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A large increase in US consumers' purchasing power compensated for trade-related job losses, write <b?Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager. This blog post appeared first on the LSE USA blog. It's based on 'What are the Pric... Read more...
20 August 2019
When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, exports to the US market surged. In new research Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager find that the rise of lower priced Chinese imports also helped to reduce prices of U... Read more...
14 August 2019
Dennis Novy gave a live TV interview o n Al Jazeera on the latest US/China/EU trade disputes. Dennis discussed the economic effects of tariffs on consumers, as well as the potential consequences for the i... Read more...
03 June 2018
America’s patents and research spending have soared alongside its trade deficit with China. Article in the Economist refers to the research paper ‘ Related publications Trade Induced Te... Read more...
03 May 2018
More industries have embraced remote positions in response to the desires of an evolving workforce, with a study by Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom finding that working remotely was directly tied to increase... Read more...
02 May 2018
As urban traffic gets more and more jammed, housing prices in urban centers are getting higher and higher, commuting distances are getting longer and longer, and professional women have family burns in their h... Read more...
26 April 2018
"The management of the company was a bit pessimistic," says researcher Nicholas Bloom in a Ted Talk about the research. "They expected the homeworkers to go to bed.&nb... Read more...
23 April 2018
One notable study was conducted in 2015 by Stanford University researcher Nicholas Bloom, who wanted to test whether the belief that workers slack off more when working from home was valid. Bloom and his crew ... Read more...
22 April 2018
Mautz cites a two-year study conducted by Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom, where 250 of 500 employees from China-based travel agency Ctrip volunteered to work from home. Then, over the 24 months, t... Read more...
17 April 2018
The creators of NEUARBEITEN explain why working from home in this country is still a niche topic and how it can still benefit employees and employers. … Home office offers employees one thing above all:... Read more...
22 March 2018
Even customs duties, which will help US companies in the short term, can be detrimental in the long run. This protection of the domestic market can lead to a decline in qualitative competitiveness. In this con... Read more...
06 March 2018
Using tariffs to restore American competitiveness could easily backfire. If U.S. companies can hunker behind trade barriers and sell to a captive market, many will lose their edge. Research by economists Nicho... Read more...
05 March 2018
03 March 2018
A study conducted in 2013 by Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at Stanford University, and graduate student James Liang, who is a co-founder of Chinese travel website Ctrip, proved that working at home in... Read more...
15 January 2018
IBM recently made headlines for dismantling its policy that allowed remote work. The technology giant was following in the footsteps of Yahoo Inc., which in 2013 also called its employees back to the office, s... Read more...
03 January 2018
John Wraith, head of interest rate policy at UBS UK, said: "The impact of the referendum was, first and foremost, only a sharp fall in the pound." Due to strong consumer spending, the UK economy init... Read more...
15 December 2017
Work from home or go to an office: which kind of workers are happier and more efficient? For the first time – surprisingly – there’s some solid academic research on the subject, led by a Stan... Read more...
14 December 2017
Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom said in a TED talk earlier this year that requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated tradition that doesn’t take into a... Read more...
05 December 2017
One of the most remarkable studies done to measure telecommuters’ performance was conducted by Stanford University. Led by Professor Nicholas Bloom, a team of scholars performed a Work From Home (WFH) ex... Read more...
31 October 2017
When it comes to debating a work-from-home policy, there are two schools of thought on the subject. While one group believes employees will abuse the system and productivity will be lost, the other believes th... Read more...
06 October 2017
According to a survey conducted by Stanford University Professor of Economics Nicholas Bloom in Singapore, those who work from home are happier than those who work in the office. We asked the people who work a... Read more...
01 October 2017
This is stated in the unique study of Stanford University economics professor Nicholas Bloom. According to the study, the number of people working from home has tripled in the last 30 years. However, the numbe... Read more...
30 September 2017
Nicholas Bloom, a professor at Stanford University, was interested in the phenomenon of working from home, a particular mode of work that allows employees of a company to stay at home rather than going into sp... Read more...
16 July 2017
Nicholas Bloom, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, conducted a study on a large, multi-thousand research group: employees of a Chinese travel company Ctrip. Have not you heard of her? Not... Read more...
12 July 2017
Working from home gets a bad rap. Google the phrase and examine the results—you’ll see scams or low-level jobs, followed by links calling out “legitimate” virtual jobs. But Stanford Gra... Read more...
