Workshop
Frontiers of Macro-Labour Economics
12-13 December, 2024 | Panmure House
Presented by Heriot-Watt University’s Department of Economics at Edinburgh Business School, this workshop will bring together leading and emerging scholars to discuss cutting-edge research on the interaction between macroeconomics and labour market dynamics. Keynote speakers will include Tito Boeri (Bocconi University) and Francis Kramarz (Collège de France and Uppsala University), and the workshop welcomes submissions on a broad range of topics related to recent advances bridging macroeconomics and labour economics.
Submit your paper by 31 August 2024 and receive notification by 16 September 2024.
Seminars
Accounting Seminar Schedule (Semester 2, 2023/2024)
Venue: EBS1 BOARDROOOM
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
| 16/2/2024 | Prof Martin Quinn | Queen’s University Belfast | Meeting the Many Legitimate Demands for Improvements in Public Services – A Linguistic Analysis of Local Government Annual Budgets |
| 28/2/2024 | Dr Feng Mengyuan | University of Glasgow | “Accounting Technologies, Accountability Relations, and Digital Governance: Insights from Didi in China” |
| 6/3/2024 | Dr Hafez Abdo | University of Nottingham | “Harmonising Accounting for Extractive Industries: Measuring Levels of Harmony in Accounting for Pre-Development Costs” |
| 7/3/2024 | Prof Lee Parker | University of Glasgow | “From the Wrong Side of the Tracks” Plain Speaking From the AAAJ Editor” |
| 13/3/2024 | Dr Shuo Want | University of Edinburgh | TBC |
Economics Seminar Schedule (Semester 1, 2024/25)
| Week | Date | Speaker | University | Presentation title |
| Week 1 | 13.09.2024 (Friday) | Manolis Galenianos | RHUL | |
| Week 3 | 27.09.2024 (Friday) | Neil Cummins | LSE | |
| Week 5 | 11.10.2024 (Friday) | Michael Hatcher | University of Southampton | |
| Week 7 | 25.10.2023 (Friday) | Dakshina G. De Silva | University of Lancaster | |
| Week 9 | 8.11.2023 (Friday) | Douglas Scott | University of York |
Economics Seminar Schedule (Semester 2, 2024/2025)
| Week | Date | Speaker | University | Presentation title |
| Week 3 | 31.01.2025 (Friday) | Arnaud Philippe | Bristol | |
| Week 5 | 14.02.2025 | Leonhard Lades | Stirling | |
| Week 7 | 28.02.2025 | Jorge Bonilla | Munich | |
| Week 9 | 14.03.2025 | |||
| Week 11 | 28.03.2025 | |||
| Week 13 | 11.04.2025 | Almundena Sevilla | LSE | |
| 09.05.2025 | Robert Sauer | RHUL |
Economics Seminar Schedule (Semester 2, 2023/2024)
Venue: MBG20; Time: 3:15-4:15
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
| 02/02/2024 | Mebgdi Song | University College Dublin | TBC |
| 16/02/2024 | Florian Szucs | WU Vienna | TBC |
| 01/03/2024 | Mirko Moro | University of Stirling | TBC |
| 15/03/2023 | Ester Faia | Goethe University, Frankfurt | TBC |
Finance Seminar Series (Semester 2, 2023/2024)
Venue: PG202; Time: 14:00-15:00
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
| 26/1/2024 | Ben Sila | Edinburgh University | Corporate Hiring Under Uncertainty |
| 9/2/2024 | Agyenim Boateng | University of Leeds Beckett | Special session on how to publish papers in ABS 4* journals |
| 8/3/2024 | Sohnke Bartram | University of Warwick | TBC |
| 22/3/2024 | Bing Xu | University of Leeds | TBC |