Economics seminars and workshops

We run a regular programme of seminars for staff, students and the wider public.

Our seminars usually take place on Wednesdays between 16:00 and 17:30. In addition, there are also workshops, which take place on Fridays between 13:00 and 14:30.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all seminars and workshops will be held online until further notice.

Please contact the economic seminar organiser, Dr Pipat Wongsa-art, if you are interested in attending these events or require additional information.

Upcoming events

Speaker: Kohei Takeda, London School of Economics

Date: Friday 10 December 2021, 13:00-14:30
Title: The Geography of Structural Transformation: Effects on Inequality and Mobility

Abstract

Economies transform at an uneven pace: San Jose's meteoric rise coexists with Detroit's slow decline.

This paper develops a dynamic overlapping generations model of economic geography to explain variation in structural transformation across space and time. In the model, historical exposure to different industries creates persistence in occupational structure, and non-homothetic preferences and differential productivity growth lead to different rates of structural transformation.

Despite the heterogeneity across locations, sectors, and time, the model remains tractable and is calibrated to match metropolitan area data for the U.S. economy from 1980 to 2010. The calibration allows us to back out measures of upward mobility and inequality, thereby providing theoretical underpinnings to the Gatsby Curve.

The counterfactual analysis shows that structural transformation has substantial effects on mobility: if there were no productivity growth in the service sector, income mobility would be 6 percent higher, and if amenities were equalized across locations, it would rise by 10 percent.

Speaker: Francesco Moscone, Brunel University London

Date: Wednesday 15 December 2021, 16:00-17:30
Title: The association between hospital cooperation and the quality of healthcare

Abstract

Motivated by reasons such as patients’ needs, lack of resources, technologies or skills, and quality, hospital managers may engage in cooperative behaviours.

We study the determinants of patients’ transfers, a specific form of cooperation, and quantify its association with the quality delivered by the origin and destination hospital. Using Italian administrative data, we handle the network structure embedded in the data by adopting an over-dispersed Poisson mixed model.

Our results show a positive relationship between hospital cooperation and quality. The introduction of transferal protocols that exploit information on hospital quality may further improve the overall quality of the healthcare sector.

Speaker: Maciek Lis, OECD

Date: Wednesday 02 February 2022, 16:00-17:30

Title and abstract to be confirmed.

Speaker: Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics

Date: Wednesday 16 February 2022, 16:00-17:30

Title and abstract to be confirmed.

Speaker: Peter Dolton, University of Sussex

Date: Wednesday 9 March 2022, 16:00-17:30

Title and abstract to be confirmed.

Speaker: John Morrow, King’s College

Date: Friday 25 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

Title and abstract to be confirmed.

Past events