20/10/2026 Jiekai Zhang – TCD Department of Economics Seminar Series
Jiekai Zhang is a lecturer in economics at the University of Southampton. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/66wbrg/doctor-jiekai-zhang
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Jiekai Zhang is a lecturer in economics at the University of Southampton. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/66wbrg/doctor-jiekai-zhang
Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal is a Professor at the School of Economics, University of Barcelona and a Researcher at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB). https://elisabetviladecansmarsal.com/
Yihong Huang is an Assistant Professor at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. https://yihonghuang.com/
Saumitra Jha is an Associate Professor of Political Science and of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/saumitra-jha
Ana Moreno-Maldonado is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim. She is a macroeconomist with research lying at the intersection between Family Economics and Urban
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Professor Kevin O’Rourke gave the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture on Thursday 19th February 2026 at 17:00 in the Neill Lecture Theatre of
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The Bankruptcy Express: Market Integration, Organizational Changes, and Financial Distress in 19th Century Britain Jean Lacroix is an Associate Professor at the
We look forward to the WEast 2024 Dublin workshop taking place on December 13th and 14th 2024: Hidden Connections: Eastern Europe through a comparative
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Abstract: This paper documents that large cities played a unique role in women’s economic and social advances in the early 20th century. We first