Daniel STURM is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at CESifo, as well as a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). Among his editorial duties, he is Co-Editor of the Journal of Urban Economics.

His research interests include International Trade, Economic Geography, Urban Economics, and Political Economy. Published regularly in the top-tier economic journals, his work has also been awarded a number of consequential grants from the European Research Council (ERC) and the German Science Foundation. He is currently working on an ERC Advanced project entitled Quantitative Models of Cities. In 2018 he was the recipient of the Frisch Medal for his paper The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall (joint with Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Steve Redding, and Nikolaus Wolf).

Daniel Sturm will present a paper, joint with Steve Redding, at our next Structural Seminar on the topic:

Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London (read abstract, PDF 56.53 KB)

More about Daniel STURM and his research

Date: TUESDAY, March 19th - 3.15 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room

The next Structural Seminar will host Panle BARWICK (University of Wisconsin-Madison) on April 2nd.