The UCL Department of Economics announces research seminars for 28 April - 2 May 2025

                                            Seminars

CeMMAP Research Seminar
Speaker: Christoph Rothe, University of Mannheim.
Title: 'Donut Regression Discontinuity Designs'.
Date: Tuesday 29 April, 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.

CReAM Research Seminar
Speaker: Victoria Marone, University of Texas at Austin.
Title: 'Designing Dynamic Reassignment Mechanisms: Evidence from GP Allocation'.
Date: Monday 28 April, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House B03 Ricardo LT - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): m.vera@ucl.ac.uk, f.gerard@ucl.ac.uk.
Further info: Seminar series; Seminar signup.

Human Capital and Labor Markets Research Seminar
Speaker: Thiago Scarelli, University of Oxford.
Title: 'Workers’ Preferences over Payment Schedules: Evidence from Ridesharing Drivers'.
Date: Tuesday 29 April, 1430-1530hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): rozeena.newell@ifs.org.uk.

THEBES Research Seminar
Speaker: Muriel Niederle, Stanford University.
Title: 'Decomposing the Winner’s Curse'.
Date: Tuesday 29 April, 1600-1730hrs. 
Venue: Medawar Building G02 Watson LT - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): duarte.goncalves@ucl.ac.uk, d.kattwinkel@ucl.ac.uk.

Applied Micro Research Seminar
Speaker: Naoki Aizawa, Wisconsin-Madison.
Title: 'Labor Unions and Social Insurance'.
Date: Thursday 1 May, 1200-1330hrs. 
Venue: IFS Conference Room - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): joao.granja@ucl.ac.uk.

ENTER Research Seminar
Speaker: Juan Segnana, Tilburg.
Title: 'Food Aid, Barter, and Money: Evidence from Rohingya Refugee Camps'.
Date: Friday 2 May, 1200-1330hrs. 
Venue: Drayton House, Room 321 - visit the location on a map.
Seminar organiser(s): helena.carvalho.22@ucl.ac.uk.
  

                                           Events

The UCL Department of Economics Applied Micro Research Conference 2025
Topic: Inequality, Minimum Wages and Allocation of Labor
Date: Friday 9 May
Venue: B03 Ricardo LT, Drayton House
Organisers: Attila Lindner, Pedro Carniero
Programme:
10:05: Welcome
Session 1: Inequality
10:10 – 11:00: Lucas Conwell and Gabriel Ulyssea: Slums and Income Mobility
11.00 - 11.50: Michela Tincani: How far can inclusion go? The long-term impacts of preferential college admissions
Session 2: Methods
13:00 – 13:50: Marcos Vera Hernandez: More to Live for: Health Investment Responses to Expected Retirement Wealth in Chile
13:50 – 14:40pm: Hyejin Ku:  Gender Differences in Education Migration
Session 3: Minimum Wages
15:00pm – 15:50pm: – Jonas Hjort: Footloose Enough? Multinationals, Domestic Firms, and Job Creation in Developing Economies as Wages Rise
15:50pm – 16:50pm – Attila Lindner: Heterogeneous Effects of Minimum Wage Policies
Drinks: Euston Tap

The UCL Department of Economics Gorman Lecture and Conference, May 12 - 13 2025 
May 12
Session 1 (14.00-15:20):
Lars Nesheim, IFS: TBD
Will Matcham, Royal Holloway: ‘Screening Property Rights for Innovation’.
Session 2 (16:10-17:30):
Joao Granja, UCL: ‘Recursivity and the Estimation of Dynamic Games with Continuous Controls’ (joint work with Giuseppe Forte).
Rossi Abi-Rafeh, IFS: ‘The Effects of Sin Taxes and Advertising Restrictions in a Dynamic Equilibrium’ (joint work with P Dubois, R Griffith and M O’Connell).
May 13
Session 3 (14.00-15:20):
Mark Armstrong, UCL: ‘Multibrand Price Dispersion’, with John Vickers.
Howard Smith, Oxford: ‘The Rise of Discounters and its Impact on Concentration, Market Power and Welfare’ (joint work with Martin O’Connell, Howard Smith and Øyvind Thomassen). 
Session 4 (16:10-17:30):
Adam Smith, UCL: ‘A Quasi-Bayes Approach to Nonparametric Demand Estimation with Economic Constraints’.
Catherine Thomas, LSE: ‘Global Supply Chain Flexibility: The Role of Contracts in LNG’ (joint work with Swati Dhingra, Ningyuan Jia, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Thomas Sampson).
 

                                       External events

Bank of England Watchers' Conference 2025
Info: The Bank of England Watchers’ conference is an annual event which seeks to bring together the diverse community of people who have an interest the work of the Bank of England – and central banking more broadly. Our attendees include prominent policymakers at the BoE, plus economists and Bank watchers from roles in academia, think tanks, financial markets, politics, and the media.
Date: Monday 12 May, 0815-1750hrs. 
Venue: IET Savoy Place, London - visit the location on a map.
Further info: event listing.