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Q: In 2017, consumers’ finances were squeezed by rapidly rising prices. Will 2018 be an easier year for UK households and what are the implications for consumer spending? A: Swati Dhingra, assis... Read more...
01 January 2018
Newspaper headlines this week have been shouting about a crash in the housing market. Massive collapse! Property prices could plunge! We hear from the man quoted in many of those stories, Professor Paul Cheshi... Read more...
08 July 2017
Construction of McMansions has also increased but people who have smaller homes near where McMansions are built are much, much unhappier with their homes, according to a paper published in the spring by r... Read more...
05 July 2017
Construction of McMansions has also increased but people who have smaller homes near where McMansions are built are much, much unhappier with their homes, according to a paper published in the spring by resear... Read more...
04 July 2017
A study of three researchers Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven j. Davis has revealed that the current economic uncertainty is still higher than during times of 9 / 11 or the Lehman collapse. The expert... Read more...
31 January 2017
''The fiscal target should be on balancing the books on current spending over the business cycle - just as it was when the Office for Budget Responsibility was first set up in 2010. Otherwise there will always be too mu... Read more...
17 March 2016
Primary colours But, when it comes to the truth, Sala i Martin has refused to discuss publicly with Luis Garicano, another heavyweight, Professor at the London School of Economics. The worst has been disappointing argum... Read more...
21 September 2015
Look out, Thomas Piketty. Here comes Gabriel Zucman. With a slim new book that has the feel of Piketty's bestselling Capital in the 21st Century, Zucman, a baby-faced 28-year-old University of California-Berkeley econom... Read more...
We decided to examine Sanders' statement that the richest 0.1 percent has nearly as much as the bottom 90 percent. Its a standard line in Sanders' speeches. Warren Gunnels, policy director of Sanders' presidential campai... Read more...
The Coordinator of the economic program and citizens Social (C's), Luis Garicano, has invited the Economist Xavier Sala-i-Martin, favourable to the independence of Catalonia, to discuss the economic implications of that ... Read more...
16 September 2015
Christopher Pissarides, London School of Economics, the winner of a Nobel Prize, said that Greece still has structural problems such as low productivity and lack of competitiveness. Greece is likely to need international... Read more...
11 September 2015
Rivera sees 25,400 million gap in the budget approved by the PP for 2016 Albert Rivera, President and the economic team of the party have denounced the General State budgets drawn up by the people's Party for 2016 to hi... Read more...
10 September 2015
Garicano: ''budgets will be 25,000 million'' The leaders of citizens believe that the General State budgets drawn up by the people's Party for 2016 hides a hole of more than 25,000 million. So Luis Garicano, Francisco d... Read more...
09 September 2015
... 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...
03 September 2015
Dennis Novy interviewed. The topic was the resignation statement of the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras, and what it means for the bailout programme and the Greek economy. The interview was broadcast by Al Jazeera ... Read more...
20 August 2015
Article by Dennis Novy Alexis Tsipras will be able to survive, for one simple reason: there’s no better alternative. The Greeks don’t want to leave the Eurozone. The last months have shown that the government's prev... Read more...
17 August 2015
Albrecht Ritschl is interviewed on market crashes and China. The interview was broadcast by CNN International Europe - The Business View News on July 9, 2015 [No link available] Related publications 'Reparations, Def... Read more...
09 July 2015
... creditors, in exchange for pro-market reforms'', said Professor Albrecht Ritschl of the London School of Economics. West Germany was able to borrow on international markets again, and, free ... This article was publ... Read more...
Leading academics from the London School of Economics have called on both Greece and its international creditors to adopt a more responsible approach. This article was published online by Business Reporter on July 9, 20... Read more...
Twenty-six members of the faculty at the London School of Economics (LSE) have called for Greece's creditors to ease the austerity measures they have imposed over the last five years. In an open letter, the professors wr... Read more...
Dennis Novy live interview, commenting on the dramatic developments on Greece and the Eurozone crisis. This interview was broadcast by Sky News on June 29, 2015 Link to interview here [Starts at 9.40am] Related links... Read more...
