Date: Friday 4 November 2011
Time: 2.00-3.30pm
Venue: CEP Conference Room, R405, 4th Floor, LSE Research Lab, Lionel Robbins Building, Portugal Street, London, WC2A 2HD
Speakers: Dr Brian Bell, Professor Tim Besley, Professor John Van Reenen
Chair: Will Hutton

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, the CEP will host a seminar and general discussion on the issue of Top Pay in the UK. The event is open to the general public and will be chaired by Will Hutton. There will be two presentations by LSE academics:

Dr Brian Bell and Professor John Van Reenen will discuss how pay at the top has changed over the last few decades. They will focus in particular on the pay of bankers and CEOs and ask whether there is any evidence that pay is linked to performance.

Professor Tim Besley will address the issue of bankers bonuses and examine what policies might be appropriate when investors are protected by taxpayers from the downside risk. These will be followed by a lively discussion on the issues raised.

Tim Besley is professor of Economics and Political Science and director of STICERD at LSE.

Dr Brian Bell is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE.

Professor John Van Reenen is director at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE.

Will Hutton is principal at Hertford College, Oxford and chair of the Independent Review of Fair Pay in the Public Sector.

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #toppay

This event is free and open to all but pre-registration is required. To register for the event please contact Jo Cantlay by email j.m.cantlay@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 7285. For further information please visit the CEP website.

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