Sir Nicholas Stern awarded the Political Publication of the Year Award

Sir Nicholas Stern has been awarded the Political Publication of the Year award by the Political Studies Association’s (PSA) for the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, and published in October 2006.This is the first time that the judges have awarded the Political Publication of the Year to a report.

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Professor Sir Nicholas Stern to be appointed to the House of Lords.

Professor Sir Nicholas Stern was appointed to the House of Lords as a non-party-political peer on Thursday, 18 October 2007, and and will be introduced into the House of Lords on 17 December, 2007

BREAD/CEPR Conference on Development Economics at LSE

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Development Economics Program and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) are organizing a joint conference on 5th-6th October, 2007 at the London School of Economics. The conference will take place in R505 in STICERD, which is on the 5th floor of the Lionel Robbins Building.

For more information, see the website of the conference.

World Bank Conference - Lecture by Maitreesh Ghatak on ''Provision of Public Services by Non-state Actors''

Maitreesh Ghatak delivered a lecture on "The Provision of Public Services by Non-state Actors" at the World Bank's Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) held at Bled, Slovenia in May 2007.

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"Retailing public goods: The economics of corporate social responsibility" forthcoming Journal of Public Economics

A paper by Tim Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak entitled "Retailing public goods: The economics of corporate social responsibility" is forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics.

"Electoral Bias and Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence'' forthcoming QJE, November 2007

A paper by Timothy Besley and Ian Preston entitled ''Electoral Bias and Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence'' is forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 122:4 (November 2007).

"Contract Duration and Investment Incentives: Evidence from Land Tenancy Agreements" forthcoming JEEA, September 2007

A paper by Oriana Bandiera titled "Contract Duration and Investment Incentives: Evidence from Land Tenancy Agreements" is forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association in the September 2007 issue. The paper analyses the empirical determinants of contract length, a key and yet neglected dimension of contractual structure. The author estimates contract length and contract type jointly using original data on tenancy agreements signed between 1870 and 1880 in the district of Siracusa, Italy. The findings indicate that the choice of contract length is driven by the need to provide incentives for non observable investment, taking into account transaction costs and imperfections in the credit markets that make incentive provision costly. The results also illustrate that since both length and the compensation scheme are used to provide incentives within the same contract, joint analysis is important for a correct interpretation of the evidence.