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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
Thomas Sampson discusses how UK growth in goods exports and imports has been "the weakest in the G7", which has "contributed to the ongoing stagnation of the UK economy". ... Read more...
01 February 2024
To understand what is happening to inequality between people we need to understand the behaviour of, and inequality between, firms. Papers published last month as part of the IFS Deaton Review of inequality in work, led ... Read more...
25 April 2022
Interview with Swati Dhingra - is this the end of globalisation? In a series of special programmes, Newsnight looks at the impact of the war in Ukraine on the world. ... Read more...
18 March 2022
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
Tito Boeri interviews Raghuram G. Rajan With industrialized countries beset by a political backlash against trade, technology, migration, and other hallmarks of the modern global economy, expert solutions are needed now... Read more...
28 June 2019
"One thing is really clear: There has got to be a reset in the world trading system," said Swati Dhingra, an economist at the London School of Economics. "It's all breaking at the seams at this point."... Read more...
21 June 2019
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20 June 2019
The achievements of the Chinese and Vietnamese economies lead to a debate on state capitalism as a viable model of further development. Economists Leonardo Baccini, Giammario Impullitti and Edmund Malesky present on VoxE... Read more...
19 June 2019
Dr Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at the London School of Economics, specialising in globalisation and industrial policy, says there's not enough trained staff to power it. "Compared to other creative or tech-based ... Read more...
20 May 2019
Donald Trump has cited the example of one of his US presidential predecessors, Ronald Reagan, in support of his protectionist policies. But as research by Ufuk Akcigit, Sina Ates and Giammario Impullitti shows, it was th... Read more...
19 March 2019
Ben Chu, Economics Editor of BBC Newsnight, showed a graph on FDI outflows from the UK (actual vs. expected) on BBC2 Newsnight on 07 March 2019. This graph is taken from CEP Brexit Analysis No. 13, Figure 2. 19:20min ... Read more...
07 March 2019
MGI was putting its finishing touches on the report in early 2016, but held its publication for the Brexit vote in March. "We weren't surprised by the outcome," Manyika told me. "We had been sitting on this research show... Read more...
07 February 2019
Long term is worse. "Our best estimate is that GDP per capita will be 6.3 to 9.5 per cent per year lower than it would be if we were to remain in the EU," wrote John Van Reenen, today an economics professor at MIT. "At t... Read more...
18 January 2019
Research by London School of Economics professor Stephen Machin and Richard Murphy at The University of Texas at Austin revealed that by paying higher fees, international students in effect subsidise certain domestic stu... Read more...
09 January 2019
Thomas Sampson, a London School of Economics scholar, detects a wider global meaning in Brexit. "The period since world war II has been marked by growing economic and cultural globalisation and, in Europe, increasing pol... Read more...
08 January 2019
Recent political developments in the US and Europe have led to renewed interest in the large and persistent regional disparities which plague our societies. These disparities have been partly driven by a secular decline ... Read more...
11 December 2018
Left-behind places are lending themselves increasingly to the forces of populism and political disintegration, writes Riccardo Crescenzi. A complex flow of investment is spreading across the globe, connecting more a... Read more...
07 November 2018
• A commentary on how to help the those hurt by trade Paul Samuelson, a Nobel prize-winning trade economist, argued in 1941 that globalisation causes economic hardship for some. He wrote that the lo... Read more...
02 June 2018
Silicon Valley and the City of London should give up some of their massive gains from globalization to ensure workers in cities like Detroit and Hull do not continue to fall behind. But… &ldqu... Read more...
29 May 2018
Article by Thomas Sampson Since World War II the global economy has become increasingly integrated. Brexit runs counter to this trend and has ignited a debate about the future of the EU and the global econo... Read more...
01 November 2017
Dennis Novy interviewed on globalisation and Brexit. ... Read more...
31 October 2017
Article by Thomas Sampson While we can estimate the economic impact of Brexit, we do not yet understand what made people vote for it. This column argues that political pro-Brexit rhetoric conflates two dist... Read more...
19 October 2017
13 July 2017
Globalisation, technological progress and a range of policies and institutions are driving ‘Great Divergences’ in wages and productivity, write Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara C... Read more...
05 July 2017
According to Dennis Novy, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick: “TTIP has the potential to benefit millions of consumers. It goes far beyond an economic project. Its current time... Read more...
07 June 2017
Dr Swati Dhingra on BBC News (19:35) commenting on PM Theresa May's speech on remaking globalization. [No link available.] ... Read more...
14 November 2016
A couple of thoughtful pieces to throw into the melee post-referendum. First Tim Harford in today's FT And to the idea that economists don't know what they are talking about (a new broadly held myth scaled up by the fac... Read more...
20 July 2016
Various analysis have shown that Brexit will adversely affect Britain's economy. According to the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, Britain's economy will decrease by 1.3 per cent to 2.6 per cent without considering ... Read more...
12 July 2016
Article by Gianluca Benigno, Nathan Converse and Luca Fornaro In the aftermath of the Global Crisis, policymakers have adopted policies to limit, or at least manage, capital inflows. This column explores episodes of cap... Read more...
11 October 2015
There is a human mass that despite being available for work and knowledge loses ability to be employed. This generates a terrific competition by seeking higher returns among the cheapest labour in Asia and the suppressor... Read more...
28 January 2015
If successfully concluded, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would be the most ambitious free trade agreement in history, writes Dennis Novy - and it has the potential to benefit millions of cons... Read more...
23 January 2015