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Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber comment on proposed changes to the planning system in Britain, arguing the government has shied away from the reform that is needed. ... Read more...
04 March 2025
To speculate usefully about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Britain’s housing markets one needs a clear analytical understanding of how our housing markets work and what forces cause them to chan... Read more...
17 April 2020
A new data set helps address the lack of innovation data able to capture firms' internal mechanisms and behaviours, write Max Nathan and Anna Cecilia Rosso. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth... Read more...
02 October 2019
Researchers warned that pollution exposure before "high stakes" tests such as A levels risked serious consequences, as one poor day could cost pupils a university place. Sefi Roth, of the London School of Economics, who ... Read more...
30 September 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
By Felipe Carozzi In a recent paper we study how air pollution - as measured by fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration - is shaped by cities' population density in the United States. In particular, we want to fin... Read more...
29 August 2019
Despite shorter commutes and better access to commercial and recreational activities, dense cities create environmental pollution, write Sefi Roth and Felipe Carozzi. ... Read more...
23 August 2019
City centres aren't dying as a response to big-box openings; they are only changing their commercial structure, writes Maria Sanchez-Vidal. ... Read more...
21 August 2019
What is the mechanism of the impact of the size of a native city on an individual's adult income? A general "level solidification" is obviously not fully explained. Therefore, the two authors of the above study, French e... Read more...
20 August 2019
That's the question at the heart of a new study published in the Journal of Urban Economics. In the study, economists Cleement Bosquet of the University of Cergy-Pontoise in France and Henry G. Overman of the London Scho... Read more...
30 July 2019
Snippet: ...home buyers. It was supposed to increase home-ownership rates among the young. Economists dispute whether it actually has. But according to a forthcoming paper from Felipe Carozzi, Christian Hilber and Xiaolu... Read more...
07 March 2019
Carmen Villa comments on the economics of crime in relation to police numbers and knife crime Outlet: BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio 5 Live and over 15 other local BBC Radio Stations Crime Research... Read more...
Carmen Villa comments on the economics of crime in relation to police numbers and knife crime. ... Read more...
06 March 2019
But Prof Will Jennings, a political scientist at the University of Southampton, and Prof Tom Kirchmaier, who lectures on crime and policing at the LSE, both tell me that the increase in knife crime is probably real. What... Read more...
But Christian Hilber, a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, says even if those empty apartments were occupied, they wouldn't help mitigate the affordable housing crisis.... Read more...
05 March 2019
Economists believe "firms are more productive if they're in larger cities" says Henry Overman, a Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth ... Read more...
04 March 2019
Most countries pursue policies that implicitly or explicitly aim at promoting 'compact urban form', but so far these policies have not been well-grounded in evidence. This column summarises the state of knowledge on the ... Read more...
22 February 2019
Such things occur outside idle thought experiments. Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford studied ... [paywall] ... Read more...
17 February 2019
Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford, studied the fortunes of Roman-era towns in Britain and ... [paywall] ... Read more...
14 February 2019
Snippet…Does economic activity relocate away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floods, which are among the costliest and most common natura... Read more...
01 September 2017
A lot of my time at work is given over to worrying fitfully about two things. One is cities policy. The other is Brexit. What could be more thrilling, then, than a report which combines those two topics into a ... Read more...
07 August 2017
Britain’s most successful cities with large high-skilled service sectors will be hit hardest by the expected downturn in trade after the UK leaves the EU. Sadly, that means bad news for Aberdeen. A repor... Read more...
04 August 2017
BREXIT will damage the economic performance of Taunton Deane, according to new report. The Centre for Economic Performance believes the economy in the district will take a 1.2 per cent hit under a sort Br... Read more...
03 August 2017
Snippet: ... Reading has come out third on a list of 10 towns in the UK most likely to be hit hardest by Brexit report of the London School of Economics says Dorsey a fall i... Related publications &lsqu... Read more...
02 August 2017
…Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London… Related publications ‘Brexit, Trade and the Economic Impacts on UK Cities’, Naomi Clayton and Hen... Read more...
29 July 2017
Article by Henry Overman: The LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (working with the Centre for Cities think tank) has carried out a study shedding light upon the local economic impact of Brexit. Henry ... Read more...
28 July 2017
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27 July 2017
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
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
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
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
Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Economics has studied unemployment in former industrial areas and says every city needs the equivalent of an export sector - something to bring money from outside the area,... Read more...
04 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
...Produktivitat und dadurch zu mehr Wachstum'', sagt etwa Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Associate Professor an der London School of Economics (LSE). ''Urbanisation leads to higher productivity and therefore to more growth,'' says ... Read more...
04 September 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
Urban Economics and Urban Policy A new book by Paul Cheshire, Max Nathan and Henry Overman Endorsements: 'A tour de force' Michael Storper, LSE 'Bold, exciting and eminently readable' Ed Glaeser, Harvard ... Read more...
01 July 2014