Only 2 days left to apply for two newly funded PhD positions in Economics. Join a rapidly expanding, research-intensive department spanning applied and theoretical microeconomics, macroeconomics, and finance. Deadline: 13 May 2026. #EconSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRK358/f...

📢 Publication alert! Our colleague Victoria Serra-Sastre has a new article out (with co-authors Jaime Pinilla and Wasana Kalansooriya) titled "The mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and social care workers", published in Health Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We are not slowing down!! ▶️Caroline Liqui-Lung◀️ @cityeconomics.bsky.social will give a talk on 7 May 2026: "Social Priors and the Informational Multiplier: The Hidden Costs of Coarse Social Information". Panellists: Chiara Aina and Arjada Bardhi @chiaraina.bsky.social #EconTheory #Econsky

📣 Publication alert! Our colleague Keith Pilbeam has a new article out (with T. Cheng, S. Xing, and C. Yan) titled "Do active Chinese equity fund managers produce positive alpha?" in the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share another of our many upcoming events! On 29 April at City St George’s — a workshop at the intersection of experimental economics and health, jointly organized by the City Health Economics Centre (CHEC) and the Theory & Experiment Research Group. Details and registration below.

Looking forward to the 1st London MEF Meeting (Macroeconomics, Econometrics, and Finance) at City St George’s on Wednesday 29 April. @ran-gu.bsky.social @orkunsaka.bsky.social Full program here: sites.google.com/view/london-...

The Department of Economics and the Modern History Cluster of the Department of International Politics at City St George’s are hosting a workshop in memory of Geoffrey Kay (1938–2025). Tuesday 28 April 2026, 3–6 pm | Room ELG12 All welcome

📣 Join us on 12–13 May for the 4th City St George’s/CMA Workshop. The workshop brings together the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy at City and the Competition and Markets Authority, with participants from academia, policy, and industry. 👉 Details: sites.google.com/view/anikand...

We’re very excited to host Marcin Kacperczyk, Professor of Finance at Imperial College London, in our upcoming external seminar: “What is a carbon premium a premium on?” 📍 D427, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 22 April, 2:30–3:45 pm All welcome.

One week to go for this timely workshop hosted by the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy (CCRP), in collaboration with the City Law School: Competition, Strategy, and Regulation in AI-Driven Markets 📅 23 April 📍 Room TLG11, The City Law School

How much do European countries actually trust each other? 🌍 Less than you might think… and it varies a lot. With Barry Eichengreen, we're launching the new website for our 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲! Free to use 👉 bilateraltrust.com

We’re delighted to host Jesse Matheson, Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield, in our upcoming external seminar: “Teleworking, local labor markets, and the structure of cities” 📍 D427, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 8 April, 2:30–3:45 pm All welcome.

Delighted to have joined @aljazeera.com today for a live discussion with Jonah Hull on the economic fallout from the Iran-US war — covering the OECD's downgraded UK outlook, the collapse in consumer confidence, Russia's oil windfall …

The City Health Economics Centre (CHEC) & the Economics Dept. are excited to host Peter Sivey (@petesivey.bsky.social, U. of York) in our next external seminar: “The effects of elective surgical hubs on elective surgery access, casemix and inequalities” 📍 FG06, Whiskin St 📅 25 March, 2:30–3:45 pm

The Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy (CCRP) at City is delighted to host the workshop “Competition, Strategy, and Regulation in AI-Driven Markets” 📅 23 April 2026 📍Room TLG11, The City Law School Speaker lineup, program, and registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We’re pleased to announce the next internal seminar (this week featuring an external speaker): Amrutha Manjunath, tenure-track Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. “Language Barriers, Internal Migration, and Labor Markets in General Equilibrium” 18 Mar, 12–1 pm; Room D113, Rhind Bldg

We’re delighted to host Wendy Janssens (Professor of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Director of the HERA institute) in our upcoming external seminar: “The Impact of an Edutainment Intervention on Child Marriage and Girls’ Education in Pakistan” 📍 D221, Rhind Bldg 📅 18 Mar, 2:30–3:45 pm

We’re very excited to host Evan Piermont, Associate Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, in our upcoming external seminar: “Iterated Revelation: How to Incentivize Experts to Reveal Novel Actions” 📍 D427, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 11 March, 2:30–3:45 pm

Our next internal seminar will feature our colleague Agne Suziedelyte. “The Impact of Local Digital Infrastructure Expenditure on Employment” (with Silvia Mendolia and Anna Zhu) 📅 11 March, 12–1 pm 📍 D113, Rhind Building See below for Agne’s broader research www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/people...

New work by our colleague Arina Nikandrova and our recently graduated PhD student Anushree Parekh is cited in the Competition and Markets Authority blog on AI and collusion. Great to see academic research informing policy discussions. Link below. competitionandmarkets.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/04/a...

📣 Publication alert! New article by our colleague Keith Pilbeam (with Dimitrios Asteriou and William Pouliot) developing a robust statistical test for evaluating multi-factor asset pricing models, published in the International Journal of Finance & Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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We’re delighted to host Magdalena Rola-Janicka (Assistant Professor of Finance at Imperial College London and research affiliate at CEPR) in our upcoming external seminar: “Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs Shareholders” 📍 D427, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 25 February, 2:30–3:45 pm All welcome

We’re very excited to host Áureo de Paula (@paulaaureo.bsky.social), Professor of Economics at UCL and a Research Fellow at the IFS, in our upcoming external seminar: “Production function estimation using subjective expectations data” 📍 D427, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 18 February, 2:30–3:45 pm

Congrats to our colleague Arina Nikandrova on being awarded a prestigious UKRI Policy Fellowship, @ukri.org As a 2025 Policy Fellow, she will join the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to work on digital markets. We’re proud to see her research helping shape public policy!

