Events Calendar

Thursday 11 March 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

The Welfare Effects of Social Media

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Thursday 11 March 2021 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of ‘Bottom-Up’ Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

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Friday 12 March 2021 13:00 - 14:30

CEP/Geography Urban and Regional Economics Seminars & CEP/LSE International Economics Seminars

European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier

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Monday 15 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

The political economy of policy experimentations in China

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Tuesday 16 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Labour Market Shocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Inequalities and Child Outcomes

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Wednesday 17 March 2021 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

GVC Tariffs and Trade Elasticities

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Thursday 18 March 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Let’s Face It: Assessing the Welfare Effects of Calorie Labelling Using Facial Expressions

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Thursday 18 March 2021 16:00 - 17:00

CEP Public Events

Hosted with CEPR and the German Development Institute

The future of economic development strategies

An online seminar series aiming to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment on developing and emerging countries....Read more...

Friday 19 March 2021 13:00 - 14:30

CEP/Geography Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

Judge Dread: Court severity, repossession risk and demand in mortgage and housing markets

We study the impact of the likelihood that a house is repossessed – conditional on the mortgage being in arrears and taken to court – on mortgage and housing demand. We focus on the severity of courts that adjudicate on ...Read more...

Monday 22 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies

Roads, rail, and other public transport in a city are “place-based,” in that they are built in specific neighborhoods. Do such investments benefit the poor? If people are mobile within a city, then any such place-based i...Read more...

Tuesday 23 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Unequal Learning and Labour Market Losses in the Crisis: Consequences for Social Mobility

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Wednesday 24 March 2021 12:30 - 13:30

International Economics Workshops

Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States

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Wednesday 24 March 2021 14:00 - 15:00

CVER Seminar

The Effect of College Capital Projects on Students' Outcomes

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Wednesday 24 March 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshop

Corruption under Austerity

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to small Italian municipalities. The DSP le...Read more...

Thursday 25 March 2021 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

Going Viral: Nazi Marches and the Spread of Extremism

Can extremism become contagious? Many papers have shown that social control of public actions can lead to sudden transitions from ‘extreme to mainstream’. What is not clear is whether social spillovers can also have firs...Read more...

Friday 26 March 2021 13:00 - 14:30

CEP/Geography Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets

Using transaction records on housing sales and leases, we estimate the effect of Toronto’s imposition of a land transfer tax in 2008. We find two novel effects of an increase in land transfer tax: (1) a rise in buy-to-le...Read more...

Monday 29 March 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Employer size, referral hiring, and racial inequality: evidence from Brazil

In Brazil, nonwhite workers are less likely than white workers to be hired by high-wage employers and larger employers pay higher wages, yet nonwhite workers sort to larger employers. This pattern holds conditional on de...Read more...

Monday 29 March 2021 17:00 - 18:15

CEP Public Events

Hosted with the Centre for European Reform, and UK in a Changing Europe

Brexit's economic impact: early evidence and future prospects

An online panel event discussing the early evidence of the impact of Brexit on UK-EU trade, and how economic performance will affect British politics....Read more...

Tuesday 30 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

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Wednesday 31 March 2021 12:30 - 13:30

International Economics Workshops

On the Geography of Industrial Transition and Inequality

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