STICERD Public Events and Lectures

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

Unless otherwise specified, current restrictions mean in-person seminars are only open to members of the LSE community (those with a valid LSE ID card).

Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom.

Featured

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy launch event: Making Equality Work

14 January 2022: The Hub for Equal Representation in the economy (H.E.R.) will be officially launched this coming January. Prominent academics, business leaders and policy makers will come together for this event and share knowledge and strategies to set the agenda for a fairer, more diverse and productive workplace. Read more...

COVID-19 vs. the Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence from Bangladesh

10 November 2021: This event will bring to light the latest findings by BIGD and LSE on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2007 cohort of beneficiaries of BRACâ€™s UPG programme in rural areas of Bangladesh.Read more...

New Data and New Dimensions of Inequality: launch of the public economics of inequality

27 October 2021: This event launches the new III research theme "Public Economics of Inequality", which aims to bring the classic approach in Public Economics and its most recent advances to the study of inequality. Read more...

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Friday 14 January 2022 14:30 - 17:00

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Launch event: Making Equality Work

The Hub for Equal Representation in the economy will be officially launched the 14th of January 2022. Prominent academics and business leaders will come together for this event and share knowledge and strategies to set t... Read more...

Friday 14 January 2022 14:30 - 17:00

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Launch event: Making Equality Work

Wednesday 10 November 2021 12:30 - 14:00

COVID-19 vs. the Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence from Bangladesh

This event will bring to light the latest findings by BIGD and LSE on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2007 cohort of beneficiaries of BRAC’s UPG program in rural areas of Bangladesh. The speakers, alongside a ... Read more...

Oriana Bandiera (LSE) joint with Imran Martin (BRAC)

Thursday 08 July 2021 09:30 - 18:00

Ninth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Wednesday 23 June 2021 16:00 - 17:00

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Awakening the Giant Beast: from pandemic to economic recovery

How does the Biden-Harris Administration evaluate the current state and growth trajectory of the U.S. economy as it emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic? How are the Administration’s plans to expand infrastructure investme... Read more...

Cecilia Rouse (Princeton University)

Thursday 06 May 2021 14:30 - 19:30

Paris-London Public Economics Conference, 6-7 May 2021

The Paris-London Public Economics conference is a two-day conference organized by faculty at the London School of Economics, Sciences Po, University College London, the Institut des Politiques Publiques, the Institute fo... Read more...

Wednesday 17 June 2020 17:00 - 18:00

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Good Economics for Hard Times

Can Economics be harnessed for the common good? Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s bestselling book “Good Economics for Hard Times” makes the case for how economics can help us solve the toughest problems in some of the... Read more...

Tuesday 10 March 2020 18:00 - 20:00

LSE Presents The People Vs Social Sciences

In this mock trial, it will be debated whether the social sciences, as an area of research, commentary and investigation, has failed society. With public trust in democracy at the lowest it has been in decades, in a tim... Read more...

Thursday 19 September 2019 09:30 - 18:00

CEPR, STICERD, Marshall Institute and Rustandy Center Joint Conference

The London School of Economics (STICERD and Marshall Institute), the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Rustandy Center) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) invite you to the joint conference ... Read more...

Wednesday 08 May 2019 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD Morishima Lecture: The Meritocracy Trap

Merit is not a genuine excellence but rather a pretence, constructed to rationalise an offensive distribution of advantage. Merit, in short, is a sham.... Read more...

Daniel Markovits (Yale Law School)

Wednesday 13 March 2019 18:30 - 20:00

Amartya Sen Lecture: Foundations of State Effectiveness

Hosted by the Amartya Sen lecture series, STICERD and the International Inequalities Institute. An effective state promotes freedom and the well-being of its citizens. This lecture will discuss the importance of norms,... Read more...

Tim Besley (LSE) joint with Professor Amartya Sen as discussant

Thursday 14 February 2019 18:30 - 20:00

Netflix for Agriculture? Digital Technology for Development

The rapid spread of mobile phones in developing countries, coupled with recent advances in our ability to analyze big data through tools such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, has generated considerable ex... Read more...

Michael Kremer (Harvard University)

Wednesday 06 June 2018 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Public Policy and Retirement Security - A Trans-Atlantic Perspective

Chair: Tim Besley Retirement pension plans are a major challenge in countries with ageing populations. James Poterba will discuss how their design evolved over the last decades and how the US and UK followed strikingl... Read more...

James Poterba (Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT and the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research)

Monday 04 June 2018 08:30 - 18:00

Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar

This event will take place over 4 -5 June 2018. Income inequality has increased in both the U.S. and the U.K. in the last three decades, generating new interest in the factors that contribute to inequality and the co... Read more...

