The University of Sheffield
Department of Economics

Internal Seminar Series 2011-2012

Our internal seminar series is coordinated by Abrar Suleiman (staff presentations) and Arne Risa Hole (PhD students presentations).

For further information, please contact Abrar Suleiman (a.suleiman@shef.ac.uk) or Arne Risa Hole (a.r.hole@shef.ac.uk)

Semester 2

(The seminars will take place at 12:00-12:50 in Mappin LT12.)

Date Speakers Title
Tuesday 14th February Syed Quader
Muhammad Akram
Effects of financial constraints on the dynamics of firm size and growth
Global Financial Crisis and Exports of the UK
Tuesday 21st February Ying-Fen Lin
Elham Saeidinezhad
The Effect of Technical Changes on Japanese Gender Employment Gap
How do fiscal policy and technology shock affect exchange rate?: Evidence from European countries
Tuesday 28th February Maurizio Intartaglia Determinants of Air Quality: An Empirical Analysis across Different Political Regimes
Tuesday 6th March Fan-Ping Chiu
Ozge Kandemir
Job characteristics and well-being in Taiwan
Markov Switching Causality and the Energy-Output Relation
Tuesday 13th March Meruyert Beisenbayeva
Uzma Ahmad
TBA
Tuesday 20th March Zainab Jehan
Luke Munford
Does the Source of Volatility Matter for Productivity Growth? Some Evidence from Emerging Economies
Commuting and Well-Being: A household level analysis
Tuesday 27th March Daniel Gray
Helen Bell
Household Finances and Well-Being
Productivity, Knowledge and Firm Structure
Tuesday 24th April Okan Yilmaz
Hanan Naser
Increasing Educational Attainment and Wage Inequality in Turkey
Estimating and Forecasting Oil Prices using data rich model
Tuesday 1st May Fatema Alaali
Javiera Cartagena
Mehak Ejaz
Human Capital and Growth Nexus: Does Human Capital affect Growth?
Does education change people's economic destiny? : Intergenerational mobility in Chile
Labour Force Status of Women in Pakistan
Tuesday 8th May Jing Shao
Damon Morris
David Morris
One-child Policy and female labour force participation rate change in the past 30 years in China
The Distribution of Wages in UK Industries 2000-2010
Skill gaps and the National Employers Skills Survey over time

 

Semester 1

Date Speaker Topic
27 Sep L&T session -
4 Oct Anita Ratcliffe 7/7 and attitudes towards minorities: Evidence from the London housing market
11 Oct L&T session -
18 Oct Paul Mosley Fiscal determinants of aid effectiveness - a political-economy model
25 OCt Christine Valente The impact of Universal Salt Iodization on Educational Attainment in Nigeria (with Arne Risa Hole)
1 Nov David Cuberes -
8 Nov Jolian McHardy, Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor On the Theory of Social Interaction
15 Nov Arne Risa Hole A review of estimators for the fixed effects ordered logit model
22 Nov Juan Carlos Cuestas
29 Nov Andy Dickerson, Jenny Roberts and Jenny Willson Demand for Childcare in the UK
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