29 June 2015
Christopher Pissarides interviewed about closure of Greek banks. The interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 News on June 29, 2015 [No link available] Related links Christopher Pissarides webpage Macro Programme webp... Read more...
In the following op-ed, 13 prominent economists from around the world call on Greece to sign a credible agreement with the Europeans immediately. CEP's Professor Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureate, London School of ... Read more...
Nobel Prize-winning economist Christopher Pissarides tells DW why he is deeply disappointed with the Greek government's mismanagement of the debt crisis. He also explains what Germany could have done better. This articl... Read more...
Dennis Novy gave a live interview, commenting on the dramatic developments on Greece and the Eurozone crisis. The interview was broadcast by Al Jazeera on their ''Newshour'' Programme Link to the interview here [Star... Read more...
28 June 2015
Unemployment stands at more than 25%. ''People will be much worse off,'' said Christopher Pissarides, a Nobel prizewinner based at the London School of Economics. Investors are braced for a slump on global stock markets ... Read more...
''I don't understand what kind of economics they have in their minds, or who is deciding that this is economics,'' said Christopher Pissarides, a Nobel prizewinner at the London School of Economics. ''Who is going to inv... Read more...
Interview with LSE Professor and Economics Nobel Prize winner Christopher Pissarides on proposed austerity measures in Greece. The interview was broadcast by BBC News on June 25, 2015 [No link available] Related link... Read more...
25 June 2015
Follow-up interview, Dennis Novy on latest Greece negotiations. This interview was broadcast by Voice of America on June 23, 2015 Link to interview here Related links Dennis Novy webpage Globalisation Programme w... Read more...
23 June 2015
Dennis Novy interviewed, speaking about latest Greece negotiations. This interview was broadcast on the BBC World Service World Update programme on June 23, 2015 Link to interview here [Ca. 32min 35sec into the progra... Read more...
Dennis Novy on the latest Greece negotiations. This interview was broadcast by Sky News on June 23, 2015 Related links Dennis Novy webpage Globalisation Programme webpage Dennis Novy CEP publications webpage ... Read more...
See: Comment by georgep76 3dago - below the cartoon Germany has been described as the biggest ''debt transgressor'' of the 20th Century, with restructurings in 1924, 1929, 1932 and 1953. Total debt forgiveness for Germ... Read more...
21 June 2015
Dennis Novy interviewed, speaking about Greece and the looming IMF deadline. This interview was broadcast by BBC News on June 21, 2015 [No link available] Related links Dennis Novy webpage Globalisation Programm... Read more...
A look back: national bankruptcies are not so rare The economic historian Albrecht Ritschl called Germany the most wayward of the 20th century: ''The Federal Republic owes your today's financial stability and its status... Read more...
18 June 2015
An even more dramatic example is provided by Germany itself. Historically, Germany has been described as the biggest ''debt transgressor'' of the 20th Century, with restructurings in 1924, 1929, 1932 and 1953. Total debt... Read more...
18 March 2015
Q: How do you calculate reparations for something as catastrophic as WWII? A: Were Germany to pay reparations for the whole of the destruction it caused during the war - the Nazis were estimated to have been responsib... Read more...
10 February 2015
The economic historian Albrecht Ritschl of the London School of Economics comes to the conclusion that: ''Germany is the biggest debt sinner of the 20th Century''. This article was published by Spiegel online on Feb... Read more...
02 February 2015
''Germany's resurgence has only been possible through waiving extensive debt payments and stopping reparations to its World War II victims'', economic historian Albrecht Ritschl told Der Spiegel in 2011, describing Germa... Read more...
30 January 2015
''Tsipras's initial decisions, especially his coalition with a nationalist-hooligan party, point toward an exit from the euro,'' Luis Garicano, an economics professor at the London School of Economics, said on Twitter. '... Read more...
27 January 2015
Europe is facing a problem of long-term stagnation Europe and Spain within it, has ''a problem of long-term economic stagnation'' because of their limited level of labor productivity to the aging demographic prospects, ... Read more...
20 November 2014