Nick Bloom – a Stanford GSB expert shows how companies and employees benefit from workplace flexibility. Related publications Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment, Nichol... Read more...
22 June 2017
High-speed rail has triggered a wave of innovation , according to a London School of Economics and Political Science discussion paper by Lin Yatang, Qin Yu and Xie Zhuan, which describes a 20 per cent increase... Read more...
21 June 2017
Yatang Lin, a researcher from the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, enthused that "there were ambitions to get everything done pretty quickly. Of course, there were politi... Read more...
04 March 2017
China is the world leader in the deployment of high-speed rail infrastructure but how much of this is because of the extensive technology transfer deals that were struck with foreign companies during the early... Read more...
01 March 2017
Index of uncertainty in the economic policy of China and Hong Kong (China-Hong Kong Economic Policy Uncertainty Index-CHEPUI) are at record levels 672.82 points after soaring up fivefold higher than the averag... Read more...
20 February 2017
Economic policy is always challenging to decipher in China, where Communist Party leaders steer one of the world's most opaque central banks. Indeed, one measure of uncertainty has never been hig... Read more...
"The idea of trade wars these days, what politicians have in mind is really a 19th-century or early 20th-century conception of trade," said Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, a trade economist at the London S... Read more...
31 January 2017
El comercio mundial patas arriba Swati Dhingra, especialista de comercio de la London School of Economics, pone el acento en otro peligro. "Lo más grave sería una guerra comercial de E... Read more...
03 January 2017
The rate of growth in technological innovations in China has increased significantly in the past two decades (see Figure 1). What's more, it is widely believed that the ability to learn from foreign technology and chase ... Read more...
13 October 2016
Truth and myth about the effects of openness to trade In other rich countries, regions or industries with heavy exposure to Chinese imports also suffered material losses in factory jobs. A study of Spain's jobs market b... Read more...
01 October 2016
According to estimates by the London School of Economics, Brexit will result in a 22 percent drop in direct investment into the British economy and a 3.4 percent drop in revenues. This article was published online by ... Read more...
27 September 2016
However, mounting evidence suggests that the gains from free trade are not shared equally. A body of research on the American economy shows that import competition from poor countries can depress the incomes of the low s... Read more...
30 July 2016
Ethiopia is likely to be one of the fastest growing markets for western exporters in the next five years, while erstwhile emerging market heavyweights Brazil and South Africa offer paltry growth. Perhaps less surprisingl... Read more...
26 July 2016
Dennis Novy believes Chinese investors would no longer take the UK seriously if the country left the EU. ''It would be one-sided deterioration'', argues the associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick,... Read more...
18 December 2015
Article by Linda Yueh My own research with John Van Reenen has shown that GDP growth would be lower by between 0.43 to 1% per year if not for joint ventures that allowed for transfers of knowledge and technology, as opp... Read more...
09 December 2015
Dr Keyu Jin was interviewed about China's industrial output gains. The interview was published online by Bloomberg's The Pulse on June 11, 2015 [No link available.] Related links Keyu Jin webpage Globalisati... Read more...
11 June 2015
Article by Keyu Jin Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang recently cited job creation as vital to his country's ''ultimate goal of stability in growth''. His observation could not be more accurate. In fact, one of the mos... Read more...
04 June 2015
Article by Keyu Jin Keyu Jin calls for greater credit access and lower entry barriers for China's private-sector firms to flourish and create employment. This article was published by the South China Morning Post on Ju... Read more...
03 June 2015
However, Keyu Jin of the London School of Economics now says the Chinese economy is not creating enough jobs. This article was published by The Epoch Times on June 3, 2015 Link to article here Related links Keyu J... Read more...
An assumption underpinning China's investment policy is that connecting the hinterland to transport should support its development. But the construction of an early phase of China's national trunk highway system - 35,000... Read more...
19 July 2014
Publicly traded companies are the engine behind China's growth, which raises the question of how CEO compensation works under an interventionist state. This column presents an analysis of executive compensation in China ... Read more...
24 June 2014
In 2013, Nicholas Bloom and his colleagues published a study they ran with Ctrip, a Chinese travel agency. Bloom et al conducted a randomised controlled trial with employees from the company's call centres. One group of ... Read more...
06 June 2014