Economics Workshop 2023

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS), the Economics group is organising a two-day Economics conference on Monday 17 - Tuesday 18 April at the ULMS Atrium.

This event brings together leading scholars, early career researchers (ECRs), and postgraduate researchers (PGR) students from several fields of economics to discuss and debate the most recent developments in the theory and practice of vital economic issues such as economic growth, firm performance, financial stability, international trade, inflation, education, and more.

External experts include Kevin R. James (LSE), Lorenzo Trapani (University of Leicester), Andrew Blake (Bank of England), Ricardo Reis (LSE), Nicholas Yannelis (University of Iowa), Rahul Deb (University of Toronto), Maurizio Zanardi (University of Surrey), Elisa Facchetti (Queen Mary University of London). The full details of this conference agenda and speaker information can be found on the conference programme.

View the full Economics Workshop 2023 programme here (PDF).

Day One (Monday 17 April) speakers include:

Kevin James (London School of Economics)
Ideas, Idea Processing, and TFP Growth in the US: 1899 to 2019
Lorenzo Trapani (University of Leicester)
Change Point Detection in Large Factor Models
Gareth Liu-Evans (University of Liverpool)
The Bias of the Modified Limited Information Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLIML) in Static Simultaneous Equation Models
Andrew Blake (Bank of England)
Star Charities, Director Networks, and Firm Performance
Yavuz Arslan (University of Liverpool)
Unemployment Insurance and Macro-Financial (In)Stability
Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics)
The Market for Inflation Risk

 

Day Two (Tuesday 18 April) speakers include:

Nicholas Yannelis (University of Iowa)
Implementation under Ambiguity
Ritesh Jain (University of Liverpool)
Implementation and Strategic Uncertainty
Rahul Deb (University of Toronto)
How Informed Do You Want Your Principal to Be?
Maurizio Zanardi (University of Surrey)
International Trade, Green Voting, and Attitudes: Evidence from the US and Western Europe
Elisa Facchetti (Queen Mary University of London)
When Non-Native Speakers Compete for Top Schools: Displacement and Peer Effects in Primary Education
Balazs Murakozy (University of Liverpool)
Firm-Level Technological Change and Skill Demand

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