Many PhD students are attached to one of the School's research centres. They offer desk space and computer facilities in return for working on the centre's research projects. Note that the research centres have no obligation to provide facilities or support for research students, and you should not take them for granted. There are four main research centres that provide a home for research students in economics.
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Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). The CEP is an interdisciplinary research centre at the LSE Research Laboratory. It was established by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 1990 and is now one of the leading economic research groups in Europe. The CEP studies the determinants of economic performance at the level of the company, the nation and the global economy by focusing on the major links between globalisation, technology and institutions (above all the educational system and the labour market) and their impact on productivity, inequality, employment, stability and wellbeing.
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Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM). A research centre that brings together a group of world class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and help design policies to alleviate it.
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Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD). This is an interdisciplinary research centre which conducts research within four main research programmes; the Economic Organisation and Public Policy programme (EOPP), the Distributional Analysis Research programme (DARP), the Economics of Industry programme (EI) and the Japanese Studies programme(JS). In addition, STICERD also houses the ESRC Research Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and provide financial support for the Theory Group (TG) and the Econometrics Programme (EP).
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Financial Markets Group (FMG). The Financial Markets Group Research Centre (FMG) was established in 1987 at the LSE. The FMG is a leading centre in Europe for academic research into financial markets. It is the focal point of the LSE's research communication with the business, policy making and academic finance communities. The FMG has also developed strong links with the user community, in particular investment banks, commercial banks and regulatory bodies, and attracts support from a large number of City institutions, both private and public. It stands at the forefront of understanding problems in financial markets and in the decision-making processes of corporations, banks and regulators.