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Announcements about the CEP and CEP staff.

Anna Valero appointed as Industrial Strategy adviser

Congratulations to Anna Valero, distinguished policy fellow at LSE and director of CEP's growth programme, who has been appointed as industrial strategy adviser to the chancellor. Dr Valero, a growth and productivity ex... Read more...

23 October 2025

Philippe Aghion wins Nobel Prize in economic sciences

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, professor at the College de France and INSEAD, and at the London School of Economics, who has been awarded the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nob... Read more...

13 October 2025

Dennis Novy begins role as chief economist at the Foreign Office

Congratulations to Dennis Novy, professor of economics at the University of Warwick and research associate in CEP's trade programme, who has been appointed as chief economist and director of analysis at the Foreign, Comm... Read more...

3 October 2025

Isabela Manelici receives European Research Council Starting Grant

A European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant has been awarded to CEP assistant professor, Isabela Manelici.  With a total funding of €761 million awarded to 478 early-career researchers across Europe, ERC ... Read more...

4 September 2025

Jo Blanden awarded OBE in King's birthday honours

Congratulations to Jo Blanden, professor of economics at the University of Surrey and an associate in CEP’s education and skills programme, who has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025. P... Read more...

16 June 2025

In Memoriam: Ghazala Azmat (1979 - 2025)

We are deeply saddened to hear that CEP associate Ghazala Azmat, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, passed away on Saturday, 7 June. Ghazala was a leading applied microeconomist, known for her work on labour markets,... Read more...

10 June 2025

Antonin Bergeaud named Best Young Economist of France, 2025

Congratulations to Dr Antonin Bergeaud who has been named the Best Young French Economist, 2025 by Le Monde and Le Cercle des Économists. The prize is awarded to a French economist under the age of 41 in recognit... Read more...

19 May 2025

Funding for Centre for Economic Performance to boost economic growth

The UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) £9.2mn for its five-year programme of work from 2025. This renewed funding will enable CEP to co... Read more...

18 March 2025

Almudena Sevilla made CBE in New Year’s honours

Congratulations to Almudena Sevilla, professor of economics and public policy in LSE’s Department of Social Policy, and associate of the Centre for Economic Performance who has been recognised in the New Year's Hon... Read more...

6 January 2025

Henry Overman appointed to Industrial Strategy Advisory Council

Henry Overman OBE, professor of economic geography at LSE and CEP research director, has been appointed to the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, it was announced today. Professor Overman is one of 16 members of the ... Read more...

17 December 2024

Daniel Chandler awarded the Voltaire Lecture Medal

Congratulations to Daniel Chandler who has been awarded the 2024 Voltaire Lecture Medal for his work on how to create a fair society. Chandler, research director of the LSE’s Programme on Cohesive Capitalism and a... Read more...

12 September 2024

Stephen Machin appointed to Labour Market Advisory Board

Stephen Machin, professor of economics at LSE and CEP director, has been appointed to the newly-created Labour Market Advisory Board, it was announced today. Professor Machin is one of eight board members appointed by w... Read more...

10 September 2024

Henry Overman made OBE in King's birthday honours

Congratulations to Henry Overman, Professor of Economic Geography and Research Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, who has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List 2024. Professor Overman has bee... Read more...

17 June 2024

Anna Valero appointed to the Office for Budget Responsibility's advisory panel

Congratulations to Anna Valero, distinguished policy fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, who has been appointed to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) advisory panel.   Established in 2011... Read more...

17 August 2023

Saul Estrin becomes a Fellow of the British Academy

Congratulations to Saul Estrin, emeritus professor of managerial economics and strategy at LSE and associate in CEP’s growth programme, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy.  He is amon... Read more...

27 July 2023

Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like? makes the FT's summer reading list

Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like? has been chosen as one of the best reads on economics for this summer by the Financial Times. The book by Daniel Chandler is described by the paper’s chief econ... Read more...

20 June 2023

Anna Valero joins the chancellor's economic advisory council

Anna Valero has been appointed to the chancellor’s economic advisory council, it was announced today. The council provides independent, expert advice on economic policy to help grow the economy. Dr Valero, senior... Read more...

18 April 2023

Stephen Machin gives flagship British Academy lecture

Stephen Machin, director of CEP, is due to give a flagship British Academy lecture on wage controversies at the Bristol Ideas Festival of Economics. Professor Machin will address topics including how does high inflation... Read more...

7 November 2022

Professor Richard Layard named as Clarivate Citation Laureate 2022

Professor Richard Layard has been honoured for his “pioneering contributions to the economics of happiness and subjective wellbeing” by information company Clarivate. Professor Lord Layard, co-director of th... Read more...

22 September 2022

Henry Overman becomes a Fellow of the British Academy

Congratulations to Henry Overman, research director of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and professor of economic geography at LSE, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy. He is among 85 ne... Read more...

22 July 2022

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy makes the FT’s summer reading list

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy has been chosen as one of the best mid-year reads by the Financial Times. The book by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake is described by the paper’s chief e... Read more...

