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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

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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

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

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 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 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 19 March 2026 15:30 - 17:00

CANCELLED

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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 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 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

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