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Financial Times

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

Peter Lambert and Yannick Schindler's research into reasons for a fall in entry-level hiring, shows the drop off began after Covid and before AI, John Burn-Murdoch discusses their findings in his Data Points column. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Anna Valero appointed as Industrial Strategy adviser

Congratulations to Anna Valero, distinguished policy fellow at LSE and director of CEP's growth programme, who has been appointed as industrial strategy adviser to the chancellor. Dr Valero, a growth and productivity ex... Read more...

BBC One

Panorama: The race to build 1.5 million homes

Paul Cheshire features in this investigation into the UK's housing crisis and whether the government's promise to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029 can be met. ... Read more...

New York Times

Three Share Nobel in Economics for Work on How Technology Drives Growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said.    ... Read more...

The Guardian

Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on technology-driven growth

Joel Mokyr has warned of ‘dark clouds’ amid Trump tariffs, while Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have written about role of ‘creative destruction’. ... Read more...

The Financial Times

Economics Nobel Prize awarded for explaining innovation-driven growth

The 2025 Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Agion and Peter Howitt for their efforts in explaining how innovation impacts economic growth.  ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Philippe Aghion wins Nobel Prize in economic sciences

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, professor at the College de France and INSEAD, and at the London School of Economics, who has been awarded the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nob... Read more...

CEP Announcement

In Memoriam: Ghazala Azmat (1979 - 2025)

We are deeply saddened to hear that CEP associate Ghazala Azmat, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, passed away on Saturday, 7 June. Ghazala was a leading applied microeconomist, known for her work on labour markets,... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Antonin Bergeaud named Best Young Economist of France, 2025

Congratulations to Dr Antonin Bergeaud who has been named the Best Young French Economist, 2025 by Le Monde and Le Cercle des Économists. The prize is awarded to a French economist under the age of 41 in recognit... Read more...

Financial Times

Apprenticeships can help fix the UK's growth problem

Richard Layard writing in the Financial Times, says that a clear commitment to train young people for work will help the government's economic agenda.  ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Funding for Centre for Economic Performance to boost economic growth

The UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) £9.2mn for its five-year programme of work from 2025. This renewed funding will enable CEP to co... Read more...

The Economist

Britain?s government may be about to waste its best chance of success

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...

CEP announcement

Henry Overman appointed to Industrial Strategy Advisory Council

Henry Overman OBE, professor of economic geography at LSE and CEP research director, has been appointed to the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, it was announced today. Professor Overman is one of 16 members of the ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Steel Dragons

The Port Talbot steel works is closing its last remaining blast furnace, delivering a shattering blow to the economy and society of a South Wales town where employment and wages were once so strong it became known as Tre... Read more...

The Guardian

Rachel Reeves to announce economic advisory council to boost UK growth

John Van Reenen, an innovation expert and former Downing Street policy adviser under Tony Blair’s New Labour government, will head the body, which is expected to sit within the heart of the Treasury. Sources close ... Read more...

CEP announcement

Henry Overman made OBE in King's birthday honours

Congratulations to Henry Overman, Professor of Economic Geography and Research Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, who has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List 2024. Professor Overman has bee... Read more...

The Observer

Tax and spending cuts will backfire, economists warn Jeremy Hunt

In a statement to the Observer, Anna Valero, a former member of the chancellor’s economic advisory council, and Dimitri Zenghelis, a former head of economic forecasting at the Treasury, said the country needed to b... Read more...

The Guardian

UK should invest in green economy instead of tax giveaways, study shows

Dimitri Zenghelis, Esin Serin, Anna Valero, John Van Reenen and Bob Ward - authors of the LSE paper titled Boosting Growth and Productivity in the UK Through Investments in the Sustainable Economy - examine the fitness o... Read more...

Freakonomics

How to succeed at failing, part 2: life and death

In medicine, failure can be catastrophic. It can also produce discoveries that save millions of lives. On this episode of Freakonomics, John Van Reenen, Amy Edmondson, Carole Hemmelgarn, Gary Klein and Robert Langer shar... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Saul Estrin becomes a Fellow of the British Academy

Congratulations to Saul Estrin, emeritus professor of managerial economics and strategy at LSE and associate in CEP’s growth programme, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy.  He is amon... Read more...

Financial Times

Growing green awareness gives eco-innovation a competitive edge

Ralf Martin investigates whether consumers' environmental convictions will fade when confronted with higher prices, showing that consumers seem to prefer environmentally conscious choices, and indicating that changing at... Read more...

iNews

How the UK's housing system compares to the rest of the world - from renting to house prices

CEP researchers Christian Hilber and Paul Cheshire compare the decline in the UK's home ownership rate, from 70 per cent in 2004 to 64 per cent in recent years, to other countries around the world - UK house prices have ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Anna Valero joins the chancellor's economic advisory council

Anna Valero has been appointed to the chancellor’s economic advisory council, it was announced today. The council provides independent, expert advice on economic policy to help grow the economy. Dr Valero, senior... Read more...

Financial Times

Alan Manning: 'Achieving growth by just having more people is not what we should aim for'

Alan Manning, the UK government's former immigration advisor, considers whether Britain's post-Brexit migrant strategy has worked. ... Read more...

Financial Times

How London's property market became an inheritocracy

Without inherited wealth or a leg-up from the Bank of Mum and Dad, prospective first-time buyers are forced to abandon dreams of home ownership. Paul Cheshire describes the state of affairs for first-time buyers in Londo... Read more...