30 June 2022

Swati Dhingra to join Bank of England's monetary policy committee

Swati Dhingra has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to... Read more...

12 May 2022

Philippe Aghion awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, associate of CEP and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), on being awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea. The award is given to a European scholar who has ... Read more...

15 February 2022

The Power of Creative Destruction makes the The Economist’s best books list

The Power of Creative Destruction has been chosen by The Economist as one of its best books of 2021.The book, by Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin and Simon Bunel, is described by the magazine as "sweeping, aut... Read more...

17 December 2021

Job market best paper awards for Amanda Dahlstrand and Nikhil Datta

Congratulations to Amanda Dahlstrand and Nikhil Datta who have won UniCredit Foundation Econ Job Market Best Paper Awards. Dahlstrand, a PhD candidate in economics at LSE, has won an Econ Job Market Bes... Read more...

22 November 2021

Economy 2030 Inquiry: six months on

It is six months since the launch of The Economy 2030 inquiry – a two-year project that will examine the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and set out a plan... Read more...

19 November 2021

Josh De Lyon wins TIISA Young Scholar Award

Congratulations to Josh De Lyon who has won a Trade and Investment in Services Associates (TIISA) Young Scholar Award for his paper The Labour Market Effects of Services Importing: Evidence from the United Kin... Read more...

20 October 2021

In memory of Professor David Marsden

David Marsden joined LSE as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Relations in 1980. He had a long and distinguished career, first in the Department of Industrial Relations, where he was promoted to profe... Read more...

30 September 2021

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) best paper awarded to John Van Reenen

A Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) best paper award has been given to John Van Reenen, director of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), and his co-authors Sabrina T. Howell, of New York Unive... Read more...

27 September 2021

Vernon Henderson and Barbara Petrongolo become Fellows of the British Academy

Congratulations to Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) associates Professor Vernon Henderson and Professor Barbara Petrongolo, who have been elected as new Fellows of the British Academy. They are among 8... Read more...

23 July 2021

Xavier Jaravel named Best Young Economist of France, 2021

Congratulations to Dr Xavier Jaravel who has been named the Best Young Economist of France, 2021 by Le Monde and Le Cercle des économistes. The prize is awarded to a French economist under the age of... Read more...

3 June 2021

UK facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change

The UK is facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change as five seismic economic shifts – the Covid aftermath, Brexit, the Net Zero transition, an older population and rapid technological change - com... Read more...

18 May 2021

Daniel Sturm awarded major grant to study the economics of cities

Professor Daniel Sturm, director of the Urban Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance, has been awarded a major research grant by the European Research Council (ERC) to study the economics of cities. ... Read more...

22 April 2021

Ground-breaking new inquiry to propose economic path for post-pandemic Britain

A ground-breaking new collaboration between the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Resolution Foundation will explore current economic challenges and propose ways t... Read more...

31 March 2021

UK Economic Diplomacy report published: CEP experts on commission

The final report of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission, which proposes a framework for the UK’s trade agenda that seeks to balance commercial openness with strategic domestic and foreign policy aims, ... Read more...

9 February 2021

This is CEP - 30 years of research

For 30 years, the CEP has studied economic performance at all levels: people, firms, cities, nationally and globally. We ask how the economy works and how it can work better. Find out how our research has alre... Read more...

27 November 2020

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? makes FT best books list

The book What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? has been named as one of the best books on economics this year by the Financial Times. The book by Lee Elliot Major, professor of s... Read more...

17 November 2020

Richard Layard presented with a lifetime achievement award by the Economic and Social Research Council

Lord Richard Layard has been presented with a lifetime achievement award by the Economic and Social Research Council for his work in economics which spans more than 50 years.  Professor Layard, the CEP... Read more...

12 November 2020

CEP associates to join new UK trade panel

Two Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) associates are members of a new expert trade panel set up to support UK trade negotiations. The Department for International Trade (DIT) has said that Professor Tony Venables, B... Read more...

30 September 2020

Richard Layard wins Distinguished Researcher award

Richard Layard wins the ISQOLS Distinguished Quality-of-Life Professor Lord Richard Layard has been given the 2020 award for his substantial contribution to wellbeing research.  ... Read more...

21 September 2020

CEP 30th anniversary competition winner announced

The winner of the first Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) essay prize is Vanessa Huang, of Discovery Bay International School, Hong Kong, for her essay about what governments can do to  improve peopl... Read more...

1 September 2020

Felix Koenig wins the EALE Young Labour Economists Prize 2020

Congratulations to Dr Felix Koenig on winning the 2020 Young Labour Economist Prize from the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). The prize was awarded for his CEP discussion paper: Technical C... Read more...

30 June 2020

Home Secretary welcomes new chair of the MAC

CEP associate Brian Bell has been appointed as the new chair of the Migration Advisory Committee, a public body sponsored by the Home Office to advise the government on migration. Prof Bell... Read more...

23 June 2020

The UK's self-employed workers: who they are and what they need

Jack Blundell identifies groups among self-employed workers, to aid in finding methods to support and protect workers through public policy. ... Read more...

