Biweekly research seminars and workshops

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars: Allocative Efficiency in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Test Using Procurement Lotteries
Date: Mon 11 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Dave Donaldson (MIT)
Location: 32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars: Buying Data from Consumers: The Impact of Monitoring in U.S. Auto Insurance
Date: Mon 11 November 2019 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker: Yizhou Jin (Berkeley)
Location: 32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CEP Labour Market Workshop: Better Together? Heterogeneous Effects of Tracking on Student Achievement
Date: Tue 12 November 2019 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker: Sönke Hendrik Matthewes (WZB Berlin)
Location: 32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar: Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court
Date: Tue 12 November 2019 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Jorg Spenkuch (Northwestern University), joint with Tom S. Clark and B. Pablo Montagnes
Location: 32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CEP/LSE International Economics Seminars: The Cost of the US-China Trade War: A Stock Market Approach
Date: Wed 13 November 2019 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker: David Weinstein (Columbia)
Location: 32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars: The Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Date: Wed 13 November 2019 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker: Prof Brian Nolan (Department of Social Policy and Intervention and INET, University of Oxford)
Location: 32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CVER Seminar: The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships
Date: Wed 13 November 2019 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica, Milan)
Location: 32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CEP International Economics Workshop: Intangibles within Firm Boundaries
Date: Wed 13 November 2019 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker: Angelos Theodorakopolous (KULeuven)
Location: 32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wellbeing Seminar Series: How do buildings affect our wellbeing?
Date: Thu 14 November 2019 13:00 - 14:15
Speaker: Koen Steemers (Cambridge)
Location: 32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CEP/DOM Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars: The Political Economy of Medicaid: Ideology, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures
Date: Thu 14 November 2019 13:45 - 15:00
Speaker: Claire Lim (Queen Mary)
Location: NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series: Inference for the mean
Date: Thu 14 November 2019 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Ulrich Mueller (Princeton University)
Location: 32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars: Compromise, don't optimize: A prior-free alternative to Bayesian Nash equilibrium
Date: Thu 14 November 2019 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker: Andriy Zapachelnyuk (University of St Andrews), joint with Karl Schlag
Location: 32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop: Minimax Learning for Average Regression Functionals: With an application to electoral accountability and corruption
Date: Fri 15 November 2019 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Chen Qiu (London School of Economics)
Location: 32L B.11, Basement, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CEP/Geography Urban and Regional Economics Seminars: Small teams in big cities: inequality, city size, and the organization of production
Date: Fri 15 November 2019 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker: Clara Santamaría (Carlos III)
Location: 32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars: Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda
Date: Mon 18 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Benjamin Faber (University of California, Berkeley)
Location: 32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars: TBC
Date: Mon 18 November 2019 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker: Robert Clark (Queen's University)
Location: 32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CEP Labour Market Workshop: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan: An Adaptive Field Experiment
Date: Tue 19 November 2019 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker: Stefano Caria (Bristol)
Location: 32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar: TBC
Date: Tue 19 November 2019 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Marco Tabellini (Harvard Business School)
Location: 32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CEP/LSE International Economics Seminars: Combining Quasi-Experimental Shocks with Endogenous Exposure: A General Framework
Date: Wed 20 November 2019 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker: Kirill Borusyak  (UCL)
Location: 32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars: Universal Credit and Financial Resilience
Date: Wed 20 November 2019 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker: Deven Ghelani (Policy in Practice), joint with Ben Fell
Location: 32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH