GEAR Research Retreat

This is the website for the
GEAR Research Retreat

held on

10 July 2023

at the London Road campus of the University of Reading

GEAR stands for the Group for Economic Analysis at Reading, at the Department of Economics. More about GEAR, including recordings of past conferences and GEAR Quarterly Lectures, can be consulted on its dedicated website. The GEAR members and associate members as well as present and past PhD students are listed on this website as well.

1st GEAR Research Retreat (10 July 2023) Programme

09:40am: Morning Coffee

10:00am-11:30pm: Session 1 - Chair: Carl Singleton

      10:00am-10:30am: Mark Casson on ''Modelling Segmented Markets''

      10:30am-11:00am: James Reade on ''Levelling Up. The Impact of Investing in a 3G Artificial Playing Surface in Grassroots Football''

      11:00am-11:30am: Christos Mavrodimitrakis on ''Experiments in Macroeconomic Policy Games''.

11:30am-11:45am: Coffee Break 1

11:45am-12:45pm: Session 2 - Chair: Steven Bosworth

      11:45am-12:15pm: Anwesha Mukherjee on ''A Combinatorial Multi-Winner Contest with Package-Designer Preferences''

      12:15pm-12:45pm: Alexander Mihailov on ''Reading Prosperity Stripes''

12:45pm-02:10pm: Lunch (+after lunch coffee)

02:10pm-3:30pm: Keynote Presentation - Chair: Alexander Mihailov

      Prof. Joseph Pearlman (City University London and GEAR Associate Member) on ''Distributional Effects of Macro-prudential Policy''

3:30pm-3:45pm: Coffee Break 2

3:45am-5:00pm: Session 3 - Chair: Christos Mavrodimitrakis

      3:45pm-4:00pm: Steven Bosworth on Reading Behavioural and Experimental Social Science Lab

      4:00pm-5:00pm: Open (follow-up) discussion 

5:00pm-6:30pm: Drinks Reception

09:40am-5:00pm at London Road L22 G01; and 5:00pm-6:30pm at London Road L22 G03.

Sessions 1 and 2: 20 minutes presentations plus 10 minutes discussion.

Keynote Presentation: 5 minutes introduction + 60 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion