May 2005
BSc Economics Finalists win L'Oréal Brainstorm Award
The Department of Economics would like to offer its warmest congratulations to three BSc Economics finalists - Sarineh Cherchian, Li Lynn Chin and Jennifer Yun Lui - on being awarded a special prize for their creative ad for the hair care range, Studio Line.
Further information on the Award is available from the News and Views pages (31 May 2005).
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Lecture for Alumni and Reception
The Department of Economics is pleased to invite our alumni to a lecture and reception for the Economics Initiative, as part of the Campaign for LSE.
Speaker: Visiting Professor Paul Krugman
Topic: "Will We Dismantle the Welfare State?"
Date: Wednesday 15 June 2005
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Main Building
Reception to follow in the Atrium
By invitation only for BSc and MSc alumni of Economics and in recognition of alumni who have supported the Department
This event marks the generous support of alumni who have committed gifts to the continuing excellence of the Department. We hope that you will be able to join us for a convivial occasion with other members of the Economics Alumni Network, and to learn more about the fundraising priorities of the Economics Initiative, which is part of the Campaign for LSE. We look forward to seeing many of you at this occasion.
This event is ticketed. Please kindly reply by June 1st 2005 to Ms. Kate Brown.
E-mail: K.B.Brown@lse.ac.uk, Telephone: + 44 (0)20 7955 6423, Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6592.
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March 2005
"Can we become happier?" Professor Lord Layard to speak at LSE
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This paradox is not just anecdotally true, it is the story told by countless pieces of scientific research.
Professor Lord Layard, emeritus professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), answers tough questions about his new book Happiness in a public lecture at LSE on Wednesday 9 March.
Happiness: lessons from a new science (Penguin, March 2005) offers a vision of a better life, based on the insights of psychology, economics and social philosophy.
We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average, people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. In fact, the First World has more depression, more alcoholism and more crime than fifty years ago. This paradox is true of Britain, the United States, continental Europe and Japan. What is going on?
Professor Lord Layard is emeritus professor of economics at LSE and was founder-director of the LSE Centre for Economic Performance. He is the intellectual architect of the New Deal for the unemployed.
Andrew Marr, the BBC's political editor and author of My Trade: a short history of British journalism, will act as interlocutor.
For further information, please visit the LSE News and Media pages.
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Adair Turner Lecture at LSE: "Pensions: Political Choices and Macro-economic Consequences"
Debates on pensions often focus on technical details. But the overall design of a pension system reflects a political and philosophical choice as to the appropriate respective roles of government and individuals.
This is the topic Adair Turner, chairman of the Pensions Commission, will address in a lecture at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on Tuesday 8 March.
Adair Turner will also look at the macro-economic consequences of pension system design - the differences but also similarities between funded and pay-as-you-go systems - which need to be clearly understood. The lecture will explore these overall issues, referring to proposals for pension reform in the US and continental Europe as well as in the UK.
For further information, please visit the LSE News and Events pages.
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January 2005
The DNA of a Market Economy explored in three public lectures at LSE
Professor Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University, will give this year's three annual Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures, held at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), on Tuesday 25 to Thursday 27 January.
Market economies differ from each other in many fundamental ways: their legal systems, regulatory structures, levels of economic and political freedom, corruption in government, and so on. Professor Shleifer will explore these differences and ask are they systematic and, if so, can we understand them?
Tuesday 25 January - Transplantation By Conquest and Colonization
Wednesday 26 January: Why Does Legal Origin Matter So Much?
Thursday 27 January: Law and Finance
Andrei Shleifer is (Whipple VN Jones) Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is one of the leading American economists of his generation and in 1999 won the John Bates Clark medal for best economist under 40. He has written widely on economic institutions, including corporate governance and Russian privatisation.
For further information, please visit the LSE News and Media pages.
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Former LSE PhD student awarded prestigious John Bates Clark Medal
Daron Acemoglu, a former PhD student at the LSE, is to receive the prestigious John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association in 2005. This is awarded every other year to an economist under the age 40. This is the first time that a former LSE PhD student has received this award.
For further information on the medal, please refer to the AEA website.
Daron Acemoglu's personal website.
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December 2004
Economics Student wins A-Level Student of the Year award
Many congratulations are due to Chi Hieu Nguyen on winning the 'A level Student of the Year' award from the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA).
Further information on the award is available from the LSE News and Events site.
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Workshop on Strategic Thinking
Professional Development Panel, MSc Programmes, Department of Economics, LSE
Speaker: Mr Vivek Ramachandran, Lloyds TSB
Chair: Dr Linda Yueh
Date: Wednesday 10 November 2004
Venue: Clement House, D402
Time: 6.00-7.00pm
Any questions concerning this talk should be directed to Ms. Kate Brown, k.b.brown@lse.ac.uk. We look forward to seeing you there.
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November 2004
Economics Academic Speaks on the Rich in the BBC's Panorama Programme
Danny Quah, professor of economics at LSE, appeared on the BBC's Panorama on Sunday 7 November. The programme called 'Winner Takes All', focused on high salaries and the 'superstar effect'. Further information on the programme can be found at the BBC website.
Information about Professor Quah's research can be found at his website.
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October 2004
Economics Convenor to give The Clarendon Lectures in Economics 2004
The Clarendon Lectures in Economics at Oxford University will be given this year by Professor John Sutton, who will speak about globalisation and industrial development.
The lectures will be held on Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 October in the Oxford University Exam Schools, High Street, Oxford, at 5pm each evening. Admission is open to all.
Further details of the lectures can be obtained from Jenni Craig at OUP, and a summary of the lectures may be found on John Sutton's webpage.
Download the event poster as a pdf file.
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Professor Tim Besley to give Keynes Lecture in Economics
On Wednesday 13th October 2004, Professor Tim Besley will give the Keynes Lecture in Economics at the British Academy.
Tim Besley, professor of economics and political science and director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at LSE, will speak on 'The New Political Economy'. This lecture forms part of the British Academy's Autumn 2004 Lecture Programme.
Further information on the event can be obtained from the British Academy pages.
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September 2004
New Arrivals in the Department of Economics
Dr Kosuke Aoki (Lecturer in Economics)
Kosuke Aoki, who holds a PhD from Princeton and an MA from Kobe University, was formerly a Researcher at CREI at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an Economist in the Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division of the Bank of England. Currently a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, Dr Aoki's fields of interest include Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics and International Macroeconomics; he will be teaching undergraduate, graduate and research-level Monetary Economics.
Professor Francesco Caselli
Francesco Caselli is on leave from Harvard, where he is the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy. Prof. Caselli's main research interests are Macroeconomics, Development Economics and Political Economics, with particular reference to technological change, income inequality, and economic growth. He is a Research Affiliate of the CEPR, and a Faculty Research Fellow of the NBER. Prof. Caselli will be teaching advanced Macroeconomics and Quantitative Economics.
Dr Bernardo Guimaraes (Lecturer in Economics)
Bernardo Guimaraes, formerly of Yale and the Universidade de São Paulo (where he taught Game Theory, Econometrics and Macroeconomics), includes International Economics, currency and financial crisis among his research interests; he will be teaching Advanced Economic Analysis and Quantitative Economics.
Dr Myunghwan Seo (Lecturer in Economics)
Myunghwan Seo holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked on econometric theory and time series analysis, and an MA from the Seoul National University. Dr Seo's research interests include Econometrics, Financial Economics, and Microeconomics; he will be teaching undergraduate-level Econometric Theory.
Dr Silvana Tenreyro (Lecturer in Economics)
Silvana Tenreyro is on leave from her position as an Economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Dr Tenreyro holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, where she was a Teaching Fellow before moving to the FRBB. Dr Tenreyro's research interests include monetary economics, international economics, and economic development and growth; she will be teaching graduate-level Public Economics and Advanced Macroeconomics
Dr Georg Weizsäcker (Lecturer in Economics)
Georg Weizsäcker holds a PhD from Harvard, and a diploma from Humboldt University. Dr Weizsäcker's research interests include Experimental Economics, Game Theory and Applied Microeconomics; he will be teaching Advanced Economic Analysis (ug) and Advanced Microeconomic Theory (pgr).
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