The University of Sheffield
Department of Economics

External Seminar Series 2010/11

Our seminars are held on Wednesday afternoons from 4.00pm to 5.15pm (approx). The venue is Portobello Centre room B57b.
Spring/Summer
Feb 02 2011 Giuseppe Fontana
University of Leeds		 Financialisation, the ‘Great Recession’ and the Stratification of the US Labour Market
Feb 09 2011 Martyn Andrews
University of Manchester		 High wage workers and low wage firms: the effects of limited mobility bias
Feb 16 2011 Ivan Paya
Lancaster University		 Real Exchange Rates and Time-Varying Trade Costs
Feb 23 2011 Bob Hart
University of Stirling		 Real Wages, Working Time and the Great Depression
Mar 02 2011 Miguel Leon-Ledesma
University of Kent		 Net Foreign Assets, Productivity and Real Exchange Rates in Constrained Economies
Mar 09 2011 Robin Naylor
University of Warwick		 Educational Returns, ability composition and cohort effects: theory and evidence for cohorts of early-career UK graduates
Mar 16 2011 NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR
Mar 23 2011 Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder
Imperial College		 The effects of prenatal alcohol consumption on child development
Mar 30 2011 Rob Ackrill
Nottingham Trent University		 The dynamics of biofuels markets and policies: Do governments’ policies match their market ambitions?
Apr 06 2011 Peter Moffatt
University of East Anglia		 Mortgage choice as a natural field experiment of choice under risk
May 04 2011 NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR
May 11 2011 Mark Taylor
ISER, University of Essex		 Differences in job search outcomes between employed and unemployed job seekers

Autumn/Winter
06 Oct 2010 Patrick Minford
Cardiff Business School		 Why crises happen - nonstationary macroeconomics
13 Oct 2010 Engelbert Stockhammer
Kingston University		 Capital Accumulation, Labour Market Institutions, and Unemployment in the Medium Run
20 Oct 2010 Ioannis Lazopoulos
University of Surrey		 Optimal Intermediation under Aggregate Consumption Uncertainty
27 Oct 2010 Juan Paez-Farrell
Loughborough University		 Resuscitating the ad Hoc Loss Function for Monetary Policy Analysis
03 Nov 2010 Eugenio Zucchelli
University of York		 The effects of the smoking ban on smoking behaviour in England and Scotland
10 Nov 2010 John Sessions
University of Bath		 Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring
17 Nov 2010 Richard Upward
University of Nottingham		 Do Foreign Workers Reduce Trade Costs? Microeconomic Evidence
24 Nov 2010 Melanie Jones
University of Swansea		 Disability, Perceptions of Management and Workplace Commitment
01 Dec 2010 Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder
Imperial College		 Child Height, Health and Human Capital: Evidence using Genetic Markers
08 Dec 2010 Dimitrios Varvarigos
University of Leicester		 Fertility Choices, Human Capital Accumulation, and Endogenous Volatility