Survey of leading economists: "Abandoning severe lockdowns at a time when the likelihood of a resurgence in infections remains high will lead to greater total economic damage than sustaining the lockdowns to eliminate the resurgence risk." 0% disagree. igmchicago.org/surveys/policy…

Paolo Surico (London Business School) and Andrea Galeotti's (London Business School) 4-part series 'User Guide to #COVID19' has been published on Corriere della Sera in Italy. Watch part 1 here: ow.ly/W2gT50yZJOg (Italian) ow.ly/rMcM50yUcV1 (English) #StayHome #ItalyStayStrong #Italy

tune in on Thursday London Business School for a thorough overview of the #economics of #COVIDー19, #EconTwitter

This was indeed a fantastic and very insightful panel! Perhaps a summary of the main points can be useful. Thus, a long thread. 1/n

🚨Working Paper🚨 Private Equity, Consumers, and Competition: Evidence from the Nursing Home Industry" with YoungJun Song and Prabhava Upadrashta. (Retweets sincerely appreciated! #EconTwitter) Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Thread below: (1/N)

Impressive selection of topics and speakers. Looking forward!

🚩Job Market Paper Alert🚩I develop a tractable framework with heterogeneous banks, imperfect financial competition, default risk, and endogenous entry which I use to match the distribution of US bank leverage and quantify targeted, bank-level economic policies #EconTwitter

Excited to announce a WEFI new project: WEFI Fellows. Goal: help PhD students - particularly those at schools without multiple faculty in entrepreneurship and innovation - refine their dissertation topic + learn more about the research area. 1/6 workshop-efi.com/wefi-fellows

⏲️Join us today (15:00 – 16:00 CEST) with Lucrezia Reichlin of London Business School and Mark Carney, former governor Bank of England - to discuss climate standards and the way forward for corporate sustainability reporting.

🗓 Common Good Summit organized by Challenges Les Echos Le Parisien Événements and TSE : 5 Nobel Prize laureates, researchers and decision-makers will share their views on capitalism regulation and the notion of Common Good. ➡️Register: bit.ly/3b5K1vL #commongood #Economics

my London Business School colleague, Lakshmi Naaraayanan, and student, Varun Sharma are doing some cool and important work, supported by Wheeler Institute for Business and Development check out the summary from Financial Times ft.com/content/549723…

🚨RA/Predoc Opportunity (Paid): We (Sule Alan Elif Kubilay Ipek Mumcu and me) are urgently looking for TWO full-time RA to work with us in our RCT's in Education. Native Turkish speakers who want to join our team, apply by December 31st! Please RT! #EconTwitter

Well-deserved! Alexandru Barbu

We are pleased to introduce - African History through the Lens of Economics. A open-access, interdisciplinary 10-week lecture series open to all students interested in #EconomicDevelopment in #Africa. Learn more: ow.ly/msI050HqNJW #WheelerCourse #AfricaCourse

FTC & DOJ request for comments, incl. #commonownership. Give them comments! Pls RT / spread the word! regulations.gov/document/FTC-2…

Calling out all current and former London Business School Phd students in Finance, Economics, and Accounting to submit their work to the 2nd PhD Alumni workshop, on August 22nd, 2022 at LBS. pedrosaffi.com/lbs-phd-alumni… Co-organized with Oğuzhan Karakaş / yhuang Hope to see you all!

Fascinating behavioral work! Understanding the beliefs better is crucial for policy aiming at eliminating the gender gap in career progression.

"It is no exaggeration to say the world’s dominant fund companies can control the outcome of shareholder votes." cnbc.com/2022/03/01/a-b…

Great pleasure to be presenting at the LBS PhD Alumni Workshop today! Thank you Pedro Saffi Oğuzhan Karakaş yhuang for organising!