About
I’m faculty at LSE’s Department of International Development.
Email at n.lane@lse.ac.uk. For my professional site: https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/nathan-lane. Find my CV here.
Biography
Nathan Lane, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Economic Development at the London School of Economics, in the Department of International Development. He is an affiliate of CESifo (Munich), and LSE’s Centre for Economic Prosperity (CEP) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID). He co-founded the empirical economics research lab, the Industrial Policy Group.
His research covers applied machine learning, economic development, political economy, and industrial economics. Before joining the LSE, Dr. Lane was an Assistant Professor at the University of Oxford, a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, and co-founded SodaLabs.io, a lab focused on addressing social science questions using big data and computational tools. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Professor Daron Acemoglu.
Dr. Lane’s research agenda focuses on establishing fundamental facts about economic change, with particular emphasis on understanding the efficacy, determinants, and patterns of industrial policies. His work has been featured in The Economist, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Trade Talks, and other major outlets. Through the Industrial Policy Group, Dr. Lane aims to establish industrial strategy as a rigorous object of inquiry within economics. His recent projects quantify global policy patterns using large-scale textual data on commercial policy and examine the role of policy in the global semiconductor sector.
Dr. Lane is passionate about computational methods, machine learning, and unstructured data. He has been a Linux user for 30 years. Outside academia, he enjoys comedy, hardcore punk music, and exercise science.