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  1. Macroeconomics Research Seminar with Professor Seppo Honkapohja, Aalto University

    Macroeconomics Research Seminar with Professor Seppo Honkapohja, Aalto University

    On robustness of average inflation targeting

    Abstract: This paper considers average inflation targeting (AIT) policy in a New Keynesian model with adaptive learning agents. Our analysis raises concerns...

  2. Department of Finance Seminar with Professor Douglas Cumming, Florida Atlantic University

    Department of Finance Seminar with Professor Douglas Cumming, Florida Atlantic University

    Stock market manipulation and corporate venture capital investments

    This research seminar will welcome Professor Douglas Cumming, DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance at the College of Business at Florida Atlantic...

  3. Department of Finance Seminar with Professor Douglas Cumming, Florida Atlantic University

    Department of Finance Seminar with Professor Douglas Cumming, Florida Atlantic University

    Stock Market Manipulation and Corporate Venture Capital Investments

    Abstract: The paper investigates the relationship between corporate venture capital (CVC) and stock market manipulation for NASDAQ and NYSE-listed companies....

  4. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Thomas Dohmen, University of Bonn

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Thomas Dohmen, University of Bonn

    Worker Representatives

    Abstract: We study the selection of worker representatives and how representation affects worker outcomes. We focus on German works councillors --...

  5. Achilles in green: reading the Iliad in the 21st century (trigger warning -- see below)

    Achilles in green: reading the Iliad in the 21st century (trigger warning -- see below)

    Annual Lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies (CAES): Edith Hall (Durham)

    Note: the lecture will include discussion of and possibly images of animal sacrifice. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...

  6. Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity

    Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity

    Workshop followed by the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED SHORTLY

    Morning Session 9.15 -- 9.30 Introduction 9.30 -- 10.15 Emma Bentley: Dionysus Dendritês: Wood and Carpentry in Greek Tragedy 10.15 -- 11.00...

  7. The Sentient Sponge: between natural history, art history and philosophy

    The Sentient Sponge: between natural history, art history and philosophy

    Verity Platt (Cornell)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  8. Department of Economics Brown Bag Seminar with Ciarřn Mac Domhnaill

    Department of Economics Brown Bag Seminar with Ciarřn Mac Domhnaill

    All at sea? Brexit, shipping and the UK land-bridge

    Abstract: How has Brexit affected maritime cargo volumes? Has Brexit caused a diversion of cargo from the UK `land-bridge' trade route between Ireland and...

  9. The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 1)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 1)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy this year focuses on 'The Ideal Citizen'. Graduate students from the UK, the US, Canada,...

  10. The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 2)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 2)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy this year focuses on 'The Ideal Citizen'. Graduate students from the UK, the US, Canada,...

  11. Department of Finance Seminar with Professor Arito Ono, Chuo University

    Department of Finance Seminar with Professor Arito Ono, Chuo University

    Long-term interest rates and bank loan supply: Evidence from firm-bank loan-level data

    This research seminar will welcome Professor Arito Ono from Chuo University, who is a visiting scholar with the University of St Andrews. Professor Ono's...

  12. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Danny Blanchflower, Dartmouth University and NBER

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Danny Blanchflower, Dartmouth University and NBER

    Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing

    Abstract: We show individuals' reports of subjective well-being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid pandemic on most...

  13. The Discourse on the Ancestral Constitution in the Early Hellenistic Period

    The Discourse on the Ancestral Constitution in the Early Hellenistic Period

    Laura Loddo (Milan)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  14. Department of Economics Brown Bag Seminar with Nicolo Bandera

    Department of Economics Brown Bag Seminar with Nicolo Bandera

    The monetary consequences of financial stability interventions - assessing the UK LDI crisis and the central bank policy response

    We analyse the UK gilt market dysfunction which occurred in September 2022 using a quantitative DSGE model. We introduce a financial sector with several actors,...

  15. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Dr Felipe Gonzalez, Queen Mary University of London

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Dr Felipe Gonzalez, Queen Mary University of London

    Mass policy in times of crisis: Evidence from Salvador Allende's road to socialism

    Felipe's research is empirically oriented and lies at the intersection of political economy, economic history, and public policy. He received his PhD from...

  16. A Case Study of the Archaeology of Ancient Medicine: The Asklepieion of Paros Re-Study Project

    A Case Study of the Archaeology of Ancient Medicine: The Asklepieion of Paros Re-Study Project

    Tomas Alusik (Charles University Prague)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  17. New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    Workshop organised by Christian Djurslev

    Programme 1.00-1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10-2.10: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style' in...

  18. New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    Programme 1pm to 1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10pm to 2.10pm: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style'...

  19. Department of Finance Seminar with Dr Lora Dimitrova, University of Exeter

    Department of Finance Seminar with Dr Lora Dimitrova, University of Exeter

    Executive visibility: A worthwhile investment or a futile pursuit

    This research seminar will welcome Dr Lora Dimitrova from University of Exeter Business School. Dr Dimitrova's research specialisms include...

  20. How the Christians stole the past:

    How the Christians stole the past:

    Greek chronology and Roman history in Theophilus of Antioch's Ad Autolycum - Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  21. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Dr Elisa Macchi, Brown University

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Dr Elisa Macchi, Brown University

    Work Over Just Cash: Informal Redistribution Among Employers and Workers in Kampala, Uganda

    Abstract: This paper examines informal redistribution in the form of work in small and medium enterprises in Kampala, Uganda and its drivers. Using a field...

  22. of Colonies and Queens: myths of Carthage in a contact zone

    of Colonies and Queens: myths of Carthage in a contact zone

    Jo Quinn (Oxford)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  23. Department of Finance Seminar with Dr Anastasios Kagkadis, Lancaster University

    Department of Finance Seminar with Dr Anastasios Kagkadis, Lancaster University

    Power sorting

    This research seminar will welcome Dr Anastasios Kagkadis from the Department of Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University Management School. Dr...

  24. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Cecilia García Peñalosa, AMSE

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Cecilia García Peñalosa, AMSE

    Technological Adoption and Women's Rights: Evidence from Switzerland

    Cecilia is Professor of Economics at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and since 2017 she has held the chair...

  25. Department of Economics Seminar with Dr Michael Hatcher, University of Southampton

    Department of Economics Seminar with Dr Michael Hatcher, University of Southampton

    Solving heterogeneous-belief asset pricing models with short selling constraints and many agents

    Michael's research interests are in computational economics, monetary policy, and finance. Abstract: Short-selling constraints are common in financial...

  26. Department of Finance Seminar with Jose Juan Sanchez Bejar, University of Granada.

    Department of Finance Seminar with Jose Juan Sanchez Bejar, University of Granada.

    Mobility restrictions and payment choices: The case of the COVID-19 pandemic

    This research seminar will welcome José Juan Sanchez Béjar, from the University of Granada. The title of the seminar is 'Mobility restrictions and...

  27. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Dr Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Dr Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University

    Like An Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876-1920

    Abstract: Why were the poorer countries of the European periphery latecomers to the Age of Mass Migration? We test the diffusion hypothesis, which argues that...

  28. Uninvited guests, unexpected passengers: Insects and past environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Uninvited guests, unexpected passengers: Insects and past environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Eva Panagiotakopulu (Edinburgh)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  29. Editing slaves: Unfree labour and textual revision in Rome (Trigger Warning below)

    Editing slaves: Unfree labour and textual revision in Rome (Trigger Warning below)

    Talitha Keary

    Note: Note: the lecture will involve discussion of slavery, rape and torture. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...

  30. Department of Finance Seminar with Dr Kinda Hachem, University of Virginia

    Department of Finance Seminar with Dr Kinda Hachem, University of Virginia

    Liquidity reallocation and run resolution

    This research seminar will welcome Dr Kinda Hachem from Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Dr Hachem's research specialisms include...

  31. Governance, Organisations and Accountabilities thematic research group meeting

    Governance, Organisations and Accountabilities thematic research group meeting

    Labour of Pre-loved: Consumption work for reuse in a linear economic system

    This meeting of the Governance, Organisations and Accountabilities (GOA) thematic group will welcome group member Dr Lucy Wishart. The title of the seminar is...

  32. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Dr Nikki Shure, UCL

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Dr Nikki Shure, UCL

    Overconfident Boys: The Gender Gap in Mathematics Self-Assessment

    Abstract: It is well established that boys perceive themselves to be better in mathematics than girls, even when their ability is the same. We examine the...

  33. CREDI research seminar

    CREDI research seminar

    "I just want to live my life, I don't want to make this my identity." On the ambivalences of chronic illness as invisible diversity

    In this seminar with the Centre for Research in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (CREDI), Alexander Fleischmann and Alyson Meister, IMD Lausanne, Switzerland...

  34. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Violent Conflict and Academic Research: Evidence from the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine

    Ina's research areas are labour economics and the economics of science and innovation. She has recent papers on the topics of international migration of...

