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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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Events on or after 3 November 2025

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...

Kareem Haggag (UCLA)

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

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...

Diana Skelton (ATD Fourth World International), Eileen Alexander (LSE), Fran Bennett (Oxford), Kate Evans (ATD Fourth World Trust), Elaine Li Quan

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

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...

Katherine Brickell (King's College London), Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University/ King's College London)

This event is both online and in person

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

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...

Nicholas Stern (Grantham Research Institute and LSE)

Venue to be Confirmed

Thursday 06 November 2025 13:00 - 15:00

Political Economy Research Seminar
Mobsters Beyond Rationality

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Diego Gambetta (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

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

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...

Justine Knebelmann (Science Po)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

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...

Chris Udry (Northwestern University)

Venue to be Confirmed

Friday 07 November 2025 - Saturday 08 November 2025

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
CEP, CEPR and STICERD
Seventeenth Annual Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (CURE)

An annual conference that brings together researchers working at the frontier on topics in urban and regional economics from around the world....Read more...

Various speakers

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

Friday 07 November 2025 11:00 - 18:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
STICERD and the Department of Management
Workshop on Organising Crime

An all-day workshop on Organised Crime will take place in the Marshall Building. The workshop features various speakers from the LSE, UCL, IFS and Diego Cambetta who is visiting from Collegio Carlo Alberto....Read more...

Various speakers

Venue to be Confirmed

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 - 15:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Subjective Expectations of Husbands and Wives and Couples' Decision-Making under Uncertainty

Many important decisions are taken as a couple, and the outcomes of these decisions are often uncertain. It is well-known that spouses may have different preferences over outcomes, but little attention has been paid to t...Read more...

Christine Valente (Bristol)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

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

Thursday 13 November 2025 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing

We develop an economic framework to analyze the optimal pricing and product design of Large Language Models (LLM). Our framework captures several key features of LLMs: variable operational costs of processing input and o...Read more...

Alex Smolin (Toulouse School of Economics)

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

Monday 17 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars
Intermediaries in Decentralized Markets: Evidence from Used-Car Transactions

We develop and estimate a spatial search-and-bargaining model to study the role of intermediaries and spatial frictions using data from the used-car market. We find that dealers earn price premiums by leveraging three ke...Read more...

Charlie Murry (Michigan)

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

Monday 17 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
The Political Economy of Stimulus Transfers

Stimulus transfers are widely used during economic downturns, yet they are often poorly targeted from an economic perspective. I show that political incentives might help explain this discrepancy. I study one of the larg...Read more...

Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University)

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

Tuesday 18 November 2025 14:00 - 15:30

Political Economy Research Seminar
Misperceptions About Out-Groups’ Economic Status and Support for Redistribution: Experimental Evidence from Lebanon

In divided societies, high income inequality rarely produces class-based political coalitions. We test whether misperceptions about out-groups’ economic conditions help explain such limited support for redistributive and...Read more...

Lydia Assouad (LSE)

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

Thursday 20 November 2025 14:00 - 15:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Footloose Enough? Multinationals, Domestic Firms, and Job Creation in Developing Economies as Wages Rise

No abstract available....Read more...

Jonas Hjort (UCL)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE