Congratulations to our Professor of Economics, Silvana Tenreyro for being appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours, for services to the economy. 👏🥇
Congratulations again to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Michael Kremer for winning the 2019
@NobelPrize
. We're thrilled to be celebrating with Michael who's visiting today
#NobelPrize
To all looking for an assistant professor position: the LSE Department of Economics will interview candidates in Rotterdam at the European Job Market. This year, we will not interview in San Diego at the ASSA. See you in Rotterdam!
In the latest podcast episode, Prof
@ben_moll
(
@LSEEcon
) explains how tech leads to higher inequality through income & wealth differences, & discusses the impact of financial asset ownership on wealth inequality across developed & developing countries. ➡
In her job market paper, Antonella asks the question ‘Can White Elephants Kill?’ and analyses the unintended consequences of unfinished public infrastructure in Peru. Read
@AntonellaBanca2
’s JMP abstract, paper and additional papers on her profile:
Prof
@landais_camille
has been awarded an
@ERC_Research
Consolidator Grant for his research on children & gender inequality.
#ERCCoG
are awarded to 'outstanding researchers' with a 'scientific track record showing great promise'. Congratulations!
More ℹ️
Congratulations to Professor Oriana Bandiera
@orianabandiera
who will be awarded the Ester Boserup Prize for Research on Development 2018!
@STICERD_LSE
Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism
Join us for this public lecture by
@MazzucatoM
who'll outline her new approach for governments to deal with inequality, disease & climate change. Chaired by
@alanmanning4
⏰ 29 Jan, 4.00-5.00pm
Many congratulations to Professors Francesco Caselli and Ricardo Reis
@R2Rsquared
who have been elected Fellows of the Econometric Society!
@econometricsoc
Read more:
New event- Silvana Tenreyro (
@LSEEcon
& member of
@bankofengland
Monetary Policy Committee) will discuss emerging academic research on the
#macroeconomics
of
#COVID19
including how it has influenced her recent monetary policy decisions ➡️ 15 July.
ℹ️ & 🎟️
Join us for our upcoming public event!
@CassSunstein
will discuss an ongoing programme of research that has created a form of Hayekian behavioural economics. Chaired by
#TimBesley
.
⏰ 18 January, 4-5pm GMT
ℹ️
Tomorrow! Join
@ResearchInColor
for their 2nd annual conference
#RIC2021
This year's theme will be 'Working Towards a More Holistic Understanding of Value in Economics'
📅 13 August, 2-5pm BST/ 9am-12pm EDT
🎫 Register:
#PaintTheProfession
Congratulations to
@XJaravel
who has been awarded the 'Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France 2021' ➡️ 'The Best Young French Economist Award 2021'
This annual
@lemondefr
&
@Cercle_eco
award is given to a French economist < the age of 40.
Read more:
Dimitra Petropoulou has been selected as a winner of the Economics Network’s annual prize for her “Outstanding Contribution to Economics Education”. Congratulations from all of us
@LSEEcon
! Read more ➡️
Congratulations to
@orianabandiera
who will join the editorial team at Econometrica in 2020!
Head of
@LSEEcon
Professor Steve Pischke said, 'Congratulations to Oriana & thanks to her for taking on such an important (& demanding) professional role.'
‘Congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Michael Kremer for winning the
@NobelPrize
for their research on understanding poverty in developing countries. They're all friends of the Dept & we're proud to currently host Mike Kremer as a visitor.' Prof Steve Pischke, HOD
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
#NobelPrize
Today's
#GoogleDoodle
celebrates Sir W Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize-winning economist & LSE's first Black academic. His pioneering research prompted new ways of thinking about issues of poverty & underdevelopment
#partofLSE
📈 Today’s
#GoogleDoodle
celebrates St. Lucian economist, professor, and author Sir W. Arthur Lewis, a pioneer in the field of international development economics.
Learn more →
Congratulations to
#LSEEconPhD
graduate Dr Guo Xu
@guoxu_econ
, who has been awarded the 2017 John Hicks Prize for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation!
