<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>STICERD Work in Progress Seminars</title><description>This seminar series takes place onWednesdays at13:00-14:00</description><lastBuildDate>10 May 2012</lastBuildDate><item><title>Fri, 29 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- TBA</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>TBA&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Rod Hick (CASE, LSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 29 June 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 22 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- The cross-sectional distribution of house prices and rents: Micro evidence from Central London, 2005-2011</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>The cross-sectional distribution of house prices and rents: Micro evidence from Central London, 2005-2011&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Philippe Bracke (SERC &amp; STICERD)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 22 June 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 15 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- Estimation of Spatial Weight via Lasso</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Estimation of Spatial Weight via Lasso&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Pedro Souza (STICERD, LSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 15 June 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 08 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- TBA</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>TBA&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Michelle White (UCSD, visiting EOPP)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 08 June 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 01 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- TBA</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>TBA&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Tiffany Tsang (CASE, LSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 01 June 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 11 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Roger Gordon (UCSD, visiting EOPP)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 11 May 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 27 April 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- The relationship between British identity and social cohesion: Preliminary findings using data from the Citizenship Survey</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>The relationship between British identity and social cohesion: Preliminary findings using data from the Citizenship Survey&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Ben Richards (CASE, LSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 27 April 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- Mission: Impossible? Economies of scale and voluntary contributions to public goods</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Mission: Impossible? Economies of scale and voluntary contributions to public goods&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Sarah Sandford (STICERD, LSE), joint with Kimberly Scharf (University of Warwick, CEPR)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 02 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- Redesigning microsavings - a substitute for microcredit?</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Redesigning microsavings - a substitute for microcredit?&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Anett Hofmann (STICERD, LSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 02 March 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 10 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- Public banks improve private banks performance: Evidence from a dynamic structural model</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Public banks improve private banks performance: Evidence from a dynamic structural model&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Fabio A. Miessi Sanches (London School of Economics), joint with Daniel Silva Junior&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 10 February 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 03 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- Does AIDS treatment stimulate negative behavioural response?</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Does AIDS treatment stimulate negative behavioural response?&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Plamen Nikolov (Harvard University)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 03 February 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 27 January 2012, 13:00-14:00 -- Cooperation vs. non cooperation in a dynamic international environmental game</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Cooperation vs. non cooperation in a dynamic international environmental game&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Henry Tulkens (Universite Catholique de Louvain), joint with Parkash Chander&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 27 January 2012, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 09 December 2011, 13:00-14:00 -- Family Instability and Family Size as Factors in Child Well-Being: Evidence from Ireland</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Family Instability and Family Size as Factors in Child Well-Being: Evidence from Ireland&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Tony Fahey (University College Dublin and CASE visitor)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 09 December 2011, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 02 December 2011, 13:00-14:00 -- Middlemen, Bargaining and Price Information: Is knowledge power?</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Middlemen, Bargaining and Price Information: Is knowledge power?&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Tara Mitchell (EOPP, LSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 02 December 2011, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 25 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 -- Locust. Estimating the Impact of a Plague</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Locust. Estimating the Impact of a Plague&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Abel Schumann (Stockholm School of Economics, visiting STICERD)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 532, STICERD Meeting Room, 5th Floor, Research Laboratory, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 25 November 2011, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 -- Does Political Competition Reduce the Selection of Self-Serving Politicians?</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Does Political Competition Reduce the Selection of Self-Serving Politicians?&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Alois Stutzer (University of Basel)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 11 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 -- Social class and cognitive development in childhood - the debate over the Feinstein graph</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Social class and cognitive development in childhood - the debate over the Feinstein graph&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Ruth Lupton (CASE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 11 November 2011, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 28 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 -- Advertising expenditure and consumer prices</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Advertising expenditure and consumer prices&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Ferdinand Rauch (CEP, LSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 505, Michio Morishima Room, 5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 28 October 2011, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fri, 21 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 -- Why did Africa Urbanize? Resource booms and consumption cities in Ghana and Ivory Coast</title><link>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=11</link><description>Why did Africa Urbanize? Resource booms and consumption cities in Ghana and Ivory Coast&lt;br /&gt;Speaker: Remi Jedwab (Paris School of Economics/LSE)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LRB 532, STICERD Meeting Room, 5th Floor, Research Laboratory, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD&lt;br /&gt;Fri, 21 October 2011, 13:00-14:00&lt;br /&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>

