The University of Sheffield
Department of Economics

External Seminar Series 2009/10

Our seminars are held on Wednesday afternoons from 4.00pm to 5.15pm (approx). The venue is Room G11, Economics and Management Building, 9 Mappin Street.
Spring/Summer
27 Jan 2010 Martin Ellison
Oxford University		 A Defence of the FOMC
10 Feb 2010 Matt Dickson
University of Bristol		 The Lifetime Earning Premium in the Public Sector: The View From Europe
17 Feb 2010 Martin Weale
NIESR		 Qualitative Business Surveys: Signal or Noise?
24 Feb 2010 Claudio Piga
Loughbourogh University
 On-line Booking and Revenue Management: Evidence from a Low-Cost Airline
3 Mar 2010 Sandy Tubeuf
University of Leeds
 Effort or Circumstances: Which one matters in health inequality?
Joint Economics-HEDS seminar
17 Mar 2010 Paul Levine
University of Surrey		 Endogenous Persistence in an Estimated DSGE Model under Imperfect Information
21 Apr
05 May 2010 Gil Molto, Maria J.
Leicester University		 Firms' technological choices and environmental policies: Does penalising pollution induce cleaner production?
12 May 2010 Ghatak Maitreesh
LSE		 The de Soto Effect
19 May 2010 Francesco Ravazzolo
Norges Bank		 Forecast densities for economic aggregates from disaggregate ensembles

Autumn/Winter
30 Sept 2009 Francis Green
University of Kent		 Job Insecurity, Employability, Unemployment and Well-Being
14 Oct 2009 Fabrice Etilé
INRA-ALISS		 Smoking and Education in France
21 Oct 2009 Ralf Wilke
University of Nottingham
 Bounds analysis of competing risks: a nonparametric evaluation of the effect of unemployment benefits on migration in Germany
28 Oct 2009 Julia Darby
University of Strathclyde		 Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South
4 Nov 2009
 Christopher Spencer
Loughborough University		 Explaining the Dissent Voting Behavior of Bank of England MPC Members
11 Nov 2009
 Colin Green
Lancaster University		 Piece Rates and Workplace Injury: Does Survey Evidence Support Adam Smith?
18 Nov 2009 Costas Milas
Keele University
 Financial market conditions, real time, nonlinearity and European Central Bank monetary policy: In-sample and out-of-sample assessment
25 Nov 2009 James Mitchell
NIESR		 Measuring output gap uncertainty
02 Dec 2009 Yu Zhu
University of Kent		 The Effect of Education on Marital Status and Partner Characteristics: Evidence from the UK
09 Dec 2009 Timothy Beatty
University of York		 School Buses, Diesel Emissions and Respiratory Health

Joint Economics-HEDS seminar