Economics Research

ROSES Seminar by Danny Hill (Loughborough University London)
2024-01-19 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | Zoom
Title: How to value a football player? Market Valuation Methodology

ROSES Seminar by Pete Groothuis (Appalachian State University)
2024-01-21 08:00 - 17:00
Title: “A Rising Tide Raises all Boats: The changing distribution of salaries in the NBA over time”

External Seminar by Andis Sofianoa (Durham University)
2024-01-21 14:30 - 16:00 | Edith Morley 74

External Seminar by Arnaud Philippe (University of Bristol)
2024-01-24 14:30 - 16:00 | Edith Morley 74

ROSES Seminar by Joshua Miller (University of Melbourne)
2024-01-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
Title: “Surprised by the Hot Hand Fallacy, Five Years On”

External Seminar by Enzo Dia (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
2024-01-31 14:30 - 16:00 | Edith Morley 74
We are glad to welcome Enzo Dia at Reading. His talk will combine two papers on the same general topic: “Unconventional-Policy Spillovers of U.S. Interest on Reserves within Global Dollar-Denominated Retail Loan and Deposit Markets” and “Banking in a Monetary Union“

Here’s the abstract of the first working paper: A linchpin of the Federal Reserve’s unconventional policies has been payment of interest on reserves, of which 16 to 44 percent have been held by foreign banks with U.S. subsidiaries, at a rate typically several basis points higher than other funds rates. This paper constructs a model with competition among domestic banks, foreign banks with domestic subsidiaries, and other foreign banks in dollar-denominated common and local retail markets for loans and deposits. The paper shows that the interest rate on reserves influences not only loan and deposit rates domestically but also in Euro dollar denominated foreign retail markets. We find that while the international Eurodollar market is somewhat insulated from both non-U.S. country-specific shocks and U.S. monetary policy shocks, spillovers of U.S. monetary policy actions onto non-U.S. loan markets can be quite substantial.

ROSES Seminar by Ray Fair (Yale University)
2024-02-02 02:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
Title: “Physical Decline Rates: Men versus Women”

Inaugural Collaborative Research Visit Seminar by Mathias Klein (Sveriges Riksbank)
2024-02-08 14:30 - 16:00 | Edith Morley 301
As of the summer of 2023, GEAR decided to introduce occasional short-term Collaborative Visit Seminars for researchers who are interested to come for a day or two up to a week at Reading to present and potentially work with GEAR colleagues on joint projects. We shall be holding this seminar series on an irregular basis depending on possible visits by external faculty members or policy makers aiming to engage in collaboration(s) with GEAR.
The inaugural collaborative visit seminar will be given by Mathias Klein (Sveriges Riksbank) on Thursday, 8 February 2024 at 2:30-4:00 pm GMT (London time) in Edith Morley 301 and the topic is Not All Supply Curves Slope Up (joint work with Edvin Ahlander and Evi Pappa). Abstract: We compile a unique firm-level data set containing information on prices and real output at the monthly frequency for a sample of Swedish industrial firms for more than 20 years and use it to estimate the short and medium run responses of prices and quantities to exogenous demand shocks. Inference on the supply slope is based on an IV regression of cumulative price growth on cumulative sales using global demand shocks as instruments. Not all supply curves slope upwards. The supply curve is flatter for firms with low market shares, low productivity, high unit labor costs and for exporting firms. The slope of the supply curve depends also on the aggregate state of the economy: individual supply curves are steeper in times of high capacity utilization, high inflation and of low financial volatility.
It will be possible to join via MS Teams – but, much better, do come in person. Right after the collaborative visit seminar everyone is invited to a drinks reception from 4:00 to 4:30 pm in EM301.

ROSES Seminar by Stefan Szymanski (University of Michigan)
2024-02-16 14:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
Title: “Discrimination and the white captain era of West Indian cricket”

External Seminar by Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of Oxford)
2024-02-21 14:30 - 16:00 | Edith Morley 74

ROSES Seminar by Joel Kariel (Competition and Markets Authority)
2024-02-23 14:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
Title: “The Sterling Effect: Investigating Racial Discrimination in the English Football Labour Market”

External Seminar by Paula Onuchic (University of Oxford)
2024-02-28 14:30 - 16:00 | Edith Morley 74

ROSES Seminar by Rob Simmons (Lancaster University)
2024-03-01 14:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
Title: “Do sports analytics affect player pay: Evidence from new contracts”

External Seminar by Christoph Görtz (University of Augsburg)
2024-03-06 14:30 - 16:00 | Edith Morley 74

9th GEAR Quarterly Lecture by Professor Michael Clements (University of Reading)
2024-03-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Chancellors G08
Our 9th GEAR Quarterly Lecture will be held on 12 March 2024 2:00-3:30 pm in Chancellors G08 and our speaker is Professor Michael Clements, University of Reading (details to be circulated). As usual, the lecture will be synchronously recorded and available for viewing ex-post from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel.
It is possible to join via MS Teams – but do try to come in person. Right after the lecture everyone is invited to a drinks reception from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in Chancellors G08.

External Seminar by Jingnan Chen (University of Exeter)
2024-03-13 14:30 - 16:00 | Edith Morley 74

ROSES Seminar by Lingqing Jiang (University of Essex)
2024-03-15 02:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
Title: “Fair Play or Winning Ugly? Risk Taking Behaviour in Elite Competition under Different Rules”

External Seminar by Cristina Lafuente (University of Bath)
2024-03-20 14:30 - 16:00 | Edith Morley 74

ROSES Seminar by Dave Berri (Southern Utah University)
2024-03-22 08:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Title: “No One Gets Paid What They are Worth! Exploring Player Value in the Early History of Professional Basketball”

ROSES Seminar by Galila Nasser (University of Bielefeld)
2024-04-12 14:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
Title:“ Effect of Geographical Proximity on Youth Talent Development: Application on the German Football”

ROSES Seminar by Alex Farnell (Maynooth University)
2024-04-19 14:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
Title: “Race and Coaching Hierarchy: The promotion of assistant coaches in the NFL”

ROSES Seminar by Pete Groothuis (Appalachian State University)
2024-04-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Zoom

3rd Reading Football Economics Conference AND 7th Sport Economics Sport Management Conference
2024-05-07 - 2024-05-08 | University of Reading
On May 7-8 2024 the Department of Economics at the University of Reading will host the 3rd Reading Football Economics Conference (RFEC) and the 7th Sport Economics Sport Management (SESM) International Conference in conjunction with the International Association of Sports Economists (https://www.iase-sport.org) concurrently. This event is generously sponsored by the Sports Economics Review, published by Elsevier, and the keynote speakers for the event will be Prof Colin Camerer, of the California Institute of Technology, and Prof Paul Downward of Loughborough University.
These two concurrent events taking place at the University of Reading will allow scholars in a range of fields to present their in-progress research to a wide audience of participants. The RFEC conference, in its third year, brings together researchers who have used the setting of football (however defined) for their work in the broadly defined area of economics. The SESM conference attracts researchers considering all sports, across the fields of economics and management, to present their work.
The schedule is now finalised for the conference in Reading. Please find it here.
Please register for the conference here by April 30. There is a small fee of £25.95 for the conference dinner at Bill’s Restaurant in central Reading.
Hotels in Reading are generally reasonably priced and within easy reach of campus either by walking (about two miles, 30 minutes), or via the 21 bus (which runs regularly from close to the railway station). Particular hotels:

Premier Inn Central (currently showing as £65 per night).
Travelodge Reading Central (currently showing as £47 per night).
Ibis Reading Centre (currently showing as £64 per night).
Penta Hotel (currently showing as £99 per night).

In addition to the 3RFEC/7SESM there will be:
May 10-11: 18th Gijon Conference on Sport Economics, Gijon, Spain.

