Explore Econ 2019

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 Organised by CTaLE, UCL's Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics

UCL Economics will host it's fifth annual undergraduate research conference Explore Econ, on Wednesday March 13 2019. This high profile event will opened by Sasha Roseneil, UCL Dean of Social and Historical Sciences. The conference showcases independent work undertaken by students from all years of the undergraduate programme, much of it outside of the curriculum. This will be presented in posters and presentations and in addition, the conference will also showcase the winning contributions of our First Year Challenge, a multimedia film project.

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Programme

13:00-13:50	Registration – Coffee - Multimedia presentations and poster displays: Souveer Aggarwal: Vehicle quota system in Singapore Daniel Drobik: Optimism games and experiments Rodi Ihatsu: The effect of Bitcoin on central banking Weizhi Li: Comparing GDP with MAP Andrei Savitski: What are the factors defining internal migration patterns in modern Russia? Francesco Spizzuoco: Do option prices carry an informational content? Yao Tong & Fangning Hu: What are the effects of the US-China trade war on income? Tiansui Tu: The effects of Universal Basic Income and Dibao programme on income inequality in urban China Shiv Vaidya & Mihir Gupta: Revenue distribution between states of India Jordan Whitwell-Mak: How misperceptions of randomness affect economic decision making Miao Xu: The effect of internet development on per capita consumption and the change of consumption structure in China Laidlaw Scholars Showcase: Otso Hao and Hannah Buttle: BME attainment gap Andrei Savitski: What are the factors defining internal migration patterns in modern Russia?
13:50-14:00	Opening Address:  Professor Sasha Roseneil, Dean of UCL Social & Historical Sciences
14:00-14:50	Presentations session 1: Markets Chair: Elena Ashtari Tafti Dooho Shin: The effect of climate change on Green Stocks Vivek Gandhi: Which factors were the most important in causing Argentina's 2001 Sovereign default? Tao Chen: First-degree Price Discrimination and quality customisation under data protection regulations Om Kanabar: Examining moral hazard in the NHS
14:50-15:10	First Year Challenge Presentations/Awards
15:10-16:00	Presentation Session: Inequality and development Chair: Professor Ian Preston Baobao Ke & Frank Zeng: The mechanism behind Great Gatsby Curve Junzhao Shi & Gehui Jin: One-child policy & wealth inequality in China Roshni Haria: Can informal sector provide effective alternatives to economic institutional provisions in India? Edwin Mu & Ada Huang: Total fertility rate in China and spatial inequality
16:00-16:20	Coffee Break

16:20-17:10	Presentation Session 3: Political and social economy Chair: Professor Aureo de Paula James Kinder & Soumya Khurana: Economic integration between EU and Ukraine and Russian military incursions into Ukraine Claudia Abdallah: The impact of e-government on productivity in developing countries Sam Asher: Social identity and collective action in rebel armies Joel Christoph: The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on employment
17:10-17:30	Break
17:30-18:30	#whateconomistsreallydo  -  Ignite Session Chair: Sir Richard Blundell Paired presentations by academics and students: Professor Imran Rasul: Economics of health epidemics  Professor Albert Marcet: Stock price fluctuations and uninformed traders Dr Lena Hassani Nezhad: Maternity leave and women’s labour market outcomes Dr Alejandro Estefan: Domestic violence and its economic effects
18:30-19:30	Reception and Prize-giving by Professor Antonio Cabrales

Judging panel

Mark McDonald - HSBC Global Research

Victoria Monro - Bank of England

Alexis Raichoudhury - Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Roxana Slavcheva - Economist Intelligence Unit

Venue

UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

Registration and poster sessions will take place in W3.01

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