Economics

Influential faculty and cutting-edge research

The Economics group at London Business School has particular strengths in academic research and in applying it to problems relevant to businesses and governments.

Our faculty regularly advise a range of national and international government agencies and corporations, and publishes in leading international research journals.

Our teaching and research focuses on:

economic theory
industrial economics
strategic business behaviour
the global macroeconomy
economic integration in Europe.

The Economics subject area is chaired by Professor Lucrezia Reichlin.

Economics Seminars

The Economics subject area holds weekly seminars. Please see below for this year's schedule.

If you would like to join our Seminars Mailing List, please send an email to eburke@london.edu specifying micro, macro or both.

Spring 2013

Date	Time	Speaker	Room	Paper
13 Mar	1115 1245	Botond Koszegi (CEU and Berkeley)	WLT	The Market for Deceptive Products
10 Apr	1115 1245	TBC	LT5
17 Apr	1115 1245	Nick Bloom (Stanford)	LT4	Really Uncertain Business Cycles
24 Apr	1115 1245	Michael W. Klein (Tufts)	LT10	Rounding the Corners of the Policy Trilemma
30 Apr	1115 1245	Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam)	LT2	Shadow Banking
01 May	1115 1245	Alp Simsek (Harvard)	LT4	A Welfare Criterion for Models with Distorted Beliefs
08 May	1115 1245	Jordi Gali (CREI)	LT6
15 May	1115 1245	Tayfun Sonmez (Boston College)	LT4	The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice
22 May	1115 1245	TBC	LT9
29 May	1115 1245	Chris House (University of Michigan)	LT4
05 Jun	1115 1245	Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE)	LT4
12 Jun	1115 1245	Yusufcan Masatlioglu (University of Michigan)	LT4
19 Jun	1115 1245	Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University and NYU)	LT4

Autumn 2012

Date	Time	Speaker	Room	Paper
03 Oct	1115-1230	Suehyun Kwon (UCL)	LT3	Dynamic Moral Hazard with Persistent States
10 Oct	1400-1530	Jose Luis Peydro (UPF)	LT2	Hazardous Times for Monetary Policy: What do 23 Million Loans Say About the Impact of Monetary Policy on Credit Risk-Taking?
17 Oct	1115-1230	Aytek Erdil (Cambridge)	LT2	Prioritizing Diversity in School Choice
25 Oct	1115-1245	Alberto Alesina (Harvard)	LT9	The Output Effect of Fiscal Consolidations
30 Oct	1115-1245	J Voth (UPF & CREI)	LT2	How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction
07 Nov	1115-1230	Nico Voigtlaender (UCLA)	LT4	Imported Inputs, Quality Complementarity, and Skill Demand
14 Nov	1115-1230	Sang Mok Lee (U Penn)	LT4	Incentive Compatibility of Large Centralized Matching Markets
21 Nov	1115-1230	Ralph Winter (UBC)	LT3	Exclusionary Contracts
28 Nov	1115-1245	Karel Mertens (Cornell)	LT3	A Reconciliation of SVAR and Narrative Estimates of Tax Multipliers
05 Dec	1115-1245	TBC	LT1
12 Dec	1115-1245	Xavier Ragot (Paris School of Economics)	LT5	Precautionary Saving over the Business Cycle