Submission deadline: April 1. Please send an abstract of about 200 words to: placido@uniovi.es and foedplacido@gmail.com
This year the topic of the Conference is Sports Governance Bodies. New Competitions (In Season NBA, for instance). New Sports. Fight-Fight for the calendar: FIFA, UEFA, Clubs, IOC. Role of new investors: Arabs in soccer and golf (Ronaldo and Rahm, for example). Injuries due to tight schedules, European Super League judgment and so on.

May 13-14: 8th Football and Finance Conference, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.

The conference is dedicated to topics related to the economics of football, with a full two-day schedule.
There is a pre-conference “come together” at 7pm on May 12 for those able to make it at Currybar at Citypalais close to hotels and train station.
Please register by sending an email to sekretariat.prinz@uni-due.de by the end of April. The conference fee is €50 and includes snacks and coffee breaks. Dinners and come-together are not included.
Conference schedule can be found here.
Hotel options:

Mercure, around 90€; 5min walk to train station. Walking distance to Conference venue is 25min. or take bus 933 from train station to venue (see above).
Intercity, around 90€; very close to train station and city. Walking distance to Conference venue is 23min. or take bus 933 from train station to venue (see above).

Travel between the events:

Direct flight from London Gatwick Airport (direct train link from Reading) to Asturias (coach link to Gijon), May 9 9:20am, between the Reading (7-8) and Gijon (10-11) conferences. Flight VY 6626, operated by Vueling.
Direct flight Asturias to Dusseldorf Weeze (convenient for Duisburg), May 12 8:55am. Flight FR469, operated by Ryanair.
Lufthansa flies from Asturias to Dusseldorf via Frankfurt, and Iberia via Madrid. The Vueling option via Barcelona is overnight.
Details correct as of January 10 2024.

10th GEAR Quarterly Lecture by Professor Jennifer Castle (University of Oxford)
2024-05-09 02:00 - 15:30 | Edith Morley 126J
Our 10th GEAR Quarterly Lecture will be held on 9 May 2024 2:00-3:30 pm in Edith Morley 126J and our speaker is Professor Jennifer Castle, University of Oxford (details to be circulated). As usual, the lecture will be synchronously recorded and available for viewing ex-post from the University of Reading’s Research YouTube channel.
It is possible to join via MS Teams – but do try to come in person. Right after the lecture everyone is invited to a drinks reception from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in EM 126J.

6th Reading Experimental and Behavioural Economics Workshop
2024-05-09 10:00 - 17:00 | University of Reading
The Department of Economics at the University of Reading is pleased to continue the 6th Reading Experimental and Behavioural Economics Workshop this year. The workshop will be held in JJ THOMSON Slingo Lecture Theatre at the University of Reading on 9 May 2024.

This year, the keynote speaker is Professor Colin Camerer (Caltech), and the regular session presenters are the following.

Diya Abraham (University of Reading)
Steven Bosworth (University of Reading)
Subhasish M Chowdhury (University of Sheffield)
Maria Cubel (City University London)
Joao Ferreira (University of Southampton)
Leonie Gerhards (King’s College)
Joo Young Jeon (University of Reading)
Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary University)
Jiwei Zheng (Lancaster University)

Please find the details of the programme: REBEW2024.
If you have any queries, please contact to organisers, Joo Young Jeon (j.jeon@reading.ac.uk), Steven Bosworth (s.j.bosworth@reading.ac.uk) or Anwesha Mukherjee (anwesha.mukherjee@reading.ac.uk).

The 2nd Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference
2024-06-11 | University of Reading
We are delighted to be hosting the 2nd Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference at the University of Reading, UK on Tuesday 11th June 2024. This follows on from our successful 1st Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference.
This interdisciplinary conference is aimed at academics, practitioners and employers interested in issues of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and their implications for workplace practice.
For more information and to register to attend the event please click here.

