Events archive
Past events in the Department of Economics
Improving the college experience: An encouragement experiment
ENG - Engineering Building B06 | Wednesday 2 April 2025, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
The Economics Department is delighted to host this seminar
2nd Apr 2025
Innovations in Social Data Science
Lancaster Conference Centre | Monday 31 March 2025, 9:00am to Tuesday 1 April 2025, 5:00pm
Innovations in Social Data Science: Tackling Inequality in Resource-Constrained Contexts with Novel Data and Methods
31st Mar 2025
Workshop on Diagnostic Expectations
Management School Lecture Theatre 2 | Monday 17 March 2025, 10:00am to 3:00pm
We are pleased to invite you to a one-day workshop on Diagnostic Expectations, led by Professor Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University. The workshop will explore the role of expectations in decision-making, with insights spanning macroeconomics, microeconomics, and finance.
17th Mar 2025
Lancaster Workshop on Empirical and Theoretical Macroeconomics (ETM)
Management School Lecture Theatre 2 | Friday 14 March 2025, 9:30am to Saturday 15 March 2025, 12:35pm
The Economics Department are delighted to host the next Lancaster Workshop on Empirical and Theoretical Macroeconomics (ETM)
14th Mar 2025
FACTOR talk: Ranasinghe – Offensive or Not? Are we doing offensive language detection in the correct way?
Bowland North SR 10 | Thursday 6 March 2025, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Offensive speech online remains a challenge, partly due to differing views on what is offensive. This talk explores content moderation in political discussions, human vs. AI disagreements, and ways to improve moderation research. It also examines integrating these insights into subjective NLP tasks.
6th Mar 2025
Deep Integration and Trade: UK Firms in the Wake of Brexit
CHC - Charles Carter A15 | Wednesday 5 March 2025, 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Economics Research Seminar
5th Mar 2025
Applied Econometrics and Data Science and Econometrics online postgraduate programmes Virtual Open Day
Live Online | Wednesday 26 February 2025, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Discover the Timberlake Applied Econometrics and Data Science Econometrics programmes, accredited by Lancaster University, which are delivered entirely online, through live and interactive sessions taught by leading econometricians from around the world.
26th Feb 2025
Eleonora Alabrese (University of Bath) - Economics Research Seminar
CHC - Charles Carter A15 | Wednesday 19 February 2025, 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Title: Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter
19th Feb 2025
From Buzz to Bust: How Fake News Shapes the Business Cycle - Fabrice Collard (Toulouse School of Economics)
Management School Lecture Theatre 6 | Wednesday 5 February 2025, 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Title: From Buzz to Bust: How Fake News Shapes the Business Cycle
5th Feb 2025
Risk and Plausible Deniability in Public Good Games
LT6, LUMS | Wednesday 29 January 2025, 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Economics Research Semianr
29th Jan 2025
Stemming the tide: Healthier jobs to tackle economic inactivity
Online (Zoom) | Thursday 9 January 2025, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Join the Work Foundation at Lancaster University to explore new research on the factors for those with long-term health conditions that influence the risk of falling out of work, and how the Government can work together with employers to adopt a new policy framework to improve workforce health.
9th Jan 2025