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Assistant Professorship in Economics - Closing date: 23 November 2016 (Please note that the post will be live on EconJobMarket from 1 October 2016)
Professorship/Associate Professorship in Economics - Closing date: 31 January 2017
2016 John Hicks Prize for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
Congratulations to Erika Deserrano and Andrea Lanteri who have been joinlty awarded the John Hicks Prize for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in 2016.
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Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics Public Lecture
23 November 2016
The Curse of Cash by Kenneth S Rogoff, Thomas D Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
LSE Financial Markets Research
Professor Ricardo Reis to contribute to new LSE financial markets research programme in partnership with Swiss Re.
LSE Research Festival 2016 Booth Prize
Congratulations to our second year BSc Economics student Robert Clark for winning the Booth Prize as part of the LSE Research Festival!
The Econometric Society
We are pleased to announce that Professor Oriana Bandiera has been elected Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Philip Leverhulme Prize
Dr Camille Landais has been named as one of the thirty 2016 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners by the Leverhulme Trust.
Department of Economics, Centre for Macroeconomics and Department of International Relations Public Lecture in November: Investing in Inclusive Growth by Bill Morneau (pictured left), Minister of Finance of Canada audio recording // more>>
Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics Public Lecture in September: The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power and Status in the Twenty-First Century by Ryan Avent, The Economist audio and video recordings // more>>
Bloom, Nicholas, Sadun, Raffaella, and Van Reenen, John (2015) Do Private Equity Owned Firms Have Better Management Practices? American Economic Review, 105 (5), pp. 442-446.
Bloom, Nicholas, Propper, Carol, Seiler, Stephan and Van Reenen, John (2015). The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals. Review of Economic Studies 82 (2), pp. 457-489.