17 April 2020

Does school spending matter?

Steve Gibbons and Sandra McNally review research on the causal effects of school resources on secondary education. ... Read more...

8 April 2020

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt win the BBVA Foundation's 12th Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Congratulations to Professor Philippe Aghion, an associate of the Centre for Economic Performance, who has been recognised for his "fundamental contribution to the study of innovation, technical change and competition po... Read more...

1 April 2020

John Van Reenen recognised as one of the world's most influential researchers

Professor John Van Reenen, Ronald Coase chair in economics and former director of the Centre for Economic Performance, has been recognised as one of the world's most influential researchers in economics an... Read more...

12 December 2019

ONS Research Excellence Awards 2019 - People's Choice Award to Dr Swati Dhingra

Congratulations to Dr Swati Dhingra, associate professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Performance, who has won the People's Choice Award at the ONS research excellence awards 2019. The ONS's research excell... Read more...

4 November 2019

2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners

Congratulations to Benjamin Moll and Xavier Jaravel, who are both winners of this year's Philip Leverhulme Prizes.... Read more...

17 October 2019

Young Labour Economist Prize Winner 2019

2019 winner: Sara Signorelli (Paris School of Economics) Do skilled migrants compete with native workers? Analysis of a selective immigration policy ... Read more...

21 September 2019

WTO announces winners of 2019 Essay Award for Young Economists

The winners of the 2019 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists are Jan Bakker of Oxford University and Federico Huneeus of Princeton University, who were ranked in equal first place by the Selection Panel. They will share ... Read more...

12 September 2019

New soft skills training in schools improves children’s health and behaviour

An evaluation by LSE's Centre of Economic Performance found "robust evidence" that the Healthy Minds curriculum improves physical health of participants. The report's authors, Grace Lordan, Associate Professor in Behavio... Read more...

18 July 2019

Announcing the Winners of the 25th Annual Research Award

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11 April 2019

Professor Alan Manning a Witness on the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination Bill

In the first sitting of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill, Professor Alan Manning joined a witness panel in his role as chair of the Migration Advisory Committee. He took a large numb... Read more...

12 February 2019

Second Fama Prize Awarded to Mostly Harmless Econometrics

The second Fama Prize has been awarded to Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Jörn-Steffen (Steve) Pischke (London School of Economics) for their book Mostly Harmless Econometrics: ... Read more...

26 September 2018

Wiley Prize in Economics awarded to Associate Professor Mirko Draca of Warwick Economics

The prize, sponsored by Wiley is worth £5,000 and is awarded annually for achievement in research by an outstanding early career economist. Associate Professor Mirko Draca was named by the British Ac... Read more...

9 August 2018

Research Highlights - Wealth Creator

What makes cities thrive? Is it proximity to natural resources like rivers, oceans or energy reserves? Or does the cumulative effect of population increases stimulate waves of economic activity such as restaur... Read more...

2 July 2018

Economics PhD student wins the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award 2018 at CBS

Congratulations to Kilian Huber, Economics PhD and Job market candidate, who is among the Winners of the AQR Top Finance Graduate 2018 Award at the Copenhagen Business School!  The award recognizes the mo... Read more...

3 June 2018

Professor Daniel Sturm and co-authors awarded the 2018 Frisch Medal

Congratulations to Professor Daniel Sturm and his co-authors Dr Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Professor Steve Redding, and Professor Nikolaus Wolf for being awarded the 2018 Frisch Medal... Read more...

24 May 2018

Increased access to independently-run schools decreases pupil wellbeing

The competition created by increased access to autonomous schools, such as academies, faith schools and private schools, raises academic achievement but decreases pupil wellbeing, a new study from the London S... Read more...

15 May 2018

CEP’s Professor Barbara Petrongolo and her co-author, Dr L. Rachel Ngai, have been awarded the American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Macroeconomics Paper prize

The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Award highlights the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics... Read more...

7 May 2018

Press Release: Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun Wins Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award for Best Article

Harvard Business School associate professor Raffaella Sadun and coauthors Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of MIT have been named the first-place winners of the 59th Annual HBR McKinse... Read more...

17 April 2018

ESRC Research Institutes launched

   Today for the first time, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is to recognise its global centres of excellence with official ESRC Research Institute status. The move acknowledg... Read more...

9 April 2018

New book on the origins of happiness

A new book by Professor Richard Layard and colleagues presents evidence on the origins of happiness, drawing on unique survey data on over 100,000 individuals in Australia, Germany, the UK and the United State... Read more...

1 February 2018

Dr Swati Dhingra awarded an ERC Starting Grant

Swati Dhingra has been awared a European Research Council Starting Grant for the BIGlobal project, which will examine the sources of firm growth and market power to provide new insights into welfare and policy... Read more...

1 February 2018

Innovation, meet organization

Economist John Van Reenen studies the creation and use of technology, from the R&D lab to the workplace Long before John Van Reenen became a professor at MIT, he was studying MIT topics in an MIT style.... Read more...

8 January 2018