Seminars Archive - Economics
Archived Economics Seminars
For 2012 onwards see main news and events sections.
2011 Winter Semester
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Wed 14 Sep |
Yacine Ait-Sahalia (Princeton) |
TBC |
16:00 |
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Thu 15 Sep |
Robert Topel (Chicago) |
Competition and Intermediaries |
12:00 |
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Tue 04 Oct |
Sharon Belenzon (Duke) |
Married to the Firm? Family Ownership, Performance and Financing in Private Firms |
13:00 |
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Wed 12 Oct |
Kohei Kawamura (Edinburgh) |
Eliciting Information from a Large Population |
16:00 |
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Wed 26 Oct |
Andrea Patacconi (Aberdeen) |
Bargaining and Alliances |
16:00 |
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Wed 02 Nov |
Robert Wright (Strathclyde) |
Chasing Graduate Jobs? |
16:00 |
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Fri 11 Nov |
Dariusz Wojcik (Oxford) |
The Global Stock Market: Issuers, Investors, and Intermediaries in an Uneven World |
16:00 |
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Thu 24 Nov |
Sotiris Georganas |
"Coalition Formation in a Legislative Voting Game" (with Nels Christiansen and John Kagel) |
16:00 |
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Wed 30 Nov |
Marco Mariotti (St. Andrew's) |
"A Salience Theory of Choice Errors" (with P. Manzini) |
16:00 |
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Thu 01 Dec |
Ian Marsh (Cass Business School) co-authored with Wolf Wagner (Tilburg) |
"Why is price discovery in the CDS markets news-specific?" |
16:00 |
2011 Summer Semester
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Wed 02 Feb |
Bill Morrison (Wilfrid Laurier University) |
"Loss aversion, inter-temporal choice and behavioural foundations of financial decisions" |
16:00 |
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Wed 09 Feb |
Colin Green (Lancaster University) |
Does Raising the School Leaving Age Reduce Teacher Effort? Evidence form a Policy Experiment. |
16:00 |
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Wed 23 Feb |
Chris Timmins, Duke University |
'Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Consistent Estimation of Marginal Willingness to Pay for Differentiated Products Without Exclusion Restrictions' |
16:00 |
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Wed 13 Apr |
Colin Jennings (University of Strathclyde) |
'Rationalising 'irrational' support for political violence' |
16:00 |
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Wed 27 Apr |
Ron Harstad |
"Political Economy Field Experiments Become Possible." |
16:00 |
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Wed 25 May |
'A comprehensive approach to measurement error in panel data' |
16:00 |
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Wed 08 Jun |
Omer Moar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
16:00 |
2010 Winter Semester
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Wed 06 Oct |
Frans de Vries (University of Stirling) |
Inciting Protocols |
16:00 |
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Wed 20 Oct |
James Reade (University of Birmingham) |
Bookmakers and Betting Exchanges: A High Frequency Investigation" |
16:00 |
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Wed 27 Oct |
Luis Santos-Pinto (Université de Lausanne) |
16:00 |
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Wed 03 Nov |
Philippe LeMay-Boucher (Heriot-Watt University) |
Double, Double Toil and Trouble: An Investigation on Occult Forces Expenditures in the Heartland of Voodoo. |
16:00 |
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Wed 10 Nov |
Joaquin Poblete (LSE) |
The form of Incentive Contracts The Limited Liability Agency Model with Moral Hazard. |
16:00 |
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Wed 17 Nov |
Francisco Pérez-González (Stanford University) |
Risk Management and Firm Value Evidence from Weather Derivatives. |
16:00 |
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Wed 24 Nov |
Ramana Nanda (Harvard Business School) |
Personal Wealth and Entrepreneurship |
16:00 |
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Wed 01 Dec |
Loukas Balafoutas (Universität Innsbruck) |
What drives taxi drivers? A field study on expert services Abstract.doc |
16:00 |
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Wed 08 Dec |
Marco Mariotti (University of St. Andrews) |
A salience theory of choice errors |
16:00 |
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Wed 15 Dec |
Arild Aakvik (University of Bergen) |
Sickness absence, bonus schemes and team behaviour in a sales organisation |
16:00 |
2010 Summer Semester
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Wed 20 Jan |
Gavin Kretzschmar (University of Edinburgh) |
Why reserve 'location' matters to operator/ company performance' |
16:00 |
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Wed 10 Feb |
Christos Ioannidis (University of Bath) |
Regime switching models of the term structure of credit default swap spreads |
16:00 |
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Wed 17 Feb |
Abhay Abhyankar (University of Edinburgh) |
Consumption Risk and the Cross-Section of Government Bond Returns |
16:00 |
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Wed 10 Mar |
John Quah (Oxford University) |
Aggregating the single crossing property: theory and applications to comparative statics and Bayesian games |
16:00 |
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Wed 17 Mar |
Clare Leaver (Oxford University) |
Using Group Transitions to Estimate the Effect of Social Interactions on Judicial Decisions |
16:00 |
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Wed 31 Mar |
Bill Russell (University of Dundee) |
16:00 |
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Wed 14 Apr |
Joel Shapiro (University of Oxford) |
Ratings Quality over the Business Cycle |
16:00 |
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Wed 05 May |
Dirk Engelmann (Royal Holloway) |
Does a Buyer Benefit from Bad Reputation? - Theory and Experiments on Auctions with Default |
16:00 |
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Wed 19 May |
Dieter Balkenborg (University Exeter) |
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16:00 |
2009 Winter Semester
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Fri 25 Sep |
Scott Shane (Case Western Reserve University) |
Genetics and Entrepreneurship |
12:00 |
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Wed 30 Sep |
David Hendry (University of Oxford) |
Empirical Model Discovery |
16:00 |
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Mon 12 Oct |
Ramses Abul Naga (University of Bath) |
Inequality Measurement for Ordered Response Data |
16:00 |
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Wed 28 Oct |
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos (University of Cyprus) |
Diversity of Performance Pay as an Incentive for Lower Absence Rates in the UK |
16:00 |
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Wed 11 Nov |
Thomas Hubbard (Northwestern University) |
The Economics of .Radiator Springs: Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs, and Spatial Demand Shifts |
16:00 |
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Wed 18 Nov |
Maija Haloner (University of Bristol) |
Reputation and Ownership of Public Goods |
16:00 |
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Wed 25 Nov |
Nick Hanley (University of Stirling) |
Do productivity improvements move us along the Environmental Kuznets Curve |
16:00 |
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Wed 02 Dec |
No seminar due to staff meeting |
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16:00 |
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Wed 09 Dec |
Michèle Belot (CESS) |
Who Stands Out When "They All Look Alike?"Trembling Memory and Suboptimal Cross-Race Re-identification |
16:00 |
2009 Summer Semester
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Thu 15 Jan |
David Kelsey (University of Exeter) |
Are the treasures of game theory ambiguous? |
16:00 |
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Wed 28 Jan |
Andrea Patacconi (Oxford University) |
Open Science as a Signaling Device Evidence from Firm Publications |
16:00 |
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Wed 11 Feb |
Amrish Patel (The University of Kent) |
16:00 |
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Wed 18 Feb |
Trading emission permits under upstream-downstream strategic interaction. |
16:00 |
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Tue 24 Feb |
Georgios Panos (University of Aberdeen Business School) |
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12:00 |
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Tue 24 Feb |
Mabel Andalón (Cornell University) |
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13:00 |
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Tue 24 Feb |
Patricia Cubí-Mollá (University of Alicante) |
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14:00 |
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Wed 25 Feb |
Ellerie Weber (University of Chicago's Booth School of Business) |
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11:00 |
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Tue 17 Mar |
Agustin Perez-Barahona (University of Paris) |
Non-renewable energy resources as input for physical capital accumulation A new approach. |
12:00 |
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Tue 14 Apr |
Joel Shapiro (University of Oxford) |
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16:00 |
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Wed 22 Apr |
Daniel Ferreira (London School of Economics) |
16:00 |
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Thu 21 May |
Simon Parker (Richard Ivey School of Business) |
Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship? |
12:00 |
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Wed 27 May |
Gernot Doppelhofer (Norwegian School of Economics and Business (NHH) |
Robust Growth Determinants |
16:00 |
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Wed 03 Jun |
Michel Habib (University of Zurich) |
Financial Markets, Reinsurance, and the Bearing of Natural Catastrophe Risk. |
16:00 |
2008 Winter Semester
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Wed 08 Oct |
Peter Dolton (Royal Holloway, University of London) |
The Effect of the Minimum Wage 10 Years On: Can we get Identification from Geography? |
16:00 |
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Mon 13 Oct |
John Duffy (University of Pittsburgh) |
16:00 |
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Wed 15 Oct |
Iwan Barankay (University of Warwick) |
Monetary and Non-Monetary Incentives for Teams: Evidence from Two Field Experiments |
16:00 |
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Wed 22 Oct |
Chuck Mason (University of Wyoming) |
Co-optimization of Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration. |
16:00 |
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Wed 29 Oct |
Silvia Sonderegger (University of Bristol) |
Trust, Introspection and market participation: a theoretical analysis |
16:00 |
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Wed 05 Nov |
Sascha Becker (University of Stirling) |
Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia |
16:00 |
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Wed 12 Nov |
Julian Jamison (University of Southern California) |
Selection Effects in Laboratory Experiments: Deception and Ambiguity |
16:00 |
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Wed 19 Nov |
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta (London School of Economics) |
16:00 |
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Wed 03 Dec |
Jordi Blanes i Vidal (Managerial Economics and Strategy Group, London School of Economics) |
Behaviour in Networks of Collaborators Theory and Evidence from the English Judiciary. |
16:00 |
2008 Summer Semester
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Wed 30 Jan |
Bertil Tungodden Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration |
16:00 |
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Wed 06 Feb |
Martin Chalkley University of Dundee |
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16:00 |
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Thu 06 Mar |
Sevi Mora (University of Edinburgh) |
Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames |
16:00 |
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Tue 15 Apr |
Jean-Robert Tyran University of Copenhagen |
Tax illusion and communication |
16:00 |
