Past events
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Lewis Lab Seminar - Christopher Meissner (UC Davis)
15:00 - 16:00 15 October 2026
Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.
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Brownbag Seminar: Lucía Contreas
12:00 - 12:50 14 October 2026
Title: Less Simple, Less Distortionary? Evidence from Costa Rica’s Corporate Tax Reform Authors: Lucía Contreas and Jonathan Garita Abstract: This paper studies how firms respond to a less distortionary but less simple tax schedule in a developing economy. We do so in the context of Costa Rica’s...
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MET Seminar - Tan Gan (LSE)
16:00 - 17:00 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,...
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Lewis Lab Seminar - David Chilosi (King's College London)
15:00 - 16:00 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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Brownbag Seminar: Antonio Nicolò
7 - 17 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...
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