🎉 Congratulations to John Moore & Nobu Kiyotaki for winning this year's
@FundacionBBVA
Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
They share this prestigious award with Ben Bernanke & Mark Gertler. Read more ➡️
Congratulations to Professors John Moore and Silvana Tenreyro on receiving the
@banquedefrance
&
@TSEinfo
Prizes in Monetary Economics and Finance. Read more 👉
Congratulations to Soroush Sabet &
@LukaszRachel
, winners of the 20/21 Sir John Hicks Prizes 👏
🔸 Outstanding performance in MRes Economics: Soroush Sabet
🔸 Outstanding doctoral thesis: Lukasz Rachel for "Essays in Applied Macroeconomics"
Read more:
Huge congratulations to Ricardo Reis
@R2Rsquared
& Silvana Tenreyro who have been awarded the 2021 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics, for their contribution to
#macroeconomics
.
Read more
@EEANews
👉
Welcome to 2021 ⭐ !
Coming up this month: Join
@LSEEcon
on Friday 29 January to hear
@MazzucatoM
speak on Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism. Registration opens 10am, 15 Jan. More info ➡
#LSEMazzucato
Congratulations to all our
@LSEEcon
Graduates today! We hope you have a brilliant day celebrating with your family and friends - you deserve it! 🎓👩🎓👨🎓
#LSEGraduation
TOMORROW! Esther Duflo, joint winner of the
#NobelPrize2019
in Economic Sciences, will speak on 'Good Economics for Hard Times'. Chaired by Robin Burgess
#LSEStamp
.
If you weren't able to get a ticket, you can watch the live webcast here:
The
@RoyalEconSoc
is launching a series of webinars focusing on the economic issues and policy solutions to the
#COVID19
crisis.
Tomorrow's webinar will be chaired by Tim Besley, with panellists Daron Acemoglu and Jean Tirole. Register now:
33 months after the referendum we have enough evidence to evaluate the short-run impact...The UK as a whole is economically poorer than it would have been if the country had voted Remain | Thomas Sampson via
@lsebrexitvote
@CEP_LSE
In this
@voxeu
column, Tim Besley, Chris Dann and Torsten Persson review evidence from 25 years of data to argue that countries form persistent ‘development clusters’ according to their levels of internal peace and state capacity.
@STICERD_LSE
Event:
Why Do People Stay Poor?
People living in poverty remain poor not because they lack talent, motivation or ability; they’re stuck in a low-opportunity poverty trap.
Wednesday 01 March 2023
The Old Theatre, LSE
6.00pm to 7.30pm
👏 Congratulations to
@economeager
who has been awarded a 2022
@AEAjournals
Best Paper Award for the article, 'Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments'.
Find out more:
Congratulations to Professors Silvana Tenreyro & Maitreesh Ghatak
@maitreesh
who were elected as Fellows of the
@BritishAcademy_
together with five Professors from other
@LSEnews
departments!
🎉 We’re thrilled to have been ranked 5th in the world for Economics in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 ()! Thank you to everyone
@LSEEcon
for making this possible!!! 🎉
#partofLSE
Find out more:
'We shouldn't just study why people are poor but also why do people stay poor?' |
@maitreesh
discusses a cash transfer experiment in
#Bangladesh
targeting the ultra-poor which reveals that complimentary assets are key in escaping poverty
@vox_dev
We're delighted to share that our Professors of Economics: Robin Burgess and Silvana Tenreyo have been honoured with ERC Advanced Grants for their outstanding work in Economics! 🏆👏 Congratulations on this remarkable achievement!
#ERCGrants
Article:
Why do people pay their taxes? Tim Besley explains why some countries have high rates of taxation and high compliance, while some failed states have neither.
@vox_dev
We’re pleased to announce the
@LSEEcon
2019 job market candidates! You can find a complete list of the candidates and read their paper abstracts here:
#EconTwitter
In her job market paper, Alexia Delfino studies men’s selection into traditionally female-dominated occupations. Read
@AlexiaDelf
's JMP and and additional publications on her profile:
Today!
@MazzucatoM
offers a path to fix capitalism, using lessons learnt from the Apollo 11 mission: a dynamic public sector able to take risks & experiment towards a concrete goal. Join this exciting event to learn why today’s goals are more challenging!
