Maxim Belitski (Virtual Seminar)
Title: Music is in the air: What startups can learn from a jazz jam session Abstract: While numerous models exist that explain innovation in startups, factors that facilitate the process...Read More >
Stefania Lovo (Virtual Seminar)
Title: Renewable energy technology adoption and the diffusion of information and behaviour in social networks: Evidence from rural China Abstract: This paper investigates how social networks affect renewable energy technology adoption....Read More >
Steven Bosworth (Virtual Seminar)
Title: Bias and discrimination: What do we know? (joint w/ Marina Della Giusta) Abstract: The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of...Read More >
Alex Mihailov (Virtual Seminar)
Title: Quantifying the macroeconomic effects of the COVID-19 lockdown: Comparative simulations of the estimated Galí-Smets-Wouters model Abstract: This paper considers 3 scenarios regarding the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown,...Read More >
Marina Della Giusta & Sarah Jewell (Virtual Seminar)
Title: Working for nothing Abstract: We document the differences in time allocation to the labour market by different personality types in the UK, and show how they may account for...Read More >
Abdulaleem Isiaka (Virtual Seminar)
Title: What is the redistributive impact of reallocating government spending? Evidence from a sample of middle-income countries Abstract: This paper employs the fixed effects estimator in examining the redistributive impact...Read More >
Wei-Fong Pan (Virtual Seminar)
Title: The labour market effect of fiscal policy uncertainty Abstract: This study examines the effect of fiscal policy uncertainty (FPU) on job searches and labour demand in the United States....Read More >
Virtual Seminar – Shixuan Wang
Title: On the intraday return curves of bitcoin: predictability and trading opportunities Abstract: Motivated by the potential inferences from intraday price data in the controversial Bitcoin market, we apply functional...Read More >
James Reade (Internal Seminar)
Title: Disparate Sporting Topics: Expert Forecasts and No Shows Abstract: This talk combines two separate pieces of research that are not obviously linked other than that they look at sport....Read More >
Steven Bosworth (Internal Seminar)
Title: Parental time investments and instantaneous well-being in the United States (with Almudena Sevilla and Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal) Abstract: We use the Well-being Modules of the American Time Use Survey to...Read More >