📣 Publication alert! New article by our colleague Itzhak Rasooly (with Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, and Robert D. Metcalfe) on race and redistribution in the US, published in the Journal of Public Economics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our next internal seminar will feature @tommasoreggiani.bsky.social from Cardiff University and a Visiting Scholar in our department (see below for his profile). “The long-term impact of church activity on social capital” 📅 11 Feb, 12–1 pm 📍 D113, Rhind B. profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/reggia...

@fboeri.bsky.social, R Crescenzi, & @daviderigo.bsky.social use data from Italy to show that the pandemic-driven shift to work from home initially reduced productivity, but these losses disappeared as firms adapted. Larger & digitally prepared firms adapted better. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

@lse-ei.bsky.social; @lsects.bsky.social; @universitypress.cambridge.org Link: sites.google.com/view/lseturk...

We’re delighted to host Marta Santamaria (University of Warwick) in our upcoming external seminar: “Debt, Drought, and Mobility: How Bankruptcy Institutions Shape Adjustment to Economic Shocks” 📍 D427, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 4 February, 2:30–3:45 pm All welcome to attend.

Publication alert! New article by our colleague @clementminaudier.bsky.social (with S. Aman-Rana) in the American Economic Review on unintended consequences of digitization reforms. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

We are pleased to announce the next internal seminar (this week featuring an external speaker): Soohun Kim, Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, KAIST. “International Investing: Diversification and Beyond” Wed, 28 Jan, 12 pm; Room D113 (Rhind Building) All welcome to attend!

We’re excited to host Johannes Abeler, Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford, in our upcoming external seminar: “The Effect of the Social Environment During Childhood on Preferences” 📍 D427, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 28 January 2026, 2:30–3:45 pm

Right on time for this semester's teaching prep...

📢 Publication alert! New article by our colleague Xiaogang Che (with Tong Li, Jingfeng Lu, and Xiaoyong Zheng) in the International Economic Review, on optimal selling mechanisms with endogenous seller outside offers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy at City is co-hosting a conference with the UK Regulators’ Network and Oxera: “Supervisory approaches to regulation – what, why, when and how?” 📅 23 Jan 2026 Invitation-only; details + registration of interest 👇 oxerambd.ac-page.com/supervisory-...

Publication Alert. New article by our colleague @clementminaudier.bsky.social (w/ S. Aman-Rana & S. Sukhtankar) in the Journal of Development Economics on informal fiscal systems where bureaucrats finance public services outside the formal budget using bribes: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Job alert We’re hiring 5 permanent faculty positions at Assistant Professor level: • 3 x Open field • Health Economics • IO Come work in a large, research-intensive department! ⏰ Applications reviewed on a rolling basis (deadline 18 Jan 2026) #econjobs econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Great to announce that Alejandro Riaño (@alejandroriano.bsky.social) and Orkun Saka (@orkunsaka.bsky.social) have both been promoted to Reader 🎉 They’re exceptional scholars whose work has made a real impact across research and teaching. Big congratulations to both — ad maiora!

Our first-year Data Analysis 1 students presented their research this week. Using data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, they carried out original analyses of the university sector. Statistically significant levels of enjoyment are observed in the figure (courtesy of Gabriele Vecchio).

Congratulations to our colleague Caroline Liqui Lung, who has secured a Keynes Fund grant with Rebecca Heath for research on how imitation and personal feedback shape individual learning. www.keynesfund.econ.cam.ac.uk/projects/jhcd

A duo of PhD students’ talks coming up: Wang Yufeng — How Do First-Gen Immigrants Respond to Banking Crises in Their Countries of Origin? Joachim Bukenya — Reorienting Trade in Developing Regions 10 Dec, 12–1 pm, D220 Check out some of our student profiles www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/people...

The City Health Economics Centre (CHEC) & the Economics Dept. are excited to host Prof. @mylene-lagarde.bsky.social (London School of Economics) in our upcoming seminar: “Ordeals and (In)efficiency in the Allocation of Free Care” 📍 D220, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 2:30–3:45 pm

On my way to the beautiful Sevilla to present our paper on the power of satire to shape attitudes towards refugees @sanpages.bsky.social

🚨 Publication alert: Our colleague @fboeri.bsky.social has a new article out in the Journal of Regional Science that offers fresh insights into the short-run effects of access to high-speed internet on educational disparities.

𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙨 continue with a new session 🚀 🗣️ Mara Faccio (Purdue University) 📝 “The externalities of corporate political ties: Evidence from the supply chain” 📆 10/12/2025 🏫 @cityeconomics.bsky.social + Zoom 🤔 -> [email protected]

Congrats to Anushree Parekh, who successfully defended her PhD with minor amendments this week, with a doctoral thesis on information and algorithms in online markets. Anushree’s on the job market this year, with her JMP, “Algorithmic Exclusion by Large Language Models” (w/ Arina Nikandrova).

As a Council member of the Royal Economic Society (@resmedia.bsky.social), I would like to remind RES members to consider nominating deserving colleagues and sharing this call within your networks. 🗓 Deadline: 9 Dec 2025 (5pm) res.org.uk/res-prizes-a... #Economics #Support #Promoting #Diversity

We’re delighted to host Professor Friederike Mengel (University of Essex) in our upcoming external seminar: “Innovator Networks Within the Firm and the Quality of Innovation” 📍 DLG20, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 2:30–3:45 pm All welcome to attend.