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Seminar in Economics | Are Executives in Short Supply? Evidence from Death Events with Fabiano Schivardi, LUISS

11/24/2021, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Department of Economics welcomes you to a webinar with Fabiano Schivardi, LUISS, presenting "Are Executives in Short Supply? Evidence from Death Events". Using administrative data on Italian social security records, we construct measures of local labor market tightness for executives that vary by industry and location. We then show that firm performance is negatively affected by executive death.

UKFSSE Walking Tour in London!

10/30/2021, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
This fall the SSE Alumni Office, in collaboration with the UK Friends of SSE, are delighted to invite you to join us for a guided walking tour through Shoreditch with Annika Hall, a qualified Blue Badge Guide for London and fellow SSE alum.

Higher Seminar in Economics | Implicit Preferences with Jonathan de Quidt

10/13/2021, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
The Department of Economics welcomes you to the Seminar in Economics with Jonathan de Quidt, Associate Professor at Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University, presenting a paper titled "Implicit Preferences". We prove a representation theorem and show that implicit preferences can have diverse psychological foundations: rule-driven decision-making, signaling, and implicit knowledge. We apply the theory to two recent experimental datasets, finding evidence of implicit selfishness, implicit risk aversion, and implicit racial bias.

Higher Seminar in Economics | Pro-Poor Transfers and Economic Preferences of the Rich and Poor with Imran Rasul, UCL

10/6/2021, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
The Department of Economics welcomes you to an online seminar with Imran Rasul, Professor of Economics at University College London, presenting a paper titled "Pro-Poor Transfers and Economic Preferences of the Rich and Poor". We study the impact of pro-poor transfers on the economic preferences of households in the context of small village economies in Pakistan and document the impacts of asset transfers and equivalent valued unconditional cash transfers.