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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.

Tuesday 06 May 2025 11:00 - 12:00

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Isabela Manelici (LSE)

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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

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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

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Frederic Denker (POID and CEP)

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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

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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

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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

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Gaia Dossi (CEP, LSE)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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

Tuesday 01 October 2024 11:00 - 12:00

The rise of onshoring: Evidence from a granular text-based production network

This paper examines the rise of "onshoring" since the mid-2010s, characterized by a shift in global trade volume towards more upstream inputs from downstream final goods. To study these trends, we develop a novel product...Read more...

Peter Lambert (CEP, LSE), joint work with Thiemo Fetzer, Prashant Garg and Bennet Feldt

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

Tuesday 02 July 2024 11:00 - 12:00

The Careers of Women Inventors

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Mimosa Distefano (CEP), joint work with Alice Kügler (CEU), Klea Ibrahimi (CEU), Simon Janssen (IAB) and Linh Tô (Boston University)

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

Tuesday 04 June 2024 11:00 - 12:00

The Missing Worker - Innovation, Demographics and Human Capital after WW1

We use quasi-random local variations in the number of young men who died as a result of World War I in France to assess the relationship between demographics, education, and innovation. Our analysis explores two distinc...Read more...

Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris and POID)

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

Tuesday 07 May 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Remote Control: Aligning incentives in a world of remote work

The rise of remote work has created new information asymmetries as fewer workers come into the office, making their actions on the job harder for companies to monitor. In this paper, we examine how firms have responded t...Read more...

Pia Andres (LSE), joint work with Carl Benedikt Frey and Giorgio Presidente

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

Tuesday 09 April 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Moral hazard in experiment design: implications for financing innovation

We develop a model of learning through experimentation in a principal-agent framework, where investors only observe an experiment’s outcome, but entrepreneurs can impact the information contained in the outcome through t...Read more...

Ramana Nanda (Imperial College Business School), joint work with Patrick Bolton, Shannon Liu and Savitar Sunderesan

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

Tuesday 05 March 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Misallocation in firm production: A nonparametric analysis using procurement lotteries

This paper develops new tools to study misallocation that do not require assumptions about the heterogeneity of firms’ technologies. We show how features of the distribution of marginal products can be identified from ex...Read more...

Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint work with Paul Carrillo, Dina Pomeranz and Monica Singhal

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

Tuesday 06 February 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Faster, richer, cheaper: can AI help us improve UK price data and track trade costs in real time?

This live project introduces new price microdata for UK. The data aims to allow automated grocery inflation estimates and a real-time interrogation of the geographic sources of price changes. Our dataset contains 19m pri...Read more...

Richard Davies (LSE and CEP), Josh Hellings (LSE), Finn Mcevoy (LSE)

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

Tuesday 09 January 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Markups trends and trade

Markup estimation has gained attention in recent years following work by de Loecker et al documenting increases in markups across a range of countries and industries. Their findings contrast with a series of studies in t...Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller (POID and CEP), Andreas Teichgraeber (LSE), joint work with Tim Obermeier and John Van Reenen

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

Tuesday 05 December 2023 11:00 - 12:00

The machinery of progress: measuring innovation and diffusion of capital equipment, 1998-2023

In this paper we chart technological progress embodied in capital equipment used in production. To do this, we digitize archival statutory filings of 85 million transactions of capital equipment, across five large US St...Read more...

Peter Lambert (CEP, LSE), joint work with Yannick Schindler (LSE, CfM)

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

Tuesday 07 November 2023 11:00 - 12:00

Mafia and Firms

Organized crime groups (OCGs) invest substantial sums in legal economic activities worldwide. Evidence on these investments is limited due to data scarcity. We introduce a model differentiating contaminated (OCG benefits...Read more...

Rocco Macchiavello (LSE)

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

Tuesday 03 October 2023 11:00 - 12:00

Political Ideology and Innovation

We study the role of political ideology for a critical group of economic agents: inventors. We document that, in "politically polarizing" fields, inventors are likely to patent innovations that align with their political...Read more...

Marta Morando (LSE), joint work with Gaia Dossi

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

Tuesday 05 September 2023 11:00 - 12:00

The gains from foreign multinationals in an economy with distortions

We study the local and aggregate welfare effects of the expansion of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) in an economy with distortions. To that end, we propose a guiding general equilibrium (GE) framework that we c...Read more...

Isabela Manelici (LSE), joint work with Jose P. Vasquez and Roman David Zarate

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

Monday 03 July 2023 13:00 - 14:00

Racial discrimination and lost innovation

Why are racial minorities underrepresented in the innovation process? Using patent applications filed in the US since 2001, we find that inventors with Black-sounding names are less likely to apply for a patent and less ...Read more...

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

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