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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
Article by Philippe Aghion and Beneficte Berner: French President Emmanuel Macron was elected with a clear mandate to reform the French economy, and he has not hesitated to target politically sensit... Read more...
08 May 2018
Article by Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner The French government has just announced the guidelines for a new labour code, its first major reform to boost France’s economy by giving more flexibili... Read more...
19 September 2017
Recent research published by the London School of Economics also found that teaching phonics led to greater improvements in reading among disadvantaged children compared with students taught using other system... Read more...
09 September 2017
Can Emmanuel Macron succeed in "transforming" the country he promised? Philippe Aghion, one of the great names in French economic research, hopes and wants to believe in it. ... Read more...
01 September 2017
Article by Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner Emmanuel Macron’s one-man revolution in French and European politics continued this weekend, as he will soon be able to add a huge parliamentary majorit... Read more...
13 June 2017
Article by Philippe Aghion What Macron likes about the Scandinavian model is that it combines a high degree of flexibility in the labor market with the encouragement of innovation and with high levels of so... Read more...
28 May 2017
Thomas Sampson, Professor at the London School of Economics, warns that in addition to tariffs, British producers may suffer the impact of foreign barriers. "They would have to reorganize all of their sup... Read more...
26 January 2017
Last week Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed Brexit would see Britain leave the European single market, creating a stumbling block for the car industry which relies on trading vehicles and loose parts withou... Read more...
0750 Swati Dhingra interviewed. After the UK gives up full membership of the EU's customs union exporters' goods could be facing checks and delays at Britain's border. ... Read more...
19 July 2016
...Unprecedented and profound mutation in the English system", says Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics at the University College of London (UCL). This article was published online by Acteurspublics on September 1, 2... Read more...
01 September 2015
Article by Camille Terrier French teachers went on strike on May 19 to voice their disapproval of two major reforms that have been proposed by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the French education minister. The two reforms are v... Read more...
22 May 2015
Girls in French secondary schools are benefiting from a marking bias by maths teachers, finds research. The girls were given 6 percent higher marks than boys for similar work, says the study by the London School of Econo... Read more...
14 April 2015
Article by John Van Reenen It takes on average a British worker to Friday to do what equivalent workers in Germany and France will complete by the end of Thursday afternoon. Chuka Umunna, Labour's shadow business s... Read more...
24 February 2015