Events and seminars

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

Events 

2025 Events to be confirmed

 

Seminars

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

2025

 

Wednesday 26 March

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

Speaker: Professor Michelle Sovinsky, University of Mannheim (Germany)  
Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
Time: 2-3.15pm
In person: South Campus Teaching Hub, Lecture Theatre 3

Abstract: 

We examine exclusive deals in the x86 processor industry, focusing on Intel, a major upstream supplier, and its smaller competitor, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Regulatory agencies worldwide have claimed that Intel offered rebates and subsidies to clients, conditioned on limiting their purchases from AMD.

Using publicly available antitrust case documents, we create indices to capture the scope of these exclusionary restrictions.

We combine these with market data to analyze the impact of the restrictions on AMD technology adoption.

Our panel model estimates show that an exclusive restriction affecting one customer's trade with Intel negatively impacted AMD's technology adoption by other clients.

This study is the first to provide empirical evidence of these interrelated effects.

Additionally, we found that AMD adoption increased with the intensity of antitrust scrutiny of Intel's deals and AMD's production capacity.

We interpret these results within a framework where exclusionary restrictions influence downstream expectations about the payoff of adopting the smaller competitor's technology.

Collectively, the findings suggest that innovation and superior value are not necessarily the primary drivers of market share growth in the x86 industry.

Instead, Intel's advantage in production capacity and its ability to secure exclusive deals are key factors underpinning its market share leadership.

Friday 28 March

Title: TBC 

Speaker: Professor Federico Echenique, UC Berkeley (USA)  
Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
Time: TBC
In person: TBC

Abstract: TBC

Tuesday 1 April 

Title: TBC 

Speaker: Dr Gianmarco Daniele, University of Milan (Italy)  
Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
Time: TBC
In person: TBC

Abstract: TBC

Wednesday 2 April 

Title: TBC 

Speaker: Professor Peter Hammond, University of Warwick (England)  
Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
Time: TBC
In person: TBC

Abstract: TBC

Wednesday 7 May 

Title: TBC 

Speaker: Dr Roberto Pancrazi, University of Warwick (England)  
Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
Time: TBC
In person: TBC

Abstract: TBC

Wednesday 14 May 

Title: TBC 

Speaker: Professor Fredj Jawadi, University of Lille (France)  
Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
Time: TBC
In person: TBC

Abstract: TBC

 

Past seminars

2025

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)

 

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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