Department of Economics

The next issue of Economica (issue 330 for April 2016) is out now .

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Upcoming Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics Public Lectures

Wednesday 9 March 2016 "Clear and Present Challenges to the Chinese Economy" by Dr Keyu Jin, Department of Economics, LSE    more>>

Department of Economics Inaugural Lecture: Sir William Arthur Lewis Chair in Development Economics

Wednesday 10 February 2016
"Political Economy and Development: a Progress Report" by Professor Tim Besley, Department of Economics, LSE - audio and video recordings    more>>

Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics Public Lectures:

"The End of Alchemy" by Professor Lord King (pictured), Department of Economics, LSE    more>>

"Debt, Demographics and the Distribution of Income: New Challenges for Monetary Policy" by Dr Gertjan Vlieghe, Bank of England - Monetary Policy Committee - audio recording

"Economics of Migration" by Professor Alan Manning, Department of Economics, LSE - audio and video recordings // slides

"Debt and Austerity: post-crisis lessons from Ireland" by Patrick Honohan - audio and video recordings

"CDP: a brief but affectionate history" by Professor Diane Coyle - audio and video recordings

"Phising for Phools: the economics of manipulation and deception" by Professor Robert J Shiller - audio and video recordings

"Other People's Money" by Professor John Kay - audio and video recordings

"Economics Rules: the rights and wrongs of the dismal science" by Professor Dani Rodrik - audio and video recordings

Department of Economics and LSE US Centre Public Conversation:
"A Conversation with Ben Bernanke"

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Caselli, Francesco, Morelli, Massimo and Rohner, Dominic (2015). The Geography of Interstate Resource Wars. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 130 (1), pp. 267-315.                     

Fischer, Greg, and Karlan, Dean (2015) The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth. American Economic Review, 105 (5), pp. 295-299.                                

Fuchs, William, Garicano, Luis, and Rayo, Luis (2015) Optimal Contracting and the Organization of Knowledge. Review of Economic Studies 82 (2), pp. 632-658.                                

Every year, we present our PhD students that are going in to the Job Market. Please go to PhD Job Market Candidates to find out more about their research and skills.

Congratulations to our PhD students successfully placed last year. We wish you all good luck in your careers! See the lists of Job Market Candidates from previous years.