Economic Geography and Spatial Economics

Spring Term 2026

Thursday 7 May
Lucie Gadenne (Queen Mary University of London)
'Places, people or houses? Households' carbon emissions in the UK'

Thursday 14 May
Dr Kerstin Schaefer (Utrecht University)
'Chinese Firms Bridging the Standardization Gap in 3GPP: Liabilities of Outsidership and the Role of Technological Shifts'

Thursday 21 May
Dr Pelin Demirel Liu (Imperial College London)
'Does AI benefit the responsible firm more? Evidence from large US firms'

Thursday 28 May
Abhas Jha (World Bank)
'Seeing Cities: AI, Geospatial Intelligence, and the Future of Urban Governance'

Thursday 4 June
Dr Patrick Gaule (University of Bristol)
'Developing Math Talent Worldwide: Evidence from a Global RCT'

Thursday 11 June
Prof Adrian Smith (University of Sussex)
'Fields of Glass: Digital Technologies, Labour Regimes and Agri-food Value Chains'

Winter Term 2026

Thursday 5 February 
Carlo Menon (OECD)
'What drives regional productivity differentials? Evidence from firm-level data in Spain and Italy'

Thursday 12 February
Nicolas Gendron-Carrier (McGill University)
'Residential Human Capital and Economic Spillovers'

Thursday 19 February 
Neave O'Clery (UCL)
'Deciphering the global production network from cross-border firm transactions'

Thursday 5 March
Matthew Freedman (University of California, Irvine)
'The Direct and Local Spillover Effects of Subsidized Housing Investment: Evidence from a Tax Credit Lottery'

Thursday 12 March
Chris Severen (Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank)
'Scale Effects of Rapid Transit and Automobile Adoption'

Thursday 19 March
Elena Gentili (Bank of Italy)
'How to Rapidly Assess the Economic Consequences of Floods Using Public Data Sources? Evidence from Northern Italy'

Thursday 26 March
Daniel Favre, Matteo Gamalerio & Albert Solé-Ollé (U. de Barcelona & IEB)
'Political Backlash Against Climate Policy:The Electoral Costs of Renewable Energy in a Multilayer Government'

Friday 17 April
Prof Alexander Whalley (University of Calgary)
'Researchers, Ideas and Growth: Evidence from Vietnam Draft Avoidance'

Autumn Term 2025

Thursday 2 October
Ron Martin (University of Cambridge)
'Capitalism Divided? Financialisation, London and the UK’s Spatially Unbalanced Economy'

Thursday 9 October
Nicola D. Coniglio (University of Bari)
'Despecialization and the evolution of comparative advantages: relatedness, the China-shock and the exit of products from export baskets'

Thursday 27 November
Aldo Geuna (University of Torino)
'Opening the R&D network: Global academic knowledge sourcing at AstraZeneca'

Thursday 4 December
Carlo Inverardi-Ferri (Queen Mary University of London)
'Green accumulation and the geographies of solar production networks'

Spring Term 2025

Thursday 15 May
Elvira Uyarra (Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester)
'Place matters: rethinking mission-oriented innovation policy through a spatial lens'

Tuesday 27 May
*10:30am-12pm*
Geoff Boeing (University of Southern California)
'Generalizing and Localizing the Science of Urban Networks'

Wednesday 18 June
Lorenzo Neri (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
'The effects of Temporary Confiscation of vacant housing'

Winter Term 2025

Thursday 20 February
Catherine van der List (University of Essex)
'Reshaping the Economy? Place-Based Policies and Regional Reallocation'

Thursday 3 April
Roberto Ganau (University of Padova and LSE)
'Enlightenment and the long-term persistence of the Habsburg administrative tradition'

Autumn Term 2024

Thursday 3 October
Giorgio Presidente (Bocconi University)
'Death of Distance? Remote Collaboration and Productivity in Scientific Research'
Thursday 17 October
Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERIT)
'The employment impact of emerging digital technologies'

Thursday 24 October
Mercedes Delgado (Copenhagen Business School)
'Are Female Inventors Geographically Constrained? Gender Differences in Team Collocation'

Thursday 31 October
Carolina Castaldi (Utrecht University)
'Out of sight? Revealing creativity-led innovation in rural regions'

Thursday 14 November
Raven Molloy (Federal Reserve Board)
'Reexamining Lackluster Productivity Growth in Construction'

Tuesday 17 December
Dr Daria Taglioni (World Bank Group)
'Technologies, Innovation Diffusion, and Global Disruptions'

Spring Term 2024

Thursday 2 May
Max Nathan (UCL)
'Multipliers from a major public sector relocation: the BBC moves to Salford'

Thursday 9 May
Carolin Hulke (LSE)
'Adjust, Build, Collaborate: Elastic Governance and Social Upgrading in the Namibian Horticulture Regional Value Chain'

Thursday 16 May
Elena Renzullo (LSE)
'The Battle of the Sexes for Mayoral Re-election: Gender Differences in Early Childcare Provision'

Thursday 23 May
Hans Koster (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
'Endogenous land use regulation and welfare: Evidence from England'

Winter Term 2024

Thursday 8 February
Ana Varela Varela (LSE)
'Distributional Impacts of Carbon Capture in the U.S. Power Sector'

Thursday 15 February
Jesse Matheson (University of Sheffield)
'Do Remote Workers Deter Neighborhood Crime? Evidence from the Rise of Working from Home'

Autumn Term 2023

Thursday 28 September
Philip McCann (University of Manchester)
'Capital Shocks in US and UK Cities and Regions'
Thursday 5 October
Daniel Arribas-Bel (University of Liverpool)
'Decoding urban form and function in Great Britain'
Thursday 12 October
Enrico Vanino (University of Sheffield)
'Renewable Energy Transition and the Local Economic Development of Lagging-behind Regions: Evidence from Offshore Wind Energy in the UK'

Thursday 19 October
Maria Savona (University of Sussex)
'Nearshoring in Europe: Implications for Employment'

Thursday 16 November
Roberta Rabellotti (University of Pavia)
'Taking advantage of Global Value Chains to spread green energy technologies across countries'