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Wed 30 Apr |
Anna Vignoles The London School of Economics and Political Science |
16:00 |
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Tue 06 May |
Luis Garicano University of Chicago |
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16:00 |
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Wed 07 May |
John Sessions University of Bath |
Wages, Supervision and Sharing |
16:00 |
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Fri 30 May |
Joao Cocco London Business School |
Longevity Risk and Retirement Savings |
12:30 |
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Sun 08 Jun |
Dr. Donghyun Park (Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank) |
Beyond Liquidity: New Uses for Developing Asia's Foreign Exchange Reserves |
16:00 |
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Wed 11 Jun |
Daniel Zizzo (University of East Anglia) |
Does Product Complexity Affect Market Choices? |
16:00 |
2007 Winter Semester
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Wed 19 Sep |
Francesco Giovannoni University of Bristol |
Bidders with Career Concerns |
16:00 |
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Wed 03 Oct |
Ed Hopkins University of Edinburgh |
Which Inequality? The Inequality of Endowments Versus the Inequality of Rewards. |
16:00 |
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Wed 24 Oct |
Bob Hart University of Stirling |
Earnings Returns to Compulsory Education in Britain |
16:00 |
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Wed 31 Oct |
Robert Sauer University of Southampton |
Life Cycle Employment and Fertility Across Institutional Environments. |
16:00 |
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Wed 14 Nov |
Steve Machin University College London |
Panic on the Streets of London Police Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks. |
16:00 |
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Wed 21 Nov |
Maarten Lindeboom IZA Joint with HERU |
Health Shock, Disability and work |
16:00 |
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Wed 05 Dec |
Gaute Torsvik (University of Bergen) |
Pay and performance in a call centre; principals and agents or principally angels. |
16:00 |
2007 Summer Semester
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Wed 10 Jan |
Technological Peer Effects Between Workers Evidence from Professional Baseball.pdf |
14:00 |
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Tue 16 Jan |
The Financial Returns to Education: Evidence from the Population of Danish Twins |
14:00 |
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Tue 30 Jan |
Looking for Labour Market Rents with Subjective Data |
13:00 |
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Wed 31 Jan |
16:00 |
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Wed 07 Feb |
Kjell G Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) |
Older and wiser? Birth order, family size and the IQ of young men |
16:00 |
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Tue 13 Feb |
13:00 |
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Wed 21 Feb |
The Important Thing Is not (Always) Winning but Taking Part Funding Public Goods with Contests.pdf |
14:00 |
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Wed 28 Feb |
Quality-Assuring Prices and Vertical Product Differentiation in Markets for Experience Goods. |
16:00 |
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Wed 14 Mar |
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Wed 18 Apr |
16:00 |
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Thu 19 Apr |
16:00 |
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Wed 25 Apr |
The Importance of Competitions in Pianists' Careers |
16:00 |
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Wed 02 May |
16:00 |
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Wed 09 May |
16:00 |
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Wed 23 May |
16:00 |
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Wed 30 May |
16:00 |
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Fri 29 Jun |
This one-day conference will see a range of papers on health and wellbeing at work. The first keynote speaker is M Harvey Brenner (University of North Texas Health Science Centre) who will be speaking on health at work. The second keynote speaker will be Richard Freeman (NBER, LSE) who will be speaking on job satisfaction. The third keynote speaker will be Bernard van Praag (University of Amsterdam) who will be speaking on the methodology of wellbeing research. Full programme details. |
Health and Wellbeing at Work Conference |
10:00 |
2006 Winter Semester
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Wed 01 Nov |
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THE ENTREPRENEUR’S MODE OF ENTRY: BUSINESS TAKEOVER OR NEW VENTURE START? (with Van Praag) Simon Parker (University of Durham) |
16:00 |
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Wed 08 Nov |
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LIE AVERSION AND PREFERENCES FOR TRUTH-TELLING: AND EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON (with M. Vorsatz) Santiago Sanchez-Pages (University of Edinburgh) |
16:00 |
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Wed 15 Nov |
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THINGS CAN ONLY GET WORSE? AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF THE PETER PRINCIPLE (with B. Eberth and A. Ma) Tim Barmby (University of Aberdeen) |
16:00 |
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Wed 22 Nov |
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David de Meza (LSE) "Self deception, self selection, self destruction: an experimental investigation of adverse selection " (joint work with Marta Coelho) |
16:00 |
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Wed 29 Nov |
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PIECE WORK PAY AND HOURLY PAY OVER THE CYCLE Bob Hart (University of Stirling) |
16:00 |
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Wed 06 Dec |
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THE SOCIAL GRADIENT IN HEALTH: THE EFFECT OF ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE INCOME ON THE INDIVIDUAL’S HEALTH (with I. Theodossiou) Alexandros Zangelidis (University of Aberdeen) |
16:00 |
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