research
New working paper: Intraday Patterns in FX Returns and Order Flow
Francis Breedon, Queen Mary, University of London
Angelo Ranaldo, University St. Gallen
New working paper: Job Search Costs and Incentives
Andriy Zapechelnyuk, Queen Mary, University of London
Ro'i Zultan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
New working paper: Eliciting Information from a Committee
Andriy Zapechelnyuk, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Lipsey's guest lecture now available to watch online
This year's Peston Lecture, given by Dr Richard Lipsey in the College's new Arts 2 building, is now available to watch online at http://ess.q-review.qmul.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/c2b327b2-ae02-4fc8-8864-eaad647a44b6
The topic of the lecture is 'Policy Implications of Alternative Economic Paradigms: Some Surprises from Endogenous Technological Changes'.
New working paper: Adaptive Forecasting in the Presence of Recent and Ongoing Structural Change
Liudas Giraitis, Queen Mary, University of London
George Kapetanios, Queen Mary, University of London
Simon Price, Bank of England and City University
Research Papers from SEF
Randi Hjalmarsson - "Jury Discrimination in Criminal Trials", is forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics. (co-authored with Patrick Bayer and Shamena Anwar)
'A semiparametric panel model for unbalanced data with application to climate change in the United Kingdom'
Alev Atak's article 'A semiparametric panel model for unbalanced data with application to climate change in the United Kingdom' has been published in the September 2011 edition (Vol. 164, Issue 1) of the Journal of Econometrics. Alev is the first named author of the article, which was co-authored by Oliver Linton and Zhijie Xiao.
European Economics and Finance Society - 10th International Meeting, 9th - 12th June 2011
It is with great pleasure and true anticipation that I am writing the following few words about the recent academic event that was held by our School.
The School of Economics and Finance was the host of the tenth annual meeting of the European Economics and Finance Society. George Kapetanios, Professor and HOS, was the chairman of the organizing committee. Eight parallel sessions were running during both days of the conference and around two hundred academics successfully participated in the event.
Marco Manacorda keynote speaker for the Latin American and the Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA)
His talk was entitled: "Social Assistance and Labor Market Outcomes Lessons from the evaluation of the Uruguayan PANES".
The School of Economics and Finance in the News: Does Marriage Make Men more Productive?
Leading German business newspaper The Handelsblatt has published an article on Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball, a paper written by Dr Francesca Cornaglia, from the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary and Dr Naomi Feldman of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