Infant Feeding and Return to Paid Work Conference
2024-06-19 10:00 - 16:00
We are delighted to be hosting an Infant Feeding and Return to Paid Work Conference as part our Maternal Well-Being Infant Feeding and Return to Paid Work study being funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The conference will be hosted on our beautiful Whiteknights campus at the University of Reading, UK on Wednesday 19 June 2024. The conference will be hybrid so it will also be possible to attend online. This conference is aimed at our stakeholders: families, employers, policy makers, practitioners, academics and anyone with an interest in infant feeding and return to paid work.
There is no conference registration fee. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for those attending in person. You can register for the event via our registration link, for in person attendance please register by June 5th 2024. Details on the schedule (expected timings are 10am-4pm) will follow in due course.
For more information about the event please click here.

The 10th annual conference “Contests: Theory and Evidence”
2024-06-27 - 2024-06-28
The Centre for Economic Institutions and Business History and the Department of Economics at the University of Reading, UK, and the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University, USA are pleased to host the 10th annual conference “Contests: Theory and Evidence” on Thursday 27 June and Friday 28 June 2024 in an in-person format. The conference is associated with a special issue on contest from the Journal of Public Economic Theory.
We cordially invite theoretical, experimental, and empirical work on any aspect of contests including but not limited to economics, management, politics, psychology, sports, biology, neuroscience, computer science, etc.
This year the keynote speaker is Prof. Aner Sela from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Please find the details of the programme.
Submission: Please submit your paper or extended abstract here by 15 April 2024.
Registration: Please register here by 15 May (Presenters) / 27 May (Attendees)

Key dates:
Submission deadline: 15 April, 2024
Acceptance decision: 30 April, 2024
Registration deadline: 15 May, 2024 (Presenters) / 27 May, 2024 (Attendees)
Conference: 27 – 28 June 2024

Travel, accommodation, and things to do:
The beautiful town of Reading (of Berkshire county) is located very close to London. It takes about 25 minutes by taxi to arrive from London Heathrow airport, and about 50 minutes by bus. There also are frequent direct trains connecting London Gatwick airport that takes about 90 minutes. Arriving from Central London is also easy, since there are direct trains every 15 minutes from London Paddington station to Reading that can take about 25 minutes. Reading station is also connected with fast trains with other big cities of England with airport such as Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester etc.
There are many accommodation options available in Reading. The usual hotel websites would help.
Very many tourist attractions such as the Windsor Castle, Lego Land, Ascot Racecourse, the city of Oxford, Winchester, South Downs National Park, are also within half an hour commute from Reading.
Useful links: Visit University of Reading, University of Reading Map, Taxi company in Reading, Another taxi company in Reading, Great Western Railways, Bus from Heathrow, things to do in Berkshire.

Further information:
In the case of any other questions or if you need to apply for a visa and would like to learn about the acceptance decision earlier, please contact Joo Young Jeon (j.jeon@reading.ac.uk) or Subhasish M. Chowdhury (subhasish.chowdhury@sheffield.ac.uk).
The conference organisers are Joo Young Jeon (University of Reading), Subhasish M. Chowdhury (University of Sheffield), Steven Bosworth (University of Reading), Anwesha Mukherjee (University of Reading).

1st Conference on "Econometrics with Data Science"
2024-09-16 09:15 - 17:30 | Room G03, Building L22, London Road Campus, University of Reading, Reading, RG1 5AQ
We are excited to announce that the 1st Conference “Econometrics with Data Science” is going to take place at London Road Campus, University of Reading on 16th September 2024, in an in-person format. The conference will bring together esteemed researchers in the fields of econometrics and data science, featuring a keynote talk by Prof Lorenzo Trapani from the University of Leicester and the Università di Pavia, along with presentations from eight speakers showcasing their latest work.

