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Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin and Carmen Villa-Llera examine the relationship between areas of London that were bombed in the Second World War and crime rates. Discovering that the probability of finding a ga... Read more...
28 August 2021
Yet a new study from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), at the London School of Economics (LSE), suggests that the capital is £4.5 billion a year better off because of the raids. Dr Hans Koste... Read more...
06 August 2018
The German bombing offensive brings lessons about worker density and zoning restrictions in London - and perhaps New York and Tokyo, write Gerard Dericks and Hans Koster. ... Read more...
25 June 2018
Bloomberg News asked six market commentators to predict what they see happening next in London’s 1.8 trillion-pound ($2.4 trillion) housing market:… Rippling Out: Paul Cheshire, professor... Read more...
23 May 2018
Today for the first time, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is to recognise its global centres of excellence with official ESRC Research Institute status. The move acknowledg... Read more...
09 April 2018
Disruption to trade caused by Brexit could cost the average Briton as much as £1,700 a year, with Remain-backing areas bearing the brunt, a report has claimed. The research suggested many of the worst-af... Read more...
27 March 2018
Homeowners and people nearby benefit, though the implications for society are less clear, writes Gabriel Ahlfeldt. Opinions on conservation areas are split. Proponents would argue that conservation areas... Read more...
20 March 2018
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12429 Related publications Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Nancy Holman, SERC Discussion Paper No.171, Febru... Read more...
05 February 2018
"Migrants are more likely, on average, to be self-employed and to start up companies." Max Nathan of CEP's Urban Programme interviewed for the documentary made by Wired in partnership with the Mu... Read more...
31 January 2018
A no-deal Brexit would leave Britain’s economy diminished and its people poorer. That is the conclusion of the economic forecast commissioned by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan from Cambridge Econometric... Read more...
11 January 2018
Article by Henry Overman: With Brexit looming, we’ve been running a series of workshops with local areas to think about different policy responses and consider what the evidence says on effectiveness. On... Read more...
13 November 2017
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
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23 October 2017
While talk of a sudden exodus might be overblown, there is a danger that jobs in the sector could gradually slip away from the capital. Barclays’ Peter Gordon says that, over the next decade, ‘we m... Read more...
19 October 2017
Earlier this week Paul Cheshire, a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, gave a starker warning. He said: “We are due a significant correction in house prices. I think ... Read more...
05 July 2017
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...
26 June 2017
“There will be a lot of political pressure to get as much of the finance industry moved to the EU as possible,” said Tom Kirchmaier, a fellow in the financial-markets group at the London School of ... Read more...
23 June 2017
The capital's schools are the best in the country. Can they be copied? According to a report last year by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the London School of Economics, one-sixth of the improvement ... Read more...
01 October 2016
Article by Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Nancy Holman Good architectural design is a public good, but economists and policymakers lack robust evidence on the impact of well designed architecture on location value when planning s... Read more...
24 September 2016
However, land regulation may play a bigger role. According to a recent paper by Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen of the London School of Economics, alongside Greater London, scarcity of open, developable land is gre... Read more...
Article by Christian Hilber In the first of a two-part article discussing the British planning system, Christian Hilber, Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, argues that the UK pl... Read more...
06 July 2016
There is little evidence to support the former. Roughly 2.2 million EU nationals work in the UK, comprising 6.6% of the workforce, according to the FT report. Another report from the London School of Economics and Centre... Read more...
22 June 2016
And while some experts argue that FDI is high in the UK due to a favourable business environment, others, such as the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, suggest that ''being fully in the s... Read more...
There is enough green-belt land in Greater London to build 1.6m houses at average densities, says Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics (LSE) - about 30 times the number of new houses London needs a year. But o... Read more...
30 April 2016
Poor land-use regulation is the main reason for Londons crazy prices. Two problems stand out. ... There is enough green-belt land in Greater London to build 1.6m houses at average densities, says Paul Cheshire of the Lo... Read more...
25 April 2016
Article by Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson In June, UK voters will decide whether to remain part of the EU. This column explores the UK's options if a majority votes in favour of Brexit. One possibility is for the UK, ... Read more...
04 March 2016
''London is going to be worse hit than other places,'' said Swati Dhingra, an economist specializing in trade at the London School of Economics, describing the city's deep connections with European trading partners and f... Read more...
22 February 2016
LSE report says primaries improving since 90s and abolition of Inner London Education Authority led to pupils' success One of the researchers, Jo Blanden of the University of Surrey, said: ''London's schools have become... Read more...
30 September 2015
In the East London case, wrote Paul Cheshire, an emeritus professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, via email, ''the very early relatively poor but mainly educated/drop-out pioneer gentrifiers - ... Read more...
It's a well-known fact that Essex is blessed with an excellent choice of schools, in both the public and private sectors. And thanks to some research published a couple of years ago by the Centre for Economic Performance... Read more...
12 August 2015
Article by Max Nathan Despite the recent hype, London's digital sector appears to have shrunk since 2010, with much of the 2000s surge wiped out, and has only recently turned the corner. This article was published onl... Read more...
06 July 2015
''Our ambition is to bring together the creativity and energy of Shoreditch and the incredible possibilities of the Olympic Park to help make east London one of the world's great technology centres,'' Mr Cameron said in ... Read more...
05 May 2015
As far as the government is concerned, London's Tech City is a success. But what effect has it had on employment in the area - and what are the downsides? The LSE's Dr Max Nathan is trying to find out what has worked a... Read more...
21 April 2015
The ONS' data showed that whilst, on average, Londoners have the highest disposable incomes in the country they are also the most anxious and have the lowest levels of life satisfaction. None of this will come as any sur... Read more...
24 September 2014