The UCL Department of Economics announces research seminars for Week 5 of Term 1 2024

CReAM Research Seminar
Speaker: Oscar Perello, UCL.
Title: ‘Job Market Practice: TBC’.
Date: Monday 21 October, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: South Wing, 9 Garwood LT - visit the location on a map.
Directions: Enter the main gate of UCL in Gower Street; go to the right corner at the far side of the quad; enter through the door with the plaque: Wilkins Building- South Cloisters; make a sharp right turn; go upstairs to the first floor; take the door to your left and walk along a corridor; the Garwood LT is at the middle of the corridor and the entrance is past the middle set of double doors.
Seminar organiser(s): m.vera@ucl.ac.uk, f.gerard@ucl.ac.uk.

CEMMAP Research Seminar
Speaker: Yuichi Kitamura, Yale.
Title: ‘Estimating Stochastic Block Models in the Presence of Covariates (Joint with Louse Laage)’ (link to the paper)
Date: Tuesday 22 October, 1230-1330hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): daniel.j.lewis@ucl.ac.uk, b.deaner@ucl.ac.uk.
Further info: Seminar series; Seminar signup

THEBES Research Seminar
Speaker: David P. Myatt, London Business School.
Title: ‘Finding a Good Deal: Stable Price Dispersion with Robust Search’.
Date: Tuesday 22 October, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House B03 Ricardo LT - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): duarte.goncalves@ucl.ac.uk, d.kattwinkel@ucl.ac.uk.
Further info: Seminar series. 

Finance Research Seminar
Speaker: Sergey Chernenko, Purdue University.
Title: ‘Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit’.
Date: Wednesday 23 October, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House B20 Jevons LT - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): jihee.yoon@ucl.ac.uk.

Macro Research Seminar
Speaker: Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics (LSE).
Title: ‘Distributional Consumer Price Indices’.
Date: Wednesday 23 October, 1200-1330hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House, BO6 - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): a.olivi@ucl.ac.uk, l.rachel@ucl.ac.uk.

Applied Micro Research Seminar
Speaker: Erin Quynh Huynh, UCL.
Title: ‘Job Market Candidate Talk: Gender Norms and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Export Shocks in Vietnam’.
Date: Thursday 24 October, 1200-1330hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): a.lindner@ucl.ac.uk.

UCL Centre for Finance Annual Lecture: Romano Prodi
Speaker: Romano Prodi.
Date: Thursday 24 October, 1800-1900hrs. 
Venue: Logan Hall, IOE - visit the location on a map.
Further info: Lecture sign up.

PhD Research Seminar
Speaker: Weichien Liao, UCL.
Title: ‘Nudge DM using Bayesian updating.’
Date: Friday 25 October, 1200-1300hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House, Room 321 - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): lyujia.liu.20@ucl.ac.uk.
Further info: Seminar signup.