Speakers

Keynote Speaker:

Prof Lorenzo Trapani (University of Leicester and Università di Pavia)

Speakers:

Siddharth Arora (Saïd, Oxford)

Stephen Kastoryano (Reading)

Shifan Yu (OMI, Oxford)

Katerina Chrysikou (Leicester)

Xiaohan Xue (Bath)

Jack Fosten (Bayes)

Abhishek Pal Majumder (Reading)

Shixuan Wang (Reading)

Program

Preliminary Program*:

09.15 – 09.45
Reception/Coffee

09.45 – 10.00
Welcome Speech

10.00 – 11.00
Keynote: Lorenzo Trapani (University of Leicester and Università di Pavia)
“Inference in Matrix-valued Time Series with Common Stochastic Trends and Multi Factor Error Structure”

11.00 – 11.40

Siddharth Arora (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
“Combining an Ensemble of Probability Distribution Forecasts”

11.40 – 12.20
Stephen Kastoryano (Department of Economics, University of Reading)
“Causally Evaluating Selection: Biological, Behavioural and Institutional Effects on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist”

12.20 – 13.30
Lunch

13.30 – 14.10

Shifan Yu (Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford)
“Realized Candlestick Wicks” (SSRN)

14.10 – 14.50
Katerina Chrysikou (School of Business, University of Leicester)
“High Dimensional Generalised Penalised Least Squares”

14.50 – 15.30
Xiaohan Xue (School of Management, University of Bath)
“The Likelihood Ratio Test for Changes in High-Dimensional Network”

15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.30
Jack Fosten (Bayes Business School, City, University of London)
“Autoregressive Difference-in-Differences”

16.30 – 17.00
Abhishek Pal Majumder (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading)
“Rare Event Simulations for Regime-Switching Processes”

17.00 – 17.30
Shixuan Wang (Department of Economics, University of Reading)
“Detecting Changes in GARCH(1,1) Processes without Assuming Stationarity’’ (SSRN)

*This version of program is preliminary and may be subject to change.

Date and Venue

Attendance: In-person (free to attend)
Date: Monday, 16th September 2024
Venue: Room G03, Building L22, London Road Campus, University of Reading, Reading, RG1 5AQ.

The London Road Campus is approximately a 15-20 min walk or 5-10 min by taxi from Reading train station. Please kindly note that this is not the main campus. For google directions please click here. To find the building, please check the map of London Road Campus.

Registration

Please register your attendance by 13 Sept: here (closed)
This conference is open to academics and practitioners from all around the world.
There is no registration fee for this conference.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided for all attendees throughout the conference.

Travel

The beautiful town of Reading (of Berkshire county) is located very close to London. It takes about 25 minutes by taxi to arrive from London Heathrow airport, and about 50 minutes by bus. There also are frequent direct trains connecting London Gatwick airport that takes about 90 minutes. Arriving from Central London is also easy, since there are direct trains every 15 minutes from London Paddington station to Reading that can take about 25 minutes. Reading station is also connected with fast trains with other big cities of England with airport such as Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester etc.
There are many accommodation options available in Reading. The usual hotel websites would help.
Very many tourist attractions such as the Windsor Castle, Lego Land, Ascot Racecourse, the city of Oxford, Winchester, South Downs National Park, are also within half an hour commute from Reading.
Useful links: Taxi company in Reading, Another taxi company in Reading, Great Western Railways, Bus from Heathrow, things to do in Berkshire.

Organisers and Sponsor

The conference is organised by Shixuan Wang (shixuan.wang@reading.ac.uk) and Stephen Kastoryano (s.p.kastoryano@reading.ac.uk), within Econometrics with Data Science (EwDS) research cluster at University of Reading. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact them.
The conference is sponsored by the Centre for Economic Institutions and Business History.

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Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Webinar Series 2024/25 - First in the Series!
2024-10-03 13:00 - 14:00
Professor Simonetta Longhi and Professor Sarah Jewell have organised a webinar series as part of their Accommodating Diversity in the workplace research initiative. These webinars will be held monthly on a Thursday at 13:00 GMT via teams.
The first in the series is on 3rd October. Speakers Professor Katrina Prichard and Dr Helen Williams from Swansea University will be speaking on Minority Genders: Unpacking policy and SME work experiences
To find out more and register please go to: Webinar Series 2024/2025 – Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace (reading.ac.uk)
