Events:
Political Economy Research 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.
Tuesday 13 October 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Media Gravity: The Production and Political Effect of Watchdog Journalism in China
This paper examines the provision and accountability effects of watchdog journalism in China. Based on the coverage of over 2000 highly visible events by 120 general-interest newspapers during 2001-2020, we document that...Read more...
Yanhui Wu (HKU)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 20 October 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Elaine Yao (Washington)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 27 October 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Maiting Zhuang (Stockholm School of Economics)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 10 November 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Adam Brzezinski (LSE)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 17 November 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Caterina Chiopris (Columbia)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 24 November 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 01 December 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Michael Callen (LSE)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 08 December 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (LSE)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 29 September 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Campaigning with Claims
Two parties compete by making claims linking policies to outcomes. When in power, each party tends to choose its preferred policy. Voters assess these claims not through Bayesian updating, but by sequentially sampling po...Read more...
Kfir Eliaz (King's and Tel Aviv University)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 29 September 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Campaigning with Claims
Two parties compete by making claims linking policies to outcomes. When in power, each party tends to choose its preferred policy. Voters assess these claims not through Bayesian updating, but by sequentially sampling po...Read more...
Kfir Eliaz (King's and Tel Aviv University)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 06 October 2026 14:00 - 15:30
"Political Competition, Migration, and the Quality of Governance in Cities
Both electoral competition within jurisdictions and geographical competition between them are capable of forcing political representatives to act in the interest of voters. How do these forms of competition interact to a...Read more...
Sean Gailmard (University of California, Berkeley), joint with John Patty and Christopher Berry
CBG 4.17, Centre Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
Tuesday 13 October 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Media Gravity: The Production and Political Effect of Watchdog Journalism in China
This paper examines the provision and accountability effects of watchdog journalism in China. Based on the coverage of over 2000 highly visible events by 120 general-interest newspapers during 2001-2020, we document that...Read more...
Yanhui Wu (HKU)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 20 October 2026 14:00 - 15:30
TBC
TBC...Read more...
Elaine Yao (Washington)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 27 October 2026 14:00 - 15:30
TBC
TBC...Read more...
Maiting Zhuang (Stockholm School of Economics)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 10 November 2026 14:00 - 15:30
TBC
TBC...Read more...
Adam Brzezinski (LSE)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 17 November 2026 14:00 - 15:30
TBC
TBC...Read more...
Caterina Chiopris (Columbia)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 24 November 2026 14:00 - 15:30
TBC
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Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 01 December 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Michael Callen (LSE)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 08 December 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (LSE)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 06 October 2026 14:00 - 15:30
"Political Competition, Migration, and the Quality of Governance in Cities
Both electoral competition within jurisdictions and geographical competition between them are capable of forcing political representatives to act in the interest of voters. How do these forms of competition interact to a...Read more...
Sean Gailmard (University of California, Berkeley), joint with John Patty and Christopher Berry
CBG 4.17, Centre Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
Tuesday 29 September 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Campaigning with Claims
Two parties compete by making claims linking policies to outcomes. When in power, each party tends to choose its preferred policy. Voters assess these claims not through Bayesian updating, but by sequentially sampling po...Read more...
Kfir Eliaz (King's and Tel Aviv University)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 29 September 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Campaigning with Claims
Two parties compete by making claims linking policies to outcomes. When in power, each party tends to choose its preferred policy. Voters assess these claims not through Bayesian updating, but by sequentially sampling po...Read more...
Kfir Eliaz (King's and Tel Aviv University)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 09 June 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Jean-Paul Carvalho (Oxford )
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 02 June 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Fred Finan (University of California, Berkeley)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 26 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
CANCELLED
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Paul Pierson (Berkeley)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 19 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Does Progressivity Raise Tax Capacity? Experimental Evidence from the D.R. Congo
Progressive taxation is a defining feature of high-income countries' tax systems, but developing countries typically rely on less progressive instruments. We study the introduction of progressive property taxation in a l...Read more...
Joana Naritomi (Institute for Fiscal Studies and LSE), joint with Gabriel Tourek, Arthur Laroche, Augustin Bergeron, Jonathan L. Weigel and Marina M. Ngoma
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 12 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Decoupling Taste-Based versus Statistical Discrimination in Elections
We present a methodology for decoupling taste-based versus statistical discrimination in political behavior. We combine a flexible empirical model of voting, featuring vertical and horizontal candidate differentiation i...Read more...
Francesco Trebbi (Columbia), joint with Amanda de Albuquerque, Frederico Finan, Anubhav Jha, and Laura Karpuska
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 05 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
The Aerial History Project: Development across the British Empire seen through 1.7 million aerial photographs
The Aerial History Project is an international effort to restore, digitize, stitch, and study a massive collection of aerial photography collected by the United Kingdom beginning in 1946 across 65 countries in the then B...Read more...
Solomon Hsiang (Stanford)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 31 March 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Estimating Peerage Effects: Aristocratic Connections and Political Careers since 1830
To what extent does inherited social position continue to influence political selection and career progression in democratic systems? We address this question using a novel dataset that combines detailed information on t...Read more...
Valentino Larcinese (Department of Government, LSE), joint with Tim Besley, Chris Dunn and Friedrich Geiecke
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 24 March 2026 14:00 - 15:30
CANCELLED
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Massimo Morelli (Bocconi)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 17 March 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Sugar, Hardship, and Aftermath of Slavery
Colonial slavery was not a monolithic institution: sugarcane plantations were deadlier and more violent than coffee or cotton plantations. How did heterogeneity in the experience of slavery shape post-emancipation immedi...Read more...
Marie Beigelman (King's)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 10 March 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University of London and CEP)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 03 March 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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), joint with Luis Bosshart
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 17 February 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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
Tuesday 10 February 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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), joint with Matias Nu?ez and Dimitrios Xefteris
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 03 February 2026 14:00 - 15:30
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
Tuesday 27 January 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern, and Female Empowerment,
Centuries before the demographic transition, the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) limited fertility in Western Europe through high celibacy, late age at first marriage, and nuclear household structures. This paper uncover...Read more...
Joanne Hadad (ULB), joint with M. Curtis, P. Gobbi and M. Go?i
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 20 January 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Mobile Broadband and the Decline of Incumbency Advantage
Incumbency advantage in U.S. congressional elections has been a well-established feature of American politics. Since the late 2000s, this advantage has significantly declined, falling from a longstanding average of 10 pe...Read more...
Sergei Guriev (LBS), joint with Nikita Melnikov, Joana Escorcio Silva, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Tuesday 09 December 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Power and Resilience: On the Theory and Implications of the National Security Externality
When countries bargain in the shadow of conflict, there is a strategic value in becoming resilient to that conflict. The reason is that the ability to withstand the economic shock caused by a potential conflict strengthe...Read more...
Olivier Kooi (Chicago)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY