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Economics and Finance Seminars

The Birkbeck Business School holds seminars in economics and finance most Wednesdays during term time from 12-1pm in Room 745, Malet Street Building (unless otherwise stated). Presentations are given by staff or invited external speakers. 

All are welcome to attend. 

Browse our 2024 programme of events.

  • 2019

  • 2018

    • Matthias Parey, University of Essex: 'Tasks and technology: the labour market effects of innovation' 
    • Arno Hantzsche, National Institute of Economic and Social Research: Bremia: 'A study of the impact of Brexit based on bond prices' 
    • Michele Piffer, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Bayesian Structural VAR models: a new approach for prior beliefs on impulse responses', co-authored with Martin Bruns, DIW Berlin 
    • Greg Taylor, University of Oxford: 'A model of biased intermediation' 
    • Howard Kung, London Business School 
    • Jaime Millan, Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M): 'Liquidity constraints, opportunity cost and post-secondary education: evidence from Colombia' 
    • Tatiana Mayskaya, National Research University Higher School of Economics: 'Endogenous choice between ultimatum and dictator games: experimental evidence', jointly with Alexis Belianin, National Research University Higher School of Economics and Professor Alexander Matros, Lancaster University 
    • Ashwini Agrawal, London School of Economics: 'Takeovers and employee job search' 
    • Adriana Breccia, 'R&D appropriability and market structure in a preemption model' 
    • Professor Orazio Attanasio, University College London: 'Parental beliefs and investment in human capital' 
    • Professor Özgür Kibris, Sabanci Universitesi: 'A theory of reference point formation' 

  • 2017

    • Professor Giovanni Mastrobuoni, University of Essex: 'Do security investments displace crime? Theory and evidence from Italian banks' 
    • Serena Trucchi, University College London: 'Consumption responses to a large shock to financial wealth: evidence from Italy' 
    • Konrad Mierendorff, University College London: 'Optimal sequential decision with limited attention' 
    • Stefan Lewellen, London Business School: 'The cross section of bank value' 
    • Anja Prummer, Queen Mary, University of London
    • Professor Paola Conconi, Université Libre de Bruxelles: 'Abortion, environment, guns: how single-minded voters shape politicians' decisions' 

  • 2016

    • Harjoat Bhamra, Imperial College London: 'Does household finance matter?' 
    • Alexi Anagnostopoulos, Stony Brook University: 'On the double taxation of corporate profits'
    • Ethan Ilzetzki, London School of Economics: 'The effect of house prices on household borrowing: a new approach' 
    • Flavio Toxvaerd, University of Cambridge 
    • Kaustav Das, University of Exeter: 'Bilateral trading and incomplete information: price convergence in a small market' 
    • Johannes Abeler, University of Oxford: 'Preferences for truth-telling' 
    • Juan Block, University of Cambridge 
    • Simon Dietz, London School of Economics: 'Global population growth, technology and Malthusian constraints: a quantitative growth-theoretic perspective' 
    • Wei Cui, University College London: 'Search-based endogenous asset liquidity and the macroeconomy' 
    • Ani Guerdjikova, University of Cergy-Pontoise: 'Do markets prove pessimists right?' 
    • Adrien Vigier, University of Oxford: 'Pundits and quacks: learning about analysts when fundamental asset values are unobserved' 
    • Suehyun Kwon, University College London: 'Incentive compatibility with endogenous states' 
    • Sujoy Mukerji, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Incomplete information games with ambiguity averse players' 
    • Tarun Ramadorai, Saïd Business School: 'Heterogeneous taxes and limited risk sharing: evidence from municipal bonds' 
    • Matthias Wibral, Maastricht University: 'How malleable are choice brackets? The case of myopic loss aversion' 
    • Pontus Rendhal, Centre for Economic Policy Research: 'Unemployment (fears) and deflationary spirals' 
    • Hamid Sabourian, University of Cambridge: 'Evolution of rules and equilibrium selection'
    • Dong Lou, London School of Economics: 'The speed of communication' 

