The CEP is an interdisciplinary research centre at the LSE Research Laboratory. It was established by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 1990 and is now one of the leading economic research groups in Europe.

The CEP studies the determinants of economic performance at the level of the company, the nation and the global economy by focusing on the major links between globalisation, technology and institutions (above all the educational system and the labour market) and their impact on productivity, inequality, employment, stability and wellbeing.

You can view a sample of our work on our YouTube channel:



There are currently seven programmes:

• Community
  Director: Prof. Stephen Machin
  
  
• Education and Skills
  Director: Prof. Sandra McNally
  
  
• Growth
  Director: Dr. Ralf Martin
  
  
• Labour Markets
  Director: Prof. Guy Michaels
  
  
• Trade
  Director: Prof. Gianmarco Ottaviano
  
  
• Urban and Spatial Programme
  Director: Prof. Steve Gibbons
  
  
• Wellbeing
  Co-Directors: Prof. Lord Richard Layard and Prof Paul Frijters
  

Each programme runs a series of related projects addressing key issues, set out under the Programme of Work 2015-2020 (in pdf).

Full details of work completed and projects undertaken are available in our Annual Reports. The Centre's summary of work between 2010 and 2015 can be found here

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The work of the CEP Macro programme has now transferred to the
Centre for Macroeconomics at http://www.centreformacroeconomics.ac.uk/

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Completed self-standing programmes:

Associated with the above thematic programmes are self-standing programmes of work funded by outside sponsors (in alphabetical order):

• Biomarkers and Economic Behaviour Research Group
  Directors: Prof. Richard B. Freeman (Harvard) and Prof. Alex Bryson (NIESR)
  
  
• Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) 2000 - 2010
  Funded by the Department for Education and Skills.
  Director: Prof. Stephen Machin
  
  
• CEP Macro programme
  CEP Macro programme Director: Prof. Francesco Caselli
  The Macro programme has now transferred to the Centre for Macroeconomics
  
  
• Effective Intervention
  Director: Dr. Peter Boone
  
  
• EU LEED: Linked Employer-Employee Data
  Four in-depth studies assessing the potential of linked employer-employee and panel data sets for analysis of European labour market policy
  
  
• Explaining Productivity and Growth in Europe, America and Asia
  Director: Dr. Tobias Kretschmer
  
  
• Future of Unions Programme
  Funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
  
  
• HP (formerly EDS) Innovation Research Programme
  
  
• LSE Growth Commission
  Funded by HEIF and ESRC.
  Chaired by Prof. Tim Besley and Prof. John Van Reenen
  
  
• Manpower Human Resources Lab
  See MHRL Publications & MHRL Past Events
  
  
• Mental Health Policy Group 2011 - 2012
  Director: Prof. Lord Richard Layard
  
  
• Pay Inequalities and Economic Performance (PIEP)
  With support from the European Commission and Eurostat.
  
  
• Skills for All Programme
  Focusing on post-16 education and training and the new modern Apprenticeship, funded by the Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation.