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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 February 2026

Tuesday 03 February 2026 14:00 - 15:30

Political Economy Research Seminar
Authorized Leaks

Democratic governments communicate with their voters both directly, via press releases and conferences, and indirectly, by authorizing leaks to media outlets which may then report to voters. We explain why these governme...Read more...

Daniel Seidmann (Nottingham)

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

Wednesday 04 February 2026 18:30 - 20:00

Hayek Programme Online Webinar Series
Market Reform, Democratization, and Economic Performance

Economists Robin Grier and Kevin Grier (2021) showed that neoliberal "Washington Consensus" economic reform raises national incomes by 15% over a decade....Read more...

Robin Grier , Kevin Grier

ONLINE

Thursday 05 February 2026 14:00 - 15:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Information, Market Access and Risk: Addressing Constraints to Agricultural Transformation in Northern Ghana

Farmers face a wide array of constraints that hinder their adoption of the intensified agriculture that might increase their productivity, agricultural income, and living standards. These constraints include imperfect fi...Read more...

Chris Udry (Northwestern University)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Tuesday 10 February 2026 14:00 - 15:30

Political Economy Research Seminar
Reputational Concerns in Common Value Elections

In common value elections, the mere act of voting signals a voter’s level of information, as informed voters vote for the correct state of the world whereas uninformed voters abstain, as famously proved by Feddersen and ...Read more...

Olivier Bos (ENS Saclay)

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

Wednesday 11 February 2026 16:30 - 18:00

Cohesive Capitalism Event
Towards a New Paradigm in Economics: Market Humanism

This is a Programme on Cohesive Capitalism seminar with Eric Beihnocker discussing the policy and political implications of Market Humanism....Read more...

Eric Beinhocker (Oxford)

Venue to be Confirmed

Tuesday 17 February 2026 14:00 - 15:30

Political Economy Research Seminar
Redistricting with Endogenous Candidates

I study partisan gerrymandering when district composition affects candidates’ policy positions and voters’ behaviour. In the U.S., primary elections determine competing candidates, with districts’ ideological composition...Read more...

Paola Moscariello (Princeton)

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

Wednesday 18 February 2026 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and the Global School of Sustainability
Eco-social contracts for sustainable and just futures

For changemakers, students, and everyone seeking hope, direction, and clarity during a time of global uncertainty, join us for the launch of a book that serves as both a call to action and a guide for transformation—enco...Read more...

Various speakers

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Thursday 19 February 2026 14:00 - 15:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
From flat to fair? The effects from a progressive tax reform

We study the effects of a progressive tax reform on tax compliance, using a research design that distinguishes between two channels. First, using a quasi-experimental design, we estimate the direct effects of the reform—...Read more...

Guillermo Cruces (University de La Plata)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Monday 23 February 2026 12:00 - 13:30

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars
Price Discrimination, Consumer Search, and Online Sales in the Automobile Industry

We investigate the welfare consequences of introducing an online distribution channel in the French car industry, where most sales take place in person relying on rebates over the posted prices to price discriminate. We ...Read more...

Alessandro Iaria (Bristol)

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

Wednesday 25 February 2026 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy
CEP and the Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy
Women in economics: academic perspectives and career opportunities

This is an event only for LSE staff and students and is not open to the general public....Read more...

Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Anna Leach (Institute of Directors), Anna Valero (LSE)

CBG, Centre Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Thursday 26 February 2026 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Under the null of valid specification, pre-tests cannot make post-test inference liberal

Consider a parameter of interest, which can be consistently estimated under some conditions. Suppose also that we can at least partly test these conditions with specification tests. We consider the common practice of con...Read more...

Clement De Chaisemartin (Sciences Po)

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

Thursday 26 February 2026 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Resilience vs. Fragility: Global Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks

We provide a global analysis of the canonical single-factor production network model with arbitrary constant returns to scale production technologies. We show that Leontief production functions with endogenous weights ar...Read more...

Roberto Corrao (Stanford)

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

Thursday 26 February 2026 18:30 - 20:00

Hayek Programme Online Webinar Series
Shrinking Capitalism: Economics, Ethics, and the Governance Triangle

Since the 1970s, economic research has undergone a profound but largely unrecognized shift toward "civil society" themes—interactions governed by social norms, identity, and private power rather than complete contracts...Read more...

Wendy Carlin (UCL)

ONLINE

Monday 02 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars
Joint with CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Smart Power Limits: Designing Shortage Mechanisms for Extreme Events

As shortages of resources like water and electricity due to extreme weather events become more frequent, high prices alone may fail to curb demand, making shortages more common. We examine a power limit policy for resi...Read more...

Mar Reguant (The Institute for Economic Analysis)

This event is both online and in person

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

Monday 02 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Joint with the Industrial Organisations seminar
Smart Power Limits: Designing Shortage Mechanisms for Extreme Events

As shortages of resources like water and electricity due to extreme weather events become more frequent, high prices alone may fail to curb demand, making shortages more common. We examine a power limit policy for resi...Read more...

Mar Reguant (The Institute for Economic Analysis)

This event is both online and in person

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

Tuesday 03 March 2026 14:00 - 15:30

Political Economy Research Seminar
Political Competition and Economic Divergence: Development Before and After the Black Death

We study how political competition drove a major divergence in development after the labor supply shock of the Black Death. We leverage the interaction between the timing of the exogenous labor supply shock and a boundar...Read more...

Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE)

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

Tuesday 03 March 2026 18:00 - 19:30

Cohesive Capitalism Event
From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization

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John Chalcraft (LSE)

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

Tuesday 03 March 2026 19:00 - 20:30

CASE Special Events
LSE Housing and Communities
The Care Economy and Social Housing

To discuss how the care economy and housing sectors depend on one another, housing expert Anne Power and ecological economist Tim Jackson will be discussing findings from their new books Beyond Bricks and Mortar and The ...Read more...

Anne Power (CASE/ LSE Housing and Communities), Tim Jackson (Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), Jonathon Porritt

This event is both online and in person

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM 01, Ground Floor, Clement House, LSE, 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF

Wednesday 04 March 2026 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy
The Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy
The Great Realignment: Why the New Right is Here to Stay

The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual flux. Old political configurations and parties are under unprecedented str...Read more...

Stephen Davies (John Locke Political Institute)

MAR 2.08, 2nd floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Thursday 05 March 2026 14:00 - 15:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Effects of point-of-collection water treatment program on chlorination rates and under-5 mortality in rural Kenya

Treating household drinking water with chlorine prevents childhood deaths, but requires constant dosing. We conduct a long-run evaluation of community-level health impact of a water chlorination programs implemented in t...Read more...

Witold Wiecek (Chicago)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE