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Big cities thrive because of the economic and social benefits of proximity – but proximity also helps to spread Covid-19. Does this mean an end to the big city revival of recent years? Much will depend o... Read more...
23 September 2020
Paul Cheshire, associate of the CEP, talks about how planning rules shape London and why big-name trophy architects are used so often, in this piece about the future of skyscrapers. ... Read more...
30 July 2020
With our sizeable state and private sector, the question is more whether the state will be a bit bigger or a bit smaller, writes Alan Manning. ... Read more...
20 May 2020
Research showing that when people are forced to change their behaviour, some find a better way of doing things. Published 2015. ... Read more...
17 April 2020
Transport upgrades are a key part of the Northern Powerhouse strategy, but there is some criticism about how much large-scale public investment in transport can act as a panacea for economic development. Profe... Read more...
26 February 2020
Even now, 56 years after its release, you don't need to be a transport buff to know about the Beeching report. Following its publication in March 1963, hundreds of stations and thousands of miles of track were axed. The ... Read more...
06 October 2019
Home Affairs editor A THOUSAND "commuter villages" with 2.1million new homes should be built on the green belt near railway stations to help solve the housing crisis, a leading government adviser and academic has propose... Read more...
22 September 2019
New UK evidence may lend support to heavier investment in transport infrastructure that facilitates longer-distance commuting, write Michael Amior and Alan Manning.... Read more...
23 July 2019
Klaus Desmet, David Krisztian Nagy, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Nathaniel Young The economic geography of transition economies has changed dramatically over the last quarter century, with large urban areas growing fast and ... Read more...
04 February 2019
Left-behind places are lending themselves increasingly to the forces of populism and political disintegration, writes Riccardo Crescenzi. A complex flow of investment is spreading across the globe, connecting more a... Read more...
07 November 2018
According to research in 2014 by the London School of Economics, wind farms can cut as much as 12 percent off the value of homes within a 2 kilometer radius, reducing property values as far as 14 kilometers aw... Read more...
17 April 2018
Anna Valero interviewed, speaking about the big picture of UK productivity: low investment, bad training, bad management and lack of infrastructure. BBC business correspondent Jonty Bloom... Read more...
05 February 2018
In 2008, the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics published research for England showing high performing (academically) schools can have an impact between 3% and 12% on prope... Read more...
09 December 2017
Andrew Carter talks to Bridget Rosewell and Henry Overman about the merits of big infrastructure projects. In this month’s episode, our chief executive Andrew Carter talks with Bridget Rosewell, Co... Read more...
30 November 2017
We are also now beginning to see why Scots voted 2:1 to remain in the EU. The thinktank Centre for Cities has predicted that Scotland’s major cities will suffer the worst consequences of Brexit, hard or ... Read more...
30 July 2017
Brexit will hit hardest in the South of England, according to new research. But although the more prosperous cities of the South will lose the most, they will find it easiest to adapt. Aberdeen in the Nor... Read more...
29 July 2017
Brexit will hit Scottish oil capital Aberdeen the hardest of all Britain’s cities, with London also ranking highly and facing a medium-term blow to economic output of as much as 2.6 percent, academics at... Read more...
28 July 2017
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27 July 2017
9 o'clock if you have a health read then you can call us now and takes more calls as well on this issue of people fleeing the NHS but before that Sir rumours are continuing to circulate of the cra... Read more...
04 July 2017
All of the UK’s main political parties now highlight the importance of an ‘industrial strategy’ with the aim of improving economic growth and achieving more balance in how its gains are distr... Read more...
30 May 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
Two years ago, the London School of Economics delivered bad news to the renewables industry. It published a research paper that showed that house price appreciation was significantly reduced by being near wind farms in E... Read more...
19 October 2016
There is another house price bubble under way in the Dublin area. Notwithstanding the efforts by the Central Bank to keep mortgage credit under control, some extraordinary prices have been quoted recently for the small p... Read more...
07 July 2016
There's been no shortage of hype about the relationship between cities and data, especially so-called big data. For large numbers of tech companies, cities, and even a growing number of urbanists, data promises to solve ... Read more...
