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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
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Research & Innovation
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
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Seminar Series
Economics Seminar Series Calendar
Seminars are held on Thursdays in CA004, Cairnes Building from 1pm, unless otherwise indicated.
If you are interested in joining the seminar series, please email us at economics@universityofgalway.ie
Seminars in Semester 1 2023-24
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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September 7th (Week 1) | Guy Michaels | London School of Economics | Evaluating Urban Planning: Evidence from Dar es Salaam |
September 14th (Week 2) | Asif Khan | Discipline of Economics, University of Galway | Quantifying Individuals’ Willingness-to-Pay for Improved Air Quality in Delhi India: Comparing Contingent Valuation and Discrete Choice Experiment Estimates" |
September 21st (Week 3) | Uta Bolt | University of Bristol | What is the Source of the Health Gradient? The Case of Obesity |
September 28th (Week 4) | Agnese Romiti | University of Strathclyde | "Beliefs on Children's Human Capital Formation and Mothers at Work", which is joint work with Cesarine Boinet, Jonathan Norris and Zhan Shi |
October 5th (Week 5) | Felipe Aguiar | Discipline of Economics, University of Galway | "Farmers’ Expectations on Climate Action: Evidence from an Information Experiment" |
October 12th (Week 6) | Pete Lunn | ESRI | "Belief Updating Among Researchers and Policymakers in Response to New Evidence" |
October 19th (Week 7) | John Cullinan | Discipline of Economics, University of Galway | The Commuting Paradox for Female College Students" |
October 26th (Week 8) | Conal Duddy | University College Cork | "Egalitarian random assignment" |
November 2nd (Week 9) | Féidhlim McGowan | Discipline of Economics, University of Galway | Salience and Status: Insights from random variation in car licence plate formats" |
November 9th (Week 10) | Hamideh Mohtashami Borzadaran | University of Birmingham | A healthy start for healthy start vouchers?", which is joint with Johannes Lohse and Emma Frew |
November 16th (Week 11) | Neil Cummins | London School of Economics | Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021", which is joint with Greg Clark |
November 23rd (Week 12) | Davide Romelli | Trinity College Dublin | "Warning words in a warming world: central bank communication and climate change” (with Emanuele Campiglio and Jérôme Deyris) |
November 30th (Study Week) | Daragh Clancy | Central Bank of Ireland | “The Macroeconomic Effects of Global Supply Chain Reorientation” |
Seminars in Semester 2 2023-24
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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January 11th (Week 1) | Alan Fernihough | Queens University Belfast | "Mind Your Language: The Decline of the Irish in the Nineteenth Century" |
January 18th (Week 2) | Tom McDermott | Discipline of Economics, University of Galway | 'Weather shocks and household impacts: Nigeria’s 2012 floods' |
January 25th (Week 3) | Rob Gillanders | Dublin City University | "Health Sector Corruption and Access to Healthcare in Africa" |
February 1st (Week 4) | Daragh O'Leary | Unemployment & Entrepreneurship: The Role of Education" | |
February 8th (Week 5) | Matthias Perry | University of Surrey | "Household Responses to Trade Shocks" |
February 15th (Week 6) | |||
February 22nd (Week 7) | Matthew Collins | Discipline of Economics | The intergenerational persistence of intimate partner violence |
February 29th (Week 8) | Cloé Garnache | Oslo Metropolitan University | Sticky Asset Prices |
March 7th (Week 9) | Eleonora Fichera | University of Bath | “The Low Emission Zone impacts on physical health and wellbeing in England using survey and administrative data” |
March 14th (Week 10) | Eoin McLaughlin | Heriot-Watt University | “Rethinking the geography of distress in nineteenth century Ireland: Excess mortality and the Land War” |
March 21st (Week 11) | Vincent Munley | Leigh University | From the locker room to the classroom – gender roles and team interdependence as determinants of peer learning participation: evidence from NCAA Division 1 student-athletes" |
March 28th (Week 12) | Laura Muñoz-Blanco | University of Exeter | "The Final Mile against Polio: Reaching the-Hard-to-Reach" |
April 11th (Study Week) | Aidan Kane | Discipline of Economics, University of Galway | "Public finance in independent Ireland" |
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