All past 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.

Past

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 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

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 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 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

Frederic Denker (POID and CEP), joint 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

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

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 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 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

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 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

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 with Thiemo Fetzer, Prashant Garg and Bennet Feldt

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 July 2024 11:00 - 12:00

The Careers of Women Inventors

Mimosa Distefano (CEP), joint with Alice Kügler (CEU), Klea Ibrahimi (CEU), Simon Janssen (IAB) and Linh Tô (Boston 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 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 with Carl Benedikt Frey and Giorgio Presidente

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 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 with Patrick Bolton, Shannon Liu and Savitar Sunderesan

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 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 with Paul Carrillo, Dina Pomeranz and Monica Singhal

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 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)

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

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 with Tim Obermeier 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 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 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 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)

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 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 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 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 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 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

Peter Lambert (CEP, LSE), joint 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

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

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

Monday 09 January 2023 13:00 - 14:00

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

Jeremiah Dittmar (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 December 2022 13:00 - 14:00

The hitchhiker's guide to mark-up estimation

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

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)

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 04 July 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Who wants to improve their management? evidence from the MES

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

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 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

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

Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; INSEAD 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

Monday 09 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

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

Ralf Martin (IFC and Imperial College London)

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 04 April 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Who becomes an entrepreneur?

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

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

Richard Davies (LSE 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 10 January 2022 13:00 - 14:00

AI-tocracy

Noam Yuchtman (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 06 December 2021 13:00 - 14:00

(Two projects on) sourcing capabilities

Rocco Macchiavello (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 01 November 2021 13:00 - 14:00

The impact of labour regulation on innovation

John Van Reenen (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 04 October 2021 13:00 - 14:00

The business response to Covid-19: findings from the CEP-CBI survey on technology adoption, wave 2

Anna Valero (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 06 September 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Social push and the direction of innovation

Innovators' personal experience and social networks may affect their familiarity with customer needs, and in turn the types of products they bring to market. Consistent with this channel, we document that innovators crea...Read more...

Xavier Jaravel (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 July 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Has aggregate productivity and pay decoupled the UK?

This presentation analysed the growth of productivity and pay in the UK over the last 40 years. We showed that mean employee compensation and labour productivity have both almost doubled. However, when extending the anal...Read more...

Andreas Teichgraeber (LSE), joint with 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 07 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Globalization and market power

Giammario Impullitti (University of Nottingham 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

Monday 10 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Supersize me: intangibles and industry concentration

The presentation offered new evidence on the growing scale of big businesses in the United States, Japan and 11 European countries since the early 2000s. The rising concentration is strongly associated with intensive inv...Read more...

Matej Bajgar (OECD), joint with Chiara Criscuolo

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

Wednesday 21 April 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Induced innovation, inventors, and the energy transition

Reducing carbon emissions requires developing clean technologies, and thus, innovation plays a central role in dealing with climate change. Models of directed technical change show how tax and R&D subsidies can rapidly r...Read more...

Eugenie Dugoua (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 01 March 2021 13:00 - 14:00

UK prices - a new firm-level data set

This presentation exposed a new dataset of 41 million UK consumer prices, providing facts on the frequency, size and timing of price changes between 1988 and 2020. The micro data are the 'price quotes' of individual cons...Read more...

Richard Davies (LSE 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 01 February 2021 13:00 - 14:00

The Empirics of 'Blitzscaling': technology and high-growth firms in the UK

Mirko Draca (University of Warwick and CEP), joint with Anna Valero

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 January 2021 13:00 - 14:00

The long-term productivity effects of working from home

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a widespread decline in recorded GDP. Yet, as catastrophic as the collapse was, it was buffered by an unprecedented and spontaneous deployment of what we call "Potential Capital", the dwellin...Read more...

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

Monday 07 December 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Competition and pass-through: evidence from the isolated markets

This presentation demonstrated how pass-through varies with competition in isolated oligopolistic markets with captive consumers. Using daily pricing data from gas stations, we studied how unanticipated and exogenous cha...Read more...

Christos Genakos (University of Cambridge and CEP)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Monday 02 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Industrial policy, clean growth and Covid-19

Ralf Martin (IFC and Imperial College London)

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 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Overview of POID work programme

John Van Reenen (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

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