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STICERD brings together world-class academics to put economics and related disciplines at the forefront of research and policy.

Many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as in person or as hybrid (online and in person) events. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.

Unless otherwise specified, in-person seminars are open to the public. Please ensure you have informed the event contact as early as possible.

Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom if the event is hybrid.

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Cohesive Capitalism Lecture: How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

21 October 2025 In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey - one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy - will discuss his new book, How Progress Ends. Find out more...
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Hayek Lecture: Prosperity Through Growth with Economist Art Laffer

22 October 2025 Join us for this event about Arthur B Laffer's new book, Prosperity through Growth: Boosting living standards in an Age of Autocracy and AI, co-authored with Matthew Elliott, Michael Hintze and Douglas McWilliams. Find out more...
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Morishima Lecture: Agricultural Productivity, Social Organization and Economic Transformation in Rural Africa

6 November 2025 Chris Udry will speak about how certain dimensions of social organization - while essential for coping with market failures – can inadvertently stifle growth and contribute to collective poverty traps. Find out more...

Upcoming

Monday 10 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars
Quantifying Bargaining Power Under Incomplete Information: A Supply-Side Analysis of the Used-Car Industry

This study quantifies bargaining power in supply-side negotiations with incomplete information, where car dealers negotiate inventory prices with large wholesalers after an auction. We measure an agent’s bargaining pow...Read more...

Bradley Larsen (Olin Business School, Washington University)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 10 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
The Worker's Brain Under the Expert's Hat: Tacit Knowledge, Occupation Codes, and Wage-Setting

While economists have long studied the returns to easy-to-measure skills, such as years of schooling, it is widely recognized that many tasks are difficult to codify, and require embodied intuitions and past on-the-job e...Read more...

Suresh Naidu (Columbia University)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 10 November 2025 16:30 - 18:00

Cohesive Capitalism Event
Cohesive Capitalism Event
Hosted by the Cohesive Capitalism Programme
Beyond Free Expression: Verity as a Constitutional Virtue for Knowledge Institutions

Abstract to follow....Read more...

Tarun Khaitan (LSE)

Venue to be Confirmed

Tuesday 11 November 2025 14:00 - 15:30

Political Economy Research Seminar
The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Trade-Offs in Designing Social Media Algorithms

Recommendation algorithms play a central role in shaping the societal consequences of social media use. Yet, simply deactivating them yields limited prosocial benefits and often reduces user engagement. To address this, ...Read more...

Mateusz Stalinski (Warwick)

MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Thursday 13 November 2025 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Testing Conditional Stochastic Dominance at Target Points

This paper introduces a novel test for conditional stochastic dominance (CSD) at specific values of the conditioning covariates, referred to as target points. The test is relevant for analyzing income inequality, evaluat...Read more...

Deborah Kim (Warwick)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Public Lectures

Photo: Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Lectures
Photo: Tony Atkinson

Atkinson Lectures

Photo: Michio Morishima

Morishima Lectures
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