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The study of economic development in the Global South from a long-term perspective is of increasing importance in the current era of globalisation, integration and convergence. This applies both in the Global North and for the growing academic communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Discussions on development challenges for the Global South often lack sufficient understanding of the divergi

https://www.lusem.lu.se/research/research-departments/economic-history/economic-development-global-south - 2026-06-20

4 March 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Chris Colvin, Reader in Economics at Queen's University Belfast, will on 4 March visit the Economic History department seminar and present a paper co-authored with Stephen D. Billington (Ulster University) and Christopher Coyle (Queen’s University Belfast): "Financing Innovation: The Role of Patent Examination". You can download the paper from the QUB website

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/ekh-seminar-chris-colvin - 2026-06-20

27 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Seminar title: Geography, Culture and Landlessness in India at Independence Susan Wolcott at SUNY Binghamton will present a seminar titled:Geography, Culture and Landlessness in India at Independence Susan Wolcott webpage (binghamton.edu) About the eventLocation:Alfa1:1104, Scheelevägen 15B, 223 63 LundContact:sean [dot] kenny [at] ekh [dot] lu [dot] se Save th

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/ekh-seminar-susan-wolcott - 2026-06-20

25 March 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Seminar title: Feudal Power and the Rural Economic Geography of Late Medieval Holland Rombert Stapel at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam will present a seminar titled:Feudal Power and the Rural Economic Geography of Late Medieval Holland Rombert Stapel webpage (iisg.amsterdam) About the eventLocation:Alfa1:1104, Scheelevägen 15B, 223 6

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/ekh-seminar-rombert-stapel - 2026-06-20

We provide systematic knowledge based on empirical research on both how finance spurs economic growth and development, and on crises and how such crises can be mitigated, or avoided. Our research is divided into three main categories:Finance and the macro-economyInsurance and retirement systemsThe political economy of money and finance. Finance and the macro-economyResearch on:The causes and conse

https://www.lusem.lu.se/research/research-departments/economic-history/financial-history-banking-and-insurance - 2026-06-20

5 February 2026 12:15 to 13:00 | Seminar Hugo Morgado Azevedo will give a Brown Bag seminar.  The title of the talk is “Business Cycles and the Gender Gap in Educational Investment”.(Joint work with Petra Thiemann and Demid Getik.)  About the eventLocation:Alfa1: 4013Contact:bengt [dot] soderlund [at] nek [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar Categories LUSEM Economics (en)

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/brown-bag-seminar-hugo-morgado-azevedo - 2026-06-20

5 March 2026 14:15 to 15:30 | Seminar Jakob Munch (University of Copenhagen) will give a departmental seminar.Jakob studies globalization, international trade, labor economics, and environmental economics, among others. He has an extensive publication record in top journals in economics. He also has a lot of policy experience, and he is currently a Co-chairman at the Danish Economic Council. About

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/departmental-seminar-jakob-munch - 2026-06-20

10 February 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Seminar title: The Committee for a Future with Children Åsa Hansson at NEK/LU will give a seminar where she, in her role as the lead investigator for the Committee for a Future with Children https://framtidmedbarn.se/english-summary/ , presents the on-going work in the government commission that was appointed last summer.Åsa Hansson (lu.se) About the event

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/ced-seminar-asa-hansson - 2026-06-20

11 March 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Anna Sandberg will present in the Applied Micro Seminar.Anna is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics and behavioral economics, with a focus on gender differences in labor market outcomes. About the eventLocation:Alfa1: 4013Contact:adrian [dot] n

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/applied-micro-seminar-anna-sandberg - 2026-06-20

21 January 2026 13:00 to 14:00 | Seminar Title: Mixing time of the conditional backward sampling particle filter Abstract:The conditional backward sampling particle filter (CBPF; also known as the particle Gibbs with ancestor sampling, PGAS) is a powerful Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler for general state space hidden Markov model smoothing. It was proposed as an improvement over the conditional p

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/statistics-seminar-matti-vihola-university-jyvaskyla - 2026-06-20

Several of our successful research groups address issues such as economic growth, innovation and technological change at micro and macro level, globalisation, urbanisation and regional imbalances, and interpersonal inequality in income and wealth. Examples of current research Links to content further down on this page.Globalisation and the geography of growth – a micro-level perspective on Swedish

https://www.lusem.lu.se/research/research-areas/economic-history/growth-technological-change-and-inequality - 2026-06-20

20 January 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Thomas Krause (Danish Nationalbank) will give a talk in the FEM seminar.Thomas is Senior Research Economist at Danmarks Nationalbank. His research focuses on banking, housing markets, political economy of finance and finance & inequality. You can check out his personal page here: https://sites.google.com/site/thomaskrauseresearch/. About the eventLocation:A

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/finance-econometrics-macro-seminar-thomas-krause-0 - 2026-06-20

13 January 2026 09:15 to 10:15 | Seminar Jan Ditzen (Free University Bozen-Bolzano) will give a talk in the FEM seminar Jan is an Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. His research interests are in the field of Applied Econometrics with a focus on Panel-Time Series and Spatial Econometrics and Growth Empirics. He has also interest in Growth Theory, Simulation Studies and the

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/finance-econometrics-macro-seminar-jan-ditzen - 2026-06-20

3 February 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Marcus Nordström (LU) will give a talk in the FEM seminar, Marcus is our own PhD student and he focuses on Econometrics.   About the eventLocation:Alfa1: 4013Contact:luca [dot] margaritella [at] nek [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar Categories LUSEM Economics (en)

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/finance-econometrics-macro-seminar-marcus-nordstrom-0 - 2026-06-20

3 March 2026 14:15 to 15:30 | Seminar Najmeh Hajimirza (LU) will give a talk in the FEM seminar   About the eventLocation:Alfa1: 4013Contact:luca [dot] margaritella [at] nek [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar Categories LUSEM Economics (en)

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/finance-econometrics-macro-seminar-najmeh-hajimirza - 2026-06-20

The study of labour markets in a historical perspective reveals comprehensive structural change and enormous progress regarding the organisation and compensation of labour with implications for economic growth and individual well-being. Historical labour markets deal with the functioning of the labour market (e.g., wage formation, labour supply and the demand for labour), labour market outcomes fo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/research/research-departments/economic-history/historical-labour-markets - 2026-06-20

https://www.lusem.lu.se/collaborate/case-teaching-and-learning/case-news-archive - 2026-06-20

Economic demography deals with the essence of human life: birth and death, marriage and divorce, migration and social mobility, and specifically how demographic processes are shaped by socioeconomic factors at the individual, family and societal level. Demography also affects the economy and society through a changing age structure, migration flows, cycles in union formation and childbearing.In ec

https://www.lusem.lu.se/research/research-departments/economic-history/economic-demography-population-economics - 2026-06-20

5 February 2026 15:00 to 16:30 | Seminar Karin Pallaver at the University of Edinburgh will present in the seminar series Lund University Seminar Series in African History (LUSAH), jointly hosted by the LU departments of Economic History and History. This seminar is titled:Women at work in colonial Kenya: a preliminary exploration of photographic sourcesKarin Pallaver webpage (unibo.it) Welcome!Li

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/ekh-seminar-lusah-karin-pallaver - 2026-06-20

26 March 2026 15:00 to 16:00 | Seminar Rhiannon Stephens at Colombia University will present in the seminar series Lund University Seminar Series in African History (LUSAH), jointly hosted by the LU departments of Economic History and History. This seminar is titled:Wind, Rain, and History on the Swahili Coast, c. 500-1900Rhiannon Stephens webpage (columbia.edu) Welcome!Link to this online seminar

https://www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/ekh-seminar-lusah-rhiannon-stephens - 2026-06-20