School Seminars         [Forthcoming | Past]

The School runs a number of seminars related to macroeconomic issues during term time. Seminars are held in the Common Room (Room F3) of the School of Economics and Finance (Castlecliffe) on The Scores, on Thursdays at 4.15pm, unless otherwise stated. Coffee is available from 4.00 p.m. All interested participants are are welcome.

 

Forthcoming Seminars [Top]

Martinmas 2007/2008

4 Oct 2007	Nick Crafts (Warwick)	'Were British Railway Companies well-managed in the early twentieth century?'
18 Oct 2007	Gernot Muller (Frankfurt)	'International Dimensions of Fiscal Policy Transmission'
25 Oct 2007	Paul Levine (Surrey)	'Relative Preferences, Happiness and ''Corrective'' Taxation: A General Equilibrium Analysis'
14 Nov 2007	Alan Gelb (World Bank)	'Reforming Aid: Towards More Predictable, Performance-Based Financing for Development'

Past Seminars [Top]

Candlemas 2006/2007

22 Mar 2007	Gabriel Talmain (Glasgow)	TBA
12 Apr 2007	Chris Higson (LBS)	TBA
26 Apr 2007	Gulcin Ozkan (York)	'Public Investment: A Remedy or a Curse? Examining the Role of Public Investment for Macroeconomic Performance'.
4 May 2007	Simon Wren-Lewis (Oxford)	TBA

Martinmas 2006/2007

27 Sep 2006	John Gathergood (Nottingham and Bank of England)	'Housing Prices, Collateral Constraints and the Household Financial Accelerator'
12 Oct 2006	Seppo Honkapohja (Cambridge)	'Liquidity Traps, Learning and Stagnation'
26 Oct 2006	Sumru Altug (Koç)	'Complete and Incomplete Markets Models'
23 Nov 2006	Ronnie MacDonald (Glasgow)	'Trade Costs, Trade Balances and Current Accounts: An Application of Gravity to Multilateral Trade'
7 Dec 2006	Christian Schluter (Southampton)	TBA

Candlemas 2005/2006

9 Feb 2006	Jonathan Temple (Bristol)	'Growth and Labour Markets in Developing Countries'
9 Mar 2006	Jean Imbs (Lausanne)	'The Dynamics of Trade and Competition'
16 Mar 2006	Larry Neal (Illinois & LSE)	'Broker Networks During the South Sea Bubble: The Strength of Weak Ties'
23 Mar 2006	Philip Lane (Trinity College Dublin)	'Financial Globalization and the Dynamics of External Positions'
13 Apr 2006	Salvador Ortigueira (EUI)	'Technology and the Evolution of Wage Bargaining Arrangements'
20 Apr 2006	Nick Crafts (LSE)	Postponed
27 Apr 2006	Omar Licandro (EUI)	'An Evolutionary Theory of Money and Inflation'

Martinmas 2005/2006

29 Sep 2005	Robert Kollman (Paris)	'International Portfolio Equilibrium and the Current Account'
10 Nov 2005	Andreas Schabert (Amsterdam)	'Open market operations, eligible securities, and macroeconomic stabilization'
17 Nov 2005	Lars Lungqvist (Stockholm)	'Jobs and Unemployment in Macroeconomics Theory: A Turbulence Laboratory'
8 Dec 2005	Eric Schaling (Johannesburg)	TBA

Candlemas 2004/2005

10th Feb 2005	Mathias Hoffmann (Dortmund)	'International Prices and Consumption Risk Sharing'
17th Feb 2005	Luca Benati (Bank of England)	'UK monetary regimes and macroeconomic stylized facts'
3rd Mar 2005	Harald Uhlig (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin)	'Macroeconomics and Asset Markets: Some Mutual Implications'
10th Mar 2005	Hamid Sabourian (Cambridge)	'Herd behaviour in efficient financial markets.'
14th April 2005	Kosuke Aoki (LSE)	'Learning about uncertainty about inflation targets and stabilisation policy'
28th April 2005	Peter Tinsley (George Washington University)	'Central bank natural rate for unemployment and inflation: accounting for the great inflation'

Martinmas 2004/2005

7th Oct 2004	Mark Weder (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin)	'A Heliocentric Journey into Germany's Great Depression'
14th Oct 2004	Petra Geraats (Cambridge)	'Modeling Stochastic Relative Preferences'
4th Nov 2004	Peter Sinclair (Birmingham)	'Pareto-improving income tax reform'
18th Nov 2004	Tony Garratt (Birkbeck)