Events and seminars

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


Events 

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Machine Learning and AI

Join the LAMBDA Research Centre for an interdisciplinary workshop on 'Machine Learning and AI’ exploring how the latest advances in machine learning are transforming decision-making and addressing complex real-world issues.

  • Date: Friday 15 November
  • Time: 10.15am - 4.30pm
  • Place: Sherrington Building, Lecture Theatre 1

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Postgraduate Online Open Week - Economics PhD programme webinar

With Director of Studies, Dr Balazs Murakozy.

  • Date: Monday 18 November
  • Time: 12-1pm

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Postgraduate Online Open Week - Economics Master's programmes webinar

With Postgraduate Teaching Lead, Professor Ian Burn.

  • Date: Monday 18 November
  • Time: 1-2pm

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Seminars

Our group regularly organises seminar series with prominent international speakers, to present their latest research and ideas in economics:

Wednesday 13 November 2024

Collusive Behaviour, Efficiency and Cheap Talk Negotiation in Repeated Games

  • Speaker: Professor Hamid Sabourian, University of Cambridge (England)
  • Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
  • Time: 2 pm
  • In person: 502 TR-4  

Abstract

This paper addresses the relationship between cheap talk communication/negotiation and collusion/efficiency in repeated games by explicitly modelling the negotiation process.

Specifically, we consider a standard infinitely repeated game of complete information with perfect monitoring satisfying the following:

At each date, first players negotiate/bargain over how to play the infinite horizon continuation game and second, after the negotiation has ended, they play the stage game actions.

Negotiation is cheap talk.

We restrict the analysis to equilibria that are measurable with respect to players' latest agreement.

The justification for this is that latest agreements are salient features of the past (they are focal points).

We show that the equilibrium set includes a `babbling' equilibrium that induces a Nash equilibrium of the one-shot games, no equilibrium payoff is Pareto dominated by a Nash equilibrium payoff of the one-shot game and the equilibrium payoff set is weakly renegotiation-proof (Bernhein-Ray 1987 and Farrell-Maskin 1987).

Our main results are: in the limit as the discount factor tend to 1, (i) every equilibrium payoff is either babbling or efficient and (ii) a non-babbling efficient equilibrium exists for many class of games.


Wednesday 20 November 2024

  • Speaker: Professor Peter Dolton, University of Sussex (England)
  • Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
  • Time: 2 pm
  • In personroom TBC

Friday 22 November 2024

  • Speaker: Professor Leah Boustan, Princeton University (US)
  • Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
  • Time: 2 pm
  • In personroom TBC

Wednesday 27 November 2024

  • Speaker: Professor Christian Brownlees, UPF (Spain)
  • Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
  • Time: 2 pm
  • In personroom TBC 
Past seminars

2024

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)

 

2022

7 December 2022 - Andrea Ferrero, University of Oxford (England)

23 November - Sanjit Dhami, University of Leicester (England)

16 November 2022 - Laura Coroneo, University of York (England)

2 November 2022 - Erik Plug, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

31 October 2022 - Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po (France)

26 October 2022 - Antonio Penta, UPF (Spain)

12 October 2022 - Robert Sauer, Royal Holloway, University of London (England)

28 September 2022 - Toomas Hinnosaar, University of Nottingham (England)

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