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  • Brownbag Seminar: Pengguang Lu

    13:00 - 13:50 29 September 2026

    Title: Heterogeneous Diagnostic Expectations and Wealth Inequality

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  • Macro Seminar - Stephen Terry (University of Michigan)

    16:00 - 17:00 29 September 2026

    Abstract: Idiosyncratic shocks shape firm decisions and the value functions they maximize. Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset, we document significant departures from the widely assumed Gaussian AR(1) stochastic process, including fat-tailed, leptokurtic revenue transitions and lower persistence in the tails. This discrepancy has two key...

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  • Brownbag Seminar: Lucas Morissette

    13:00 - 7 October 2026

    Title: TBD

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  • 'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture

    17:00 - 19:30 17 November 2026

    Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly skilled work. The extent to which males are paid more than females (the gender pay gap) has declined considerably over the past several decades, but much more...

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