Economics and Finance Seminars

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Seminar Timetable

Most Thursdays during term time, from 12.30 to 2.00pm, the Department holds seminars in Economics and Finance. Presentations are given by staff or invited external speakers. All are welcome to attend. The seminars are held in Room 745, Malet Street Building (unless stated otherwise).

Spring Term 2013
January
Thursday 10th January
Tony Yates (Bank of England)
From time-varying macro-dynamics to time-varying estimates of DSGE parameters

Thursday 17th January
Giudo Ascari (Univ of Pavia)
Transparency, Expectations Anchoring and the Inflation Target

Thursday 24th January
Ray Rees (Univ of Munich)
Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Thursday 31st January
Simon Price (Bank of England)
Adaptive forecasting in the presence of recent and ongoing structural change

February
Thursday 7th February
Amil Dasgupta (LSE)
Why is Hedge Fund Activism Procyclical?

Thursday 14th February
Luca Gelsomini (IESEG School of Management)
Single-bank proprietary platforms

Thursday 21st February
Peter Spencer (Univ of York)
The Meiselman forward interest rate revision regression as an Affine Term Structure Model

Thursday 28th February
Alberto Martin (CREI and Univ Pompeu Fabra)
Bubbly Collateral and Economic Activity

March
Thursday 7th March
Tom Holden (Univ of Surrey)
Medium-frequency Cycles

Thursday 14th March
Mike Clements (Univ of Warwick)
Subjective and Ex Post Forecast Uncertainty: US Inflation and Output Growth

Thursday 21st March
Laura Coroneo (Univ of York)
Unspanned macroeconomic factors in the yield curve

Summer Term 2013
April
Tuesday 30th April
Michael Owyang (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Measuring Macro-Financial Conditions Using a Factor-Augmented Smooth-Transition Vector Autoregression

May
Thursday 2nd May
Stephen Hansen (Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
First Impressions Matter: Signalling as a Source of Policy Dynamics

Thursday 9th May
Nizar Allouch (Univ of Queen Mary)
The Cost of Segregation in Social Networks

Thursday 16th May
Jihong Lee (Seoul National Univ)
Repeated Implementation with Finite Mechanisms and Complexity

Thursday 30th May
Luca Gambetti (UAB)
Noisy News in Business Cycles

June
Thursday 13th June
Federico di Pace (Univ St Andrews)

Thursday 20th June
Han Ozsoylev (Univ of Oxford)