Calendar

Thursday 28 May 2020 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Relational Contracts: Public versus Private Savings

We study relational contracting with an agent who has consumption-smoothing preferences as well as the ability to save to defer consumption (or to borrow). Our focus is the comparison of principal-optimal relational con...Read more...

Monday 01 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

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Monday 01 June 2020 12:30 - 14:00

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars

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Wednesday 03 June 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

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Thursday 04 June 2020 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

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Thursday 04 June 2020 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

A Double Revelation 'Principle' for Maxmin Auction Design

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Monday 08 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

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Wednesday 10 June 2020 15:30 - 17:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

The Fall and Rise of Social Housing: 100 Years on 20 Estates

This webinar summarises a new book that traces the changing fortunes of 20 council estates from the 1920s to date, looking at housing quality, crime and disorder, popularity, resident mix, living conditions and tenure. T...Read more...

Thursday 11 June 2020 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

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Thursday 11 June 2020 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Conventions and Coalitions in Repeated Games

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Tuesday 16 June 2020 16:00 - 17:00

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

The Geography of New Technologies

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Wednesday 17 June 2020 16:30 - 17:15

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

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Wednesday 17 June 2020 17:00 - 18:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Morishima Lecture

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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...

Thursday 18 June 2020 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Stochastically Quadratic

We provide a model of stochastic choice where the choice function is the outcome of an optimization procedure with respect to a quadratic loss function. Although choice probabilities are the result of deliberate randomi...Read more...

Wednesday 22 July 2020 15:00 - 17:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) event - Health and Social Care: Policies, Spending and Outcomes 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Polly Vizard, Tania Burchardt and Polina Obolenskaya will present findings from forthcoming papers on health and social care as part of the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes research programme funded by Nuffiel...Read more...

Wednesday 07 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars

The economic impact of COVID-19: Ethnic and migrant divides in the UK

How have the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown measures affected the economic well-being of BAME and migrant groups vis-à-vis their white, non-migrant counterparts in the UK? Analysing nationwide data from th...Read more...

Wednesday 07 October 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP

Participants in means-tested programs must periodically document eligi­bility through a recertification process. If all cases that fail recertification are ineligible, the exact timing of this process should be irrelevan...Read more...

Thursday 08 October 2020 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

The Accretion of Advantage in Childhood: Evidence from an 11-year Experiment in Bangladesh

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Thursday 15 October 2020 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution

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Wednesday 21 October 2020 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) event: The Conservatives' Record on Early Childhood: Policy, Spending and Outcomes from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader will present recent work examining the record of the Conservative Government (2015-2020) on services and cash benefits for young children. They examine the aims and goals of the three Conser...Read more...