Nathan Ashby (ROSES)
Title: Big Swimmer in a Small Pond or Small Swimmer in a Big Pond? Evidence of Peer Effects from High School Competition Realignments About ROSES: An online series of 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 >
Peter Spittal (External Seminar)
Title: Benefit salience and labour supply Abstract: I study the salience of dynamic features of the welfare system. I estimate labour supply responses to a large, lump-sum and foreseeable reduction...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 >
Ryan Pinheiro (ROSES)
Title: All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball About ROSES: An online series of sport economics seminars, organised by James Reade, Carl Singleton and Adrian...Read More >
S-TRAINING-ROSES @ 3pm (ROSES)
Title: TBC About ROSES: An online series of sport economics seminars, organised by James Reade, Carl Singleton and Adrian Bell, part of the Football Economics Research Group at the University...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 >
Peter Dolton (ROSES)
Title: Is Football a Matter of Life and Death – Or is it more Important than that? About ROSES: An online series of sport economics seminars, organised by James Reade,...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 >