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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.

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 4 December 2021

Monday 06 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Navigating Stormy Waters: Crises, Selection, and Productivity Dynamics Under Financial Frictions

We build a growth model with heterogeneous firms that endogenizes productivity growth, firm selection, and borrowing under financial frictions. In particular, facing an incomplete financial market with endogenous (firm-s...Read more...

Ufuk Akcigit (University of Pennsylvania)

ONLINE

Tuesday 07 December 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
TBC

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Dylan Glover (INSEAD)

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 08 December 2021 12:30 - 13:45

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Capital Taxation and Entrepreneurship

Policymakers often want to encourage entrepreneurial activity. Commonly, they do this through preferential tax rates on business income, but these come with a substantial tax revenue cost. We develop a dynamic model of b...Read more...

Kate Smith (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 09 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
The Geography of Structural Transformation: Effects on Inequality and Mobility

Economies transform at an uneven pace: San Jose's meteoric rise coexists with Detroit's slow decline. This paper develops a dynamic overlapping generations model of economic geography to explain variation in structural...Read more...

Kohei Takeda (CEP, LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 December 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with High-Dimensional Covariates

We study regression discontinuity designs in which many covariates, possibly much more than the number of observations, are available. In such settings, it is not feasible to feed all covariates in a standard procedure f...Read more...

Alexander Kreiss (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 December 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
CANCELLED

Much of the work on auction theory focuses on design aspects in situations motivated by formally organized auctions, like those held by government agencies. However, auction models are also convenient abstractions of les...Read more...

Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Monday 13 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
The Impact of Payroll Tax Subsidies: Theory and Evidence

We study the employment and wage effects of age-dependent payroll tax subsidies for both younger (under 25) and older (over 55) workers using a policy change in Hungary. Using rich administrative data and a difference-in...Read more...

Attila Lindner (University College London)

ONLINE

Thursday 16 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
POSTPONED

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Michael Callen (LSE)

ONLINE

Friday 14 January 2022 14:30 - 17:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
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...

Various speakers

ONLINE

Tuesday 25 January 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Accountability under political polarization

Political polarization, by distorting how citizens process objective information about government performance, can undermine electoral accountability. We study whether citizens in a highly polarized environment can be nu...Read more...

Alberto Simpser (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)

ONLINE

Tuesday 01 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Interest-based Negotiation over Natural Resources

Over the last two decades, developing countries have seen a sharp increase in external demand for land and other natural resources. Despite hopes that these outside investments would spur local development, host communit...Read more...

Alex Hartman (University College London)

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

Wednesday 02 February 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Neurodiversity at Work - Opportunity or Exploitation?

In this talk Dr Doyle, from the Centre for Neurodiversity Research at Work will discuss both sides of the Neurodiversity Movement coin. A seemingly new narrative in employment and the business press, the Neurodiversity p...Read more...

Nancy Doyle (Genius Within)

ONLINE

Tuesday 08 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002-2020

What role do journalists play in slanting media content? Because media bias can crucially impact political and social outcomes, we study the relative role of journalists and owners in shaping media slant. To do so, we bu...Read more...

Julia Cagé (Sciences Po)

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

Friday 11 February 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop
Debiased Inverse Propensity Score Weighting for Estimation of Average Treatment Effects with High-Dimensional Confounders

Please register to attend: https://lse.zoom.us/j/82688220867...Read more...

Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua University)

ONLINE

Monday 14 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd livestock i.e. transhumant pastoralists in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship wit...Read more...

Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 15 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Can We Sustainedly Inoculate Individuals Against Misinformation in the Global South

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Horacio Larreguy (Harvard University)

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

Friday 18 February 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop
Matching for causal effects via multimarginal optimal transport

Please register to attend: https://lse.zoom.us/j/81404118660...Read more...

Florian Gunsilius (University of Michigan)

ONLINE

Monday 21 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia

This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find ...Read more...

Alessandra Fenizia (George Washington University)

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

Tuesday 22 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
How Does the State Replace the Community? Experimental Evidence on Crime Control from South Africa

Throughout the developing world, citizens often rely on mechanisms other than the state’s justice system to deal with crime. A common form of informal crime control is mob vigilantism, the physical punishment of criminal...Read more...

Anna Maria Wilke (University of California, Berkeley)

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 24 February 2022 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
TBC

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Michael Callen (LSE)

ONLINE