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From ending zero-hours contracts to boosting benefits, Britain's new government wants to shift power back to staff. Stephen Machin, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth explain how the power balance stands now. ... Read more...
07 July 2024
High energy prices are causing problems, as are the consequences of the Covid pandemic and the effects of Brexit. But research by the Resolution Foundation and the Center for Economic Performance suggests the causes of t... Read more...
15 July 2022
The Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics launch an important inquiry, analysing how the country must grapple with recovery from Covid-19, the af... Read more...
31 May 2021
The country is not neither prepared for, nor used to, change on the scale required to deal with climate change, Brexit, an ageing population, Covid and technological shifts, says report by the Economy 2030 Inq... Read more...
18 May 2021
A joint project by the Resolution Foundation thinktank and the London School of Economics said the UK was neither used to nor prepared for the challenges posed by the aftermath of Covid-19, Brexit, the ne... Read more...
The UK is facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change as five seismic economic shifts – the Covid aftermath, Brexit, the Net Zero transition, an older population and rapid technological change - com... Read more...
Article by Natalie Chen and Dennis Novy. Currency unions usually go hand in hand with deeper economic integration. But does that automatically mean more international trade? This column shows that since the en... Read more...
09 July 2018
Is it possible, as Trump’s statement suggests, to compare two countries’ economies and which indicators would we use to do so? GDP per capita is considered a baseline when comparing two economies. ... Read more...
09 November 2017
Who voted for Brexit? A comprehensive district-level analysis – Sascha O Becker, Thiemo Fetzer and Dennis Novy ‘On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union (EU). We... Read more...
23 October 2017
Today eight economists have struck out against much mainstream economic thinking and suggested that the UK economy would flourish outside the European Union. They are up against formidable opposition - what those who su... Read more...
28 April 2016
An assessment of more than 270,000 children by LSE's Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) discovered that those who were learning phonetically had developed far better by age seven than those using traditional methods. ... Read more...
25 April 2016
British households can look forward to another year of ultra-low interest rates, with most economists expecting a maximum 1 per cent by the end of 2016. Just five out of 104 respondents to the question: ''Please explain ... Read more...
03 January 2016
Interest rates must start rising soon, to wean the UK off crisis-era monetary policy, five former members of the Bank of England's rate setting body say. Financial markets are not expecting a first rate rise until late n... Read more...
01 January 2015
Home owners in London are willing to pay up to 8 percent above the market price for properties in areas offering very fast internet speeds, according to new research from the London School of Economics (LSE) and Imperial... Read more...
05 August 2014
Londoners show a greater willingness than the rest of the country to pay for broadband, reflecting very high usage in the capital city for both work and personal reasons. ''Speed matters,'' says Gabriel Ahlfeldt, associa... Read more...
THE Federal Reserve is ''the most transparent central bank to my knowledge in the world,'' claims its chairwoman, Janet Yellen. Transparency is a commonly prescribed remedy for all manner of governmental failings. But is... Read more...
24 July 2014
Wien - Was bringt Kommunikation? Wenn neue Technologien zu einer Flut und Schnelligkeit von Information fuhren, was haben Unternehmen und Konsumenten davon? Die Frage ist in Zeiten von Internet und Big Data aktueller den... Read more...
18 May 2014
An online network aims to bring policymakers together with academics studying higher education, potentially stimulating new research on neglected areas such as the effectiveness of access spending. The ''Economics of Hig... Read more...
21 November 2013