Schedule for Year 2023-2024
[Theory] "Bayesian Persuasion." [by Emir Kamenica and Matthew Gentzkow] [American Economic Review, Oct 2011]
Presentation: Shomak Chakrabarti
Time and location: 25/10/2023 from 2.30 pm-4 pm, Room G0.19 ALB.
[Development] "Why do people stay poor?" [by Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak, and Anton Heil] [Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2022]
Presentation: Chinh Hoang-Duc
Time and location: 22/11/2023 from 2.30 pm-4 pm, Room G.0.32 (Hum Brg St)
[Behavioural] "Homo Ordinalus and sampling models: the past, present, and future of decision by sampling" [by Gordon Brown and Lukasz Walasek] [Chapter 2 of "Sampling in Judgement and Decision Making" Cambridge University Press, Jun 2023]
Presentation: Shujun Tan
Time and location: 29/11/2023 from 2.30 pm-4 pm, Room G0.32 (Hum Brg St)
[History] "Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution." [by Nicholas Crafts] [Economic History Review, Jan 2021]
Presentation: Senalp Canlibel
Time and location: 07/02/2024 from 2 pm-3..30 pm, Room G.033 (Hum Brg St)
[Finance] "Evolutionary finance: a model with endogenous asset payoffs." [by Igor Evstigneev, Thorsten Hens, and Mohammad Javad Vanaei] [Journal of Bioeconomics, May 2023]
Presentation: Zerong Chen
Time and location: 14/02/2024 and 21/02/2024 from 2 pm-3 .30 pm, Room G.033 (Hum Brg St) and Room 4.213 (Uni Place)
[Theory] "Strategic experimentation with exponential bandits." [by Godfrey Keller, Sven Rady, and Martin Cripps] [Econometrica, Jan 2005]
Presentation: Shomak Chakrabarti
Time and location: 29/02/2024 from 2.30 pm-4 pm, Room G.032 (Hum Brg St) [updated*]
[Cancelled]
[Development] "A theory of marriage Parts I & II" [by Gary Becker] [Journal of Political Economy, Part I (Jul 1973) & Part II (Mar 1974)]
Presentation: Chinh Hoang-Duc
Time and location: 07/03/2024 from 2.30 pm-4 pm, Room 2.53 (Hum Brg St)
[Finance] "What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL." [by Robert F.. Engle and Susana Campos-Martins] [Journal of Finance Economics, Jan 2023]
Presentation: Zerong Chen
Time and location: 14/03/2024 from 2.30 pm-4 pm, Room 2.553 (Hum Brg St)