Past Seminars:
CEP/DOM Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminar

For further information, please contact

Jo Cantlay, email: j.m.cantlay@lse.ac.uk, tel: +44(0)-7955-7673.

This seminar is organised by
Yona Rubinstein, email: y.rubinstein@lse.ac.uk, tel: +44(0)20 7106 1262

Rocco Macchiavello, email: r.macchiavello@lse.ac.uk , tel: +44 (0)207 852 3536

Thursday 01 June 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Broadening the Base: Industrial Development in a Historical Perspective

John Sutton (LSE)

NAB 5.21, 5th Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 25 May 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Commitment vs. Flexibility with Costly Verification

Marina Halac (Columbia Business School)

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NAB 4.21, 4th Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 11 May 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Incentivizing Complex Problem Solving in Teams – Evidence from a Field Experiment

Florian Englmaier (University of Munich) , joint with Stefan Grimm, David Schindler, Simeon Schudy

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 04 May 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Economic performance under cultural frames (and some perils of changing frames)

Robert Gibbons (MIT)

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32L G.03, Ground Floor, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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Thursday 23 March 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Relational Knowledge Transfers (Luis Garicano and Luis Rayo)

Luis Rayo (Utah/MIT)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 16 March 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Vasco Carvalho (Cambridge University)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 09 March 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Organizational Capital, Managerial Heterogeneity and Firm Dynamics

Wouter Dessein (Columbia University)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 02 March 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Communication Among Shareholders

Nicola Persico (Kellogg School)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 23 February 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Capital Allocation Across Regions, Sectors and Firms: Evidence from a Commodity Boom in Brazil

Jacopo Ponticelli (Chicago Booth)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 09 February 2017 13:45 - 15:00

Brands in motion: How frictions shape multinational production

Thierry Mayer (Science Po)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 08 December 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Vertical Information Restraints: Pro- and Anti-Competitive Impacts of Minimum Advertised Price Restrictions

Heski Bar-Isaac (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 01 December 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading Among Exporters

Jonas Hjort (Columbia Business School)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 November 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Financing Constraints and Selection into Entrepreneurship

Ramana Nanda (HBS)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 17 November 2016 13:45 - 15:00

When Work Disappears: How Adverse Employment Shocks Affect Fertility, Marriage, and Children's Living Circumstances

David Autor (MIT)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 10 November 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Transparency and Deliberation within the FOMC: a Computational Linguistics Approach

Stephen Hansen (UPF)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 27 October 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Market Failure in Kidney Exchange

Eduardo Azevedo (Wharton)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 13 October 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Spying in Contests

Zhuoqiong Chen (LSE)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 28 April 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Managing Careers in Organizations

Jin Li (Northwestern)

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NAB 4.21, 4th Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Tuesday 26 April 2016 11:00 - 12:30
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Competition and relational contracts: evidence from Rwanda's coffee mills

Rocco Macchiavello (Warwick)

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NAB 4.21, 4th Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 24 March 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Ownership of the means of production

Glen Weyl (Chicago)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 17 March 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Measuring physician quality

Joseph Doyle (MIT Sloan)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 10 March 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Ordinal efficiency, fairness and incentives in large markets

Marek Pycia (UCLA)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 March 2016 13:45 - 15:00

International knowledge flows: evidence from the collapse of international science in the wake of WWI

Fabian Waldinger (CEP)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 11 February 2016 15:00 - 16:30
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Research design meets market design: using centralised assignment for impact evaluation

Josh Angrist (MIT)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 04 February 2016 14:00 - 15:15
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Stereotypes

Pedro Bordalo (Royal Holloway)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 28 January 2016 13:45 - 15:00

Firm Dynamics, Persistent Effects of Entry Conditions, and Business Cycles

Sara Moreira (Chicago)

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LRB 301, 3rd Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance via Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 21 January 2016 14:00 - 15:30
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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Victoria Prowse (Cornell)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 10 December 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition

Marc Melitz (Harvard)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 December 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Naked exclusion with private offers

Jeanine Miklos-Thal (Rochester)

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KSW 1.04, 20 Kingsway Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2B 6LH

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Thursday 26 November 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Incentive effects of equity compensation: employee-level evidence from Google

Eric Zitzewitz (Dartmouth College)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 19 November 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Promises and Expectations

Florian Ederer (Yale)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 November 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Information spillovers in asset markets with correlated values

