Economics Research

Sophia Kazinnik, Federal Reserve Richmond (External Seminars)
2021-09-29 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | Microsoft Teams
“Let’s Face It: Quantifying the Impact of Nonverbal Communication in FOMC Press Conferences”

Emily Marshall (ROSES)
2021-10-01 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
Title: Identifying the Impact of Attendance on Home Court Advantage
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 of Reading.
All Seminars take place 2:30-4pm, UK time, and will take place on Microsoft Teams.

Joining Instructions:

Seminar via Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk

Shixuan Wang (Internal Seminars)
2021-10-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Microsoft Teams
Testing Stability in Event Observations with Applications to IPO Performance

Youjin Hahn, Yonsei University (External Seminars)
2021-10-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams
“Can New Learning Opportunities Reshape Gender Attitudes for Girls?: Field Evidence from Tanzania” (with So Yoon Ahn and Semee Yoon)

Richa Saun (PhD Seminars)
2021-10-07 13:00 - 13:45 | Microsoft Teams
The Impact of Individual Parental Bilingualism on Children’s Vocabulary and Behavioral Development in the UK

Alex Krumer (ROSES)
2021-10-08 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
Title: Fewer teams, more games: Evidence from the structural change in basketball’s Euroleague
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 of Reading.
All Seminars take place 2:30-4pm, UK time, and will take place on Microsoft Teams.

Joining Instructions:

Seminar via Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk

Angel Calderon Madrid, El Colégio de México (visiting, Internal Seminars)
2021-10-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Microsoft Teams
Impact on Formal Job Participation of Changes in Workers’ Old-Age Retirement Conditions in an Economy with a Large Informal Sector: the Mexican Experience

Kerstin Grosch, IHS Institute of Advanced Studies Vienna (External Seminars)
2021-10-13 14:30 - 15:30 | Microsoft Teams
“Increasing childrens’ interest in STEM subjects – a field experiment in Austria” (co-authored with Simone Hackl and Martin G. Kocher)

Winnie Muangi (PhD Seminars)
2021-10-14 13:00 - 13:45 | Microsoft Teams
Ready to Graduate? Insights from Tanzania’s Cash Transfer Program

Francesco Principe (ROSES)
2021-10-15 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
Title: Racial Bias in Newspaper Ratings of Professional Football Players
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 of Reading.
All Seminars take place 2:30-4pm, UK time, and will take place on Microsoft Teams.

Joining Instructions:

Seminar via Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk

Hubert Kempf, Universite Paris-Saclay (External Seminars)
2021-10-20 14:30 - 15:30 | Microsoft Teams
Living with Covid: Optimal Pandemic-Related Lockdown Policy

Elly Twineyo (PhD Seminars)
2021-10-21 13:00 - 13:45 | Microsoft Teams
Corruption and Firm Growth in Growth: Firm-Level Evidence

Noof Alfehaidi (PhD Seminars)
2021-10-21 13:45 - 14:30 | Microsoft Teams
The Impact of VAT on the Economic Growth of GCC Countries

Kerry Papps (ROSES)
2021-10-22 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
Title: Running up that hill: Fitness in the face of recession
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 of Reading.
All Seminars take place 2:30-4pm, UK time, and will take place on Microsoft Teams.

Joining Instructions:

Seminar via Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk

Alexander Mihailov (Internal Seminars)
2021-10-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Microsoft Teams
Sudden Stops, Productivity and the Optimal Level of International Reserves for Small Open Economies

Michael Haylock, University of Tubingen (External Seminars)
2021-10-27 14:30 - 15:30
“Helping and Antisocial Behaviour at the Workplace”

Ifeatu Uzodinma (PhD Seminars)
2021-10-28 13:00 - 13:45 | Microsoft Teams
Relative Poverty, Cognitive Performance, and Economic Decision-making: Behavioural Insights from a Payday Experiment

Arne Fedderson (ROSES)
2021-10-29 14:30 - 16:00
Title: Is Being Slightly Behind at Halftime Good? Loss Aversion and Diminishing Sensitivity in Professional Team Sports
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 of Reading.
All Seminars take place 2:30-4pm, UK time, and will take place on Microsoft Teams.

Joining Instructions:

Seminar via Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk

Matthew Yeo (PhD Seminars)
2021-11-04 13:00 - 13:45 | Microsoft Teams
Community-Owned Football Teams, Fans Taking Control of Ownership and Affecting Performance

1st Lille-Reading Workshop on International Finance
2021-11-04 13:45 - 2021-11-05 16:20 | Microsoft Teams
About the Workshop:

The inaugural annual workshop will be held virtually via MS Teams at the University of Reading on 4 and 5 November 2021.
More background about the aims, scope and organisation of the workshop is provided on its website, where the poster and the programme can be found too.
The workshop is co-founded and co-organised by Alexander Mihailov (EARG, University of Reading) and Florence Huart (LEM, University of Lille), and is supported by the Money, Macro and Finance Society (MMFS), United Kingdom.
Keynote speaker: Gianluca Benigno (FRB New York and LSE), “The Global Dollar”.
Special issue at Open Economies Review (Springer).

Joining Instructions:

Workshop via Microsoft Teams.
Here are the links to join on Day 1 and/or Day 2.
Contact Alexander Mihailov at a.mihailov@reading.ac.uk

Conference on Medieval Statistics
2021-11-05 10:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
About the Conference:

Co-organisers: Mike Hughes (Royal Statistical Society, History Committee) and Mark Casson (Centre for Economic Institutions and Business History, University of Reading).
One-day conference on ‘Medieval Statistics’
Online 5 November 2021 via Zoom 10:00-15:30
To register and for a full programme, see: https://rss.org.uk/training-events/events/medieval-statistics/#eventoverview

Joining Instructions:

Conference via Microsoft Teams.
Contact Mark Casson at m.c.casson@reading.ac.uk

Lukas Fischer (ROSES)
2021-11-05 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
Title: Modelling Behavioural Responses to Emotional Cues in Sports – A Bayesian Approach
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 of Reading.
All Seminars take place 2:30-4pm, UK time, and will take place on Microsoft Teams.

Joining Instructions:

Seminar via Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk

Salvatore Lattanzio, University of Cambridge and Bank of England (External Seminars)
2021-11-10 14:30 - 15:30 | Microsoft Teams
“The Peer Effects on Future Wages in the Workplace”

Amir Heidarzadeh, ICMA (PhD Seminars)
2021-11-11 13:00 - 13:45 | Microsoft Teams
Optimizing a Deep Neural Network for Valuation Adjustment with a Derivative Pricing Approach

Bernd Frick and Alex Krumer (ROSES)
2021-11-12 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
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 of Reading.
All Seminars take place 2:30-4pm, UK time, and will take place on Microsoft Teams.

Joining Instructions:

Seminar via Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk

James Reade (Internal Seminars)
2021-11-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Edith Morley 406 or MS Teams (hybrid)
The Long Shadow of an Infection: COVID-19 and Performance at Work

Eliane El Badaoui, Université Paris Nanterre (External Seminars)
2021-11-17 14:30 - 15:30 | Microsoft Teams
TBC

Abdulaleem Isiaka (PhD Seminars)
2021-11-18 13:00 - 13:45 | Microsoft Teams

Albert Chongo (PhD Seminars)
2021-11-18 13:45 - 14:30 | Microsoft Teams

Kaori Narita (ROSES)
2021-11-19 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
Title: Managerial contributions to organisational success: evidence from English Premier League
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 of Reading.
All Seminars take place 2:30-4pm, UK time, and will take place on Microsoft Teams.

Joining Instructions:

Seminar via Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk
