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THE LUDICROUS customs partnership arrangement preferred by Remainers as a solution to the Ireland border post-Brexit has been torn apart by a London based think thank who have argued the plan is almo... Read more...
27 May 2018
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Organizations need competent management just as much as they need analytical brilliance, argue the winners of this year’s HBR McKinsey Award, which honors the best Harvard Busine... Read more...
17 April 2018
Cointelegraph reached out to MIT Professor of Economics John van Reenen OBE to give his take on the move by the British Treasury and the touted cryptocurrency taskforce. The renowned economist painted a slight... Read more...
28 March 2018
Article by Gill Wyness Rules of the Game analyses the university admissions process in the UK and looks at whether it may be a potential driver of the access gap. This is an area that is surprisingly under-... Read more...
19 December 2017
A recent paper by David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen speculates that tech might have enabled the rise of a few “superstar” companies in each industry. T... Read more...
15 February 2017
The economic cost of Britain's exit from Europe could be quadruple original estimates according to MIT Economist, Professor John Van Reenen. Given all of the political flailing of arms and rhetorical sn... Read more...
10 February 2017
Brexit, national income per capita in the UK to drop On June 23, a referendum MIT faculty member, Professor John Van Reenen advocated keeping Britain in the EU. ... Read more...
08 February 2017
Further reading A derided expert speaks John Van Reenen, the outgoing director of the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance takes no prisoners in a hard-hitting review of Brexit. Among ... Read more...
03 January 2017
Professor Paul Charles Cheshire. Economist. For services to Economics and Housing. (London) Professor John Van Reenen. Economist. For services to Economics and Public Policy Making. (Abroad) ... Read more...
31 December 2016
In our 2015 end-of-year review, John Van Reenen predicted that Britain was heading towards Brexit. The causes of the vote, the failures of the polls, and the “Brexit-Trump syndrome” were the topics... Read more...
Paul Cheshire, Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography, was awarded a CBE for Services to Economics and Housing. In 2004 Professor Cheshire won the Royal Economic Society's Prize for the best paper in ... Read more...
Professor John Van Reenen, who predicted ahead of the referendum that Brexit would cost up to £1,700 per household per year, has been given an OBE for services to economics and public policy making. Othe... Read more...
30 December 2016
A total of 1,197 people, representing “the very best of our nation,” were granted awards, according to a statement from the Cabinet Office. Just over half are women, 9.3 percent are from ethnic min... Read more...
Skills policies would ideally be co-ordinated with the government’s proposed new industrial strategy. “In the long-run, skills are really important for growth,” said Stephen Machin, co-chair ... Read more...
21 November 2016
John Van Reenen of the London School of Econimics forecast costs of Brexit before vote was held One of the UK's top economists has issued a stark warning about the possible economic and social implications of Brexit for... Read more...
04 August 2016
John Van Reenen was disappointed but not surprised by the UK's vote to Leave the EU. Whilst his own research predicts serious economic and political damage in the case of Brexit, he thought a Leave vote was a real possib... Read more...
02 August 2016
You may have heard the jokes about economists equivocating and squabbling. Ronald Reagan had the best one, about an edition of Trivial Pursuit designed for economists: ''There are 100 questions, 3,000 answers.'' John V... Read more...
12 July 2016
The Society's Annual Conference was held at the University of Sussex, 21-23 March. This report was prepared by Ferdinando Giugliano, focusing on four fields of economic research: development economics; political economy;... Read more...
01 July 2016
Professor John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance on panel discussing the economics of Brexit. The discussion was broadcast by Sky News at 10pm on June 22, 2016 Link to broadcast here Relate... Read more...
22 June 2016
Britain never joined the euro currency union, freeing it of all sorts of complicated policy commitments that the rest of the EU is obliged to abide by. But despite staying on the pound, Britain still has full access to E... Read more...
Three leading British economists have warned that leaving the EU would 'almost certainly' damage the UK's economic prospects. The trio, Jagjit Chadha, the director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Resear... Read more...
20 June 2016
In this week's EU referendum Q&A our panel discuss how a Brexit could affect the costs facing UK businesses: Would UK businesses be more or less competitive in the global market if we choose to leave? Swati Dhingra ... Read more...
07 June 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
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...
21 January 2016
Professor John Van Reenen, Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Performance, has been awarded the European Investment Bank Institute's 2014 'Outstanding Contribution Award'. The accolade, jointly awarded to Pr... Read more...
28 July 2014
The high prices reflect that people want to live in Australia, according to John Van Reenen, the director of the centre for economic performance at the London School of Economics. 'However, as the commodity boom and Chin... Read more...
12 May 2014