Events 2018-2019

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 1:15-6:00pm

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM

Hosted by STICERD

Professor Oriana Bandiera, Director of STICERD, will direct a new DFID IZA initiative on Gender, Jobs and Poverty. It has a budget of more than £10 million over 5 years to fund innovative research proposals on the link between jobs and poverty, and gender-specific barriers.

On Wednesday 19 June 2019 the initiative will be launched with an inaugural workshop held at LSE, with presentations by several leading scholars and a panel discussion. Fint out more and how to attend here.

June 2019

Panellists:

• Swati Dhingra is Associate Professor of Economics at LSE and the Centre for Economic Performance.

• Dorothee Rouzet is a senior economist at the OECD.

• Peter Schott is Juan Trippe Professor of International Economics, Yale School of Management.

• John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase Chair in Economics and School Professor, LSE.

Andres Velasco (Chair) is Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy.

Info: Event is free and open to all with no ticket or registration required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. 

Twitter Hashtag: #LSEWork

More information: CEP and LSE Events.

June 2019

Oriana Bandiera (Chair) is Professor of Economics and Sir Anthony Atkinson Chair in Economics at LSE, and Director of STICERD.

Info: Event is free and open to all with no ticket or registration required. Further information about this event will be available soon.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSECoase

For more information, please see here and LSE Events.

Podcast available here. Lecture slides can be accessed here.

June 2019

John Van Reenen is Gordon Y. Billiard Professor of Management and Economics at MIT, and BP Professor of Economics at LSE.

Steve Pischke (Chair) is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at LSE.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEFutureJobs

Further information from LSE Events.

Podcast available here.

May 2019

This year Raghuram Rajan, the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth will deliver the Lionel Robbins Lectures:  

Liquidity and Leverage

A bank's issuance of short-term demandable or overnight claims in order to finance illiquid loans leads to panics. Since the dawn of banking in Assyria and Sumeria, long before we had central banks, deposit insurance, or a tax advantage to debt, banks have had this structure, and critics have been troubled by it, as they are today. Professor Rajan will argue that this structure of banks - financing illiquid loans with short term or demandable debt - is not just a bug in the system, it is also a feature.

Monday 11 March 2019: Lecture 1 - Why banks?

Tuesday 12 March 2019: Lecture 2 - The two faces of liquidity

These events are free to attend and places are offered on a first-come-first-served basis on the night. 

For more information, see here. 

March 2019

March 2019

The rapid spread of mobile phones in developing countries, coupled with recent advances in our ability to analyze big data through tools such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, has generated considerable excitement about the potential of ICT for development. How does the reality of ICT use for development stack up to this excitement? And, which institutional arrangements best promote the use of ICT for development? Michael Kremer begins to answer these questions by examining the case of mobile-phone enabled agricultural extension for smallholder farmers.

Michael Kremer is Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Kremer’s recent research examines education, health, water, and agriculture in developing countries.  He has been named as one of Scientific American’s 50 researchers of the year, and has won awards for his work on health economics, agricultural economics, and on Latin America. 

Oriana Bandiera (@orianabandiera) is Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics and Director of STICERD, LSE.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #KAPTalks

Info: This event is free and open to all with no ticket or pre-registration required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. Further information from LSE Events. 

Recordings: Audio recording on LSE Media page, Video recording on YouTube

February 2019

Why didn't the Federal Reserve rescue Lehman Brothers? This lecture will debunk the explanation given by Fed officials–lack of legal authority–and explore the real reasons for the decision to let Lehman fail. 

Laurence Ball is Professor of Economics and Department Chair at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a consultant for the International Monetary Fund.

Ricardo Reis, who will be chairing the event, is A W Phillips Professor of Economics and a consultant to central banks around the world.

Twitter hashtag for this event: #LSEBall

Info: This event is free and open to all with no ticket or pre-registration required - further information from LSE Events. 

Recording: Video recording on YouTube

October 2018