Events in the School of Economics and Finance
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Upcoming School events
The workshop is organised by Roberto Veneziani (School of Economics and Finance) and Simon Mohun (School of Business and Management).
Friday: Distribution and social relations
9:30-10:30: Matthew Lowes, Jeffrey Carpenter, and Peter Hans Matthews “Gender and Social Preferences in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda”
10:45-11-45: Carlo Fiorio, Simon Mohun, and Roberto Veneziani “Social Democracy and Labour Shares Trends in the UK, 1950-2011”
12:00-1:00: Suresh Naidu “Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South.”
2:15-3:15: Rajiv Sethi “An Informational Theory of Network Formation”
3:30-4:30: Gil Skillman “Appropriation, Domination, and Exploitation”
Saturday: Growth, finance, and crises
9:30-10:30: Amitava K. Dutt and Roberto Veneziani “Education and Human Capitalists in a Classical-Marxian Model”
10:45-11-45: Bill Gibson and Mark Setterfield “Real and Financial Crises”
12:00-1:00: Codrina Rada “The Economics of Pensions. Remarks on Growth, Policy and Class Conflict.”
2:15-3:15: Arslan Razmi “Environmental Macroeconomics: Simple Stylized Frameworks for Analysis”
3:30-4:30: Peter Skott and Soon Ryoo “Public debt in a Keynesian OLG model with imperfect competition”
18 May, 2012 (All day) - 19 May, 2012 (All day)
Sponsored by the School of Economics and Finance
Date: Wednesday 23 May 2012
Programme:
12:00 Registration and lunch
12:45 Welcome
12:50 Rajiv Sethi (Barnard/Columbia) "An informational theory of network formation"
13:40 Felix Kübler (Zurich/SFI) "Dynamic competitive economies with complete markets and collateral constraints"
14:30 Break
15:00 Bernhard von Stengel (LSE) "Nash codes for noisy channels"
15:50 Steffen Huck (UCL) "From imitation to collusion: Long-run learning in low-information environments"
16:40 Break
17:10 John Roemer (Yale) "Kantian equilibrium and social ethos: Utopian economics... or is it?"
18:00 Free/transit
19:00 Workshop dinner [registration required]
21:00 Conclusion
Location:
Talks will take place in Room 3.20 of the ArtsTwo building (#27 on the campus map). Registration and lunch will be in the foyer on the ground floor. Access is from the north/campus side of the building (via the area labeled "Arts Quarter" on the map) rather than from the south/street side.
Getting to Queen Mary:
Nearby Underground stations are Mile End (Central, District, and Hammersmith & City lines; walking directions to East Gate) and Stepney Green (District and Hammersmith & City lines; walking directions to East Gate).
Organisers:
Nizar Allouch and Christopher Tyson
Past Workshop:
23 May, 2012 - 12:00 - 21:00
The School of Economics and Finance annual PhD Conference will be held on 6 June 2012 in W316.
Details of presentations to follow.
6 June, 2012 (All day)
The School of Economics and Finance Summer Degree ceremony will take place on the 18th July 2012 at 11am.
Tickets will go on sale from early April 2012 at http://www.qmul.ac.uk/graduation/. You will receive an informational email and a letter to your home address.
All ceremonies take place in the Great Hall, Mile End Campus.
18 July, 2012 - 11:00