Latest Events & Seminars
LSE 125th Anniversary Event with Kristalina Georgieva
Kristalina Georgieva will deliver the outlook for the global economy. In her speech ahead of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings, she will also outline policy priorities to overcome the COVID...
Shaping the Post-COVID Recovery Response in Africa
The panel will review the paths different African economies are taking to...
Latest News
Daniel Beunza wins 2020 George R. Terry Book Award
Martin Oehmke wins EFA Best Paper Prize in Responsible Finance
The Wealth Effect wins Stein Rokkan Prize
The neighbourhood effect of reforms after crises
Less red tape, more local entrepreneurship and foreign direct investment: the path to recovery
Latest Publications
Measuring Property Rights Institutions
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights – such as the right of possession or the right of transfer – differentially...
Firms in emerging markets fall to COVID-19
Young, small, and domestic market-oriented firms are more likely to fall into financial distress.
Reform chatter and democracy
It is often argued that democracy is the least imperfect form of government mainly because of the existence of a ‘self-correcting’ mechanism stemming...
Which programming language is best for economic research: Julia, Matlab, Python or R?
The most widely used programming languages for economic research are Julia, Matlab, Python and R. This column uses three criteria to compare the...
