Seminars and Workshops
A lively series of seminars run through the academic year, some for a generalist audience and some relating to the more specialist interests of the school's research centres. We also run regular public lectures which everyone can to attend.
School of Economics Brown Bag seminars
Usually held Monday, 12 to 1pm
Upcoming seminars
- Date
- 10 March 2025 (12:00-13:00)
- Description
- Trade and gender (A31, SCGB)
- Date
- 17 March 2025 (12:00-13:00)
- Description
- Import subsidy and firm growth (A45, SCGB)
- Date
- 24 March 2025 (12:00-13:00)
- Description
- Prenatal Care and Early Childhood Health: Evidence from a Constitutional Amendment Act in Brazil (A31, SCGB)
CeDEx seminars
The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics seminars usually takes place on Wednesday, 1 to 2pm.
Upcoming seminars
- Date
- 26 February 2025 (13:00-14:00)
- Description
- Ethnic Salience and Discrimination
- Date
- 26 February 2025 (15:00-16:30)
- Description
- Fairness Across the World
- Date
- 05 March 2025 (13:00-14:00)
- Description
- Tbc
CFCM seminars
A series of seminars focusing on financial markets, macroeconomic cycles and consumer and corporate credit. Seminars are on Thursday, 2 to 3.15pm, unless stated otherwise.
Upcoming seminars
- Date
- 06 March 2025 (14:00-15:15)
- Description
- Unequal transition: The widening wealth gap amidst China's rapid growth (C43)
- Date
- 13 March 2025 (14:00-15:15)
- Description
- The irrelevance of intergenerational altruism for social discounting (C43)
- Date
- 20 March 2025 (14:00-15:15)
- Description
- Title: Tax design in the presence of parental investments (C43)
CREDIT seminars
Seminars are usually on Wednesday, 2 to 3pm. Everyone interested in development economics, political economy, and economic history is welcome.
Upcoming seminars
- Date
- 05 March 2025 (14:00-15:00)
- Description
- Product bans as protectionism: The Maggi scare (A40, SCGB)
- Date
- 26 March 2025 (14:00-15:00)
GEP seminars
Our Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy holds a weekly seminar, attracting speakers with high international visibility. Tuesday, 3 to 4.15pm unless stated otherwise.
Upcoming seminars
- Date
- 25 February 2025 (15:00-16:15)
- Description
- Imagine your life at 25: Gender conformity and later-life outcomes (A02, Highfield House)
- Date
- 11 March 2025 (15:00-16:15)
- Description
- Firm dynamics and the labour supply elasticity (C04, Physics)
- Date
- 18 March 2025 (15:00-16:15)
- Description
- Shocked by COVID: Exporting along global value chains (A45, SCGB)
UNET seminars
Economic theory seminars usually held Tuesday, 3 to 4pm
Upcoming seminars
- Date
- 04 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)
- Location:
- A39 Sir Clive Granger Building, MS Teams
- Description
- Searching for surplus (C43, SCGB)
- Date
- 18 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)
- Location:
- C43 Sir Clive Granger, MS Teams
- Description
- Strategic renegotiation in repeated games (C43, SCGB)
- Date
- 25 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)
- Location:
- C43 Sir Clive Granger, MS Teams
- Description
- Pricing novel goods (C43, SCGB)
NICEP seminars
Talks on key areas of research at the intersection of politics and economics. Thursdays, 3 to 4pm.
Upcoming seminars
- Date
- 06 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)
- Description
- Latin America's experience with the Gold Standard, 1867-1931 (A40, SCGB)
- Date
- 20 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)
- Description
- The political economy of stimulus transfers (A40, SCGB)
- Date
- 12 (09:00) - 13 May 2025 (16:30)
Senior Academic Seminar Series
Distinct from the range of themed workshops and research centre seminars, these seminars are held on occasional Wednesdays, 3 to 4.30pm unless stated otherwise.
Upcoming seminars
- Date
- 26 February 2025 (15:00-16:15)
- Date
- 21 May 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Granger Centre seminars
A series of seminars/workshops usually on Thursdays, 12.30 to 2pm focusing on theoretical and applied time series analysis, and applied microeconometrics.
Upcoming seminars
There are currently no upcoming seminars.
Master Classes and Expert Workshops
For postgraduate research students, but of interest to early-career and other academics. Three or four masterclasses or workshops each semester taking place on occasional Wednesdays, 1 to 5pm.
The sessions cover specific research methods in some detail and at an advanced level. Master classes are often based on a research project and give insights on the thinking behind the work and how the research evolved. The sessions describe the process of how to do research as well as hearing about the work itself. The Expert Workshops are more focused sessions covering specific tools and techniques that can be used in research in economics and in social science more generally.
Master Classes and Expert Workshops programmes
Relatedly, we also run a series of Twilight Sessions for postgraduate research students on occasional Wednesday evenings (5 to 6pm) discussing some of the generic/soft skills developed by economists during a research degree.
PGR Twilight sessions programmes