Join the UK Friends of SSE for a Crayfish Party at Ekte Nordic Kitchen in London!

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.

Department of Economics welcomes you to an online seminar with Catherine Tucker who is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. This is an online seminar which will take place via Zoom.

In the Jacob Dahlgren Flag Project the school´s entrance and atrium will be transformed into an exhibition arena and a production hall. During workshops students and faculty can design their own flags, based on patterns from their own lives. The third and last workshop will take place on September 21, 12-13, in the Jacob Dahlgren Room.

The total fertility rates differ substantially across high-income countries. In some countries, the total fertility rate is as low as 1.3, and factors behind such low levels are not well understood. In this paper, we show that uncertainty created by dual labor markets (the coexistence of jobs with temporary and open-ended contracts) and inflexibility of work schedules are responsible for low fertility for college-educated women. This is an online seminar which will take place via Zoom.

Join us for the 2021 Ekonomgolfen - SSE Alumni Golf Tournament!

In the Jacob Dahlgren Flag Project the school´s entrance and atrium will be transformed into an exhibition arena and a production hall. During workshops students and faculty can design their own flags, based on patterns from their own lives. The second workshop will take place on September 8, 16-17, in the Jacob Dahlgren Room.

Department of Economics is welcoming you to an online seminar with Benjamin Moll, LSE. We study the effect of monetary and fiscal policy in a heterogeneous-agent model where households have present-biased time preferences and naive beliefs. The model features a liquid asset and illiquid home equity, which households can use as collateral for borrowing.

In the Jacob Dahlgren Flag Project the school´s entrance and atrium will be transformed into an exhibition arena and a production hall. During workshops students and faculty can design their own flags, based on patterns from their own lives. The first workshop will take place on September 2, 12-13, in the Jacob Dahlgren Room.

This paper analyses the effect of a firm’s organizational capacity on reported profitability of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Better organizational practices improve productivity and the potential taxable profits of firms. However, higher adoption of these practices may also enable more efficient allocation of profits across tax jurisdictions, lowering actual taxable profits. We present new evidence that MNE subsidiaries with better such practices, when located in high-tax countries, report significantly lower profits and have higher incidence of bunching around zero returns on assets.