William Fuchs (Berkeley Haas)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 November 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Long-Term Effects of Temporary Incentives on Productivity in Medical Care Clinics

Paul Gertler (Berkeley Haas)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 29 October 2015 13:45 - 15:00

The Productivity Effects of Labour Reallocation: Evidence from India

Jonathan Colmer (CEP, LSE)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 22 October 2015 13:45 - 15:00

International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker-Level

Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado)

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Graham Wallace Room, 5th Floor, Old Building, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE

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Thursday 15 October 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Price and probability: Decomposing the takeover effects of anti-takeover provisions

Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD)

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KSW 1.04, 20 Kingsway Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2B 6LH

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Thursday 08 October 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Is College the New High School: Evidence from Vacancy Postings

Lisa Kahn (Yale)

32L G.06, Ground Floor, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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Thursday 14 May 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Title TBC

Venue to be Confirmed,

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Thursday 07 May 2015 13:45 - 15:00

What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics

Jonathan Kolstad (Wharton)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 19 March 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Discretion in Hiring

Danielle Li (Harvard Business School)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 March 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions?

Liran Einav (Stanford University)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 March 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More

Yona Rubinstein (CEP & LSE)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 26 February 2015 13:45 - 15:00

The Mechanics of Endogenous Innovation and Growth: evidence from historical U.S. Patents

William Kerr (Harvard Business School)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 19 February 2015 13:45 - 15:00

Seminar cancelled

Kerem Cosar (Chicago Booth)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 February 2015 12:00 - 13:30
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Job Market Seminar: Title TBC

Rahul Deb (Toronto)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 29 January 2015 12:00 - 13:30
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Job Market Seminar: Title TBC

Christine Exley (Stanford)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 26 January 2015 12:00 - 13:30
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Job Market Seminar: Title TBC

Mariaflavia Harari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 15 January 2015 12:00 - 13:30
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Job Market Seminar Homeowner Borrowing and Housing Collateral: New Evidence from Expiring Price Controls

Anthony DeFusco (Wharton)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 11 December 2014 14:00 - 15:15
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Private versus Public Health Insurance: The U.S. Medicare Experience with Managed Competition

Jonathan Levin (Stanford University)

32L LG.10, Lower Ground Floor, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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Thursday 04 December 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Barriers to Migration in a System of Cities

Nathan Seegert (Utah)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 27 November 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Information is Power: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Rema Hanna (Harvard University)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 20 November 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico

David Atkin (MIT)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 13 November 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Competition and Bank Opacity

Ross Levine (Haas Berkeley)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 06 November 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Ufuk Akcigit (UPenn)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 30 October 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Managing Buzz

Arthur Campbell (Yale University)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 23 October 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk

Igal Hendel (Northwestern University)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 16 October 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Patents, Competition, and Innovation - Evidence from Compulsory Licensing during WWI

Petra Moser (Stanford)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 09 October 2014 13:45 - 15:00

How does peer pressure affect educational investment

Leonardo Bursztyn (Chicago)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 20 February 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Title TBC

Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 20 February 2014 13:45 - 15:00

Title TBC

Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 December 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Optimal Search on Rugged Landscapes

Niko Matouschek (Northwestern University) , joint with Steve Callander (Standford GSB)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 December 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Do Fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials

Heidi Williams (Harvard)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 28 November 2013 13:45 - 15:00

The Market for Advice: Optimal Contracting and the Allocation of Talent

Luis Rayo (Utah/MIT) , joint with Luis Garicano and Willie Fuchs

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 21 November 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the U.S. Steel Industry

Jan De Loecker (Princeton)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 November 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Pol Antras (Harvard)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 November 2013 13:45 - 15:00

The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 31 October 2013 13:45 - 15:00

The buyer margins of firms' exports

Gianmarco Ottaviano (LSE) , joint with J. Carballo and C. Volpe Martinkus

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 October 2013 13:45 - 15:00

The Role of Firms in Fostering Within Country Migration Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

Tarun Kahna (Harvard Business School)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 17 October 2013 13:45 - 15:00

THE EMERGENCE OF THE CORPORATE FORM

Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 10 October 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity? Evidence From France

Antoinette Schoar (MIT)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 16 May 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Welfare and Equity Consequences of Transplant Organ Allocation Policies

Tayfun Sonmez (KOC)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 21 March 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China

John Morrow (LSE)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 March 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions

Christopher Stanton (LSE (DoM))

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 28 February 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Job Market Paper - Information, Incentives and Impulsivity in Food Choice: Evidence from Online Food Purchases SEMINAR CANCELLED

Vikram Pathania (Department of Management, LSE)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 February 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Job Market Paper - Valuing the Consumption Benefits of Urban Density

Victor Couture (University of Toronto)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 February 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Job Market Paper - Information Asymmetries in Crop Insurance

Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson (Yale)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 31 January 2013 13:45 - 15:00

JOB MARKET Social Insurance and the Marriage Market

James Snyder (Harvard University)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 31 January 2013 16:00 - 17:30
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Job Market Paper - Social Insurance and the Marriage Market

James Snyder (Harvard University)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 24 January 2013 13:45 - 15:00

Job Market Paper - The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions

Manuel Bagues (Universidad Carlos III)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 13 December 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Recent Marginal Labor Income Tax Rate Changes by Skill and Marital Status

Casey Mulligan (Chicago)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 06 December 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Steve Tadelis (UC Berkeley)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 29 November 2012 13:45 - 15:00

The allocation of talent and U.S. economic growth

Erik Hurst (Chicago GSB)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 22 November 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training

Mitchell Hoffman (Rotman School of Management)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 15 November 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Spatial Sorting

Jan Eeckhout (UCL)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 08 November 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Implementing the Wisdom of the Crowd

Ilan Kremer (Stanford)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 01 November 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Public contracting in Delegated agency games with Applications

Lars Stole (Chicago GSB)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 25 October 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Who Is (More) Rational?

Shachar Kariv (Berkeley)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 18 October 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Do entrepreneurs matter?

Hans Hvide (Bergen)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 11 October 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Grab them Before they Go Generic: Habit Formation and the Emerging Middle Class

Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 04 October 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment

Iwan Barankay (Penn)

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NAB 2.04, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 13 September 2012 13:00 - 14:00
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Managerial Capital at the Top: Evidence from CEOs Use of Time

Raffaella Sadun (HBS)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 24 May 2012 13:45 - 15:00

The Technological and Agency Effects of IT: Randomized Evidence from Credit Committees

Daniel Paravisini (Columbia University)

Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

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Thursday 17 May 2012 13:45 - 15:00

On the Merits of Meritocracy

Felix Vardy (Berkeley)

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Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

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Thursday 15 March 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Repossession and the Democratization of Credit

Efraim Benmelech (Harvard)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 08 March 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Microenterprise Dynamics: Learning from Experimentation

Christopher Woodruff (Warwick)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 01 March 2012 13:45 - 15:00

The Distribution of Talent across Contests

Marc Moller (Bern)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Tuesday 17 January 2012 13:45 - 15:00

Job Market Paper - The Allocation of Future Business: Dynamic Relational Contracts with Multiple Agents

Daniel Barron (MIT)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 08 December 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends?

Yi Qian (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 01 December 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Regional Firm Size Diversity and Innovation

Ajay Agrawal (Rotman School of Management, Toronto)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 24 November 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Working from Home: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China

John Roberts (Stanford GSB)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 17 November 2011 13:45 - 15:00

The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A natural field experiment

Josse Delfgaauw (University of Rotterdam)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 10 November 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Dissecting The Effect Of Credit Supply On Trade: Evidence From Matched Credit-Export Data

Veronica Rappoport (LSE)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 03 November 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Reagan's innovation dividend?Technological impacts of the 1980s US defence build-up

Mirko Draca (University of Warwick & CEP)

NAB 1.14, 1st Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 27 October 2011 13:45 - 15:00

A Theory of Strategy and the Role of Leaders in it

Eric Van den Steen (Harvard Business School)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 20 October 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Landing the first job: the value of intermediaries in online hiring

Catherine Thomas (Columbia & London Business School)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Monday 10 October 2011 14:00 - 15:30
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JOINT CAPABILITIES/LABOUR SEMINAR: Title TBC

Robert Gibbons (MIT)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 24 March 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency

Ramon Casadesus (Harvard Business School)

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Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

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Thursday 17 March 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Deep Financial Integration and Volatility

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Houston)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 10 March 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Competition in Persuasion

Emir Kamenica (Chicago Booth)

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Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

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Thursday 03 March 2011 13:45 - 15:00

NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Sebastian Stumpner (Berkeley, EOPP visitor)

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Thursday 24 February 2011 13:45 - 15:00

Industrial Development through Tacit Knowledge Seeding: Evidence from the Bangladesh Garment Industry

Steve Klepper (Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 09 December 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Sales Talk, Cancellation Terms, and the Role of Consumer Protection

Marco Ottaviani (London Business School) , joint with Roman Inderst

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 02 December 2010 13:45 - 15:00

The Flattening Firm: Evidence and Causes of the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies

Julie Wulf (Harvard Business School)

NAB 1.15, 1st Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 25 November 2010 13:45 - 15:00

What Do Outside Experts Bring To A Committee? Evidence From The Bank of England

Stephen Hansen (UPF)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 18 November 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Revolving Door Lobbyists

Christian Fons-Rosen (UPF Barcelona & CEP) , joint with Jordi Blanes-i-VIdal (LSE) and Mirko Draca (CEP)

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NAB 1.15, 1st Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 11 November 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Authority, Incentives and Performance: Theory and Evidence from a Chinese Newspaper

Yanhui Wu (CEP & LSE)

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Thursday 04 November 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Materialistic Genius and Market Power: Uncovering the Best Innovations

Glen Weyl (Chicago)

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Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

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Thursday 28 October 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Wealth and the Export Mix

John Sutton (LSE)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 21 October 2010 13:45 - 15:00

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Tom Kemeny (LSE)

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Thursday 14 October 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Innovation and Foreign Ownership

Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD)

NAB 2.14, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 07 October 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?

Joshua Gans (Melbourne Business School & Harvard)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 03 June 2010 13:45 - 15:00

How to Organize a Learning Process: Decision Rights, Strategic Communication, and Reputational Concerns

Bauke Visser (Erasmus School of Economics, Tinbergen Institute)

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Thursday 13 May 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Repo Runs

Elu Van Thadden (University of Mannheim)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 06 May 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Family values and the regulation of labour

Yann Algan (Paris School of Economics & Yale)

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Thursday 25 March 2010 13:45 - 15:00

The slow growth of new plants: learning about demand

Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)

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Thursday 18 March 2010 13:45 - 15:00

The wealth and poverty of nations: true PPPs for 141 countries

Nick Oulton (CEP & UCL)

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Thursday 04 March 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Title TBC

Paul Romer (Stanford)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 25 February 2010 13:45 - 15:00

SEMINAR POSTPONED - NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

Radha Iyengar (CEP, LSE and NBER)

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Thursday 18 February 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Social vs. monetary incentives in the workplace: evidence from field experiments

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 11 February 2010 13:45 - 15:00

Resistance to Change

James Dow (LBS)

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Thursday 03 December 2009 13:45 - 15:00

A new capital regulation for large financial institutions

Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 December 2009 13:45 - 15:00

A New Capital Regulation For Large Financial Institutions

Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)

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Thursday 26 November 2009 13:45 - 15:00

The Dynamics of Firms' Product Portfolios in Response to Low-Cost Country Competition: an Empirical Assessment

Claire Lelarge (CREST)

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Thursday 19 November 2009 13:45 - 15:00

The Power of Dynastic Commitment: Employment Policies in Family Firms

Nicolas Serrano-Velarde (Oxford)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 12 November 2009 13:45 - 15:00

Vertical Integration: Linking Theory to Practice

Robert Gertner (Chicago University)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Friday 06 November 2009 13:45 - 15:00

The Economics of Radiator Springs: Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs and Spatial Demand Shifts

Tom Hubbard (University of Chicago Business School)

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NAB 1.15, 1st Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 29 October 2009 13:45 - 15:00

The Importance of Hold-up in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Antoinette Schoar (MIT)

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Thursday 15 October 2009 13:45 - 15:00

Spinoffs and the Market for Ideas

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 08 October 2009 13:45 - 15:00

Advising on Alternatives

Wouter Dessein (Columbia University) , joint with Yeon-Koo Che and Navin Kartik

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Friday 05 December 2008 13:45 - 15:00

The Size, Function and Trade Area of Manufacturing Plants

Thomas Holmes (University of Minnesota)

NAB 2.16, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Friday 28 November 2008 13:45 - 15:00

What do managers do (to build competitive advantage)?

