Events:
STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
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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.
Friday 09 October 2026 15:30 - 17:00
FRIDAY SEMINAR: TBC
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Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 15 October 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Anna Sankjohanser (Toulouse)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 22 October 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Qianjun Lyu (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 29 October 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Achim Wambach (University of Mannheim)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 12 November 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 19 November 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston College)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 26 November 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Dan Quigley (Oxford)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 03 December 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Ran Spiegler (UCL)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 10 December 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Maryam Saeedi (Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Friday 11 December 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Ali Shourideh (Carnegie Melon)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Friday 09 October 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 15 October 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Anna Sankjohanser (Toulouse)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 22 October 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Qianjun Lyu (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 29 October 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Achim Wambach (University of Mannheim)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 12 November 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 19 November 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston College)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 26 November 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Dan Quigley (Oxford)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 03 December 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Ran Spiegler (UCL)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 10 December 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Maryam Saeedi (Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Friday 11 December 2026 15:30 - 17:00
FRIDAY SEMINAR: TBC
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Ali Shourideh (Carnegie Melon)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 18 June 2026 15:30 - 17:00
Limited belief propagation and contingent thinking
An agent updates her beliefs over a set of variables after observing some of them. We provide a representation of updated beliefs that captures limited propagation of her observation's implications through the directed a...Read more...
Andrew Ellis (LSE)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 11 June 2026 15:30 - 17:00
Generous Long-Term Contracts
I argue that in long-term consumer?producer relationships, menus of contracts can be advantageously replaced by a single generous contract such that, at any point in time, the sum of a consumer?s transfers is equal to ...Read more...
Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)
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 04 June 2026 15:30 - 17:00
Knowledge Economies
We develop a general framework for knowledge economies which feature occupational choice between workers and managers and many-to-one matching of workers to managers into firms whose production depends on members' knowle...Read more...
Krittanai Laohakunakorn (Surrey), joint with Guilherme Carmona and Hitoshi Tsujiyama
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 28 May 2026 15:30 - 17:00
Self-Revealing Renegotiation'
We revisit the tension between the legal doctrine of renegotiation and economic efficiency. We introduce self-revealing mechanisms that combine bidirectional communication (the agent sends and receives information) with ...Read more...
Andrea Attar (TSE), joint with Lorenzo Bozzoli and Roland Strausz
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 21 May 2026 15:30 - 17:00
Private vs Public Currency
We examine the equilibrium impact of a private currency competing with official money in a standard continuous time model with financial frictions. If the government is predatory and has a monopoly over money issuance, i...Read more...
Jean-Charles Rochet (Toulouse School of Economics), joint with B. Biais (HEC Paris), J.C. Rochet (TSE) and S.Villeneuve (TSE)
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 14 May 2026 15:30 - 17:00
Competing Powers
Motivated by the growing interest in geoeconomics, we develop a formal framework in which multiple superpowers?such as the United States and China?compete to shape the behavior of less powerful countries or firms. We ...Read more...
Andrea Prat (Columbia University), joint with Erik Madsen
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 07 May 2026 15:30 - 17:00
Rational Voter Learning, Issue Alignment, and Polarization
We model electoral competition between two parties when voters can rationally learn about their political positions through flexible information acquisition. Rational voter learning generates polarized and aligned politi...Read more...
Martin Vaeth (PSE)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 26 March 2026 15:30 - 17:00
Strategically Controlling Worldviews
This paper studies persuasion when the sender can control both the information the receiver observes and the model through which it is interpreted. Even when the receiver begins with a correctly specified model and under...Read more...
Cuimin Ba (Pittsburgh)
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 19 March 2026 15:30 - 17:00
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Botond Koszegi (Central European University and Bonn)
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 12 March 2026 15:30 - 17:00
When and what to learn in a changing world
A decision-maker periodically acquires information about a changing state, controlling both the timing and content of updates. I characterise optimal policies using a recursive decomposition into optimal stopping and sta...Read more...
Cesar Barilla (Oxford)
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 05 March 2026 15:30 - 17:00
The Importance of Unlikely Events
We study an expected-utility maximizer who controls a stochastic growth process over a long horizon. Using large deviations theory, we show that optimal actions are generically driven by responses to arbitrarily unlike...Read more...
Jakub Steiner (University of Zurich and CERGE-EI), joint with Maya Eden and Larry Samuelson
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 15:30 - 17:00
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), joint with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Joel Flynn, and Giacomo Lanzani
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 04 December 2025 15:30 - 17:00
Similarity of Information in Games
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Joyee Deb (NYU)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 01 December 2025 12:15 - 13:45
MONDAY SEMINAR: Undominated Mechanisms
We study the design of mechanisms when the designer faces multiple plausible scenarios and is uncertain about the true scenario. A mechanism is dominated by another if the latter performs at least as well in all plausibl...Read more...
Jiangtao Li (Singapore Management University)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 27 November 2025 15:30 - 17:00
Robust Aggregation of Correlated Information
Decisions are typically made by drawing on multiple sources of information, yet the correlation among these sources is often hard to assess. We study robustly optimal strategies??those that maximize the worst-case payoff...Read more...
Xiao Lin (U Penn)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 20 November 2025 15:30 - 17:00
Pareto-improving Pricing: Why 3 is better than 2
We study the design of priority pricing systems with heterogeneous agents and costly waiting. Contrary to the equity?efficiency tradeoff emphasized in public debates, we show that it is possible to Pareto-improve on an ...Read more...
Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University), joint with Zi Yang Kang
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
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
Thursday 23 October 2025 15:30 - 17:00
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...
Nikhil Vellodi (PSE), joint with Polina Borisova
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 16 October 2025 15:30 - 17:00
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...
Odilon Camara (USC), joint with John Matsusaka (USC) and Chong Shu (Utah)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 09 October 2025 15:30 - 17:00
Many-to-One Matching with Transfers
We study many-to-one matching with transfers and peer effects. The setting generalizes both assignment models (optimal transport) and Bayesian persuasion. Equilibrium exists and is efficient under general conditions. We ...Read more...
Anton Kolotilin (UNSW), joint with Alexander Wolitzky
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH