Events and activities
Seminars schedule
All seminars are held within the School of Business and Economics building unless stated otherwise. CPP seminars are free and open to the public.
2019 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Guest Speaker | Title |
| March 19 | Jordi Ripollés, Department of Economics and Institute of International Economics, Jaume I University | Petrol stations and retail fuel prices: The puzzling effects in the Spanish market | ||
| April 10 | Fran Azpitarte, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ, Social Sciences | On the robustness of multidimensional counting poverty orderings | ||
| May 1 | Taku Tamaki, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ, International Relations | Analysing the productivity and profit effects of mergers and quantitative easing in the Japanese banking industry | ||
For more information on CPP seminars, please contact Dr Thomas Triebs, seminars coordinator: T.Triebs@lboro.ac.uk
Past Seminars
| Date | Guest Speaker | Title |
| 05 Dec 2018 | Deni Mazrekaj, KU Leuven | The impact of class size on academic underachievement: an education production function framework |
| 07 Nov 2018 | Massimo Filippini, ETH Zurich | |
| 10 Oct 2018 | Bill Greene, NYU Stern School of Business | Incidental parameters |
| 03 Oct 2018 | Luis Orea, Oviedo University | Infrastructure, resource allocation and productivity growth. A mutually consistent decomposition of intra and intersectoral effects |
| 28 Sept 2018 | Christos Genakos, Cambridge University | Competition and pass-through: Evidence from the Greek islands |
| 26th Sept 2018 | Ahti Salo, Aalto University | Portfolio Optimization of Decision Strategies with Endogenous Uncertainties |
| 6th June 2018 | David Saal | Modelling Firm Level Network Utility Costs with an Average System Model: A Simple Method to Control for Within Firm Heterogeneity in System Characteristics |
| 22nd May 2018 | Professor Mardi Dungey, University of Tasmania | The role of China: Catch up and interactions between two open economies (joint work with Denise Osborn) |
| 16th May 2018 | Dr Oleg Badunenko, University of Portsmouth | Energy Spending and Health Satisfaction: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey |
| 9th May 2018 | Jaap Bos, Maastricht University | Passing the buck: tax distortions and credit crunches |
| 17th April 2018 | Dr Philip Wales, Office for National Statistics | Management practices and productivity in Britain: first results from the Management and expectations survey |
| 12th April 2018 | Professor Antonio Jose Morales, Universidad de Malaga | Price competition, collusive equilibria and nominal illusion |
| 11th April 2018 | Dr Stefan Seifert, University of Bonn | An offer that you can't refuse? Agrimafias and Migrant Labor on Vineyards in Southern Italy |
| 19th March 2018 | Nadzeya Laurentsyeva, CEPS, Brussels | Emigration and F14-Mar-2018irm Productivity: Evidence from the Sequential Opening of EU Labour Markets |
| 14th March 2018 | Thomas Triebs | Objectives and Incentives: Evidence from the Privatization of Great Britain’s Power Plants |
| 27th February 2018 | Takayoshi Nakaoka | Utilization of Soft Information on Bank Performance: The Roles of Relationship Lending in Competitive Local Markets |
| 14th February 2018 | Maria Nieswand | To restructure or not? Evidence from Eastern and Western German Electricity Distribution Operators |
| 5th February 2018 | Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva | Data Envelopment Analysis for the Analysis of Economic Efficiency and Environmental Performance: The Case of the French Wine Sector |
| 28th November 2017 | Ian Wooton, University of Strathclyde and Kate Hynes, University College Dublin | Persuasion in Islamic Finance |
| 18th October 2017 | Kym Brown, Monash University | Tax competition between national governments for footloose multinationals: Economic perspective |
| 11th January 2017 | Dr Kai Sun, SUNY Binghamton, New York | Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Estimation of a Stochastic Production Frontier System Organised jointly by the CPP and the Efficiency, Productivity and Performance RIG |
| 22nd February 2017 | Dr Andrea Isoni, Warwick Business School | Nudge Awareness: The Effect of Good and Bad Defaults Organised jointly by the CPP and the Economics Discipline Group |
| 15th March 2017 | Dr Greg Taylor, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University | Application Bundling in System Markets Organised jointly by the CPP and the Economics Group |
| 6th April 2017 | Dr Adel Hatami-Marbini, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium | Modeling Centralised Resources Allocation and Target Setting using DEA Organised jointly by the CPP and the Management Sciences and Operations Management Group |
| 22nd November 2016 | Dr Joel Stiebale, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) | Acquisitions, Markups, Efficiency, and Product Quality: Evidence from India Organised jointly by the CPP and the Economics Discipline Group |
| 23rd November 2016 | Dr Richard John, University of Southern California | Value of Deterrence Analysis: A Decision Analytic Framework Organised jointly by the CPP and the Management Science and Operations Management discipline group |
