In case you’re looking for something interesting to listen on this sunny day, my favourite podcast has just released a new episode. Check it out! 😉 open.spotify.com/episode/63qT...

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!

Our Visiting Senior Fellow @orkunsaka.bsky.social and @b-eichengreen.bsky.social have published new research which explores the role of cultural trust biases (i.e. stereotypes) in shaping multinational banks’ cross-border exposures. Discover their new article below 👇

🎉🎉🎉 The 10th edition 🎉🎉🎉

📢New working paper: "Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences" w/ @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Ieda [email protected]. We review the literature on how masculinity norms - the informal rules guiding men's behavior - shape economic outcomes in health, labor markets & politics. 🧵

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...

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...

Thrilled to see our paper published in the American Economic Review!! 👇👇👇 We show that candidates in US and French elections move to the center during the campaign, reflecting strategic adjustment to their opponents. @aeajournals.bsky.social with R. Di Tella, R. Kotti and @clpennec.bsky.social (1/n)

Hiring yet another RA for my project on the role of complexity and narratives in decision-making. For more information: forms.gle/YuTfqQyQBmYe... Spread the word please!

Here is some weekend reading on how much time and energy we are unnecessarily wasting on REF preparations in UK: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.

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Now available under forthcoming papers: www.eeassoc.org/journal/cult...

Check out the @cepr.org Summer reading list cepr.org/about/summer...

Open position⚠️ Come join us in Zurich as a pre-doc/research assistant in a diverse team working on a number of research projects on public finance, political economy and social wellbeing in Tanzania, DRC, Ecuador and Chile. Applications here: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/pre-...

𝔼𝕚𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟 & 𝕊𝕒𝕜𝕒 (𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝) 𝔹𝕚𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝔻𝕒𝕥𝕒𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕖 sites.google.com/site/orkunsa... International economics/finance/relations scholars obsessed with dyadic relationships and gravity estimations: check this brand new dataset from our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper with @b-eichengreen.bsky.social !

Political Accountability During Crises: Evidence from 40 Years of Financial Policies: Orkun Saka; Yuemei Ji; Clement Minaudier

«Les épidémies entraînent une diminution de la confiance des jeunes envers leurs systèmes politiques.» Le chercheur Orkun Saka explique comment la crise sanitaire due au Covid a favorisé un glissement mondial vers les mouvements populistes de droite. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Dr Orkun Saka is co-organizing the 3rd London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop w/ @bayesbschool.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social & @FMG_LSE on 10 June 2025, feat keynote speech by Anat Admati (Stanford GSB). 💡🗓️ Call for papers closes tomorrow 28 February: sites.google.com/view/londonp...

🧠 “Inflation, Institutions, and Politics” On 5 June, Prof. Selva Demiralp joined LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies for a sharp analysis of how political influence over central banks affects inflation. 🎧 You can watch the video or download the podcast now. With Dr Orkun Saka and Prof. Yaprak Gürsoy.

A substantial proportion (~20 per cent) of the decline in global income inequality can be attributed to the exaggeration of economic performance in less democratic nations academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...

Great lecture by @selvademiralp.com last Thursday, followed by excellent discussions & questions by Orkun Saka & the audience. Watch this space and @lsects.bsky.social for the recording and more #LSETürkiye @lse-ei.bsky.social @kocuniversity.bsky.social

Orkun Saka has produced an AI-hosted podcast describing our "Revenge of the Experts," in the _Journal of Public Economics_. Amazing what this AI can do open.spotify.com/episode/3Jaa...