Calendar

Thursday 16 October 2025 14:00 - 15:30

Political Economy Research Seminar

Political Commitment Bonds

To which extent can trade motivate environmental conservation? I first analyze a standard trade model, where trade-specific investments (e.g., deforestation) causes environmental externalities. In this model, a tradition...Read more...

Thursday 16 October 2025 14:00 - 15:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Delineating Brazilian Gangs

This paper studies gangs in Brazil, an underexplored yet highly pervasive and volatile setting in organised crime. Using information from the intelligence police, occurrences and prison records, we identify and label gan...Read more...

Thursday 16 October 2025 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Shareholder Democracy and the Market for Voting Advice

In corporate elections, most votes are cast based on recommendations provided by for-profit proxy advisory companies. We develop a model of the voting advice market to explore how competition and demand for advice shap...Read more...

Thursday 16 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Has the Free Market Failed?

From Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders, criticism of free markets, free trade, and globalization is now heard across the political spectrum. On the right, many blame free trade for hollowing out domestic industries; on the ...Read more...

Friday 17 October 2025 09:30 - 15:30

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy

Hosted by the Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy

Barriers to Female Labour Force Participation

How do gender norms influence economic behaviour, choices, and opportunities? This event will bring together researchers to present new evidence on the ways cultural expectations and social attitudes shape economic life....Read more...

Monday 20 October 2025 18:15 - 19:30

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025

Altruistic Capital Lab

Reimaging Work: Meaning, Purpose and Productivity

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Tuesday 21 October 2025 14:00 - 15:30

Political Economy Research Seminar

Henry Ford and Antisemitism

We investigate whether economically powerful individuals leverage their business influence to advance political or ideological agendas. We study the impact of Henry Ford’s newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, which disse...Read more...

Tuesday 21 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Cohesive Capitalism Event & STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Cohesive Capitalism Event

Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment and the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism

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

How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey – one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy – will discuss his new book, How Progress Ends....Read more...

Wednesday 22 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Prosperity Through Growth with Economist Art Laffer

Join us for this event about Dr 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, wh...Read more...

Thursday 23 October 2025 14:00 - 15:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Logging In, Tuning Out? How Capacity Shapes Compliance and Substitution in EdTech

We evaluate whether light-touch educational technology (EdTech) interventions can improve the uptake of EdTech-based lessons by mobilizing underutilized ICT infrastructure in secondary schools. In collaboration with the ...Read more...

Thursday 23 October 2025 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Self-Prospecting: Optimal Experimentation Under Present-Bias

A present-biased decision maker (DM) faces a two-armed bandit problem whose risky arm generates random payoffs at exponentially distributed times. Under full information, the DM's belief remains unchanged prior to payoff...Read more...

Tuesday 28 October 2025 14:00 - 15:30

Political Economy Research Seminar

The Cold War and the U.S. Labor Market

We argue that the Cold War contributed to the equitable and tight labor markets of the post-war decades. On the labor-demand side, we isolate plausibly exogenous shifts in military procurement across states and firms. We...Read more...

Thursday 30 October 2025 14:00 - 15:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Machine Learning for Estimating Catastrophic Health Spending in Disaster-Affected, Data Scarce Setting

Disasters can increase health costs and push vulnerable households into poverty. Mitigation measures require understanding changes in household health spending patterns but related data are unobserved in many disaster-af...Read more...

Monday 03 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Selection and Incentives in Microequity Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Firms often cite financing constraints as key barriers, yet lenders rarely innovate beyond debt products. While theory suggests debt may dominate equity due to adverse selection and moral hazard, these mechanisms are dif...Read more...

Tuesday 04 November 2025 18:30 - 20:00

CASE Special Events

Hosted by the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)

Joyful revolution: poverty, social justice and a pioneer of participation

Tackling poverty and campaigning for social justice must be with, not just for, people in poverty. This key insight will be explored by speakers and lived-experience activists at this event, through reflections on the li...Read more...

Wednesday 05 November 2025 12:00 - 13:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State

Across England, one of the wealthiest yet most unequal nations in the world, families are being trapped in debt and homelessness. In Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State, Katherine Brickell and Melani...Read more...

Wednesday 05 November 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Related Events

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

The 21st century growth story: economics and opportunities in climate action

The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe – or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth....Read more...

Thursday 06 November 2025 13:00 - 15:00

Political Economy Research Seminar

Mobsters Beyond Rationality

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Thursday 06 November 2025 14:00 - 15:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Scaling Fiscal Capacity: Evidence from Senegal’s Capital City

Increasing fiscal capacity remains a central challenge for low-income countries, and it is difficult when resources for registration and enforcement are limited. Governments may also face resistance when increasing tax p...Read more...

Thursday 06 November 2025 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Morishima Lecture

Hosted by STICERD

Agricultural Productivity, Social Organisation and Economic Transformation in Rural Africa

This is the annual Morishima lecture, a lecture series held in honour of Professor Michio Morishima (1923-2004), Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at LSE and STICERD's first chairman....Read more...