Economica Centenary Conference

The Editors of the Journal Economica are pleased to invite you to the journal’s Centenary Conference (Online). The Journal was established in 1921 and has served as the LSE “house” journal throughout its history.

Daron Acemoglu, a former LSE PhD student, will give a public lecture on 13 May at 14.00 (BST). To add to the celebratory conference, a select group of former LSE students and faculty will also present papers.

Registration is free and open to all but pre-registration is required. When registering, please tick the sessions you wish to attend. We look forward to welcoming you!

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Conference Programme: Download here

Session 1: Chair, Tim Besley

Session 1
14.00 - 14.10	Welcome and Introduction- Tim Besley
14.10 - 14.30	Opening Remarks- Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director (LSE)
14.30 - 15.30	Economica Centenary Lecture Obedience in the Labour Market and Social Mobility: A Socio-Economic Approach, Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
15.30 - 15.50	Break

Session 2: Chair, Francesco Caselli

Session 2
15.50 - 16.50	Coming Out in America: Salience, Politics, and Cultural Change, Raquel Fernández (NYU)
16.50 - 17.50	Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?, Lawrence Christiano (NWU), with Husnu Dalgic (UMA) and Armen Nurbekyan (CBA)

Session 3: Chair, Steve Machin

Session 3
9.00 - 10.00	Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments, Alison Booth (ANU) with Patrick Nolen
10.00 - 11.00	Inequality, Redistribution and the Labour Market, Richard Blundell (UCL)
11.00 - 11.20	Break

Session 4: Chair, Maitreesh Ghatak

Session 4
11.20 - 12.20	Men are from Mars and Women Too: Gender similarities in self-confidence and altruism, Barbara Petrongolo (Oxford) with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Nidhi Parekh (LSE) and Michelle Rao (LSE)
12.20 - 13.20	Social Structure and the Localized Delivery of Development Interventions, Imran Rasul (UCL), with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Robin Burgess (LSE), Erika Deserranno (NWU), Ricardo Morel (IPA) and Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC)
13.20 - 14.00	Break

Session 5: Chair, Noam Yuchtman

Session 5
14.00 - 15.00	War and Inequality: Bombing and the Social Contract in England, James Robinson (UChicago) with Leander Heldring (NWU) and Parker Whitfill (U Chicago)
15.00 - 16.00	The conflict between consumer intentions, beliefs and actions to pay down credit card debt, David Laibson (Harvard) with Paul Adams, Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Lucy Hayes, Stefan Hunt and Neil Stewart
16.00 - 16.30	Break

Session 6: Chair, Henry Overman

Session 6
16.30 - 17.30	Suburbanization in the United States 1960-2010, Stephen Redding (Princeton)
17.30 - 17.50	Closing Remarks - Steve Pischke, Head of Department, Department of Economics (LSE)