The UCL Department of Economics Gorman Lecture and Conference 2025

The UCL Department of Economics Gorman Lecture and Conference 2025, with Ariel Pakes of Harvard University

We are delighted to announce the UCL Department of Economics Gorman Lecture and Conference 2025. Join us at the Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre in our Bloomsbury campus for a two-day conference and lecture event filled with insightful discussions, engaging presentations, and networking opportunities. This event is a singular opportunity to connect with fellow economists, industry professionals, and academics. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to expand your knowledge and exchange ideas with experts in the field.

We are honoured to announce that this year’s Gorman Lecture will be given by distinguished economist Ariel Pakes, the Thomas Professor of Economics at Harvard University. The title of this special two-part talk is ‘Structural Analysis of Market Counterfactuals’.

Programme

May 12

Session 1 (14.00-15:20):
Lars Nesheim, UCL & IFS: ‘The Changing Digital Display Advertising Market: PMP vs RTB’.
Will Matcham, Royal Holloway: ‘Screening Property Rights for Innovation’ (joint work with Mark Shankerman).
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, Amazon: ‘The Effects of Sin Taxes and Advertising Restrictions in a Dynamic Equilibrium’ (joint work with P Dubois, R Griffith and M O’Connell).

The 2025 Gorman Lecture Part i (18:00-19:30): ‘Structural Analysis of Market Counterfactuals’, by Ariel Pakes.

May 13
Session 3 (14.00-15:20):
Mark Armstrong, UCL: ‘Multibrand Price Dispersion’, with John Vickers.
Howard Smith, University of 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).

The 2025 Gorman Lecture Part ii (18:00-19:30): ‘Structural Analysis of Market Counterfactuals’, by Ariel Pakes.

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