Events
CEP's events and seminars are a mix of online and hybrid (online and in-person) meetings. We recommend signing up to relevant mailing lists and checking our website listings and Twitter feed @CEP_LSE for updates.
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Wednesday 12 November 2025 11:00 - 12:00
International Economics Workshops
Firm Boundaries as Supply Chain Risk Management
Recent supply chain disruptions have intensified debates over reshoring versus diversification, yet existing theories struggle to explain why downstream firms publicly restructure while upstream suppliers remain silent. ...Read more...
José Ignacio González-Rojas (LSE)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 12 November 2025 12:30 - 14:00
Trade and Urban Seminars
Can Industrial Policy overcome Coordination Failures? Theory and Evidence
This paper introduces a method to study the impact of policy events on equilibrium selection in settings where strong complementarities may lead to multiple equilibria and coordination failures. Many industrial policies ...Read more...
Tishara Garg (Princeton University, Stanford University)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 13 November 2025 13:00 - 15:00
Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Are Guidelines Worth Following? Treatment Decisions Under Scientific Uncertainty
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David Chan (UCB Haas)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Thursday 13 November 2025 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker Online
Special on universal basic income | Does income affect health? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a guaranteed income
This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by studying a randomized experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the United States received $1,000 per month for three years, w...Read more...
Sarah Miller (University of Michigan)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 17 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30
CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
The Political Economy of Stimulus Transfers
Stimulus transfers are widely used during economic downturns, yet they are often poorly targeted from an economic perspective. I show that political incentives might help explain this discrepancy. I study one of the larg...Read more...
Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 18 November 2025 12:00 - 13:00
Labour Economics Workshops
Crime and Businesses
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Beatriz Ribeiro (LSE, CEP, STICERD)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 18 November 2025 13:30 - 14:45
Labour and Education Seminars
Intergenerational Mobility by Sexuality
Existing research documents substantial disparities in life outcomes between same-sex and different-sex attracted individuals, typically disadvantaging same-sex attracted individuals. We analyse how parental background r...Read more...
Mathias Jensen (Oxford University)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 19 November 2025 11:00 - 12:00
International Economics Workshops
TBC
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Animesh Jayant (CEP)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 19 November 2025 12:30 - 14:00
Trade and Urban Seminars
Social Learning among Urban Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in Bangladesh
Knowledge spillovers among firms are widely viewed as a key driver of agglomeration and growth, but are difficult to estimate cleanly. We randomly allocated an energy-efficient motor --- a “servo'” motor --- among leathe...Read more...
Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 20 November 2025 13:00 - 15:00
Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Microclimate Risks and Consumer Adaptation
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Eric Zou (Michigan State University)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Thursday 20 November 2025 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
How Everyday Threats Undermine Trust and Hope: Experimental Evidence
Trust in others is vital for the well-functioning of societies. While economists often study its longer-term determinants—through culture, past shocks or state interventions—short-term fluctuation may be equally critic...Read more...
Olivier Bargain (University of Bordeaux )
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Friday 21 November 2025 13:00 - 14:00
European Seminars on the Economics of Crime (ESEC)
The scar of political conflict: evidence from tear gas deployments in Hong Kong
This study examines how exposure to political violence reshapes market behavior by leveraging Hong Kong’s 2019-2020 protests. Exploiting local variation in tear gas deployment–the primary crowd-control weapon marking sit...Read more...
Heng "Henry" Chen (University of Hong Kong)
ONLINE
Monday 24 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30
CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
TBC
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Pauline Carry (Princeton)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 25 November 2025 12:00 - 13:00
Labour Economics Workshops
Gender gaps in public spaces
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Muskan Jain (LSE, CEP)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 25 November 2025 13:30 - 14:45
Labour and Education Seminars
TBC
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Alan Manning (CEP, LSE)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 26 November 2025 11:00 - 12:00
International Economics Workshops
TBC
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Caterina Soto Vieira (LSE)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 26 November 2025 12:30 - 14:00
Trade and Urban Seminars
The Economic Geography of American Slavery
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Treb Allen (Dartmouth College), joint with Suresh Naidu (Columbia) and Winston Chen (Yale)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 27 November 2025 13:00 - 15:00
Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Replacement and Reputation
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Harry Pei (Northwestern University)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Thursday 27 November 2025 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
The Impacts of Austerity on Workplace Stress, Anxiety, and Depression
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Maria Cotofan (King's College London)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Friday 28 November 2025 09:00 - 16:30
CEP Public Events
Co-hosted with ADR UK
Understanding Labour Markets through administrative data (CEP-ADR UK Workshop)
Using administrative data to understand the role of skills, firms and places in determining labour market outcomes of young people....Read more...
Various speakers
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 01 December 2025 12:00 - 13:30
CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
TBC
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Chris Udry (Northwestern University)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 02 December 2025 12:00 - 13:00
Labour Economics Workshops
The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Inequality: Cross-Sectional vs Lifetime Perspectives
Permanent increases in the minimum wage compress the lower tail of the wage distribution, reducing cross-sectional current labor income inequality. While the effects on snapshot measures of inequality are well establishe...Read more...
Francisco Libano-Monteiro (LSE)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 03 December 2025 11:00 - 12:00
International Economics Workshops
TBC
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Shania Bhalotia (CEP, LSE)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 03 December 2025 12:30 - 14:00
Trade and Urban Seminars
Housing Affordability and the Mobility of Renters
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Nathaniel Baum-Snow (University of Toronto)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 04 December 2025 13:00 - 15:00
Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Joint with Labour and Education seminar
Family Connections, Nepotism, and Political Bargaining
We study nepotism as both a form of favoritism and a tool for political bargaining leveraging rich population data that link family ties, electoral candidates, and employment records in Brazil. Using a regression discont...Read more...
Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University)
MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY
Public events: Martin Hannon
Communications and events officer
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Seminars: Lia Bergin
Communications and Events Assistant
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