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POID Research Seminars

POID research seminars take place on the first Tuesday of each month from 11:00-12:00 in SAL 2.04. In each session, our researchers and academics present and discuss work in progress in an informal setting.

Please note that these seminars are open to staff and research students from LSE (and by invitation) only.

Monday 06 July 2026 11:00 - 12:00

Innovation partnerships for development along green value chains

Growth and development success stories are often linked to new technological waves and innovation success. Green technologies emerge as a new technology category in which innovation quality in Emerging and Developing Eco...Read more...

Ralf Martin (IFC and Imperial College London), joint work with Samuel Edet, Golvine de Rochambeau, Trang Thu Tran and Dennis Verhoeven

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 02 June 2026 11:00 - 12:00

Consulting contracts and the organizational economics of the state

States spend roughly 9% of GDP on procurement from outside providers. Economic theories of outsourcing highlight an efficiency-quality tradeoff. How large is this tradeoff and what are the implications of outsourcing for...Read more...

Marta Morando (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 11 May 2026 11:00 - 12:00

Managing Innovation in Firms

Most innovation occurs inside firms,  yet little is known about the organizational forces that shape it. We study the role of middle managers in within-firm innovation using uniquely rich administrative data from a globa...Read more...

Isabela Manelici (LSE), joint work with Ingrid Haegele, Jose P. Vasquez and Francis Wong

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 21 April 2026 11:00 - 12:00

Creation and destruction: What is the market value of innovations?

How much value does a technological innovation create, and how much does it redistribute? We derive general-equilibrium implications of innovation in which a firm’s innovation has three distinct effects: it raises the in...Read more...

Abhijit Tagade (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 03 March 2026 11:00 - 12:00

Emissions adjusted total factor productivity

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Maarten de Ridder (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 10 February 2026 11:00 - 12:00

Remote work and labour market power

A recent literature identifies distaste for commuting as a key source of rent extraction for local employers. This paper examines the impact of the post-pandemic transition to remote work combining three sources of micro...Read more...

Bernardo Mottironi (LSE), joint work with Tito Boeri, Peter John Lambert and Paolo Naticchioni

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 12 January 2026 11:00 - 12:00

The careers of women inventors

We examine the careers of female inventors in Germany using unique data that link patent records to social security information. Our analysis reveals substantial gender gaps in patenting outcomes, wages, earnings, labor ...Read more...

Mimosa Distefano (CEP)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 02 December 2025 11:00 - 12:00

Funding the Ivory Tower: The effects of NSF institutional grants on universities and local innovation

This paper studies the effects of the NSF Science Development Program on universities and local innovation, combining historical data from scientific publications, doctoral dissertations, and patents. Introduced in 1965,...Read more...

Gabriele Cristelli (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 04 November 2025 11:00 - 12:00

Aggregate consequences of default risk

We examine the impact of firm-level default risk on aggregate economic performance. First, we develop a micro-to-macro model, and show that firms' default risk serves as a sufficient statistic for credit frictions. We ne...Read more...

Peter Lambert (CEP, LSE), joint work with Tim Besley, Isabelle Roland and John Van Reenen

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 07 October 2025 11:00 - 12:00

Fostering innovation in former coal regions using Artificial Intelligence

In two Czech regions facing economic decline from exiting coal, we test in an RCT with 173 firms whether AI-focused group workshops could foster the adoption of a new technology, innovation and growth. The treatment prov...Read more...

Florian Munch (LSE POID and CEP)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 01 July 2025 11:00 - 12:00

Network Transition: Why academics are leaving Twitter for Bluesky

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Frederic Denker (POID and CEP), joint work with Dorian Quelle, Prashant Garg and Alexandre Bovet

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 03 June 2025 11:00 - 12:00

AI and Productivity: A general purpose technology approach

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Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College London and LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 06 May 2025 11:00 - 12:00

The Ins and Outs of Multinational Firms in Four National Production Networks

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Isabela Manelici (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 01 April 2025 11:00 - 12:00

Firms in product space

Which products are potentially produced together? When demand for a product increases, which firms will supply it? Using multi-product production patterns within and across firms, we recover a continuous cost-based dista...Read more...

John Morrow (CEP), joint work with Luca Macedoni and Vlad Tyazhelnikov

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 04 March 2025 11:00 - 12:00

Does division of labor increase productivity? Evidence from primary care

The idea that the division of labor increases productivity is central to economic analyses of countries, industries, social structures, and occupations within organizations. We study the division of labor within an onlin...Read more...

Guy Michaels (CEP, LSE), joint work with Amanda Dahlstrand, Nestor Le Nestour and Shan Huang

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 04 February 2025 11:00 - 12:00

Where does the pipeline Leak? Selection and performance in a large competition of high school innovators

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Gaia Dossi (CEP, LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 07 January 2025 11:00 - 12:00

Growth through innovation bursts

In theories of creative destruction, product innovation is a key driver of aggregate economic growth. In this paper, we confront the predictions of these models with the empirical patterns of product innovation, document...Read more...

Maarten de Ridder (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 03 December 2024 11:00 - 12:00

The Power of Industrial Policy: The global impact of Chinese subsidies on solar Innovation and emissions reduction

Solar panel production costs have experienced a dramatic decline in the last two decades. This trend is concomitant with the remarkable rise of China as a global solar producer, in part sparked by industrial policies. We...Read more...

Claudia Gentile (Visiting Fellow, LSE CEP and POID)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 05 November 2024 11:45 - 12:30

Stronger together: Female export consortia

Exporting offers lucrative business opportunities, but in most countries, only a few large and male-owned firms manage to export. We randomized, incentivized, and coordinated small, female-owned firms from complementary ...Read more...

Florian Munch (LSE POID and CEP), joint work with Fabian Scheifele and Amira Bouziri

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 05 November 2024 11:00 - 11:45

Labour market power and aggregate productivity

This paper offers a novel perspective on the general equilibrium effects of labour market power. By developing a tractable model of entrepreneurship with monopsonistic labour markets and endogenous technology adoption, I...Read more...

Bernardo Mottironi (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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