Events

INSEAD and Stone Centre at UCL third workshop on 'Inequality and the role of firms'

This is the third workshop of the CEPR Research Policy Network on Firms and Inequality that is being co-led by Mark Stabile, Imran Rasul and Barbara Petrongolo (CEPR Labour and Oxford).

Stone Centre - SFI Workshop on "Fair inequality"

On December 4th and 5th, the Fair Inequality Working Group met for the first time at UCL to discuss progress on this project, which is funded jointly by the Stone Centre at UCL and the EPE Programme at the Santa Fe Institute. 23 people were at the meeting with another 6 joining online. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together the empirical teams from around the world along with experts to comment on the methods and preliminary draft results and paper. The paper centres on getting quantitative estimates of measures of ‘fair inequality’ by using data on single sex sibling pairs to eliminate the influence of family circumstances on income. Specifically, to use a Gini-based measure, which can then be compared with levels of income inequality including both within and between family effects. Estimates from 13 countries ranging in levels of GDP per capita from Brazil to Norway were presented. The outcomes of the meeting were to refine the definition of ‘fair inequality’ and how it relates to Rawls’ fair equality of opportunity concept, estimate a broader set of inequality measures, improve the consistency of the data definitions used in constructing the country samples and to produce new estimates and a new draft in the first months of 2025.

Stone Centre Symposium

What can we learn from the evolution of wealth inequality since prehistory, about the processes sustaining extraordinary wealth inequality today, and policies to secure a more just distribution in the future? Catch up with the Stone Centre Symposium, proceedings are now available online.

Stone Centre at UCL PhD conference

Listen to brilliant research done by PhD students in economics all over the world. Suresh Naidu delivered the keynote presentation.

Stone Public Lecture 2024, Gabriel Zucman on 'Tackling global tax evasion – policy and proposals'

What do the rapidly emerging climate subsidy regimes imply for global tax competition and national tax revenue? Action at international and national levels requires collection and analysis of novel datasets. Catch up with the lecture today!

Career structures in economics

The Stone Centre at UCL, the Hub for Equal representation in the economy, and the European Economic Association co-hosted an all-day event to explore career structures in economics.

INSEAD and Stone Centre at UCL workshop on 'Inequality and the Role of Firms'

The workshop marked the launch of the CEPR Research Policy Network on Firms and Inequality that is being co-led by Mark Stabile, Imran Rasul and Barbara Petrongolo (CEPR Labour and Oxford).

CEPR Public Economics Annual Symposium 2023 on 'Wealth and Capital Taxation'

The Stone Centre at UCL co-sponsored this event. Special sessions in the conference focused on the research on theory and evidence related to wealth taxation. The keynote address – by Joel Slemrod from the University of Michigan – discussed the practicalities of taxing wealth, what a body of evidence of responses to wealth taxation currently shows, and areas for future research.

Stone Public Lecture 2023, Philippe Aghion on 'Rethinking capitalism to make it more innovative and more inclusive'

What are policy approaches that foster innovation while making growth more inclusive? Catch up with the Stone Public Lecture delivered by Philippe Aghion.

Launching the Stone Centre at UCL

The Stone Centre at UCL was launched on 26 May 2022, with interventions from a stellar line-up of speakers: Angus Deaton, Arin Dube, Janet Gornick, James Heckman, Soumaya Keynes and John Van Reenen. Catch up with this event!