History of the Journal
Economica was established in 1921 and has served as the LSE “house” journal throughout its history. Economica is published on behalf of the LSE Department of Economics by Wiley. It's widely read, available in nearly 10,000 institutions worldwide.
Economica 100 Challenge
As the “house journal” celebrates 100 years, the aim over the next two years or so is to publish 100 papers by former students as well as current and former faculty. The Centenary conference launched this process and the papers from the conference appear in a special centenary edition.
Papers submitted as part of this initiative will be peer reviewed. If accepted, papers will include a footnote outlining the connection of the submitting author to LSE.
These papers will be promoted on the Department of Economics website as well as via the journal’s usual channels.
Economica 100 papers:
1. Do Nudges Reduce Borrowing and Consumer Confusion in the Credit Card Market? By Paul Adams, Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Lucy Hayes, Stefan Hunt, David Laibson and Neil Stewart
2. Obedience in the Labour Market and Social Mobility: A Socioeconomic Approach, by Daron Acemoglu
3. Support for Small Businesses Amid COVID-19, by Charles A.E.Goodhart, Dimitrios Tsomocos and Xuan Wang
4. Microfinance and Diversification, by Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Erika Deserranno, Ricardo Morel, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Jack Thiemel
5. Training, Recruitment, and Outplacement as Endogenous Adverse Selection, by Heski Bar-Isaac and Clare Leaver
6. Men are from Mars, and Women Too: A Bayesian Meta-analysis of Overconfidence Experiments, by Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao
7. Inequality, Redistribution and Wage Progression, by Richard Blundell
8. Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: A Laboratory-based Experiment, by Alison L. Booth and Patrick Nolen
9. Modelling the Great Recession as a Bank Panic: Challenges, by Lawrence Christiano, Husnu Dalgic and Xiaoming Li
10. Rainfall, Agricultural Output and Persistent Democratization, by Antonio Ciccone and Adilzhan Ismailov
11. The 15-Hour Week: Keynes’s Prediction Revisited, by Nicholas Crafts
12. The Impact of Non-tariff Barriers on Trade and Welfare, by Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Hanwei Huang
13. Taxes, subsidies and gender gaps in hours and wages, by Robert Duval-Hernández, Lei Fang, L. Rachel Ngai
14. Gay Politics Goes Mainstream: Democrats, Republicans and Same-sex Relationships, by Raquel Fernández and Sahar Parsa
15. The Midlife Crisis, by Osea Giuntella, Sally McManus, Redzo Mujcic, Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Ahmed Tohamy
16. Liquidity Requirements, Bank Deposits and Financial Development, by Nicola Limodio and Francesco Strobbe
17. Algorithmic Leviathan or Individual Choice: Choosing Sanctioning Regimes in the Face of Observational Error, by Thomas Markussen, Louis Putterman and Liangjun Wang
18. Insuring Replaceable Possessions, by David de Meza and Diane Reyniers
19. Ethnic- Diversity, Social Norms and Elite Capture: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia, by Anirban Mitra and Sarmistha Pal
20. The Impact of Centre-based Childcare on Non-cognitive Skills of Young Children, by Greta Morando and Lucinda Platt
21. On the Gains from Tradable Benefits-in-kind: Evidence for Workfare in India, by Martin Ravallion
22. Suburbanization in the USA, 1970--2010, by Stephen J. Redding
23. The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain, by Leander Heldring, James A. Robinson and Parker Whitfill
24. Intellectual property and the organization of the global value chain Stefano Bolatto, Alireza Naghavi, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Katja Zajc Kejžar by Peter Goodridge and Jonathan Haskel
25. Accounting for the slowdown in UK innovation and productivity by Peter Goodridge and Jonathan Haskel
26. ‘Good jobs’, training and skilled immigration by Andrew Mountford and Jonathan Wadsworth
27. Productivity dispersion, wage dispersion and superstar firms by Yannick Bormans and Angelos Theodorakopoulos
28. Migrants and imports: Evidence from Dutch firms by Aksel Erbahar and Ömer Tarık Gençosmanoğlu
29. The taxman cometh: Pathways out of a low-capacity trap in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Jonathan L. Weigel and Elie Kabue Ngindu
30. Heterogeneous predictive association of CO2 with global warming by Liang Chen, Juan J. Dolado, Jesús Gonzalo, Andrey Ramos
31. Market concentration and the relative demand for college-educated labour, by Anders Akerman
32. Endogenous property rights and the nature of the firm, by Carmine Guerriero, Giuseppe Pignataro
33. Do wages underestimate the inequality in workers' rewards? The joint distribution of job quality and wages across occupations, by Andrew E. Clark, Maria Cotofan and Richard Layard
34. The welfare effects of time reallocation: evidence from Daylight Saving Time, by Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Fleche, Ricardo Pagan
35. The role of firm-to-firm relationships in exporter dynamics, by Davide Rigo
36. Economic insecurity and the demand for populism in Europe, by L. Guiso, H. Herrera, M. Morelli and T. Sonno
37. Exchange rates and political uncertainty: the Brexit case, by Paolo Manasse, Graziano Moramarco and Giulio Trigilia
38. The wage curve after the Great Recession, by David Blanchflower, Alex Bryson and Jackson Spurling