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But economists at the LSE argue that Mr Minford made no allowance for differences in quality among the manufactured goods being considered (Economists for Brexit: A Critique, Thomas Sampson, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Otta... Read more...
18 January 2019
Recent political developments in the US and Europe have led to renewed interest in the large and persistent regional disparities which plague our societies. These disparities have been partly driven by a secular decline ... Read more...
11 December 2018
With the UK due to leave the EU at 11pm on 29 March 2019, countries on both sides of the channel are figuring out what Brexit will mean for their economies. We speak to Panmure Gordon’s David B... Read more...
19 January 2018
Letter by Swati Dhingra and Nikhil Datta Martin Sanderson points out that manufacturing accounts for only a small share of the UK workforce, and reasons that it is hardly right to say blue-collar British wo... Read more...
11 October 2017
Professor of Finance and Economics, Kevin Dowd (Durham University), Professor David Paton (Nottingham University) and Professor David Blake (University of London) discuss how the UK can benefit from a free tra... Read more...
20 September 2017
Article by Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen Our analysis of the Census data, conducted with Lucia Foster and Ron Jarmin of the U.S. Census Bureau and... Read more...
18 April 2017
The recent U.S. energy revolution, courtesy of high-tech advancements in hydraulic fracturing, has made U.S. manufacturing more competitive globally, lowering costs for energy-intensive industries while increa... Read more...
03 March 2017
Swati Dhingra, an economics lecturer at the London School of Economics, estimated in a study prior to last year's referendum that Brexit could reduce total U.K. car production by as much as 12 percent. ... Read more...
Britain’s manufacturing heritage is told through faded photos of workers on assembly lines, or operating basic tools. But that was the 1970s, and in the 21st century, a factory has a lot more robots. Usi... Read more...
26 January 2017
It has lowered costs for energy-intensive industries, boosting output, employment and exports, write Rabah Arezki, Thiemo Fetzer and Frank Pisch … Our results suggest that the cost advantage due to t... Read more...
16 December 2016
This article was based on the research of Luis Garicano and Thomas N. Hubbard. Rising income inequality in the U.S. may seem like a 21st-century preoccupation, as workers agitate to ''occupy Wall Street'' from the left ... Read more...
16 October 2016
Truth and myth about the effects of openness to trade In other rich countries, regions or industries with heavy exposure to Chinese imports also suffered material losses in factory jobs. A study of Spain's jobs market b... Read more...
01 October 2016
However, mounting evidence suggests that the gains from free trade are not shared equally. A body of research on the American economy shows that import competition from poor countries can depress the incomes of the low s... Read more...
30 July 2016
Article by Monica Langella and Alan Manning This article reports the result of an exercise in which the vote share for Leave in the 380 areas of England, Wales and Scotland are regressed on a variety of area characteris... Read more...
07 July 2016
Individual demographics had a huge effect in determining the outcome of the referendum, but the characteristics of local areas mattered as well, explain Monica Langella and Alan Manning. Immigration, the decline in manuf... Read more...
06 July 2016
John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, discusses today's UK manufacturing. This interview was broadcast by Share Radio on December 8, 2015 Link to interview ... Read more...
08 December 2015
The rise of the robots - how automation of the shop-floor is increasing as is the household use of these machines - has been expansively commented upon. But what the gradual adoption of bots has meant for industry, has, ... Read more...
31 March 2015
Cycling generates nearly £3bn a year for the UK economy, a report by the London School of Economics has found. The figure takes into account factors such as bicycle manufacturing, retail and cycle-related employ... Read more...
05 December 2011