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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...

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...

Office for National Statistics

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...

VOX CEPR Policy Panel

New dawn fades: The post-referendum rise in import costs has hurt UK workers

Some commentators argue that globalisation is systematically connected to the real-wage and productivity stagnation seen across the developed world. This column analyses the relationship between international trade and w... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Is the big-box store killing Main Street?

City centres aren't dying as a response to big-box openings; they are only changing their commercial structure, writes Maria Sanchez-Vidal. ... Read more...

CEP Awards

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...

The Conversation

Weightlifters and divers offer a lesson for business in risk and reward

In practice, competitors often do not only choose their level of effort; they also have to decide between more or less risky strategies. For example, a pharmaceutical firm that is lagging behind in a patent ra... Read more...

LSE The education blog

Judith Shapiro and Steve Pischke on recommended summer reads

As has become the tradition for our last post of the academic year, we’re featuring summer reading recommendations from special people at LSE. This year, two winners of the LSESU Teaching Excellence Awar... Read more...

BBC Mundo (Spain)

Trump, Brexit, eleccciones europeas y otros enigmas de la economia para 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...

CEP Press Release

Dr Swati Dhingra shortlisted in public service category of Asian Women of Achievement Awards

Swati Dhingra, Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Senior Lecturer with the Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), is among the final shortl... Read more...

Global Apollo Programme Press Release

Apollo Programme: Top global scientists and business leaders back Paris clean energy plan

David Attenborough, Brian Cox, Paul Polman, Jeffrey Sachs and Arunabha Ghosh all sign letter calling for action by UN climate conference in December The international group of experts and CEOs back a new 'Global Apollo ... Read more...

El Almeria

Alemania sufre de amnesia

... Tambien lo estudio el historiador Albrecht Ritschl, de la London School of Economices (LSE). En medio de la Guerra Fria, los... Germany suffers from amnesia Also studied it the historian Albrecht Ritschl, of the Lo... Read more...

New Statesman

The record-breaking solar plane is grounded ? is there still hope for clean energy?

This autumn sees the launch of the Global Apollo Programme: a green research initiative that wants governments to match, in today's money, the sums spent putting men on the moon. At a time of increasing austerity, reques... Read more...

Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Global Economy Prize 2015 awarded

On Sunday June 21, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and its partners, the City of Kiel and the Schleswig-Holstein Chamber of Commerce, have awarded the eleventh Global Economy Prize at the Kiel City Hall. The fol... Read more...

Vox

The case for a Global Apollo Programme to limit climate change

Article by Richard Layard, Gus O'Donnell, Nicholas Stern, Adair Turner If clean energy were cheaper than dirty energy, climate change would halt. Making clean energy cheaper is a problem - like putting a man - on the... Read more...

Business Mail

Nobel prize laureate Christofer Pissarides to receive IWF award

Christopher Pissarides, Cyprus's only Nobel Prize laureate, will receive the International Economy Award 2015 of the Kiel-based Institute for the World Economy (IFW), the Cyprus News Agency reported today. ''Unemployment... Read more...

Reuters

Nobel economists, others urge end to 'war on drugs'

Christopher Pissarides and other Nobel prize winners among signatories of a new academic report on global anti-drugs policies urging the UN to adopt different policies. This article was published online by Reuters on ... Read more...