Rebecca Henderson (MIT)

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NAB 2.16, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Friday 21 November 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Railroads and the Raj: the economic impact of transportation infrastructure

Dave Donaldson (MIT)

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NAB 2.16, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Friday 14 November 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Liquidity constraints and imperfect information in subprime lending

Jonathan Levin (Stanford University)

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NAB 2.16, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Friday 07 November 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Competition and Diversity: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers

Matthew Gentzkow (Chicago Booth)

NAB 2.16, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Friday 31 October 2008 13:45 - 15:00

What they don't know can't hurt you: The benefits of limited feedback in organizations

Stephen Hansen (UPF)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Friday 24 October 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Democratizing Entry: Banking deregulations financing constraints, and entrepreneurship

William Kerr (Harvard Business School)

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NAB 2.16, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Friday 17 October 2008 13:45 - 15:00

How much does immigration boost innovation?

Jennifer Hunt (Rutgers) , joint with Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle

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NAB 2.16, 2nd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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Thursday 19 June 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Rachel Griffith (IFS and UCL)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 June 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants

Michael Greenstone (MIT)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 29 May 2008 13:45 - 15:00

An Experimental Component Index for the CPI

Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 20 May 2008 15:30 - 17:00
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, IMITATION, AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

Lee Branstetter (Carnegie Mellon University)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 15 May 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant-Level Evidence

Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 28 February 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Gender differences in career paths among highly-skilled professionals: The case of MBA graduates

Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 21 February 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Joint PIIP/Economics of Industry Seminar - From Pigou to extended liability: On the optimal taxation of externalities under imperfect financial markets

Jean Tirole (Toulouse)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 February 2008 13:45 - 15:00

Joint PIIP/IE Seminar - The productivity advantages of large markets: distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection

Diego Puga (CEMFI) , joint with Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Sebastien Roux

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 13 December 2007 16:00 - 17:00
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CEP Productivity and Tanaka Business School Seminar: Superstar extinction

Pierre Azoulay (MIT & NBER) , joint with Joshua Graff Zivin & Jialan Wang

Lower Ground Square Theatre, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ

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Thursday 06 December 2007 13:45 - 15:00

Recovering the Sunk Costs of R&D: The Moulds Industry Case

Carlos Santos (CEP)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 29 November 2007 13:00 - 14:30
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CEP Productivity and Tanaka Business School Seminar: Patents, Thickets and Entry in Software

Iain Cockburn (Boston University & NBER)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 15 November 2007 13:45 - 15:00

The financial patent litigation puzzle

Joshua Lerner (Harvard University & NBER)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 08 November 2007 13:45 - 15:00

Email and skill-based organisational change

Alexander Whalley (UC Merced)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 25 October 2007 13:45 - 15:00

Selection or self-rejection? Applications into a voluntary treatment program: the case of R&D subsides

Otto Toivanen (HECER, University of Helsinki) , joint with Tuomas Takalo and Tanja Tanayama

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 11 October 2007 13:00 - 14:30
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Merger of equals and unequals

Michael Gibbs (Chicago Graduate School of Business) , joint with Kathryn Lerulli & Valerie Smeets

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 June 2007 13:45 - 15:00

Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why do Poorer Countries Regulate Sooners?

David Popp (Syracuse University)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 June 2007 13:45 - 15:00

Credti Constraints - Volatility & Growth

Philippe Aghion (Harvard)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 May 2007 13:45 - 15:00

Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects

Luis Cabral (NYU, Stern Business School)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 10 May 2007 13:45 - 15:00

Chain indices and the path-dependence problem: an empirical solution

Nick Oulton (CEP & UCL)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 26 April 2007 13:45 - 15:00

Investment in Innovation and Fixed Assets: the effect of US tax reforms that reduced the relative price of equity to debt

Gareth Macartney (IFS)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 12 March 2007 15:30 - 17:00
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Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation

Richard Newell (Resources for the Future, Duke)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 08 March 2007 13:45 - 15:00

NO SEMINAR

Christopher Stanton (LSE (DoM))

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 22 February 2007 13:45 - 15:00

What do we know about the structure of Pyramidal business groups? Evidence from Europe

Sharon Belenzon (CEP & Oxford University) , joint with Tomer Berkowitz

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 December 2006 13:45 - 15:00

R&D and productivity: Estimating production functions when productivity is endogenous

Ulrich Doraszelski (Harvard University)

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Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

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Thursday 30 November 2006 13:45 - 15:00

The Division of Labor, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing

Guy Michaels (LSE & CEP)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 23 November 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Exploiting Sequential Learning to Estimate Microeconomic Productivity Dynamics in Strategic Settings

David Greenstreet (Oxford University)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 09 November 2006 13:45 - 15:00

The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays

Scott Stern (Kellogg School of Business, Northewestern University)

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Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

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Thursday 26 October 2006 13:45 - 15:00

POSTPONED UNTIL LENT TERM 2007: Computing Crime: Information Technology, Police Effectiveness and the Organisation of Policing

Luis Garicano (LSE Department of Management & CEP)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 12 October 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Cross-License Agreements in the Semiconductor Industry: Waiting to Persuade

Alberto Galasso (Economics of Industry, STICERD)

Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

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Thursday 28 September 2006 12:30 - 14:00
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Margins of Multinational Labour Substitution

Marc Muendler (UCSD)

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Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

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Thursday 29 June 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Production Targets

Liran Einav (Stanford University))

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Thursday 22 June 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Labor Supply and Personal Computer Adoption

Mark Doms , joint with Ethan Lewis

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Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 15 June 2006 13:45 - 15:00

The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz

Ran Abramitzky (Stanford)

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Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 08 June 2006 13:45 - 15:00

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David Thesmar (PSE)

Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 18 May 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Factor Adjustments After Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Columbian Plants

Maurice Kugler (Southampton University ) , joint with Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler

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Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 11 May 2006 13:45 - 15:00

The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking

Jerome Adda (Bocconi University)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 04 May 2006 13:45 - 15:00

The Link Between R&D and Productivity in the UK

James Smith (Bank of England) , joint with Rachel Reeves

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 27 April 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Favoritism and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence From Personnel Data

Imran Rasul (UCL and IFS) , joint with Oriana Bandiera and Iwan Barankay

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Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 09 March 2006 13:45 - 15:00

How do economic incentives and regulatory factors influence adoption of new medical technologies? Result from the TECH project

Alistair McGuire (LSE)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 23 February 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Information Technology, Organisational Change and ProductivityGrowth: Evidence from UK Firms

Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College London)

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Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 09 February 2006 13:45 - 15:00

POSTPONED UNTIL SUMMER TERM

Imran Rasul (UCL and IFS) , joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Iwan Barankay (Essex)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 02 February 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

William Kerr (Harvard Business School)

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Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 26 January 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries

Eric Bartelsman (Free University of Amsterdam)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 19 January 2006 13:45 - 15:00

Strategic Response to Parallel Trade

Margaret Kyle (Duke University)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 January 2006 13:45 - 15:00

POSTPONED UNTIL SUMMER TERM

Rachel Reeves (Bank of England)

Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 15 December 2005 13:45 - 15:00

The Substitution Elasticity, Growth Theory, And The Low-Pass Filter Panel Model

Robert Chirinko (Emory University) , joint with Debdulal Mallick

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Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 01 December 2005 13:45 - 15:00

Skill biased technological change: comparable firm-level evidence from Brazil and India

Rupert Harrison (IFS & UCL)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 17 November 2005 13:45 - 15:00

Contractual Imperfections, Credit Markets and Vertical Integration: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence

Rocco Machiavello (Oxford University)

Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 03 November 2005 13:45 - 15:00

Information Technology and Firm Performance

Mirko Draca (University of Warwick & CEP)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 20 October 2005 13:45 - 15:00

Mergers and Innovation: the Case of the Pharmaceutical Companies

Carmine Ornaghi (University of Southampton)

Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 06 October 2005 13:45 - 15:00

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Francesco Caselli (CEP & LSE)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 23 June 2005 13:45 - 15:00

ICT and Productivity

Dinesh Cheryan (CEP)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 09 June 2005 13:45 - 15:00

Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching up to the World Standard?

Jan Svejnar (University of Michigan)

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Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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Thursday 26 May 2005 13:45 - 15:00

It ain't what you do it's the way that you do I.T. - Testing explanations of productivity growth using U.S. subsidiaries

Raffaella Sadun (HBS)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 May 2005 13:45 - 15:00

Incentives and invention in Universities

Mark Schankerman (LSE)

Basement Conference Room, IFS,, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

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Thursday 05 May 2005 13:45 - 15:00

Multi-Product Firms, Industry Mix and Product Switching

Steve Redding (Princeton)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 28 April 2005 13:45 - 15:00

Unions and productivity again: new evidence from matched WERS/Census Data

Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College London)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 April 2005 13:45 - 15:00

Past Seminars: CEP/DOM Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminar

Past Seminars:
CEP/DOM Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminar