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Conference Plan and Time Allocation

Welcome to the Newcastle Economics Research and Development (NERD) Conference 2021. We are looking forward to meeting you virtually in Newcastle on June 3rd, 2021 at our Postgraduate Research Conference.

We kindly ask you to familiarize yourself with the content of the conference plan and the time allocation.

 

Information for Presenters

Time zone in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (GMT+1).

Please be ready to share your screen for presentation in time. We kindly ask you to follow the strict time conditions (20 minutes presentation).

There are two Zoom links: one for the morning sessions 1-2 (breakout rooms 1-2), and one for the afternoon session 3-5 (breakout rooms 1-3). It is important that you keep in mind the breakout room number you have been assigned to. On the day of the presentation, the digital administrator will provide you with an option on the breakout rooms and you will have to click on your assigned break-out room yourself. You can move between sessions.

Program Plan

Time

Activity

Remarks

09.10

Main Digital-Room opens

Morning Zoom Link:Will be sent to you via email

09.20

Welcome

 

09.27

Breakout Rooms 1-2

 

 

 

 

09.30-09.50

Presentation 1,7

Morning Sessions 1-2

10.00-10.20

Presentation 2,8

7-9 minutes for Q&A

10.30-10.50

Presentation 3,9

 

11.00-11.20

Presentation 4,10

 

11.30-11.50

Presentation 5,11

 

12.00-12.20

Presentation 6,12

 

 

 

 

12.30-12.35

Main Digital-Room

 

 

12.35-13.20

Lunch Break

 

13.20

Main Digital-Room

Afternoon Zoom Link:Will be sent to you via email

13.27

Breakout Rooms 4-6

 

 

13.30-13.50

Presentation 13,17,21

Afternoon Session 3-5

14.00-14.20

Presentation 14,18,22

7-9 minutes for Q&A

14.30-14.50

Presentation 15,19,23

 

15.00-15.20

Presentation 16,20,24

 

 

 

 

15.30

Main Digital-Room

 

15.30-15.40

Closing of Conference

 

Time allocation of sessions:

To attend talks in morning session 1 go to Zoom Breakout Room 1

 

Session: 1 (morning)

Chair: Dr.Ian Corrick

Slot Nr.:

Time

Presenter

 Institution

Title of Presentation

1

9.30

Robert Leight

University of Durham

Determinants of Household Wealth: A Machine Learning Approach

2

10.00

Bakhtawar Ali

University of the Punjab

Judicial Capture by Favor Exchange

3

10.30

Tyrell Hendry

University of Edinburgh

EM Forever Blowing Bubbles: Global Imbalances & The Limits of Fiscal Space

4

11.00

Apurav Yash Bhatiya

University of Warwick

Do Enfranchised Immigrants Affect Political Behaviour?

5

11.30

Gupta Debkanika

Newcastle University

Real Business Cycles and Interest Rates in a Developing Country

6

12.00

Deng Min

Newcastle University

Excess Cash and Equity Option Liquidity

 

To attend talks in morning session 2 go to Zoom Breakout Room 2

 

Session: 2 (morning)

Chair: Dr. Pascal Stiefenhofer

Slot Nr.:

Time

Presenter

 Institution

Title of Presentation

7

9.30

Diane Pelly

University College Dublin, Ireland (School of Economics)

The impact of COVID-19 restrictions in the UK on worker well-being and performance: a longitudinal study

8

10.00

Adrian Lam

Imperial College Business School

Do Health Hazards Shape Firm Boundaries?

9

10.30

Carline Fleeting

Glasgow Caledonian University

Fuel Poverty in Rural Scotland: Understanding the supportive needs of households living with dementia

10

11.00

Subhasree Basak

University of Calcutta

Emigration, Skill Formation and International Fragmentation in a Developing Economy

11

11.30

Luke Milsom

University of Oxford

The Changing Spatial Inequality of Opportunity in West Africa

12

12.00

Liangxun Xie

Newcastle University

The wage inequality between the public sector and private sector

To attend talks in afternoon session 3 go to Zoom Breakout Room 1

 

Session:  3 (afternoon)

Chair: Prof. Atanu Ghoshray

Slot Nr.:

Time

Presenter

 Institution

Title of Presentation

13

13.30

Christian Lippish

University of Edinburgh

Investment, Missallocation, and Markets for Land - Evidence from Uganda

14

14.00

Leena Bhattacharya

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

The Right to Education Act and Children's School Attendance in Rural India: A Causal Approach

15

14.30

Hassan Safdar

Newcastle University

Monetary & Fiscal Policy in Low Interest Rate, Low Growth and High Debt Environment

16

15.00

Mariana Racimo

University of Warwick

The Effect of Increasing University Fees on Vocational Education Attendance: Evidence from the UK"

To attend talks in afternoon session 4 go to Zoom Breakout Room 2

 

Session:  4 (afternoon)

Chair: Dr. Grega Smrkolj

Slot Nr.:

Time

Presenter

 Institution

Title of Presentation

17

13.30

Stefanos Tyros

VU Amsterdam

Sorting, Technology Choice, and Specialization

18

14.00

Ryan Hynes

University College Dublin

The effect of regional technical specialization on inventor migration

19

14.30

Ashley Perry

London Business School

Competition for informal and formal hiring". 

20

15.00

Scott Dickinson

University of Exeter

The Impact of Impact Treatments on Giving: Donor Responses to Charity Effectiveness and Impact Information 

To attend talks in afternoon session 5 go to Zoom Breakout Room 3

 

Session:  5 (afternoon)

Chair: Prof. Giorgio Fazio

Slot Nr.:

Time

Presenter

 Institution

Title of Presentation

21

13.30

Diego Zambiasi

University College Dublin

Drugs on the Web, Crime in the Streets. The impact of Dark Web marketplaces on street crime

22

14.00

Sultan Mehmood

New Economic School

The impact of Presidential appointment of judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?

23

14.30

Kai Wang

University of Sussex

What Affect Attentions: Evidence from eBay

24

15.00

Tanu Gupta

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

 Daughter vs. Daughter-in-Law: Kinship Roles and Women's Time Use In India

Awards

The Best Presentation Award: A customised trophy with the conference and winner's name engraved on it plus £200 cash.

 First-Year Achiever Award:  A customised trophy with the conference and winner's name engraved on it plus £100 cash.

A scientific committee consisting of the session Chair and Newcastle PGRs will individually and independently mark each presentation according to the assessment criteria outlined below. 60% weightage will be given on the Chair’s decision and 40% weightage will be given on the combined PGRs’ decision. The Award winners will be announced via email on June 7th. The Award holders will be invited to provide a short 5-minute video about their research to be displayed on our webpage.

 

Assessment Criteria

Points

Clarity of Problem Motivation

(points 1-10, 10 highest)

Clarity of Research Objective

(points 1-10, 10 highest)

Clarity of Methodology

(points 1-10, 10 highest)

Discussion of Results (NOT applicable for First Year Achiever Award)

(points 1-10, 10 highest)

Conclusion

(points 1-10, 10 highest)

Are questions well addressed

(points 1-10, 10 highest)

Timing of Presentation

(19-20 minutes 10 points; 6 points otherwise)

 

Zoom Links


The links will be sent to all participants and audiences via email.

 

Contacts

Alex Li (PGR) J.Li148@newcastle.ac.uk

Debkanika Gupta (PGR) d.gupta3@newcastle.ac.uk

 

II) Information for Visitors

We are looking forward to meeting you at the NERD conference.

Please use the zoom links above for attending morning and afternoon sessions. The digital room administrator will then provide you with an option to choose your preferred breakout room. You can also move between sessions.

 

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