All past PRINZ Seminars

The seminars are part of the Productive and Inclusive Net Zero Research Project (PRINZ), a collaboration between researchers from Imperial College Business School, the London School of Economics, University of Oxford, the University of Leeds and NESTA. PRINZ is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.

The seminars take place on the third Tuesday of each month from 11:00-12:00 in SAL 2.04. In each session, 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.

Past

Tuesday 17 September 2024 11:00 - 12:00

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What do Net-Zero scenarios imply for aggregate productivity?

Do subsidies to green technical change reduce carbon emissions? Evidence from French manufacturing firms

We study a one-billion-euro investment subsidy program aimed at fostering biomass-based energy adoption in manufacturing. Leveraging rich data on eleven cohorts of subsidized projects, we show that subsidies cause clean ...Read more...

Paul Dutronc-Postel (Paris School of Economics), joint with Bach, L., Guillouzouic A., and Paya, R.

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 21 May 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Greening the Red: The relationship between climate risk and corporate financial distress

This study investigates the intricate relationship between bankruptcy proceedings and climate risk. By constructing a unique dataset spanning business bankruptcies from 2000 to 2023 linked to companies’ environmental ind...Read more...

Costanza Tomaselli (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

Tuesday 16 April 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Heat Pumps in The Wild: Evidence from Installations across the UK

Heating buildings contributes about 20 per cent of global CO2 emissions. Decarbonizing heating requires substituting fossil fuel-based with renewable technologies. This technological change promises environmental benefit...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 19 March 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Microclimate risks and small businesses

A heat wave pans out differently across areas within a city. This paper documents these microclimate variations, estimates the damage function on urban small businesses, and studies mitigation strategies. We: (1) leverag...Read more...

Shuang Zhang (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

Tuesday 20 February 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Occupational and regional employment dynamics and bottlenecks in net-zero transition scenarios

In this seminar, I will present two studies that explore the labor dynamics associated with transitioning to a net-zero emissions economy. The first study examines the employment shifts in the U.S. electricity sector aim...Read more...

Maria del Rio-Chanona (UCL)

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 January 2024 11:00 - 12:00

Carbon Home Bias

We analyze how global investors adapt their portfolio decisions to reduce the carbon footprint of their portfolios. We find widespread underweighting of companies with higher carbon emissions by institutional investors a...Read more...

Marcin T. Kacperczyk (Imperial College London and CEPR)

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

Tuesday 19 December 2023 11:00 - 12:00

Measuring green jobs and skills

The public conversation around the workforce transition to Net Zero has become too narrowly focused on a small number of the greenest jobs. This binary narrative fails to capture the complexity of the changing labour mar...Read more...

Liz Gallagher (NESTA), India Kerle (NESTA), Zayn Meghji (NESTA)

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

Tuesday 21 November 2023 11:00 - 12:00

On the industrial origins of aggregate emission reduction: evidence from a dynamic factor model

We exploit a recently made available panel dataset of UK industry-level greenhouse gas emissions to understand the industrial origins of aggregate emission reduction. After reproducing and extending a number of facts gat...Read more...

Francois Lafond (Oxford University), Xiyu Ren (Oxford University), joint with Fulvia Marotta

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 17 October 2023 11:00 - 12:00

Inventor Supply Frictions

In order for innovation policy to function optimally, an increase in the demand for invention must be met with a corresponding increase in supply. In this paper we document the presence of a human capital friction that a...Read more...

Jordan Bisset (KU Leuven, Belgium), joint with Dennis Verhoeven

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

Tuesday 19 September 2023 11:00 - 12:00

Technology, energy and critical minerals: natural resources in the changing global economy

The mass adoption of energy transition technologies is crucial for the common goal of decarbonising the planet. Yet the dependence of these technologies on specialised minerals has raised increasing concerns, given the r...Read more...

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

Thursday 15 June 2023 11:30 - 12:30

Supporting solar: the causal impact of subsidies on domestic photovoltaic installations

Domestic renewable energy systems have enjoyed considerable government support in Europe and the United States. Yet despite their ubiquity there is a gap in evaluating their effectiveness. We examine the impact of the 20...Read more...

Aurelien Saussay (Grantham Research Institute, LSE), joint with Leanne Cass and Misato Sato

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

Thursday 18 May 2023 11:30 - 12:30

Disentangling the directions of technical change: a new growth accounting method

Current growth theories do not allow for the study of the bias of technical change and the evolution of factor shares --- at aggregate nor sectoral level --- without strong assumptions on the elasticity of substitution b...Read more...

Emilien Ravigne (University of Oxford)

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

Thursday 20 April 2023 11:30 - 12:30

Directed technological change and general-purpose technologies: can AI accelerate clean energy innovation?

Transitioning away from dirty and towards clean technologies is critical to reduce carbon emissions, but the race between clean and dirty technologies is taking place against the backdrop of improvements in general-purpo...Read more...

Pia Andres (LSE), Marion Dumas (Grantham Research Institute, LSE), 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

Thursday 23 March 2023 11:30 - 12:30

Skills for net zero: the role of apprenticeship

Air pollution and innovation

If air pollution harms innovation – and therefore future productivity – existing assessments of its economic cost are incomplete. We estimate the effect of fine particulate matter concentration on inventive output in 1,2...Read more...

Felix Bracht (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

Thursday 19 January 2023 11:00 - 12:00

Carbon pricing, compensation, and competitiveness: lessons from UK manufacturing

Carbon pricing is the cornerstone of cost-effective climate policy, but is often paired with compensation to carbon- and energy-intensive firms to mitigate carbon leakage risk. To what extent do such schemes compromise e...Read more...

Pier Basaglia (University of Hamburg)

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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