18 May 2016
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
Article by Guy Michaels Over the last 30 years, floods have killed more than 500,000 people globally, and displaced about 650m more. In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined why so... Read more...
17 March 2016
Article by Guy Michaels Over the last 30 years, floods have killed more than 500,000 people globally, and displaced about 650 million more. In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined... Read more...
09 March 2016
Source: London School of Economics and Political Science Country: World Abstract Does economic activity relocate away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floo... Read more...
03 March 2016
In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined why so many people are hit by devastating floods. We looked at 53 large floods, which affected more than 1,800 cities in 40 countries, from ... Read more...
01 March 2016
Article by Adriana Kocornik-Mina, Thomas McDermott, Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch During the past couple of months alone, floods have displaced 100,000 people or more in Kenya, in Paraguay and Uruguay, and in India, ... Read more...
21 January 2016
There is an overall increase in new companies for a range of reasons. One reason has certainly been the economic downturn, which has resulted in people having difficulty find a job and turning to entrepreneurship, accord... Read more...
Article by Guy Michaels In a new study published by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), we examine why so many people are hit by floods year after year. In particular, we ask whether urban populations respond to ... Read more...
11 January 2016
Dr Tom McDermott of the School of Economics and the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork has been working with colleagues from the London School of Economics and Oxford University to examine overpo... Read more...
Guy Michaels discusses his study of the economic impact of floods and likelihood of people moving from flooding areas. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 5 Live on January 5, 2016 Link to interview here (43 mins... Read more...
05 January 2016
The World Bank Group launched the Competitive Cities report [1] on December 10 - ''Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth: What, Who and How,'' which represents almost two years of research and analysis to put together a... Read more...
18 December 2015
Anna Valero suggests ways to deal with deficits in skills, infrastructure and innovation. This article was published online by the LSE Business Review blog on 23 November, 2015 Link to article here Related publicati... Read more...
23 November 2015
Passing mention of LSE work on infrastructure. Broadcast by BBC Radio Foyle on November 8, 2015 Link to broadcast here Also on: BBC Radio Ulster Link to broadcast here Related links John Van Reenen webpage Gr... Read more...
08 November 2015
Other members will include ... a former member of the LSE's Growth Commission and a former chief adviser to the Great London Authority. This article was published online by RTM - Rail Technology Magazine on October 30... Read more...
30 October 2015
Will the attempt by the chancellor to take politics out of our new infrastructure projects succeed, asks Kathryn Cooper ''Britain is a big, diverse country with very active press and democratic process, which can hold u... Read more...
11 October 2015
Four ideas to improve Britain's bad record on big building projects UK government's plans for increased infrastructure spending and Centre for Economic Performance's recommendations. The article was published online by... Read more...
08 October 2015
''We are the builders'' - So George Osborne declared at this years Tory Conference. Is he right, or are we neglecting our National Infrastructure? Anna Valero, research economist at LSE, joins us to walk through the argu... Read more...
07 October 2015
The UK government's new Infrastructure Commission, unveiled at the Conservative Party Conference today (Monday 5 October), was one of the key recommendations of the LSE Growth Commission, which reported in the autumn of ... Read more...
05 October 2015
Ever since Thatcher's Teesside stroll, breathing life into blighted areas has met with mixed success. Understanding what might work is a step in the right direction. Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Econ... Read more...
03 October 2015
[Gabriel] Ahlfeldt, an Associate Professor of Urban Economics and Land Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says as long as outward growth is prevented by policies such as the 'green belt'... Read more...
10 August 2015
Infrastructure is the nearest thing in modern politics to motherhood and apple pie. Everybody, on left and right, can agree that more and better infrastructure is what Britain needs. Unfortunately it is also the thing th... Read more...
28 June 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
If Britain's top economists were in charge, what policies would they implement? Tim Harford sets the challenge. "Low productivity is the number one problem Britain faces" says Van Reenen. "Even before the crisis, it l... Read more...
17 April 2015
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
In a keynote paper to last week's Modelling World conference, Henry Overman said much greater discipline needed to be imposed on the claims made by policy-makers about transport investment's impact on the economy. ... Read more...
13 June 2014