Muayad Ismail “Distributional and Welfare Effects of IMF Programs in Sudan” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract This research aims at evaluating the distributional and welfare effects of IMF programs implemented in Sudan during the period 1960-2018. This research is expected to contribute to the current...Read More >
Alex Vickery (RHUL) “Reaching for the SKY: Parental Investments in Academic Skills and Competition for University Places” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsSee Alex's personal website here Abstract I study the development of child academic skills through adolescence in anticipation of entry to university. I look at how heterogeneity in initial household...Read More >
Yongda Liu (ICMA) “Internal Information Quality and Financial Policy Peer Effects” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract This paper investigates how firms' internal information quality influences the peer effects in its financial policy. By employing earning announcement speed and insider trading profitability difference as measurements, we...Read More >
Ran Tao (ICMA) “News-Based Links and Cross-firm Return Predictability” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract Applying a “co-coverage” concept to the Dow Jones Newswire articles, we propose to identify each firm’s news-based links (NBLs) and thereby construct a newsworthiness economic grouping scheme. The advantage...Read More >
Konstantina Boutsioukou (RHUL) “Parental background and access to tertiary education in Greece: Changes in times of crisis” – PhD seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract In this study I explore how university entry patterns in Greece were affected by the debt crisis over the period 2008-2016. In particular, I study the distribution of educational participation in...Read More >
Luqman Saeed (RHUL) “Political and Economic Consequences of Humanitarian Military Interventions Abstract” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract This study investigates the impact of humanitarian military interventions (HMIs) on conflict termination, conflict escalation, economic output and democratic performance using panel data on 144 countries covering time-period of...Read More >
Meshael Batarfi “What differences are there between male and female managers? Evidence from elite women’s soccer” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract We investigate male and female managers in a highly competitive and data-rich setting: association football. While in men’s football there is minimal gender variation in the high-profile roles, in...Read More >
Shahabeddin Gharaati (RHUL) “The welfare effects of introducing a tax on a collateralized loan” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract In this paper, I examine the effects of introducing a tax on social welfare in models with collateral and default. Two models are considered. The first model incorporates default...Read More >
Evripidis Bantis (ICMA) “Forecasting GDP Growth Rates Using Google Trends in the United States and Brazil” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract There are many studies that explore the usefulness of “Big Data” in forecasting specific economic variables such as unemployment or inflation, but only a few focus on the overall...Read More >
Anna Zabrodzka “Convergence Across EU Regions and the Role of the EU Cohesion Policy” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract While there is evidence that the poorest regions in the European Union experienced the fastest economic growth, the gap between the richest and the poorest has not diminished. Additionally,...Read More >
Jingqi Pan (ICMA) “On the estimation of Value-at-risk and Expected Shortfall at extreme levels” – PhD Seminar
Microsoft TeamsAbstract The estimation of risk at extreme levels of significance (such as alpha = 0.01%) can be crucial considering events such as those related to the recent COVID-19 crisis. We...Read More >