The University of Sheffield
Department of Economics

External Seminar Series 2008/09

Our seminars are held on Wednesday afternoons from 4.00pm to 5.15pm (approx). The venue is usually Room G31, Economics and Management Building, on Mappin Street, but occasionally another venue is used - see programme for details.

For further information, please contact Andy Dickerson, Department of Economics (email: a.p.dickerson@sheffield.ac.uk, tel: 0114 22 23321).
SEMESTER 2
Date and location Speaker Title
11th February 2009
Room MB G31		 Professor Marco Francesconi
Essex and ISER		 TBA
18th February 2009
TBA		 Professor Mark Salmon
University of Warwick
 Joint Economics-Management School Seminar
25th February 2009
Stephenson Building LT01		 Erik Schokkaert
Leuven		 What's the good of happiness?
(joint Economics-CWiPP seminar)
4th March 2009
Room MB G31		 Professor Rachel Griffith
UCL		 TBA
11th March 2009
Room MB G31		 Professor Cambell Leith
University of Glasgow		 TBA
18th March 2009
Room MB G31		 TBA TBA
25th March 2009
Room MB G31		 Professor Steve Machin
(UCL, CEP)		 Valuing School Quality Using Boundary Discontinuity Regressions
1st April 2009
Room MB G31		 TBA TBA
29th April 2009
Room MB G31		 TBA TBA
6th May 2009
Room MB G31		 TBA TBA
13th May 2009
Room MB G31		 Rob Simmons
Lancaster University		 TBA
Thursday 18th June 2009
12.30-14.00		 Professor Andrew Jones
University of York		 TBA

Joint Economics-HEDS seminar

Recently delivered seminars
Date and location Speaker Title
15th October
Room MB G31		 Professor Kaddour Hadri
Queen's University, Belfast		 Testing for stationarity with a break in heterogeneous panels where the time dimension is finite with an application
22nd October
Room MB G31		 Professor Kul Luintel
Cardiff University		 Heterogeneous ideas production and endogenous growth: An empirical investigation
29th October
Room MB G30
 Dr George Saridakis
Loughborough University		 Management Formality, Size of Firm and Self-Reported Job Quality (SRJQ) in Great Britain
5th November
Stephenson Building LT02		 Professor Nigel Meade
Imperial College		 International diffusion of renewable energy technologies

Joint Economics-Management School Seminar
12th November
Room MB G31		 Professor Jonathan Haskel
Imperial College		 An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment: Definition and Results for the UK
19th November
Room MB G31		 Professor Anna Vignoles
Institute of Education		 Widening Participation: A Quantitative Analysis
26th November
Room MB G31
 Professor Steve Thompson
University of Nottingham		 Entry and Exit at a Zero Sunk Cost Market
3rd December
Stephenson Building LT02		 Professor Maarten Lindeboom
Free Universty of Amsterdam		 When Dreams Do Not Come True: Ex-ante Effects of Changes in the Retirement System on the Mental Health of Workers Nearing Retirement

Joint Economics-HEDS seminar
10th December
Room MB G31
 Dr Matt Cole
University of Birmingham		 The Environmental Behaviour of Firms: Motives, Obstacles and the Role of Foreign Ownership