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Publications  cep home page  about the cep  contact us  research  publications   -discussion papers   -occasional papers   -special papers   -CEE papers only   -CEP papers only   -MHRL papers only   -centrePiece   -books   -Policy Analysis   -Interviews and    Recordings    (Podcasts)   -Annual Reports   -dp submissions    for CEP staff.   -seminar papers   search:    --by year    --by program    --by author    --by title    --by number    --by keyword    --by abstract  events & calendar  staff directory  support & services  news & highlights   Management Practice and Productivity The Centre for Economic Performance, McKinsey & Company and Stanford have developed an innovative new methodology to survey management practices in over 4,000 firms across Europe, the US and Asia. Analysing this data they demonstrate a surprisingly large dispersion in management practices across firms and nations, and an important role for competition, ownership and education in explaining these differences. They also find firms are surprisingly poor at self assessing their own management practices. To download the report and full academic survey methodology, questionnaire and results go to the Management Practice and Productivity site at http://cep.lse.ac.uk/management/ Policy Analysis Objective, brief and non-technical, CEP Policy Analyses aim to provide background briefings to key policy issues raised in the news. The CEP Policy Analyses are provided by some of our expert researchers and draw on some of our past and current research. Our latest briefings are on - UK Productivity During The Blair Era - Has Labour Delivered on the Policy Priorities of 'Education, Education, Education'? - The Lisbon Agenda : The hope - and the Realities - Incapacity Benefit Reform: Tackling the Rise in Labour Market Inactivity Go to the CEP Policy Analysis page CentrePiece CENTREPIECE - SUMMER 2007 In this issue of CentrePiece, we showcase findings from all six of our major research programmes - labour markets; education and skills; productivity and innovation; globalisation; macroeconomics; and wellbeing. Two articles look at current controversies in education: the effects on pupils' achievement of attending a grammar school or a religiously affiliated school. Among the others, CEP researchers question if there really is a potential 'clash of cultures' in modern Britain; explore the effects of openness to trade; examine how markets react to monetary policy-makers' words and deeds; and call for schools to teach values. And our cover story focuses on a product - Microsoft's Windows software - with which we are all familiar but whose ramifications are often obscure. A government's policies on technology and competition rarely have the public prominence of its policies on education, work and crime, but the consequences can be equally significant. Also in this issue CEP's director John Van Reenen provides a broad overview of Tony Blair's economic legacy. Go to the CentrePiece homepage Interviews and Recordings of Events Listen to the James Meade Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Paul Krugman, on 14 June 2007 on the subject "Globalisation & Welfare " Progressive free-traders - people who believe both in domestic equity and in the promise of globalisation - are feeling chastened these days. What’s left of the case for globalisation? How can we make it work? Go to the Interviews and Recordings of Events page to download the MP3 Discussion Papers, Special Reports, Occasional Papers: Our latest discussion paper is: Pushing On a String: US Monetary Policy is Less Powerful in Recessions Silvana Tenreyro, Gregory Thwaites,  May 2013 Paper No' CEPDP1218: Read Abstract | Full paper (free) Our latest special report or occasional paper is: School Structure, School Autonomy and the Tail Stephen Machin, Olmo Silva,  March 2013 Paper No' CEPSP29: Read Abstract | Full paper (free) CEP Discussion Papers CEP Occasional Papers CEP Special Reports CEE Discussion Papers MHRL Discussion Paper Series Statistics: Number of discussion papers downloaded CentrePiece: the magazine of economic performance Books Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise? edited by Sue Fernie and David Metcalf CEP Policy Analysis Discussion Paper Submission Please Note: Only CEP Members are allowed to submit work for publication as CEP Discussion Papers Annual Reports and Programme of Work Annual Report 2006, published May 2007 (in pdf). Past annual reports Programme of Work 2000-2005 (in pdf). Papers presented at CEP seminars Labour Markets Workshop CEE Seminar Series CEP Friday Seminars International Economics Field Seminar IIM/CEP Management Research Seminars CEP/LSE Money-Macro Workshop Productivity, Innovation and Intellectual Property Seminar

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