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Find out more about our next seminars with prominent international guest speakers and upcoming events.

Upcoming events

Postgraduate Online Open Week - November 2025

If you're planning to study an Economics master's or research degree with us, sign up for our upcoming Postgraduate Online Open Week webinars to learn more about our courses ask any questions you may have:

  • Monday 17 November 2025, 1-2pm - Economics Master's programmes
  • Tuesday 18 November 2025, 12-1pm - Economics PhD programmes

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Liverpool Workshop on Micro Data and Macro Policy 

Two-day workshop in Liverpool to discuss high-quality theoretical and empirical research exploring the transmission of policy through the lens of micro data. 

Open to: Any PhD students, researchers and policymakers
Date: 17-18 December 2025
Times: 10am-6pm (17 December) and 10am-4pm (18 December)
Place: University of Liverpool Management School, Chatham Street, L69 7ZH – TBC

The Liverpool Workshop on Micro Data and Macro Policy is an ideal opportunity for researchers from both academic and policy institutions to explore the transmission of policy through the lens of micro data, with a particular emphasis on monetary policy.

The primary goal of the workshop is to share novel insights into how micro-level data can inform macroeconomic policy analysis and to foster a network of active researchers working at the intersection of these fields.

Participation in this workshop is by invitation only. Interested researchers are welcome to contact Dr Alexey Gorn for further information.

 

Upcoming seminars

'From Longshots to Portfolios: Bounding Preferences and Beliefs in Parimutuel Betting Markets?'

  • Speaker: Professor Thomas Frank Epper, IESEG School of Management (France)
  • Open to: All staff and students, with no sign up needed
  • Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
  • Time: 2-3.15pm 
  • In person: 502, Teaching Room 4

Abstract: 

Horse race betting markets provide a natural laboratory for studying choice under risk and uncertainty.

We document that a substantial share of bettors--about one third of our sample--engage in portfolio betting, splitting stakes equally across multiple bet events.

These "native diversifiers" reduce exposure to single-race outcomes much like portfolio investors in financial markets.

Building on this observation, we develop a partial identification framework to infer the joint constraints on individual risk preferences and subjective probability assessments that are consistent with observed betting portfolios.

Our analysis highlights substantial heterogeneity across bettors but places sharp bounds on preference-belief combinations. Importantly, the strategies observed in the market are not anomalous when compared to laboratory settings and other domains of choice.

We argue that the favorite-longshot bias may emerge endogenously from portfolio-driven demand externalities: diversification strategies increase longshot demand, which in turn feeds back into market odds.

Our results show how betting markets can reveal fundamental features of preferences and beliefs, and they underscore the value of partial identification in environments where choices reflect both heterogeneity and strategic interaction.

'Gender equality through marriage'

  • Speaker: Professor Cheti Nicoletti, University of York (UK)
  • Open to: All staff and students, with no sign up needed
  • Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025
  • Time: 2-3.15pm 
  • In person: 502, Teaching Room 4

Abstract: 

We revisit the economic effects of marriage, analysing its heterogeneous impact on the intra-household labour division following childbirth.

Can marriage promote coordination of work and child activities between parents and a gender egalitarian division of labour?

Using a marginal treatment effect framework, we find the average effect of marriage is to increase parental specialization and worsen the mother's child penalty.

However, we find differences across couples with varying resistance to marriage. While traditional couples (low-resistance) exhibit increased specialization; in modern couples (high-resistance) fathers have an earnings penalty and take more paternity leave, suggesting more coordination and gender equality.