Monday 13 November 2017 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - Media and behaviour change: unpacking social effects

In this lecture Eliana La Ferrara presents some recent research done in collaboration with Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) and Victor Orozco (World Bank). The authors test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series... Read more...

Eliana La Ferrara (Universita Bocconi)

Thursday 15 June 2017 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Morishima lecture: Market Places and Market Design

Nobel laureate Alvin Roth will deliver this year’s Morishima Lecture on the topics of game theory, market design and experimental economics. Alvin Roth is the Craig and Susan Shaw Professor of Economics at Stanford Univ... Read more...

Alvin Roth (Stanford)

Friday 09 June 2017 09:30 - 18:00

PODER Final Conference and CEPR Annual Symposium on Development Economics

The CEPR annual symposium of the Development Economics Programme will be hosted by STICERD, London School of Economics on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June, 2017. The meeting will be held jointly with the Policy Design and E... Read more...

Tuesday 17 January 2017 18:30 - 20:00

Amartya Sen Lecture: Religious Intolerance and its Impact on Democracy

In this special event Asma Jilani Jahangir will focus on how government failure to address the questions of religious intolerance and free expression dilutes the principles of democracy, equality and justice, particularl... Read more...

Asma Jilani Jahangir (Human Rights lawyer and social activist, co-founder of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan)

Friday 16 December 2016 09:30 - 18:00

CEPR Public Economics Conference on 'New perspectives on consumption measures'

Monday 28 November 2016 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD Atkinson Lecture- Midlife morbidity and mortality in Europe and America: Why has the US left the herd?

After a century of nearly uninterrupted progress, all-cause mortality rates among white men and women in middle age stopped falling in the US, in the late 1990s, and began to rise. While midlife mortality continued to fa... Read more...

Anne C. Case (Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University)

Wednesday 22 June 2016 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Morishima lecture: The Secret of Our Success

Joe Henrich (Harvard University)

Thursday 26 November 2015 16:30 - 18:00

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - Innovation, income inequality, and social mobility

In recent decades, there has been an accelerated increase in top income inequality, particularly in developed countries. In this lecture Philippe Aghion argues that innovation partly accounts for the surge in top income ... Read more...

Philippe Aghion (Harvard)

Monday 22 June 2015 09:30 - 18:00

IGC-STICERD Sir Arthur Lewis Symposium on Growth and Development

The Symposium will be held at the LSE and will feature top LSE academics - Professors Oriana Bandiera, Tim Besley and John Sutton with Professor Douglas Gollin from the University of Oxford. To sign up and for more infor... Read more...

joint with IGC

Thursday 21 May 2015 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Morishima Lecture Scarcity: a talk for people too busy to attend talks

Why does poverty persist? Why do the busy feel perpetually behind? Why do diets fail? The scarcity mind set connects these diverse behaviours. Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard whose main intere... Read more...

Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)

Thursday 14 May 2015 09:30 - 18:00

CEPR Annual Public Economics Symposium 2015

This two-day event, organised by STICERD's director Oriana Bandiera and Henrik Kleven and sponsored by IGC and CEPR, will provide a forum for high-quality work in public economics and will bring together economists in th... Read more...

Wednesday 11 March 2015 13:30 - 16:45

STICERD Japanese Studies Workshop: Empire and Imperialism in British and Japanese History

Sponsored by STICERD and organised by graduate students from the Department of Economics History at LSE, this afternoon workshop explores the economic and historic links between Britain and Japan. ... Read more...

Tuesday 03 March 2015 09:30 - 18:00

Amartya Sen Lecture: Law, Economics and the Republic of Beliefs

Kaushik Basu (World Bank) joint with Professor Amartya Sen, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern and Professor Craig Calhoun

Tuesday 28 October 2014 17:00 - 18:30

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - The Economics of Beliefs and Misbeliefs

This is the inaugural STICERD Atkison Lecture in honour of LSE’s Centennial Professor and STICERD associate Sir Tony A. Atkinson. Roland Bénabou is Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princ... Read more...

Roland Benabou (Princeton University) joint with Psychology and Economics Seminar

Monday 16 June 2014 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Morishima Lecture 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Thomas Piketty’s latest findings from his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century will transform debate and set the agenda for the nex... Read more...

Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics)

Monday 09 June 2014 09:30 - 18:00

Special Seminar in Political Economy - 'Elections and Durable Governments in Parliamentary Democracies'

David Baron (Stanford)

Friday 30 May 2014 10:15 - 14:00

2014 Public Economics UK (PEUK) Workshop

We are pleased to announce that the next PEUK Workshop will take place on Friday 30th of May 2014, at STICERD. It is co-organised by the Universisty of Warwick, HMRC and LSE. Sponsored by the ESRC through CAGE and STICER... Read more...

joint with University of Warwick and HMRC

Tuesday 25 March 2014 09:30 - 18:00

Why Abenomics Matters: Abenomics and the Japanese economy

Motoshige Itoh (Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo)

Tuesday 18 March 2014 09:30 - 18:00

Book launch: All that is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster

Danny Dorling (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 26 September 2013 09:30 - 18:00

Second CEPR Workshop on Incentives, Management and Organization

On Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September 2013, STICERD will host a Workshop on Incentives, Management and Organisation. The event is joint with CEPR and the IGC Firm Capabilities programme and it aims to bring together... Read more...

Wednesday 29 May 2013 09:30 - 18:00

The Amartya Sen Lecture at LSE

Sir James Wolfensohn joint with Discussant: Amartya Sen

Monday 09 July 2012 09:30 - 18:00

Property before people

Anne Power (CASE / LSE)

Wednesday 11 January 2012 18:00 - 19:30

About Time: Examining the case for a shorter working week

CASE/new economics foundation event As the economic crisis deepens, it is timely to consider the arguments for moving towards much shorter, more flexible paid working hours - sharing out jobs and unpaid time more fairly ... Read more...

Monday 13 June 2011 09:30 - 18:00

EOPP/STICERD Special Event: Economic Foundations of Public Policy Conference

Thursday 19 May 2011 09:30 - 18:00

Public Policy, Equity and Growth: STICERD panel discussion

This event is part of a celebration of 25 years on from the LSE project on Taxation, Income Distribution and Incentives run in STICERD by Sir Tony Atkinson, Mervyn King and Professor Lord Stern. The panel brings together... Read more...

Monday 24 January 2011 09:30 - 18:00

IGC-STICERD-DESTIN Development Lecture: Creating Pathways for the Poorest - Linking safety nets, livelihoods and access to finance

People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from microfinance. Their income is usually too low and unreliable to permit repayment of loans or investment in anything but bas... Read more...

Syed M. Hashemi (Director, BRAC Development Institute)

Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:30 - 18:00

Thursday 24 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Relative Female Income on Sex Imbalance.

Nancy Qian (Yale University)

Monday 21 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

Distorted Gravity: Heterogeneous Firms, Market Structure and the Geography of International Trade.

Thomas Chaney (Chicago)

Friday 18 February 2005 12:30 - 14:00

Financial Globalization, Portfolio Diversification, and the Pattern of International Trade.

Miklós Koren (Central European University)

Thursday 17 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

U.S, Environmental Regulation and FDI: Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Based Multi-National Firms.

Rema Hanna (Harvard University)

Monday 14 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

The Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents.

Carlos Serrano (Minnesota)

Friday 11 February 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Leasing and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Commercial Aircraft

Alessandro Gavazza (NYU)

Thursday 10 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

Estimation of Structural Parameters and Marginal Effects in Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

Ivan Fernandez-Val (Boston University)

Monday 07 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

On the Robustness of Economic Models to Heavy-Tailedness Assumptions

Rustam Ibragimov (Harvard)

Monday 31 January 2005 17:00 - 18:30

Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Dean Karlan (Yale University)

Friday 28 January 2005 17:00 - 18:30

The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI

Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (Yale)

Thursday 27 January 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Relationship-Specificity, Incomplete Contracts, and the Pattern of Trade

Nathan Nunn (Harvard)

Thursday 20 November 2003 09:30 - 18:00

Observations on the Japanese and East Asian Economies with special reference to China

Toshihiko Kinoshita (Waseda University) joint with Discussant: Professor Nobuhiro Kiyotaki - Chair: Professor Janet Hunter

Thursday 09 October 2003 18:00 - 20:00

Monetary Policy and Financial Markets Please see <a href='http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/events/BofE.asp'>event page</a> for further details.

Ben S Bernanke (Governor, Federal Reserve System)

Tuesday 24 June 2003 18:30 - 19:30

The Roots of Racial Tensions:urban ethnic neighbourhoods

William Julius Wilson (J.F. Kennedy School of Government,Harvard)

Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:30 - 13:00

Three Seminars On Hayekian Macroeconomic Thought Seminar III: Hayek, Friedman, And Modern Developments

Roger W. Garrison (Auburn University, Alabama)

Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:30 - 13:00

Three Seminars On Hayekian Macroeconomic Thought Seminar II: Hayek And Keynes: Head To Head

Roger W. Garrison (Auburn University, Alabama)

Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:30 - 13:00

Three Seminars On Hayekian Macroeconomic Thought: Seminar I: Capital-Based Macroeconomics.

Roger W. Garrison (Auburn University, Alabama)

Public Lectures

Amartya Sen Lectures

Atkinson Lectures

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STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Featured

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy launch event: Making Equality Work

COVID-19 vs. the Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence from Bangladesh

New Data and New Dimensions of Inequality: launch of the public economics of inequality

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Launch event: Making Equality Work

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Launch event: Making Equality Work

COVID-19 vs. the Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence from Bangladesh

Ninth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Awakening the Giant Beast: from pandemic to economic recovery

Paris-London Public Economics Conference, 6-7 May 2021

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Good Economics for Hard Times

LSE Presents The People Vs Social Sciences

CEPR, STICERD, Marshall Institute and Rustandy Center Joint Conference

STICERD Morishima Lecture: The Meritocracy Trap

Amartya Sen Lecture: Foundations of State Effectiveness

Netflix for Agriculture? Digital Technology for Development

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Public Policy and Retirement Security - A Trans-Atlantic Perspective

Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - Media and behaviour change: unpacking social effects

STICERD Morishima lecture: Market Places and Market Design

PODER Final Conference and CEPR Annual Symposium on Development Economics

Amartya Sen Lecture: Religious Intolerance and its Impact on Democracy

CEPR Public Economics Conference on 'New perspectives on consumption measures'

STICERD Atkinson Lecture- Midlife morbidity and mortality in Europe and America: Why has the US left the herd?

STICERD Morishima lecture: The Secret of Our Success

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - Innovation, income inequality, and social mobility

IGC-STICERD Sir Arthur Lewis Symposium on Growth and Development

*STICERD Morishima Lecture* Scarcity: a talk for people too busy to attend talks

CEPR Annual Public Economics Symposium 2015

STICERD Japanese Studies Workshop: Empire and Imperialism in British and Japanese History

Amartya Sen Lecture: Law, Economics and the Republic of Beliefs

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - The Economics of Beliefs and Misbeliefs

STICERD Morishima Lecture 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'

Special Seminar in Political Economy - 'Elections and Durable Governments in Parliamentary Democracies'

2014 Public Economics UK (PEUK) Workshop

Why Abenomics Matters: Abenomics and the Japanese economy

Book launch: All that is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster

Second CEPR Workshop on Incentives, Management and Organization

The Amartya Sen Lecture at LSE

Property before people

About Time: Examining the case for a shorter working week

EOPP/STICERD Special Event: Economic Foundations of Public Policy Conference

Public Policy, Equity and Growth: STICERD panel discussion

IGC-STICERD-DESTIN Development Lecture: Creating Pathways for the Poorest - Linking safety nets, livelihoods and access to finance

EOPP Special Event: Summer School on Empirical Methods for Economic Development

EOPP Special Event: CEPR Public Policy Symposium 2010

EOPP, TG and LSE Management Special Event: The Formation of Family and Its Intergenerational Consequences

GINI: Growing Inequalities' Impacts - Opening Conference: 19th and 20th March 2010.

Microfoundations of Development Workshop - Day TWO

Microfoundations of Development Workshop - Day ONE

4th London and Oxbridge Time Series Workshop

Lionel Robbins Essay On The Nature and Significance Of Economic Science - 75th Anniversary Conference

CEPR/BREAD Conference on Development Economics

STICERD Conference in Honour of Peter Robinson

The Measurement of Mobility: A Class of Distance Indices.

Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Relative Female Income on Sex Imbalance.

Distorted Gravity: Heterogeneous Firms, Market Structure and the Geography of International Trade.

Financial Globalization, Portfolio Diversification, and the Pattern of International Trade.

U.S, Environmental Regulation and FDI: Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Based Multi-National Firms.

The Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents.

Leasing and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Commercial Aircraft

Estimation of Structural Parameters and Marginal Effects in Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

On the Robustness of Economic Models to Heavy-Tailedness Assumptions

Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI

Relationship-Specificity, Incomplete Contracts, and the Pattern of Trade

Observations on the Japanese and East Asian Economies with special reference to China

Monetary Policy and Financial Markets<br><br>Please see <a href='http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/events/BofE.asp'>event page</a> for further details.

The Roots of Racial Tensions:urban ethnic neighbourhoods

Three Seminars On Hayekian Macroeconomic Thought<br>Seminar III: Hayek, Friedman, And Modern Developments

Three Seminars On Hayekian Macroeconomic Thought<br>Seminar II: Hayek And Keynes: Head To Head

Three Seminars On Hayekian Macroeconomic Thought:<br> Seminar I: Capital-Based Macroeconomics.

Public Lectures

STICERD Morishima Lecture Scarcity: a talk for people too busy to attend talks