  • 2015

    • Javier Coto-Martínez, Brunel University London
    • Professor Özgür Kibris, Sabanci University: 'Limited attention with status quo bias' 
    • Alexander Karalis Isaac, Birkbeck, University of London: 'The low-variance, high-risk economy: lessons from the higher moments of MSI-VARs' 
    • Sarolta Laczó, University of Surrey: 'Pareto-improving optimal capital and labour taxes' 
    • Basile Grassi, University of Oxford: 'Large firm dynamics and the business cycle' 
    • Coen Teulings, University of Cambridge: 'Secular stagnation, rational bubbles, and fiscal policy' 
    • Carlo Favero, IGIER: 'Demographics and the behaviour of interest rates' 
    • Ed Hopkins, University of Edinburgh: 'Inequality, gender and risk-taking behaviour' 
    • Christoph Kuzmics, Bielefeld University: 'Communication before coordination with independent private values: how pedestrians avoid bumping into each other' 
    • Andrea Tamoni, London School of Economics: 'Horizon-specific macroeconomic risks and the cross-section of expected returns' 
    • Professor Sanjeev Goyal, University of Cambridge 
    • Richard Barwell, Royal Bank of Scotland: 'Macroprudential policy-practice ahead of theory'
    • Stefan Trautmann, Heidelberg University: 'Ambiguity attitude = ambiguity aversion?' 
    • Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University: 'Dynamics of firms and trade in general equilibrium' 
    • Javier Ortega, City, University of London: 'Schooling, nation building and industrialization: a Gellnerian approach'
    • Lucie Gadenne, University College London: 'Non-linear commodity taxation in developing countries: theory and an application to India' 
    • Giovanni Ricco, London Business School 
    • Aurélien Baillon, Erasmus University Rotterdam: 'Higher order ambiguity attitudes: theory and experiment' 
    • Erina Ytsma, London School of Economics: 'Lone stars or constellations? The impact of performance pay on matching assortativeness in academia' 
    • Erika Deserranno, London School of Economics: 'Financial incentives as signals: experimental evidence from the recruitment of health workers' 
    • Professor Thomas Cornelissen, University College London: 'Peer effects in the workplace' 
    • Konstantinos N Baltas, London School of Economics and Queen Mary, University of London: 'Assessing bank efficiency and stability' 
    • Tanya Wilson, Royal Holloway, University of London 
    • Anna Bindler, University College London: 'Still unemployed, what next? Crime and unemployment duration' 
    • Jevgenijs Steinbuks, World Bank Development Research Group: 'A nonlinear certainty equivalent method for dynamic stochastic problems' 
    • Peter McAdam, European Central Bank: 'Understanding the dynamics of the United States labour share' 
    • Professor Vasiliki Skreta, University College of London: 'Sales talk' 

  • 2014

    • Marco Mariotti, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Stochastic complementarity'
    • Andrea Ferrero, University of Oxford: 'What explains Japan's persistent deflation'
    • Georgy Chabakauri, London School of Economics: 'Multi-asset noisy rational expectations equilibrium with contingent claims'
    • Samuli Knupfer, London Business School: 'Match made at birth? What traits of a million Swedes tell us about CEOs' 
    • Yoshiyasu Ono, Osaka University: 'Difference or ratio: implications of status preference on stagnation'
    • Matteo Barigozzi, London School of Economics: 'Dynamic factor models, cointegration and error correction mechanisms'
    • Hubert Kempf, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: 'Deposit insurance and bank liquidation without commitment: can we sleep well?'
    • Bryony Reich, University College London: 'Nation-building' 
    • Pasquale Della Corte, Imperial College London 
    • Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics 
    • Raoul Minetti, Michigan State University: 'Financial markets, industry dynamics and growth' 
    • Martin Cripps, University College London: 'Strategic experimentation in queues' 
    • Luca Benati, University of Bern: 'Economic policy uncertainty and the great recession' 
    • Oreste Tristani, European Central Bank: 'Credit spreads and credit policies' 
    • Haroon Mumtaz, Queen Mary University London
    • Kai Christoffel, European Central Bank: 'Interest rates, money and banks in an estimated euro area model' 
    • Francesca Monti, Bank of England: 'Exploiting the monthly data-flow in structural forecasting' 
    • Pavol Povala, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Expecting the FED' 
    • Andrea Ferrero, Federal Reserve Bank of New York: 'What explains Japan's persistent deflation?' 

  • 2013

    • Dimitris Korobilis, University of Glasgow: 'A new index of financial conditions' 
    • Christian Julliard, London School of Economics: 'Network risk and key players: a structural analysis of interbank liquidity' 
    • Tiago Cavalcanti, University of Cambridge: '(Mis)allocation effects of an overpaid public sector' 
    • Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: 'Speculative runs on interest rate pegs', joint work with Christopher Phelan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 
    • Eric Swanson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: 'Risk aversion, risk primia and the labour magin with generalised recursive preferences' 
    • Michael Smith, University of Melbourne: 'Copula modelling of dependence in multivariate time series' 
    • Thomas Cornelissen, University College London: 'Early school exposure, test scores and non-cognitive outcomes' 
    • Ansgar Walther, University of Oxford: 'Jointly optimal regulation of bank capital and maturity structure' 
    • Jonathan Newton, University of Sydney: 'A one-shot deviation principle for stability in matching problems' 
    • Menelaos Karanasos, Brunel University: 'A unified theory for the time-varying models: foundations with applications in the presence of breaks and heteroscedasticity (and some results on campanion and Hessenberg matrices)' 
    • Han Ozsoylev, University of Oxford: 'Pricing liquidity and its risk' 
    • Federico di Pace, University of St Andrews
    • Luca Gambetti, UAB: 'Noisy news in business cycles' 
    • Jihong Lee, Seoul National University: 'Repeated implementation with finite mechanisms and complexity' 
    • Nizar Allouch, Queen Mary, University of London: 'The cost of segregation in social networks' 
    • Stephen Hansen, University Pompeu Fabra: 'First impressions matter: signalling as a source of policy dynamics' 
    • Michael Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis: 'Measuring macro-financial conditions using a factor-augmented smooth-transition vector autoregression' 
    • Laura Coroneo, University of York: 'Unspanned macroeconomic factors in the yield curve' 
    • Mike Clements, University of Warwick: 'Subjective and ex-post forecast uncertainty: United States inflation and output growth' 
    • Tom Holden, University of Surrey: 'Medium-frequency cycles'
    • Alberto Martin, CREI and University Pompeu Fabra: 'Bubbly collateral and economic activity' 
    • Luca Gelsomini, IÉSEG School of Management: 'Single-bank proprietary platforms' 
    • Amil Dasgupta, London School of Economics: 'Why is hedge fund activism procyclical?' 
    • Simon Price, Bank of England: 'Adaptive forecasting in the presence of recent and ongoing structural change' 
    • Ray Rees, University of Munich: 'Risk and saving in two-person households: more scope for precautionary saving'
    • Guido Ascari, University of Pavia: 'Transparency, expectations anchoring and the inflation target' 
    • Tony Yates, Bank of England: 'From time-varying macro-dynamics to time-varying estimates of DSGE parameters' 

  • 2012

    • Elena Carletti, European University Institute: 'Government guarantees and financial stability' 
    • Alessia Isopi, University of Manchester
    • Dimitrios Tsocomos, Saïd Business School: 'Financial regulation in general equilibrium'
    • Ana Galvao, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Anticipating early data revisions to United States output growth' 
    • Arina Nikandrova, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Optimal bid disclosure to influence information acquisition in sequential selling mechanisms' 
    • Ioana Moldovan, University of Glasgow: 'Stabilisation policy in a new Keynesian model with job search, skills erosion and growth effects' 
    • Francesco Ravazzolo, Norges Bank: 'Measuring sovereign contagion in Europe' 
    • Vincent Sterk, University College London: 'Job uncertainty and deep recessions' 
    • John Tilton, Colorado School of Mines: 'Depletion and the long-run availability of mineral commodities' 
    • Donna Harris, University of Oxford: 'In-group favouritism and out-group discrimination in naturally occurring groups' 
    • Demosthenes Tambakis, University of Cambridge: 'Systematic monetary policy and the forward premium puzzle' 
    • Joe Pearlman, City, University of London: 'Determinacy and identification with optimal rules' 
    • Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan: 'Forecasting the real price of oil and quantifying oil price risks' 
    • Sophocles Mavoeidis, University of Oxford: 'Empirical evidence on inflation expectations in the new Keynesian Phillips curve' 
    • Carol Propper, University of Bristol: 'The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from public hospitals' 
    • Gylfi Zoega, Birkbeck, University of London: 'Sticky prices in customer markets' 
    • Roman Pancs, University of Rochester: 'Comparing market structures: allocative and informational efficiencies of continuous trading, periodic auctions and dark pools, with a discussion of market unravelling' 
    • Roman Sustek, University of Southampton: 'Housing dynamics: an international perspective' 
    • Andrea Lamorgese, Banca d'Italia: 'Skill upgrading and trade in Italian manufacturing'  
    • Carlo Altavilla, University of Naples: 'Markets' beliefs about the effectiveness of non-standard monetary policy measures' 
    • Robert Evans, University of Cambridge: 'Bilateral trading and renegotiation' 
    • Pablo Beker, University of Warwick 

  • 2011

    • Stefan Straetmans, Maastricht University: 'Big news'
    • Jonathan Newton, The Univ of Sydney: 'Coalitional stochastic stability'
    • Henrique Basso, University of Warwick: 'Awareness, persistent beliefs and credit cycles'
    • Frank Smets, European Central Bank: 'Slow recoveries: a structural interpretation'
    • Simone Manganelli, European Central Bank: 'VAR for VaR: measuring systemic risk using multivariate regression quantiles' 
    • Francisco Ruge Murcia, University de Montreal: 'Dissent in monetary policy decisions'