City St George’s Economics

We’re excited to host Dr David Rojo Arjona (University of Leicester) in our external seminar series this week:

“An Analysis of Strategic Allocations in Weighted Networks”
📍 DLG03, Rhind Building
📅 Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 2:30–3:45 pm

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Are you preparing a randomized controlled trial? Don't miss a special symposium of Fiscal Studies (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1475...) with three articles on power and sample size calculations. (1/3) @theifs.bsky.social

We’re delighted to host Prof. Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick) in our external seminar series next week:

“Firm responses to legislation on workplace sexual harassment”
📍 D220, Rhind Building
📅 Wednesday, 1 Oct 2025, 2:30–3:45 pm

We’re very pleased to welcome Prof. Marine Carrasco (Université de Montréal), who will kick off our seminar series next week:

“Regularized estimation of dynamic panel models”
📍 DLG02, Rhind Building
📅 Wednesday, 17 Sep 2025, 2:30–3:45 pm

All welcome!

Entrance to the exhibiton featuring a large sign saying Guildhall Library 600

A view of the cases and the wall panels

Two of the display cases holding 14th and 15th century manuscripts and printed books.

A selection of the books on display, Top left, modern illuminated manuscript, the Chronicles of France from 1399, a 16th century chained Bible, A tiny 19th century dictionary, John Stow's Survey of London, and the Library's oldest book, an 800 year old Bible! Our only book owned by the original library 600 years ago!

Please share! Our new FREE exhibition celebrating 600 years since the founding of Guildhall Library is up! Opening Monday! It'll be open Mondays-Thursdays 10-4 as well as Saturday 20th for Open House! Includes the history of the original library, medieval manuscripts and early printed books!

With the start of the new academic year, the Department of Economics is pleased to welcome five new faculty members: Filippo Boeri (@fboeri.bsky.social); Loren Fryxell (@lorenfryxell.bsky.social); Ran Gu; Caroline Liqui-Lung; Itzhak Rasooly. We’re delighted to have them join us!

Seminar season is starting. Here’s a great resource from RePEc for finding upcoming online economics talks across the world.

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It has been a long journey but I’m glad that our paper with @b-eichengreen.bsky.social has now found itself such a nice home @jeeanews.bsky.social 😊

Interested in behavioural biases in banking or economics of culture in general? Download/read it for free here: academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...

Great podcast — and yes, @orkunsaka.bsky.social is now on Bluesky.

University campus with bike racks, one bike, sidewalks, trees, ivy

The application deadline is July 19 for our 2025 Dissertation Award, given to the best Ph.D. dissertation on employment issues. The dissertation may come from any academic discipline, but it must have a substantial policy focus. Details at www.upjohn.org/dissertation...

Two great events coming up this week:

— 1st Women in Behavioural and Experimental Economics Workshop, 7–8 July.
More info: sites.google.com/site/mariacu...

— Workshop on Economics of Maternal and Infant Outcomes, 10 July.
Details: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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nice little thread of our recent work highlighting the crime-reducing benefit of combining hotspot policing methods with spatial network models

2 recent rankings, 1 message: research strength & impact at City St George’s:

• overall top 6 in London, top 126 in Europe, top 310 globally
→ QS World University Rankings 2026, driven by research and employability

• 1st in London and 9th in England for social mobility
→ Social Mobility Index 2024

Join us for the Workshop on Economics of Maternal and Infant Outcomes at City St George’s, University of London. Thursday 10 July 2025, 9-5pm.
For details of the programme and registration: citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

anikandrova - Economics of Competition and Regulation Workshop 2025 About the workshop

Save the date: 3rd wkshp on the Economics of Competition & Regulation, 17–18 June at City St George’s

Jointly organized with the CMA, bringing together policymakers, industry leaders, & academics (Bocconi, CEU, Essex, Imperial, Lancaster, LBS, LSE, LUISS, TSE, UCL)

sites.google.com/view/anikand...

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Home KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Anat R. Admati The George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics Stanford University

The City St George’s Economics Department, Bayes Business School, & the LSE Financial Markets Group are jointly organizing the 3rd London Political Finance wksp.

🗓️ 10 June

🎙️ Keynote: Anat Admati (Stanford)—“Financial Power, Public Trust, and Democratic Erosion”

🧭 sites.google.com/view/londonp...

Does collaboration outside academia lead to greater scientific impact? - Impact of Social Sciences Collaborations with non-academic partners can boost research impact,especially for well-known scientists, argue Carolin Nast, Oscar Llopis, Dima Yankova and Pablo D'Este.

💥New: #Collaboration with non-academic partners boosts citation #impact, especially for scientists with strong academic reputations, survey of Spanish scientists shows. By Carolin Nast, @ollop.bsky.social‬, @dima-yankova.bsky.social‬ & Pablo D’Este👇

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PhD in Economics at City St George’s, University of London at City St George’s, University of London Discover a PhD Studentship: PhD in Economics at City St George’s, University of London Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!

🚨 Funding alert: apply for a PhD in Economics with us!
✔️ Tuition waiver (UK or international) for 3 years
✔️ Paid teaching offer (up to 180 hrs/year), subject to a competency interview
✔️ £1,500 total research expenses

Open to MSc holders. Deadline: 31 July.
🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH005/p...

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In the latest Science Sessions episode, Hugo Spiers, Pablo Fernández Velasco, and Eva-Maria Griesbauer share insights on human route planning gleaned from their conversations with London taxi drivers. Listen now: www.pnas.org/post/podcast....

CITY-QMUL Theory wksp

Robert Evans, Cambridge
Tan Gan, LSE
Nenad Kos, Bocconi
Sophie Kreutzkamp, Manchester
Elliot Lipnowski, Yale
George Mailath, Penn
Paula Onuchic, LSE
Francisco Poggi, Mannheim
Ludvig Sinander, Oxford
Aidan Smith, Edinburgh
Leeat Yariv, Princeton
sites.google.com/view/qmul-ci...

Apply to attend the 6th edition of the Economics Job Market Bootcamp in Tuscany. Open to final-year PhD students in economics who will enter the academic job market in Fall 2025.

Organised by Tommaso Sonno and supported by the UniCredit Foundation.
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28 May, 2:30–3:45 pm | Room D427 (Rhind)

Join us for the final external seminar of the term, featuring Rajkamal Iyer, Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School:

“Distortive Effects of Deposit Insurance: Administrative Evidence from Deposit and Loan Accounts”

Hope to see you there!

CITY Theory & Experiments Workshop

Join us on May 16 at the City University (City St George’s, University of London) for our Theory & Experiments workshop—bringing together leading researchers in micro theory and behavioral economics.

Registration, venue details, and program sites.google.com/view/theory-...

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Behavioural Insights for Policy - Schedule

Last Thursday, we hosted the Behavioural Insights for Policy workshop — a fantastic day with voices from policy, industry & academia (CMA, Ofcom, Ofgem, BIT, Oxera, Google DeepMind, Alan Turing Institute, LSE, City St George’s). Missed it? Some slides are now online!

📢 Don’t miss the #RES2025 early bird deadline. Book by 16 May for a discount!

Thanks to @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social for a great #DeatonReview session. Join us at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 30 June for what’s set to be a highlight!
Register👉 bit.ly/47D8h4y

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