Skip to main content

Blogs and podcasts

Comment, analysis, and debate by CEP researchers on today's economic and social policy issues.

photo of factory skyline by Iain Kennedy via Unsplash
The EU has a transformative mechanism to reduce carbon leakage, but challenges loom ahead

Despite addressing carbon pricing challenges, the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism may hinder the growth and green transition of developing countries.
Photograph of computer code by Lukas via Unsplash
Britain needs nerds

STEM skills are key to AI adoption in the UK, but disparities in skills are causing uneven technology uptake across the country.

Latest Blogs and podcasts

Blog
LSE Politics and Policy:
How to reform the planning system to support growth in the UK

The UK's planning system is a critical bottleneck for growth. Invest 2035, the government's proposed industrial strategy, states that planning reform is one of the fundamental shifts needed to help companies invest in th...Read more...

Aadya Bahl

9 December 2024

Blog
LSE Politics and Policy:
Only the super rich need fear the farmers' inheritance tax

Protesters and high-profile individuals like James Dyson argued that ending the inheritance tax exemption for farmers will spell the end of the family farmer. Paul Cheshire argues that's not the case, and that the introd...Read more...

Paul Cheshire

6 December 2024

Blog
The Conversation:
Successful caps on English letting agents' fees disprove the idea that it's unwise to meddle with free markets

Five years ago, the UK government enacted the first legislation regulating prices in the English rental market since the 1960s. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 didn't interfere with what landlords can charge tenants in rent, bu...Read more...

Jan David Bakker and Nikhil Datta

5 December 2024

Blog
LSE Inequalities:
How gender quotas are challenging political inequality in South Korea

How do you boost women's representation in government, ask Jay Euijung Lee and Martina Zanella? Simple gender quotas risk being gamed, for instance by parties fielding women in unwinnable constituencies. The key, they su...Read more...

Jay Euijung Lee and Martina Zanella

27 November 2024

Blog
Vox EU:
Birth timing and spacing: Implications for parental leave dynamics and child penalties

Estimates of the impact of having children on labour market outcomes can differ significantly depending on whether a parent is categorised as employed or non-employed during parental leave. This column uses data from Den...Read more...

Abigail Adams, Mathias Fjaellegaard Jensen and Barbara Petrongolo

23 November 2024

Blog
Vox EU:
Firm climate investment: A glass half-full

The transition to a green economy will require large investments by firms. This column uses new survey data to study the importance of climate-related investment for UK firms. Over half of firms expect climate change to ...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Prachi Srivastava, Gregory Thwaites and Ivan Yotzov

20 November 2024

Blog
LSE Business Review:
Achieving net zero by 2050 requires changes to the UK skills landscape

As COP29 brings climate action into focus, it's clear that policy must go beyond carbon trading and finance. To make net zero a reality, the workforce must be equipped with the right skills. Aadya Bahl examines what this...Read more...

Aadya Bahl

19 November 2024

Blog
Economics Observatory:
Wellbeing policy: what lessons from the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman?

The late Daniel Kahneman was awarded the economics Nobel Prize in 2002 for influential research on how people make decisions. His work on wellbeing has also had wide impact, including on what official statistics measure ...Read more...

Richard Layard

18 November 2024

Blog
Vox EU:
Design-based fiscal stimulus transfers: Evidence and macro implications

In recent years, and during Covid-19 in particular, many countries have experimented with innovative approaches to fiscal stimulus. This column reports on an experiment in France in which individuals were given a debit c...Read more...

Johannes Boehm and Xavier Jaravel

16 November 2024

Blog
Vox EU:
Rethinking pension reform: A new CEPR eBook

Population ageing is exerting unprecedented fiscal pressure on social security systems around the world. In response, many governments are implementing or planning pension reforms, often aimed at encouraging later retire...Read more...

Giulia Giupponi and Arthur Seibold

14 November 2024

Blog
Imperial College Business School:
What's holding back the green transition?

New research from Imperial College Business School reveals what's stopping businesses from taking action to protect our overheated planet....Read more...

Mirabelle Muûls

13 November 2024

Blog
LSE Business Review:
The EU has a transformative mechanism to reduce carbon leakage, but challenges loom ahead

When companies face steep carbon prices in a country, they often move production to places with lower or no pricing. To address this problem, the European Union created the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. But, for de...Read more...

Ram Smaran Suresh Kumar

11 November 2024

Blog
Vox EU:
Changes to firms' service delivery post-Brexit

Services can be supplied through cross-border trade, consumption abroad, commercial presence, and the presence of a natural person. The choice of delivery mode and the extent to which service traders can switch between m...Read more...

Holger Breinlich and Martina Magli

7 November 2024

Blog
LSE Business Review:
The productivity boom in the British car industry benefited workers, with a caveat

Productivity growth can play an important role in raising wages. The UK car industry experienced fast productivity growth over the past 40 years, and by the 2010s car workers were earning about 37 per cent more than the ...Read more...

Tim Obermeier and Andreas Teichgraeber

5 November 2024

Blog
What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth:
Budgeting for Evaluation

In the budget last week, the government set out increased funding for public services and investment. The gamble is that increased public spending can successfully spur the growth needed to pay for it down the line. Impa...Read more...

Will Brett-Harding

4 November 2024

Blog
Project Syndicate:
A Weak French Government's Fiscal Reckoning

Moody's recent decision to downgrade France's credit outlook underscores the urgent need to pass a budget that tackles the ballooning deficit. But without a parliamentary majority, Prime Minister Michel Barnier will have...Read more...

Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner

31 October 2024

Blog
Vox EU:
US electoral impact of remote work and inter-state migration

Remote work and geographic mobility have surged in the US since 2020. This column examines trends for both and discusses the potential electoral implications. The authors find that remote work opportunities are dispropor...Read more...

Peter Lambert and Chris Larkin

31 October 2024

Blog
LSE Review:
It's time to debunk the belief that tech natives are more valuable

The generational tech divide is narrowing. Daniel Jolles and Grace Lordan surveyed more than 1,400 UK and US professionals and write that the ability to manage your attention and minimise task-switching is more important...Read more...

Daniel Jolles and Grace Lordan

31 October 2024

Blog
LSE Impact of Social Sciences:
AI can carry out qualitative research at unprecedented scale

The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of these new techniques in a range of qualitative enquiries, Friedr...Read more...

Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel

30 October 2024

Blog
LSE Business Review:
Britain needs nerds

Science, technological, mathematical and engineering (STEM) skills have been crucial to economic growth in the UK in the past, but how important are they to the adoption of the latest digital technologies such as AI? Mir...Read more...

Mirko Draca, Max Nathan, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha and Anna Rosso

29 October 2024

Latest 20 publications shown.     View all