BEAT Economics Seminar - Tilam Fries (LMU Munich)

Tilam Fries is visiting the University of Exeter Business School on Tuesday 3 November, coming over from LMU Munich for a session of the BEAT Economics Seminar. He'll be presenting Narratives, Belief Movements, and Economic Fluctuations, a paper he's co-authored with Tony Q. Fan.

The title gives you a fair idea of the ground he'll be covering. It's a look at how narratives — the stories and shared ideas that take hold in a population — can shift people's beliefs and, in turn, drive economic fluctuations. If you've ever wondered why certain economic trends seem to take off almost overnight, or how a collective change in mood can ripple through a market, this is exactly the kind of thing the talk will be getting into. It's a piece of work that sits at the intersection of economics and the way people actually think and talk about the world around them.

Fries is coming from LMU Munich, so this is one of those occasions where a visiting academic brings their latest research to the local seminar series. The session is part of the BEAT Economics Seminar, which runs out of the Business School's economics department. It's a good chance to hear a paper presented in person, with the author there to walk through the logic and take questions afterwards.

It runs from 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm in XFi Conference Room 2, within the University of Exeter Business School - Economics. That's just over an hour, so it's a focused session that fits into a working day rather than taking up your whole afternoon. If you're around the university on the Tuesday, it's an easy one to drop into.