Swap lines between advanced economy central banks are a relatively recent and important part of the global financial architecture. How has their role been affected by
#COVID19
?
@R2Rsquared
discusses with
@timsvengali
@voxeu
'The Korean government's chaebol reforms in the late 1990s transformed the economy from an investment-based to an innovation-based model. There are lessons here for China.' Writes
@PAghion
@sguriev
& Kangchul Jo
@voxeu
Join us for this exciting event!
Philippe Aghion offers a cutting-edge analysis of what drives economic growth and a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism. Chaired by
@LSEEcon
Head of Department, Steve Pischke.
⏰ 4 May, 4-5pm GMT
In this
@voxeu
column, Tim Besley, Chris Dann and Torsten Persson review evidence from 25 years of data to argue that countries form persistent ‘development clusters’ according to their levels of internal peace and state capacity.
@STICERD_LSE
Why natural experiments won the Nobel
#VoxTalks
Professor Steve Pischke speaks to
@timsvengali
@voxeu
about the history of natural experiments, and the impact of the methods pioneered by this year's Laureates, Joshua Angrist, David Card, and Guido Imbens.
Wages for low-skilled workers have stagnated — even in industries that have experienced years of economic growth. Why?
Dr Rachel Ngai's research investigates.
#LSEResearchForTheWorld
TONIGHT! Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen will discuss his memoir, Home in the World.
We're thrilled to welcome Professor Sen back
@LSEnews
, which is very close to his heart, having spent many years here as Prof
@LSEEcon
, teaching part-time & visiting friends.
Congratulations to Steve Pischke & Joshua Angrist who have been awarded the
@ChicagoBooth
Fama Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Education! Read more
'Future historians will judge our effectiveness in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Unless world leaders work together, they will not judge us kindly', writes
@ErikBerglof
in
@ProSyn
Economic theory suggests market economies are likely to underprovide innovation because of the public good nature of knowledge. Nicholas Bloom,
@johnvanreenen
of
@LSEEcon
& Heidi Williams provide a toolkit of policies to promote innovation
@AEAjournals
Can economics be harnessed for the common good? Tune in to tomorrow's
#LSEMorishimaLecture
delivered by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo.
⏰ 17 June, 5-6pm (BST)
ℹ️ Hosted by
@STICERD_LSE
:
Women earn less than men after they start a family. Can better policies close the gap? Camille Landais tells Tim Phillips
@timsvengali
about new research comparing six countries
@voxeu
'Workers in certain low-skilled occupations benefit considerably from working in more R&D-intensive firms', say Philippe Aghion, Rachel Griffith,
@a_bergeaud
&
@R_Blundell_UCL
.
@voxeu
Save the Date!
⏰ 18 October, 6.30-7.30pm BST
Join us for this special event with
#NobelLaureate
Amartya Sen who will be talking about his recently published memoir, Home in the World.
#LSESen
@LSEpublicevents
@LSEnews
Why do people pay their taxes? Tim Besley discusses why some countries have high rates of taxation and high compliance, while some failed states have neither.
@vox_dev
Alan Manning
@alanmanning4
gave the Marshall Lecture on The Measure of Monopsony at this year's
@EEANews
Congress. Chaired by Silvana Tenreyro.
The lecture is available to watch now:
#EEAVirtual
#EEA2020
The November 2018 issue of the American Economic Review
@AEAjournals
features research from 4
@LSEEcon
PhD Alumni! Check out November's issue for articles by Guo Xu (2017), Réka Juhász (2015), Jonathan de Quidt (2014) & Daron Acemoglu (1992)
The new
#openaccess
#macroeconomics
textbook from
@LSEPress
introduces dynamic optimisation in the context of economic growth, applying it to a range of policy questions & new developments in fiscal/monetary policy.
Download it:
🎉 Congratulations to Eddy Zou (BSc Econ), Brooklyn Han, Stefanus Phan & Callum Renton (BSc EME) on winning 1st place in the ‘Econometrics Game’ hosted by
@UChicago
's Oeconomica Society.
Read more: