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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 non-LSE (and by invitation) only.

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

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 November 2023 11:00 - 12:00

Mafia and Firms

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Rocco Macchiavello (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 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)

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 09 January 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Optimal adaptive investments in flood defences in Vietnam

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Capucine Riom (LSE)

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

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Rachel Griffith (University of Manchester and Institute for Fiscal Studies)

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

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Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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

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Ramana Nanda (Harvard Business School)

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

Measuring daily CPI using computational methods and Chat GPT

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Richard Davies (Economic & Social Research Council and CEP)

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

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 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

Monday 05 June 2023 16:00 - 17:00

Collusion and innovation: the case of LCD Cartel, 2001-2006

Collusion is difficult in innovative industries because the prospect of investments to achieve superior competitiveness weakens the incentive to cooperate with competitors. Nevertheless, high-profile cartel cases emerged...Read more...

Mitsuru Igami (Yale University)

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 16 May 2023 11:00 - 12:00

Estimating production functions with expectations data

A flourishing recent literature has focused on consistent estimation of production function parameters using firm-level panel data. Increasingly, researchers have access to observable measures of firms' expectations of f...Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller (POID and CEP), joint work with Aureo de Paula 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

Monday 24 April 2023 13:00 - 14:00

Remote work across jobs, companies and space

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Peter Lambert (CEP, LSE), joint work with Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Stephen Hansen, Raffaella Sadun and Bledi Taska

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 06 March 2023 13:00 - 14:00

Emigration and innovation: how industrial policy can affect the decision to emigrate

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Anna Rosso (University of Milan)

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 06 February 2023 13:00 - 14:00

Does the local integration of foreign firms matter? Theory and cross-country evidence

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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

Monday 09 January 2023 13:00 - 14:00

Strikes and innovation: the political economy of invention during the industrial revolution

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Jeremiah Dittmar (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

Monday 05 December 2022 13:00 - 14:00

The hitchhiker's guide to mark-up estimation

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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

Monday 07 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Spillovers from science

Scientific knowledge creates value by serving as an input to technology development. Heterogeneity in the value created across disciplines, institutions, and regions may inform efficient targeting of science funding. Thi...Read more...

Arjun Shah (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

Monday 03 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

From public labs to private firms: magnitude and channels of R&D spillovers

Introducing a new measure of scientific proximity between private firms and public research groups and exploiting a multi-billion euro financing program of academic clusters in France, we provide causal evidence of spill...Read more...

Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris 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

Monday 05 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Ray of hope? China and the rise of solar

Solar energy prices are falling quickly and this source of energy is becoming a more important in countries across the world. Within China a range of policies have been implemented to encourage the solar industry. There ...Read more...

Robin Burgess (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

Monday 04 July 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Who wants to improve their management? evidence from the MES

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Charlotte Meng (King's College London), joint work with Rebecca Riley

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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 06 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Good rents versus bad rents: R&D misallocation and growth

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Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; Harvard University and 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

Monday 09 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

"BuMap" project, on the topic of Ukraine, the energy crisis and implications for business

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Ralf Martin (Imperial College London and 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

Monday 04 April 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Who becomes an entrepreneur?

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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

Monday 07 March 2022 13:00 - 14:00

The new wave? technology diffusion in the UK during the 2010s

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Viet Nguyen (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 07 February 2022 13:00 - 14:00

The UK productivity puzzle - the role of declining responsiveness

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Richard Davies (Economic & Social Research Council 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

Monday 10 January 2022 13:00 - 14:00

AI-tocracy

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Noam Yuchtman (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

Monday 06 December 2021 13:00 - 14:00

(Two projects on) sourcing capabilities

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Rocco Macchiavello (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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