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Events

Due to the onging coronavirus outbreak, many of our seminars and workshops next term will continue as online seminars. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @CEP_LSE for updates.

CEPR/LSE Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2020
Recent highlights: CEPR/LSE Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2020

11-12 June 2020 - Online. With keynote speakers Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley, CEPR and NBER) and Alessandra Voena (University of Chicago and CEPR). Read more...
Make wellbeing the goal
Make wellbeing the goal

In the inaugural 30th Anniversary CEP Lecture, Richard Layard, will ask if wellbeing can become the focus for social science and whether it could change policy priorities for a post-Covid world? Read more...

Upcoming

Thursday 29 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Does Being Angry Limit Your Ability to Think Strategically?

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Eugenio Proto (University of Glasgow)

ONLINE

Monday 02 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
TBC

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Desmond Ang (Harvard)

ONLINE

Tuesday 03 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Imperfect Signals and the Efficiency of Educational Investments

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Georg Graetz (Uppsala University and CEP)

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 November 2020 14:00 - 15:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
Labour Market Returns to Vocational Education: The Role of Counterfactual Choices

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Sönke Hendrik Matthewes (WZB Berlin) joint with Guglielmo Ventura

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 November 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Trade from Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks

This paper examines the structure of the shipping network and its implications on global trade and welfare. Using novel data on the movements of container ships, we calculate optimal travel routes. We then estimate the i... Read more...

Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe (University of Oslo) joint with Inga Heiland, Andreas Moxnes ​and Yuan Zi

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 November 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil

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Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi)

ONLINE

Thursday 05 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing

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Alex Bryson (NIESR & CEP) joint with Daniel Blanchflower (Dartmouth)

ONLINE

Monday 09 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
TBC

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Sule Alan (EUI)

ONLINE

Tuesday 10 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
TBC

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Stephan Maurer (University of Konstanz and CEP)

ONLINE

Wednesday 11 November 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Exports, Imports, and Earnings Inequality: Micro-Data and Macro-Lessons From Ecuador

The earnings of individuals depend on the demand for the factor services they supply. International trade may therefore affect earnings inequality because either: (i) foreign relative factor demand is different from dome... Read more...

Dave Donaldson (MIT) joint with Rodrigo Adao, Paul Carrillo, Arnaud Costinot and Dina Pomeranz

ONLINE

Thursday 12 November 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
The Effect of Advisors' Incentives on Clients' Investments

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Jordi Blanes i Vidal (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 12 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Physical Pain, Gender, and the Business Cycle in 146 Nations

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Andrew Oswald (University of Warwick)

ONLINE

Friday 13 November 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France

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Laurent Gobillon (PSE)

ONLINE

Monday 16 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
TBC

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Marcella Alsan (Harvard)

ONLINE

Tuesday 17 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Paid Parental Leave Benefits and Paternity Acknowledgement

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Anna Raute (Queen Mary)

ONLINE

Wednesday 18 November 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
TBC

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Sofia Amaral (IFO)

ONLINE

Wednesday 18 November 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Permanently Scarred? The Long-Run Consequences of Civil War in Sierra Leone

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Tillman Hoenig (LSE)

ONLINE

Friday 20 November 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
TBC

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Morris Davis (Rutgers)

ONLINE

Monday 23 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
TBC

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Ellora Derenoncourt (Berkeley)

ONLINE

Tuesday 24 November 2020 14:00 - 15:15

Public Events
Covid-19 and business technology adoption

What we know about the barriers to technology adoption, and how policy can address these - noting also the impact on workers - and the extent of the impact from Covid-19.... Read more...

Various Speakers

ONLINE

Tuesday 24 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Local Monopsony Power

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Nikhil Datta (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

Wednesday 25 November 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
tbc

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Yusuke Kuroishi (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 26 November 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Consumer Search and Choice Overload

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Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim) joint with Patrick Rey

ONLINE

Thursday 26 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

Public Events
Make wellbeing the goal

This 30th Anniversary CEP event will ask can wellbeing become the focus for social science? How would this change economics and policy analysis? How would it change policy priorities for a post-Covid-19 world?... Read more...

Richard Layard (CEP)

ONLINE

Friday 27 November 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
TBC

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Marta Santamaria (Warwick)

ONLINE