  35. Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman Empire.

    Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman Empire.

    A Social and Cultural History (Trigger Warning below) Christian Laes (Manchester)

    Note: the lecture will contain some images (ancient artifacts) of what was considered as bodily deformity and references to Nazi-propaganda that referred to...

  36. Untranslatability

    Untranslatability

    Martin Revermann (Toronto)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  37. 6th Transatlantic Conference on The Ethics of Business, Trade, and Global Governance

    6th Transatlantic Conference on The Ethics of Business, Trade, and Global Governance

    Ethics and Sustainability in Banking and Finance

    6th Transatlantic Conference on The Ethics of Business, Trade, and Global Governance Location: Parliament Hall, University of St Andrews Dates: 23rd to 24th...

  38. Brown Bag Seminar with Dr Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Heriot-Watt University

    Brown Bag Seminar with Dr Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Heriot-Watt University

    Formal Finance for the Poor: Contrasting Evidence from Two Saving Devices

    Abstract: We conduct a field experiment in Benin to assess the impacts of access to two formal saving devices on saving behavior, income, investments and a host...

  39. A job guarantee for Scotland?
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    A job guarantee for Scotland?

    With the rise of AI and casualised work, and the drive to transition away from polluting industries, the ability people have to keep themselves employed has...

  40. Department of Economics Seminar with Professor Antonella Trigari, Bocconi University

    Department of Economics Seminar with Professor Antonella Trigari, Bocconi University

    Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics

    Antonella is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and a research fellow at the CEPR and IGIER. Her research area is monetary and macroeconomics, in...

  41. Department of Finance Seminar with Professor Abigail Sussman, Chicago Booth

    Department of Finance Seminar with Professor Abigail Sussman, Chicago Booth

    The role of budgeting in decisions to take up government benefits

    This research seminar will welcome Professor Abigail Sussman from Chicago Booth. The title of the seminar is 'The role of budgeting in decisions to take...

  42. Brown Bag Seminar with Benjamin Sachs-Cobbe, School of Philosophy

    Brown Bag Seminar with Benjamin Sachs-Cobbe, School of Philosophy

    What are Old Age Pensions for?

    Every developed country runs an old-age pension (OAP), though there's considerable variation in their design. In his research, Benjamin Sachs-Cobbe,...

  43. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Kevin Stange, University of Michigan

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Kevin Stange, University of Michigan

    Skills, Majors, and Jobs: Does Higher Education Respond?

    Kevin is an Associate Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Kevin's expertise is at the intersection of...

  44. The Persian empire and 'India', 522 -- 486 BCE

    The Persian empire and 'India', 522 -- 486 BCE

    Rhyne King - St Andrews

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  45. Brown Bag Seminar with Dr Luis Baldomero-Quintana, William and Mary College

    Brown Bag Seminar with Dr Luis Baldomero-Quintana, William and Mary College

    New Residential Investment and Gentrification

    Luis conducts research primarily in the field of applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on International Trade, Economic Geography, and Urban...

  46. Teaching Seminar with Dr Sapnoti Eswar, St Andrews Business School

    Teaching Seminar with Dr Sapnoti Eswar, St Andrews Business School

    Designing Engaging Learning Experiences for Economics and Finance Students

    In this presentation, some strategies for designing engaging learning experiences for students are shared by Dr Sapnoti Eswar, Lecturer in the...

  47. The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War

    The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War

    Kristina Milnor - Columbia

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  48. Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Mohamed Saleh, LSE

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Professor Mohamed Saleh, LSE

    The Power of Connections: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Corporate Performance in Egypt, 1890--1950

    Mohamed is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, a Professor (on leave) at Toulouse School of Economics, and a Research Affiliate at CEPR....

  49. Centre for Energy Ethics and the Department of Economics joint workshop

    Centre for Energy Ethics and the Department of Economics joint workshop

    Energy, Resource Management, Ethics in Finance and Commodities

    PROGRAMME 11.15 am to 11.50 am Leonidas Barbopoulos (University of Edinburgh Business School), joint with Tālis J. Putniņš (University of Technology Sydney)...

  50. Department of Economics Seminar with Professor Kjell Salvanes, Norwegian School of Economics

    Department of Economics Seminar with Professor Kjell Salvanes, Norwegian School of Economics

    Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming

    Kjell is a Professor of Economics and the Chair at NHH, a research fellow at the CEPR, CESifo and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. His research area is...