Events

Economics Seminar Series 2011-12

All seminars take place on Friday afternoons at 2.15pm in Room 1.25a in the Mary Burton Building, unless stated otherwise below.

 

Date	Abstract	Speaker
28/10/11	A Salience Theory of Choice Errors	Marco Mariotti University of St Andrews (co-authored with Paola Manzini, University of St Andrews)
04/11/11	Who Is (More) Rational?	Syngjoo Choi University College London (co-authored with Shachar Kariv, University of California, Berkeley; Wieland Müller, University of Vienna; and Daniel Silverman, University of Michigan)
11/11/11	Native language, spoken language, translation and trade	Jacques Melitz Heriot-Watt University (co-authored with Farid Toubal, University of Angers)
18/11/11	Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption	Farid Toubal University of Angers (co-authored with Matteo Cervellati and Alireza Naghavi, University of Bologna)
25/11/11	Urban Accounting and Welfare	Klaus Desmet Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (co-authored with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University)
20/01/12	Is it all about money? A randomised evaluation of the impact of insurance literacy and marketing treatment on the demand for micro health insurance in Senegal	Phillipe Le May Boucher Heriot-Watt University (co-authored with Jacopo Bonan, University Milan-Bicocca; Olivier Dagnelie, IAE Barcelona; and Michel Tenikue, CEPS-Luxembourg)
27/01/12	The causal impact of common language on international trade: evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design	Peter Egger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
03/012/12	Three isn't always a charm: Third-party opportunism, scrutiny, and the (in)efficiency of public contracts	Marian Moszoro Haas Business School, University of California at Berkeley (co-authored with Pablo Spiller, Haas Business School, University of California at Berkeley)
17/02/12	Report on a seminar at the Bank of England concerning the teaching of economics in the light of the recent financial crisis of 2007-2009	John Sawkins and Valerie Dickie Heriot-Watt University
24/02/12	Bankers' Errors in Screening New Firms	Marcus Dejardin University of Namur and Catholic University of Louvain (co-authored with Jean Bonnet and Sylvie Cieply, University of Caen, France)
02/03/12	R&D expenditures and the global diversification of export sales	Kit Baum Boston College (co-authored with Mustafa Caglayan, University of Sheffield; and Oleksandr Talavera, Durham Business School)
09/03/12	Challenges of sustainability in a resource rich society: the case of Mongolia	PB Anand University of Bradford
16/03/12	Reserve Accumulation, Growth and Crisis	Gianluca Benigno London School of Economics (co-authored with Luca Fornaro, London School of Economics)
23/03/12	Could market making be profitable in the European carbon market	Iordanis Kalaitzoglou, Coventry Business School Boulis Ibrahim, Heriot-Watt University
27/04/12	Market integration, efficiency, and interconnectors: The Irish single electricity market	Rabindra Nepal and Tooraj Jamasb Heriot-Watt University
04/05/12	Strategic interactions, incomplete information and learning	Michele Berardi The University of Manchester
11/05/12	Religious attitudes and home bias: theory and evidence from a pilot study	Carlo  Reggiani The University of Manchester (co-authored with Martin Leroch, Gianpaolo Rossini, and Eugenio Zucchelli; The University of Manchester)

 

 

EVENT ARCHIVE 2010-2011 

 

Date	Abstract	Speaker
20/05/11	A fiscal stimulus and jobless recovery	Paul Levine University of Surrey (coauthored with Cristiano Cantore and Giovanni Melina, University of Surrey)
13/05/11	The Rise of Europe: Silver, Slavery, and India	Prabir Bhattacharya Heriot-Watt University (coauthored with Martin Bohl (Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany) and Dobromil Serwa (National Bank of Poland and Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland))
25/03/11	Large Capital Inflows and Stock Returns in a Thin Market	Janusz Brzeszczynski Heriot-Watt University (coauthored with Martin Bohl (Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany) and Dobromil Serwa (National Bank of Poland and Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland))
18/03/11	Network effects, market structure and industry performance	Rabar Amir University of Arizona (co-authored with Natalia Lazzati, University of Arizona)
11/03/11	SIRE Day - Health/Development	Bereket Kebede, Silvia Mendolia, Dennis Petrie University of East Anglia, University of Aberdeen, University of Dundee

 

 

 

Rabindra Nepal (Heriot-Watt University)

Friday, February 25th, 2011

Reforming the Power sector in Transition: Do Institutions Matter?

co-authored with Tooraj Jamasb (Heriot-Watt University)

Download: Reforming the Power Sector in Transition: Do Institutions Matter?

 

SIRE Forum for Young Researchers

GENERAL TOPIC: LABOUR/MACRO  

Friday, February 18th, 2011

13.30-14.30: Jonathan Thomas (University of Edinburgh) "The wages of new hires over the business cycle"  

14.30-15.30: Almos Talegdy (CEU Budapest and Hungarian Academy of Sciences) "FDI and Wages:  Evidence from Hungary using LEED"  

15.30-16.00: Coffee/Tea Break  

16.00-17.00:  Ioana Moldovan (University of Glasgow) "The Stabilizing and Distributional Effects of Automatic Stabilizers" 

 

Gary Koops (Strathclyde University)

Forecasting inflation using dynamic model averaging, coauthored with Dimitris Korobolis, Catholic University of Louvain.

Friday, January 21st 2011 MB1.25a, 14:15

Download: koop_revision.pdf

 

Julia Darby (Strathclyde University)

Joint estimates of automatic and discretionary fiscal policy: The OECD 1981-2003, coauthored with Jacques Melitz.

Friday, January 28th, 2011 MB1.25a, 14:15

Download: FiscalPol7.pdf

 

Paul Hare (Heriot-Watt University)

“Sunshine and Pelicans: The economics of a tiny Caribbean country,” co authored with Richard Stoneman.

Friday, February 4, 2011 MB1.25a, 14:15

Download: St. Kitts and Nevis Macro.doc 

 

 

 

 

2010 - Events Archive

Lea Kosnik and Ian Lange (both of the University of Stirling)

Contract Renegotiation and Rent Re-Redistribution: Who Gets Raked Over the Coals?

Friday, 17 September, MB1.25a, 14:15.

Download: SEDP-2009-25-Kosnik-Lange

Catherine Schenk (University of Glasgow)

The dissolution of a monetary union: the case of Malaysia and Singapore 1965-75

Friday, 24 September, MB1.25a, 14:15.

Download: Schenk Heriot-Watt Power Point (.ppt)

Janusz Brzeszczynski, (Heriot-Watt University) and Ali Khutan (Southern Illinois University)

Understanding Investor Behavior During a Period of Institutional Change: An Episode of Early Years of a Newly Independent Central Bank

Friday, 1 October, MB1.25a, 14:15.  

Download: Brzeszczynski and Kutan - Central Bank Announcements 2010 (.doc)

 

Philippe LeMay-Boucher (Heriot-Watt University)

Double, Double Toil and Trouble: An Investigation on Occult Forces Expenditures in the Heartland of Voodoo

with Joël Noret (Free University of Brussels) and Vincent Somville (University of Namur)

Friday, 8 October, MB1.25a, 14:15.

 

Paola Manzini (University of St. Andrews)

Choice by lexicographic semiorders

With Marco Mariotti (Universty of St. Andrews)

Friday, 15 October, MB1.25a, 14:15.

 lexicographicsemiorders (pdf)

Roland Meyer, (Bremer Energie Institut, Germany)

Benchmarking economies of vertical integration in U.S. electricity supply

29 October, MB1.25a, 14:15.

 Meyer_101017_Benchmarking Economies of Vertical Integration (pdf)

 

Nauro Campos (Brunel University (West London))

The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labour in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960

with Jeffrey Nugent, University of Southern California

5 November, MB1.25a, 14:15.

Campos (draft: October 2010) (PDF)

Anupama Sen (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)

The Economic Effects of Electricity Deregulation: An Empirical Analysis of Indian States

With Tooraj Jamasb, (Heriot-Watt University)

November 12, MB1.25a, 14:15.

 SEN_Paper_ 12 November 2010 (PDF)

 

J. Peter Neary (Oxford University)

MULTI-PRODUCT FIRMS AT HOME AND AWAY: COST VERSUS QUALITY BASED COMPETENCE

With Carsten Eckely (University of Munich); Leonardo Iacovonez (The World Bank); Beata Javorcikx (University of Oxford and CEPR)

19 November, MB1.25a, 14:15.

 J. Peter Neary Paper (PDF)

 

Marcus Miller (University of Warwick)

Riding for a fall? Concentrated banking with hidden tail risk

(with Lei Zhang and Han Hao Li, both of the University of Warwick)

November 26, MB1.25a, 14:15.

Riding for a fall (Miller) (pdf)

 

Note that together with this paper, Marcus Miller is presenting some evidence submitted previously to the Independent Commission on Banking (with colleagues at the University of Warwick).

 Restoring prudent banking in Britain: evidence and policy* (pdf)