The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related
Disciplines (STICERD) at the London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE) were established in 1978 with funds donated by Suntory Limited and the
(then) Toyota Motor Company Limited of Japan, with further donations from
Suntory Limited in 1984 and 1989 and the Toyota Motor Corporation in 1995. We
have also enjoyed the support of the Saji Research Lectureship in Japanese
Economic and Social History. Since 1995 we have been organised under two broad
centres named for each of our sponsors, but the work of the centres remains
closely integrated. Since April 2001 STICERD has been based in the newly
established LSE Research Laboratory.
Since its formation, STICERD has had four Chairmen:
Professors Michio Morishima, Tony Atkinson, Nick Stern and
Howard Glennerster. Tim Besley took over the post (renamed as Director)
in January 2001. Janet Hunter was Acting Director from September 2006 to August 2007.
STICERD is both a thriving research community
within the London School of Economics and Political Science and a source of
funding for a variety of School-wide initiatives. We currently hold a total of £3.3 million in grant funding in
addition to the support received from the endowment.
We have five resident research programmes and
support two non-resident programmes in economic theory and econometrics. The resident researchers
principally comprise graduate students, full-time research staff and members
of the LSE teaching faculty. On average seventy-five resident researchers are
involved in the work of the centres at any one time.
On behalf of the research programmes STICERD hosts academic visitors and research associates from all over the world.
As well as supporting internal research, the centres fund:
small research grants for LSE academic staff,
the LSE and Toyota lectures series,
seminars in a variety of subjects, including Theoretical Economics,
Econometrics, International and Japanese Studies, Taxation, Capital Markets,
Economics of Industry, Development and Growth and Work-in-Progress,
the visitors programme,
eight series of discussion papers: Distributional Analysis Research,
Development Economics, Economics of Industry, Econometrics, International
Studies, Japanese Studies, Political Economy and Public Policy, and Theoretical Economics,
The ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion Toyota Fellow.
These benefit the entire research community at the LSE. In the academic
year 2005-2006 we funded such schemes to the tune of £201,500..
On behalf of the LSE, the centres publish Economica.
CASE
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, an ESRC-funded Research Centre,
is located within STICERD and benefits from the centres' support, including
funding of its Toyota Fellow. CASE is one of the research centres of the new
LSE Research Laboratory.
Since its formation, STICERD has had four Chairmen:
Professors Michio Morishima, Tony Atkinson, Nick Stern and
Howard Glennerster. Tim Besley took over the post (renamed as Director)
in January 2001. Janet Hunter was Acting Director from September 2006 to August 2007. 