2024-25

Semester 1

3rd October: Brian Varian - Information costs and trade: evidence from international electric telegraphy during the "golden age" of globalisation.

10th October: Ian Gregory-Smith - Closing gender pay gaps within firms.

17th October: Harry Pickard - The impact of exposure to armed conflict on altruistic and parochial preferences.

24th October: Diego Zambiasi - Populism, Federalism and Tax Evasion.

31st October: Insights North East - Projects that economists can contribute to.

14th November: Aspasia Bizopoulou (VATT Institute/York) - Pay Transparency, Inequality and Firm Performance.

28th November: Nils Braakmann - Temperature, crime and policing: Evidence from UK geocoded data.

5th December: Rajssa Mechelli (Competition and Markets Authority) -  State of UK Competition 2024: ​ New Insights for the UK Economy​.

12th December: Harry Pickard - Beyond the Headlines: the intangible cost of terrorism.

Semester 2

TBC.

2023-24

Semester 1

28th September: Brian Varian - Queensland's Manufacturing and Australian Federation, 1897-1906: The Effects of an Exogenous Trade-Policy Shock.

5th October: Morgan Beeson - The effect of absolute and relative deprivation on avoidable emergency hospitalisations.

12th October: Roberto Bonilla Trejos - Marriage Premium and Class.

19th October: Joel Kariel (Competition and Markets Authority) - Market Power and Business Dynamism

26th October: Hannah Lynch - Research Funding Sources.

2nd November: Diego Zambiasi - Shedding Light on Shadows: The Consequences of Publicising Gang Territories for Crime Dynamics in London.

16th November: Soeren Henn - State Expansion and Social Responses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

23rd November: Ian Gregory-Smith - Bundling For Equality.

30th November: Nils Braakmann - Lost anchors and broken windows: Main street closures, social disorder and urban change.

7th December: Simon Kometa - HPC Induction and Using R.

Semester 2

1st February: Matt Walker - Risk and Time Preferences of Couples in a General Population.

15th February: Bahadir Dursun - Unearthing the Pesticides Legacy.

22nd February: Diego Zambiasi - Guns, Germs and Murders

29th February: Tom Lane - Discussion: Opening the black box of refereeing.

7th March: Policy Academy - The support for policy endeavours.

14th March: Argyris Sakalis (Birmingham) - Do Remote Workers Deter Neighborhood Crime? Evidence from the Rise of Working from Home.

21st March: Joel Kariel (Competition and Markets Authority) - Competition and market power in UK labour markets.

4th April: Stephen Coussens (Columbia) - Improving Inference from Simple Instruments through Compliance Estimation.

25th April: Bahadir Dursun - EV Adoption and Infant Health.

2nd May: Bettiner Siflinger (Tilburg) - Daycare, mental health and education: evidence from subsidy changes.

9th May: Kristina Babenko & Olena Parkhomenko - Changes in Ukrainian society caused by the war.

2022-23

Semester 1

11th October: Harry Pickard - Terrorism, perpetrators and polarization: Evidence from natural experiments.

25th October: Ian Gregory-Smith - [Referee Report]

1st November: Diego Zambiasi - Political Campaigning and Racial Discrimination in Arrests for Drugs.

8th November: Nils Braakmann - Energy price shocks and the demand for energy-efficient housing: Evidence from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

15th November: Bahadir Dursun - Juvenile Courts and Recidivism.

29th November: Matt Walker - Foot-in-the-door auctions: Surcharges in online procurement.

6th December: Soeren Henn

13th December: Cristina Fernandez-Garcia - An evaluation of the health and financial impacts of co-located welfare services in primary care in times of austerity.

Semester 2

31st January: Nils Braakmann - Unions as insurance: Employer-worker risk sharing and workers' outcomes during COVID-19.

21st February: Salvatore Di Novo - Public funding to culture and business creation: Evidence from the UK.

28th February: Lena Janys - The effect of daycare on children's mental health and school performance.

7th March: Nils Braakmann - Police Use of Force, policing and crime: Evidence from London.

14th March: Luca Panzone - Cross-category effects of a frequency reward program promoting consumption of fruit and vegetables.

21st March: Roberto Bonilla Trejos - Endogenous gender-based discrimination in a model of simultaneous frictional labor and marriage markets.

9th May: Harry Pickard - The Emotional Effect of Terrorism: Evidence from Twitter Data.

16th May: David Cuberes (Clark University) - The Effects of Horse Adoption on Native Americans

2021-22

Semester 1

7th October 2021: Harry Pickard - Inequality and risk preference.

14th October 2021: Nils Braakmann - Mass layoffs and voting behaviour: Evidence from the UK.

28th October 2021: Salvatore Di Novo - Exposure to international students and variety in HE provision.

4th November 2021: Nils Braakmann - Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location.

11th November 2021: Nichola Williams - Effects of a school conversion policy on educational attainment in Guyana.

25th November 2021: Smriti Sharma - Crime and human capital in India.

Semester 2

8th Februrary 2022: Harry Pickard - Machine Learning for the Applied Econometrician I.