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Seminar in Economics | Are Chemists Good Bankers? with Dita Eckardt, University of Warwick

1/19/2022, 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Dita Eckardt, University of Warwick, presenting "Are Chemists Good Bankers? Returns to the Match between Training and Occupation". Dita analyzes the returns to training-occupation combinations using administrative panel data on apprenticeships and employment for German workers, and identifies the returns using data on occupation-specific vacancies.

AOM mid-winter meeting - 19-25 Jan 2022

1/19/2022, 2:00 PM - 1/25/2022, 7:00 PM
The House of Innovation hosted the Mid-Winter Meeting for the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management January 19th-25th 2022

Brown Bag Seminar | Reputation on Networks

1/17/2022, 12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
Welcome to Brown Bag Webinar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. Seminar guest is David Jackson of Stockholm University. David presents a network model of reputation which investigates how a reputation system can regulate opportunism and facilitate trust in low frequency or one-off transactions beyond an agent’s immediate network. The setup focuses on how the network facilitates access to transaction opportunities and determines the distribution of reputational information.

Douglas Stuart: Author talk (with glögg!)

12/16/2021, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Welcome to this author talk with the Scottish writer Douglas Stuart - the author of Shuggie Bain, one of the books in the Literary Agenda in the fall of 2021.

Seminar in Economics | The Human Side of Structural Transformation with Federico Rossi, University of Warwick

12/15/2021, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Federico Rossi, University of Warwick, presenting "The Human Side of Structural Transformation". We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment during the 20th-century was driven by new cohorts entering the labor market. Through the lens of a model of frictional labor reallocation, we conclude that human capital growth, both as a mediating factor and as an independent driver, led to a sharp decline in the agricultural labor supply.