Events
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Past events in 2024
24-25 June 2024 - WORKSHOP: Text-as-Data in Economics
13-14 June 2024 - WORKSHOP: The Liverpool Workshop on Macroeconomics
7 June 2024 - ROUNDTABLE - LAMBDA Research Cluster: AI: Benefits and Challenges for Business
22 April 2024 - WORKSHOP - LAMBDA Research Cluster: Machine Learning and High-Dimensional Data Analysis
Seminars
Our group regularly organises seminar series with prominent international speakers, to present their latest research and ideas in economics:
Wednesday 9 October 2024
Dividing a Commons with Tight Guarantees
- Speaker: Professor Herve Moulin, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (Scotland)
- Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 2-3:15 pm
- In person: 502 TR-4
Abstract
The exploitation of common property resources (to divide private commodities, share a cooperative production function, cover jointly liable costs etc..) continues to inspire multiple context-dependent definitions of fairness lacking the generality and breadth of the efficiency and incentive compatibility concepts.
We introduce a new principle to manage a general commons grounded in the profoundly appealing Lockean prescription that each agent should receive "the fruit of their own labor", aka the ‘’self-ownership’’ viewpoint.
This principle is only operational if my contribution to the final outcome is unambiguously separated from others’ contributions, as when we share a production function with constant returns.
This is not possible in general, so we interpret selfownership as a pair of tight approximations of this decentralised ideal, limiting from above and below the impact of other agents on my own allocation.
We work out the consequences of this principle in a context-free model of the commons as a production function from individual inputs to an output that must be shared.
Our approximation viewpoint is mathematically tractable because we assume a freely transferable output and a simple one dimensional input from each stakeholder.
Its versatile applications include the classic one-to-one technology with substitute or complementary inputs, the assignment of indivisible objects and side payments, cost sharing of a public facility or of transportation costs to the facility, and more.
Given the production function, choosing one pair in the infinite menu of tight decentralised approximations puts sharp but far from deterministic bounds on the final distribution of the output: it is a precise normative position that still leaves room for direct negotiations or the choice of a deterministic sharing rule.
Wednesday 16 October 2024
- Speaker: Professor Edouard Schaal, CREI (Spain)
- Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 2 pm
- In person: room TBC
Wednesday 23 October 2024
- Speaker: Professor Robert Taylor, University of Essex (England)
- Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 2 pm
- In person: room TBC
Wednesday 30 October 2024
- Speaker: Professor Dante Amengual, CEMFI (Spain)
- Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 2 pm
- In person: room TBC
Wednesday 6 November 2024
- Speaker: Professor Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University (Italy)
- Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 2 pm
- In person: room TBC
Wednesday 13 November 2024
- Speaker: Professor Hamid Sabourian, University of Cambridge (England)
- Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 2 pm
- In person: room TBC
Wednesday 20 November 2024
- Speaker: Professor Peter Dolton, University of Sussex (England)
- Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 2 pm
- In person: room TBC
Friday 22 November 2024
- Speaker: Professor Leah Boustan, Princeton University (US)
- Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 2 pm
- In person: room TBC
Wednesday 27 November 2024
- Speaker: Professor Christian Brownlees, UPF (Spain)
- Open to: ECON Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 2 pm
- In person: room TBC
Past seminars
2024
PCF-GAN: generating sequential data via the characteristic function of measures on the path space
- Professor Hao Ni, University College London (England)
- 2 October 2024
Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities in China and India
- Dr Viktoria Hnatkovska, University of British Columbia (Canada)
- 18 June 2024
Job Security and Liquid Wealth
- Dr Ana Figueiredo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam(Netherlands)
- 11 June 2024
Deliver Us from Crime? Online Platforms, Gig Jobs and Offending
- Professor Olivier Marie, Erasmus School of Economics (Netherlands)
- 22 May 2024
Sequential Monitoring for Changes in Dynamic Semiparametric Risk Models
- Dr Xiaohan Xue, University of Bath (Engand)
- 15 May 2024
Dynamic Deterrence of Police Patrolling
- Professor Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto & University of Turin (Italy)
- 8 May 2024
Running Up that Hill: Fitness in the Face of Recession
- Professor Alex Bryson, University College London (Engand)
- 1 May 2024
Detection of a structural break in intraday volatility pattern
- Dr Shixuan Wang, University of Reading (Engand)
- 24 April 2024
We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson
- Dr Jason Sockin, IZA Berlin (Germany)
- 16 April 2024
The effects of sin taxes and advertising restrictions in a dynamic equilibrium
- Professor Rachel Griffith, University of Manchester (Engand)
- 13 March 2024
Monetary Policy and Endogenous Financial Crises
- Professor Fabrice Collard, Toulouse School of Economics (France0
- 6 March 2024
Inequality, Demand Composition, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy
- Dr Federica Romei, University of Oxford (Engand)
- 28 February 2024
Coherent Distorted Beliefs
- Professor Christopher Chambers, Georgetown University (US)
- 21 February 2024
Measurement, Measurement: How Well-Measured Business Income Affects Economic Inequality
- Professor Marco Francesconi, University of Essex (England)
- 7 February 2024
2023
Sectoral Labour Flows
- Professor Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Essex (England)
- 29 November 2023
Pre-school learning and parenting in early childhood: Experimental evidence from Ghana
- Dr Sonya Krutikova, University of Manchester (England)
- 22 November 2023
Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics in Europe
- Professor Marco Manacorda, Queen Mary University of London (England)
- 15 November 2023
Scaling Up the American Dream: a Dynamic Analysis
- Professor Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (US)
- 1 November 2023
Estimation of a dynamic threshold panel time series regression with cross-sectional dependence
- Dr Maria Kyriacou, University of Kent (England)
- 31 October 2023
A model of approval with an application to list design
- Professor Paola Manzini, University of Bristol, UK
- 25 October 2023
Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution
- Professor Nuno Palma, University of Manchester (England)
- 11 October 2023
Fair hiring procedures
- Professor Andriy Zapechelnyuk, University of Edinburgh School of Economics (England)
- 4 October 2023
10 May 2023 - Mariann Ollár, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
3 May 2023 - Giuseppe Moscelli, University of Surrey (England)
26 April 2023 - Emma Tominey, University of York (England)
22 March 2023 - Stephen Hansen, University College London (England)
15 March 2023 - Vincent Sterk, University College London (England)
8 March 2023 - Mingli Chen, University of Warwick (England)
22 February 2023 - José-Luis Peydró, Imperial College London (England) and UPF (Spain)
16 February 2023 - Steven Ongena, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
8 February 2023 - Ludovic Renou, Queen Mary University of London (England)
2022
7 December 2022 - Andrea Ferrero, University of Oxford (England)
23 November - Sanjit Dhami, University of Leicester (England)
16 November 2022 - Laura Coroneo, University of York (England)
2 November 2022 - Erik Plug, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
31 October 2022 - Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po (France)
26 October 2022 - Antonio Penta, UPF (Spain)
12 October 2022 - Robert Sauer, Royal Holloway, University of London (England)
28 September 2022 - Toomas Hinnosaar, University of Nottingham (England)
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