Essex/RHUL/Bristol SaM Webinars
A webinar series for the UK search and matching (SaM) and macro-labour community, organised by the University of Essex, Royal Holloway, and University of Bristol. Please contact us to be added to the mailing list. Seminars typically on Thursdays or Fridays at 3pm UK time.
Schedule:
2022:
April 28, 3pm GMT — Hélène Turon (Bristol): Zero-hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market
May 13, 3pm GMT — Fatih Karahan (New York Fed)
May 26 — Essex/RHUL/Bristol Junior SaM Workshop 2022. Apply here!
June 17, 3pm GMT — Katarína Borovičková (NYU)
Stay tuned for more talks!
Zoom login details will be sent via email to those on the mailing list.
Past seminars:
2020:
April 9, 4pm BST — Joachim Hubmer (U Penn): The Race Between Preferences and Technology
April 24, 4pm BST — Rune Vejlin (Aarhus): Income Taxation and the Equilibrium Allocation of Labor (with Jesper Bagger, Mads Hejlesen, and Kazuhiko Sumiya)
May 8, 4pm BST — Ronald Wolthoff (U Toronto): Misallocation Effects of Labor Market Frictions (with Stanislav Rabinovich)
May 15, 4pm BST — Ilse Lindenlaub (Yale): Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting (with Paula Calvo and Ana Reynoso)
May 22, 4pm BST — Philipp Kircher (EUI): An economic model of the Covid-19 epidemic: The importance of testing and age-specific policies (with Luiz Brotherhood, Cezar Santos, and Michele Tertilt)
June 5, 4pm BST — Noriko Amano Patino (Cambridge): Equilibrium Wage-Setting and the Life-Cycle Gender Pay Gap (with Tatiana Baron and Pengpeng Xiao)
June 12, 4pm BST — Tomohiro Hirano (Royal Holloway): Wealth Concentration and Speculative Bubbles (with Jose Scheinkman)
June 26, 4pm BST— Manolis Galenianos (Royal Holloway): Regulatory Interventions in Consumer Financial Markets: The Case of Credit Cards (joint with Alessandro Gavazza)
July 2, 4pm BST — Weilong Zhang (Cambridge): Personality Traits, Job Search and the Gender Wage Gap (with Christopher Flinn and Petra Todd)
July 10, 4pm BST — Vincent Sterk (UCL): The Nature of Firm Growth (with Benjamin Pugsley and Petr Sedlacek)
July 24, 4pm BST — Jeremy Lise (Minnesota): Production and Learning in Teams (with Kyle Herkenhoff, Guido Menzio, and Gordon Phillips)
October 9, 3pm BST — Chris Moser (Columbia): The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences
October 16, 3pm BST — Jake Bradley (Nottingham): Worker-Firm Screening and the Business Cycle
November 12, 3pm GMT — Jesper Bagger (Royal Holloway): Vacancies, Employment Outcomes and Firm Growth: Evidence from Denmark (with Francois Fontaine, Manolis Galenianos, and Ija Trapeznikova)
November 19, 3pm GMT — Rasmus Lentz (Wisconsin-Madison): The Anatomy of Sorting – Evidence from Danish Data (with Suphanit Piyapromdee and Jean-Marc Robin)
November 26, 3pm GMT — Leena Rudanko (Philadelphia Fed): Price Setting with Customer Capital: Sales and Rigidity
December 4, 3pm GMT — Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale): The Job Ladder: Inflation vs. Reallocation (with Fabien Postel-Vinay)
2021:
March 5, 3pm GMT — Daphné Skandalis (U Copenhagen): The Impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on the Labor Market (with Ioana Marinescu and Daniel Zhao)
March 11 — Espen Moen (BI): Static and Dynamic Inefficiencies in an Optimizing Model of Epidemics (with Pietro Garibaldi and Christopher Pissarides)
June 4 — Veronica Guerrieri (Chicago Booth): Macroeconomic Implications of Covid-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?
June 10 — Ayşegül Şahin (UT Austin): Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed (joint with Jason Faberman, Andreas Mueller, and Giorgio Topa)
June 17 — Francesco Zanetti (Oxford): State Dependence of Fiscal Multipliers: The Source of Fluctuations Matters (joint with Mishel Ghassibe)
2022:
March 18, 3pm GMT — Maria Balgova (IZA Bonn): Moving to look or looking to move? The role of job search in migration decisions
April 1, 3pm GMT — Laura Pilossoph (New York Fed): Sectoral Shocks and Mismatch Unemployment
Contact:
Organisers:
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (Essex), Alex Clymo (Essex), Manolis Galenianos (RHUL), Alireza Sepahsalari (Bristol)