Events
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Brownbag Seminar: Antonio Nicolò
13:00 - 7 October 2026
Title: It can’t happen here: Democratic Backsliding and the Complacency Trap Authors: Edoardo Grillo and Antonio Nicolò Abstract: We study how institutions and citizens interact to restrain the executive in a model of democratic backsliding. We show that this interaction can generate a complacency trap. When democratic institutions appear...
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MET Seminar - En Hua Hu (Oxford)
17:00 - 18:00 7 October 2026
Title: What makes a matching market congested Authors: Justin Hadad & En Hua Hu Abstract: We study a decentralized matching market where each applicant sends a fixed number of applications, and then firms make one offer. Our game emulates matching markets under time constraints: agents who are unmatched after the round remain unmatched. Congestion...
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Lewis Lab Seminar - David Chilosi (King's College London)
16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2026
We will be holding our first Lewis Lab Seminar of this semester on 8 October, from 4 to 5 pm at Sam Alex_A215. David Chilosi (KCL) will present ''Shifting margins of trade in the long run: Italy, 1880-2022 " By David Chilosi (KCL), Giovanni Federico (NYUAD) and Andrea Incerpi (Capgemini)
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MET Seminar - Tan Gan (LSE)
17:00 - 18:00 14 October 2026
Title: Robust Delegation Authors: Ricardo Alonso, Tan Gan & Ju Hu Abstract: We study delegation rules by principals uninformed of the underlying state (external uncertainty) and the preferences of better-informed agents (internal uncertainty). Evaluating delegation sets with a max–min criterion, we show that optimal delegation sets are flexible:...
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Lewis Lab Seminar - Christopher Meissner (UC Davis)
16:00 - 17:00 15 October 2026
Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.
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'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture
17:00 - 19:30 17 November 2026
Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly skilled work. The extent to which males are paid more than females (the gender pay gap) has declined considerably over the past several decades, but much more...
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Lewis Lab Seminar - Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University)
16:00 - 17:00 19 November 2026
Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.
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Lewis Lab Seminar - Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)
16:00 - 17:00 3 December 2026
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.
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