Join Professor Ngaire Woods in conversation with Michel Barnier – formerly the European Commission’s chief Brexit negotiator. Mr Barnier served as the European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom (2019 to 2021) and as Chief Negotiator, Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 (October 2016 to November 2019).

1000 – 1015 Welcome

1015 – 1100 Alexander Haas JM Candidate 1

1100 – 1120 Coffee Break

1120 – 1200 Artur Doshchyn JM Candidate 3

1200 – 1240 Ayden Higgins JM Candidate 4

1240 – 1330 Lunch

1330 – 1415 Yifan Zhang JM Candidate 5

1415 – 1500 Matthew McKernan JM Candidate 6

1500 – 1545 Christophe Gaillac JM Candidate 7

1345 - 1415 Lidia Smitkova "Beyond the Hump: Structural Change in an Open Economy"

1415 - 1445 Rustam Jamilov "The Regional Keynesian Cross” (with Marco Bellifemine and Adrien Couturier)

1445 - 1515 Afternoon tea

1515-1545 Shangshang Li "Capital Flows and Exchange Rates: A Quantitative Investigation of the Dilemma Hypothesis” (with Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi and Andrea Ferrero)

1545 - 1615 Sergio de Ferra "Demand Composition and Monetary Policy Transmission across Countries” (with Federica Romei)

Wednesday afternoon
1340 - 1400 Welcome and Introduction

1400 - 1500 Noam Yuchtman "Coercion and Economic Dvelopment"

1500 - 1545 Stephen Broadberry and Jason Lennard “European Business Cycles and Long Run Growth, 1300-2018”

1545 - 1615 Afternoon Tea

1615-1700 Rebecca Simson "Kenya’s wealth-holders in historical perspective"

1700 - 1745 Edgard Dewitte "Science under Inquisition: the Allocation of Talent in Early Modern Europe"



Thursday morning
0900 - 0930 Introduction

Tuesday afternoon
1330 - 1400 Dan Quigley “Credibility and Persuasion in the Long Run” (with James Best and Peiran Jiao)

1400 - 1430 Meg Meyer “Gaming and Stochastic Contracts” (with Edoardo Gallo)

1445 - 1515 Katharina Janezic “Coordination and Sophistication” (with Larbi Alaoui and Antonio Penta)

1515-1545 Vatsal Khandelwal "Misperceptions about Dialogue in Social Networks" (with Ronak Jain)

1545 -1615 Afternoon Tea

1615-1635 Hubert Wu “Rationalising Preference Heterogeneity: A Semi-Parametric Approach” (via Zoom)

0930 – 1000 Welcome

1000 – 1030 Lisa Martin “The food problem and structural transformation in a partially open economy”

1030 – 1100 Lidia Smitkova “Beyond the hump: structural change in an open economy”

1100 – 1130 Coffee break

1130 – 1200 Verena Wiedemann & Luke Heath Milsom “Structural Transformation over Space: Evidence from matched employee-employer data and firm supplier-buyer network data in Kenya.”

1200 – 1230 Florian Trouvain “Urban-Rural Differences in Human Capital Risk, and its Aggregate Implications for Developing Economies”

International Trade Jamboree (hosted by Paola Conconi and Banu Demir)
0900 – 0930 Registration

0930 – 1015 Yuhei Miyauchi (BU) “A Unified Framework for Production Networks: Theory and Application to Ukraine’s War” with Alexey Makarin and Vasily Korovkin.
Discussant: Daniel M. Sturm (LSE)

1015 – 1100 Jose P. Vasquez (LSE) “The Gains from Foreign Investment in an Economy with Distortions” with Isabela Manelici and Roman D. Zarate.
Discussant: Kalina Manova (UCL)

1100 – 1115 Coffee break

We're back with the OICSD Research Showcase, where our scholars and affiliates present cutting-edge, interdisciplinary work in the fields of health, economics, ecology and politics. The showcase will begin with a keynote lecture by Emeritus Professor of Economics Judith Heyer, who will discuss her extensive work on the impact of economic development on villages in western Tamil Nadu, India, from the 1970s onwards.

All are welcome.

Introduction & welcome | 5-5:05 PM

Class, caste and gender in the Tamil Nadu countryside | 5:05-5:45 pm