Brown Bag Seminar | Non-Business Risks and Firm Growth: Evidence from Insurance Claims with Oliver Engist

9/27/2021, 12:05 PM - 1:00 PM

Welcome to Brown Bag Webinar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. Seminar guest is Oliver Engist, SSE.

Higher Seminar in Economics | The Education-Innovation Gap with Barbara Biasi, Yale

9/29/2021, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Department of Economics is welcoming you to an online seminar with Barbara Biasi, Yale School of Management and NBER, presenting "The Education-Innovation Gap". This paper examines the production and diffusion of up-to-date knowledge by exploring the content of higher-education courses. We build new measure, the “education-innovation gap,” defined as the textual similarity between course syllabi and frontier knowledge published in academic journals.

Brown bag seminar with Nick Hagerty

10/12/2021, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

More info to be announced!

Hybrid futures: the blending of AI and ‘digital’ into life, work and society

10/15/2021, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

This year, on the 15th of October, we shift focus to the increasingly intimate, entangled relationship we develop with AI, with platforms, and with other digital technologies, and how this changes organizations, new ventures, and our work and lives. Rather than shifting from “the old” to “the new”, from a known analog world to an unknown digital one, we increasingly blend into a hybrid life, being online and “IRL” at the same time, experiencing things that are physically and virtually immersive, that are rooted in tradition and radically new. The theme for this year’s conference is hybridity.