 

 

Past events

2025

13 June 2025 - ROUNDTABLE - LAMBDA Research Centre: AI Confidence: The Leader's Role in Empowering Teams to Solve Business Challenges'

22-23 May 2025 - WORKSHOP: The Liverpool and CEPR Workshop on Macroeconomics

6 May 2025 - WORKSHOP: ‘Identification and Misspecification Problems in Econometrics’

2024

18 November 2024 - WEBINAR: Postgraduate Online Open Week - Economics Master's programmes

18 November 2024 - WEBINAR: Postgraduate Online Open Week - Economics PhD programme

15 November 2024 - WORKSHOP: Interdisciplinary workshop on Machine Learning and AI

24-25 June 2024 - WORKSHOP: Text-as-Data in Economics

13-14 June 2024 - WORKSHOP: The Liverpool Workshop on Macroeconomics

7 June 2024 - ROUNDTABLE - LAMBDA Research Cluster: AI: Benefits and Challenges for Business

22 April 2024 - WORKSHOP - LAMBDA Research Cluster: Machine Learning and High-Dimensional Data Analysis

 

Past seminars

2025

How do Group speak and How are the understood?

Clerks  Evaluating with Statistics: Which Outcome Measures Differentiate Among Matching Mechanisms?

The Optimal Macro Tariff

On the Taxation of Private Retirement Wealth

Gender Biases on Digital Health Platforms: Evidence from India

Inter-generational Congestion and Spatial Labour Market Outcomes

Monetary Policy and Green Transition in a time of Geopolitical Crisis: Can the Central Bank Target Climate Change Risk?

Bounded Rationality with Subjective Evaluations in Enlivened but Truncated Decision Trees

International Trade Shocks and Illicit Drug Trafficking

Stable Matching as Transport: a Welfarist Perspective on Market Design

Incapacitating the Competition: The Impact of Vertical Restrictions on Technology Adoption

Credit, Land Speculation, and Long-Run Economic Growth

Lumpy Forecasts

Regression adjustment in randomized controlled trials: debiased estimation, accurate inference, and covariates selection

Endogenous Regime Switching

Heavy Factor Models

  • Dr Jihyun Kim, Toulouse School of Economics (France) 
  • 19 February 2025

True colors: authenticity and identity in social interactions

Antidepressant use among children

Bank fragility and the incentives to manage risk

Do Deficits Cause Inflation? A High Frequency Narrative Approach

2024

Why is Losing so Hard?

Collusive Behaviour, Efficiency and Cheap Talk Negotiation in Repeated Games

Zero Lower Bound on Inflation Expectations

The information matrix test for Gaussian mixtures

Using Covariates to Improve the Efficacy of CUSUM Bubble Monitoring Procedures

Political Preferences and the Transport Infrastructure: Evidence from California's High-Speed Rail

Dividing a Commons with Tight Guarantees 

PCF-GAN: generating sequential data via the characteristic function of measures on the path space

Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities in China and India

Job Security and Liquid Wealth

Deliver Us from Crime? Online Platforms, Gig Jobs and Offending 

Sequential Monitoring for Changes in Dynamic Semiparametric Risk Models

Dynamic Deterrence of Police Patrolling

Running Up that Hill: Fitness in the Face of Recession

Detection of a structural break in intraday volatility pattern 

We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson 

The effects of sin taxes and advertising restrictions in a dynamic equilibrium 

Monetary Policy and Endogenous Financial Crises

Inequality, Demand Composition, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy 

Coherent Distorted Beliefs 

Measurement, Measurement: How Well-Measured Business Income Affects Economic Inequality 

2023 

Sectoral Labour Flows 

Pre-school learning and parenting in early childhood: Experimental evidence from Ghana

Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics in Europe

Scaling Up the American Dream: a Dynamic Analysis 

Estimation of a dynamic threshold panel time series regression with cross-sectional dependence 

A model of approval with an application to list design 

Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution 

Fair hiring procedures 

 

  • 10 May 2023 - Mariann Ollár, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
  • 3 May 2023 - Giuseppe Moscelli, University of Surrey (England)
  • 26 April 2023 - Emma Tominey, University of York (England)
  • 22 March 2023 - Stephen Hansen, University College London (England)
  • 15 March 2023 - Vincent Sterk, University College London (England)
  • 8 March 2023 - Mingli Chen, University of Warwick (England)
  • 22 February 2023 - José-Luis Peydró, Imperial College London (England) and UPF (Spain)
  • 16 February 2023 - Steven Ongena, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
  • 8 February 2023 - Ludovic Renou, Queen Mary University of London (England)