 'National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development'
• 22 February 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Jenny Hunt (Rutgers University) – 'Do Female-Owned Employment Agencies Expand Opportunity for Women?'
• 7 March 2024 – Bush House (S) – 2.04 – 12:00-13:00
  Yonatan Berman (Department of Political Economy) – "The Effects of Austerity on Mortality: Evidence from the United Kingdom"
• 21 March 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Meng Yu Ngov (Department of Economics) – "Enhancing Firm Efficiency through Mobile Broadband: Evidence from the 3G Rollout in Vietnam"
• 25 April 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Leonie Gerhards (Department of Economics) - Personal appearance and bargaining outcomes: Evidence from a TV show
• 2 May 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Marc Scott (New York University) – “The future of history: new ideas for an old problem”
• 9 May 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Indrajit Ray (Birmingham) – “Following Recommendations from Correlation Devices in 2 x 2 Games"
• 16 May 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Karly Kuralbayeva (Department of Political Economy) – "Floods and local election outcomes in England"
• 23 May 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Margaret Davenport (Department of Economics) – "Granular Expectation Shocks and International Financial Contagion"
• 30 May 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Karly Kuralbayeva (Department of Political Economy) – “Global Warming Cools Voters Down: How Climate Concerns Affect Policy Preferences”
• 6 June 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Jetson Leder-Luis (Boston University) – "Dying or Lying, For Profit Hospices and End of Life Care".
• 13 June 2024 – Bush House (S) – 2.02 – 12:00-13:00
  Cevat Giray Aksoy (Department of Political Economy) – "Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants"
• 20 June 2024 – Bush House (S) – 3.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Anri Sakakibara (Department of Political Economy) – "The Long-Term and Intergenerational Impacts of the Vietnam War"

Semester 1

• 10 November 2022 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Bouke Klein Teeselink (DPE) – “Shifting involvements or shifting identities? The effect of secularisation on polarisation and economic behaviour”
• 1 December 2022 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Amrita Dhillon (DPE) – "Information, beliefs and activism: An experiment"
• 8 December 2022 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Alice Dominici (Visiting, JCM) – "Targeting vaccine information framing: a randomized trial!

Semester 2

• 19 January 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Mamadou Sacko (Visiting JMC) – 'Terrorism and Reporting on Immigration in the Media: Evidence from France'
• 2 February 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Ian Levely (DPE) – 'Cosmopolitan norms: can ethnic diversity strengthen institutions?'
• 16 February 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Vikram Bahure (DID)  – 'Education and Domestic Violence: Evidence from a Large-Scale School Construction Program in India'
• 2 March 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Cevat Giray Aksoy (DPE) – 'Violence in Hometown and Human Capital Decisions of Refugee Children'
• 9 March 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Julia F Engel (Visiting JMC) – 'Chess, Gender, and Tournament Dynamics'
• 16 March 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  No seminar
• 30 March 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
  Sanchari Roy (DID) – 'Psychological empowerment and Female Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Self-help Groups in India'
• 26 April 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
  No seminar
• 3 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
  John Morrow (KBS) – 'Firms in Product Space: Adoption, Growth and Competition'
• 10 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
  Alberto Vesperoni (DPE) – 'Measuring Wealth: Income Capitalization with Heterogeneous Rates of Return'
• 17 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
  Elodie Andrieu – 'Multi-establishment Firm Structure and Subsidies'
• 24 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
  Kostas Matakos/Nina Weber (DPE) – 'Victim-blaming Norms and Gender-based Violence: Self-interest or Morality Drive Policy and Behavior Change?'
• 31 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
  Abu Siddique (DPE) – 'Edutainment, Social Network, and Ethnic Discrimination in Rural Bangladesh'
• 7 June 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 14:00-15:00
  Yonatan Berman (DPE) – 'Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality using a Simplified Multiplier Method'
• 14 June 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 14:00-15:00
  Omid Mazdak (KBS) – 'Graduate Salary Gaps in England Explained by Socio-Economic Background and Ethnicity'
• 21 June 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 14:00-15:00
  Pierre-Louis Vézina (DPE) – 'Trade Policy and Jobs in Vietnam: The Unintended Consequences of Trump’s Trade War'
• 27 June 2023 – Bush House (S) 4.04 – 14:00-15:00
  Heiner Schumacher (Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck) - 'Work Meaning and Fair Wages'