The Economist

A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution

The Economist covers Stephan Heblich, Stephen J. Redding and Hans-Joachim Voth's work on Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution in this article, reporting on the causes of the Industrial Revolution.  ... Read more...

Financial Times

The Undercover Economist: Five ideas that might actually boost UK growth

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng don’t seem to know how to go about it. Here are a few starting points.     ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4: The Briefing Room

Britain's productivity puzzle

Low growth is an entrenched problem in the UK, dating back decades. Anna Valero is among the guests discussing why the country has been performing so badly and what needs to be done to turn us into a high-growth country.... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Henry Overman becomes a Fellow of the British Academy

Congratulations to Henry Overman, research director of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and professor of economic geography at LSE, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy. He is among 85 ne... Read more...

Die Welt (German)

'Toxic Mixture' - UK's weak income fuels inequality in the country

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...

The Times

Brexit hitting production and wages, warns Resolution Foundation

Britain’s departure from the EU has damaged its competitiveness and will cut productivity and wages over the next ten years. Instead of the expected effect of narrowly reducing exports to the EU, Brexit has “... Read more...

Bloomberg UK

Are workers more productive at home?

Nick Bloom in conversation on a surprising find from the pandemic: remote work is fuelling economic growth. ... Read more...

The Economist

How to unleash more investment in intangible assets

Restarting the Future, a new book by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, presents the idea that intangible assets, though hard to see and measure, are critically important to foster. ... Read more...

The Times

It's time to take a firmer grip on companies and competition law

To understand what is happening to inequality between people we need to understand the behaviour of, and inequality between, firms. Papers published last month as part of the IFS Deaton Review of inequality in work, led ... Read more...

Financial Times

Growth is still the answer to the world's economic problems

Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’. ... Read more...

Research Professional News

Intangible economy demands a broader view of R&D

Jonathan Haskel and Stain Westlake explain why the UK government's focus on funding overlooks many levers for innovation policy. ... Read more...

BBC Two

Newsnight

Interview with Swati Dhingra - is this the end of globalisation? In a series of special programmes, Newsnight looks at the impact of the war in Ukraine on the world. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Philippe Aghion awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, associate of CEP and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), on being awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea. The award is given to a European scholar who has ... Read more...

MIT Sloan

Want better forecasts? Start with better management

John Van Reenen shows that well-managed firms make better forecasts - and the traits of those well-managed companies might come as a surprise. ... Read more...

Financial Times

Stable job market is `mixed blessing? for UK workers

The pace of change in the UK jobs market has slowed to its lowest level in decades and, even the disruption of the pandemic, has been a far cry from the upheaval of the 1980s, according to research by the Resolution Foun... Read more...

The Times

Want a pay increase? Then move to a new job, says Resolution Foundation

Moving to a new employer offers a greater salary increase than staying put - and workers who resign to take up work in booming sectors stand to gain even more, according to research from the Resolution Foundation think t... Read more...

The Economist

The Power of Creative Destruction makes the The Economist?s best books list

The Power of Creative Destruction has been chosen by The Economist as one of its best books of 2021.The book, by Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin and Simon Bunel, is described by the magazine as "sweeping, aut... Read more...

ITV News

Half of all businesses struggling to recruit new staff, survey finds

About half of all firms are struggling to recruit new workers and business confidence is dipping, according to new research from the CEP. Researchers also found that one in five are having issues retaining exi... Read more...

The Economist

Britain?s economy does not lack oomph, but productivity is lagging

Joint research from the Centre for Economic Performance and the Resolution Foundation suggests that financial officers expect the amount of workers moving from shrinking to growing companies will spe... Read more...

Financial Times

UK?s levelling-up agenda won?t solve productivity problem, report suggests

Findings from the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance challenge the government’s view that levelling up poorly performing companies or poorer regions will raise productivit... Read more...

Financial Times

UK?s levelling-up agenda won?t solve productivity problem, report suggests

Findings from the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance challenge the government’s view that levelling up poorly performing companies or poorer regions will raise productivit... Read more...

Wharton Research Data Services

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) best paper awarded to John Van Reenen

A Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) best paper award has been given to John Van Reenen, director of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), and his co-authors Sabrina T. Howell, of New York Unive... Read more...

Financial Times

The 2020s are set to be a decisive economic decade for the UK

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...

Centre for Economic Performance

UK facing a `decisive decade? of change

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...

The Independent

Brexit causes difficulties for more than 60 per cent of UK firms - report

Study by Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra finds higher prices and reduced competitiveness due to EU withdrawal. ... Read more...

iNews

Brexit has hits UK firms as border delays and bureaucracy add to costs, says study

Report by Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra finds almost two thirds of businesses have suffered from new EU import and export rules, while one in five companies have found it tougher to trade with ... Read more...

The Independent

Almost three-quarters of a million businesses `at risk of failure over next three months', economists warn

Warnings of widespread business failure comes in an analysis by the John Van Reenen and Peter Lambert, using the latest Business Insights and Impact survey. ... Read more...

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth

New research shows that reductions in air pollution have intergenerational consequences

Jonathan Colmer and John Voorheis analyse the importance of environmental quality in shaping economic opportunity, and how improvements in health associated with lower prenatal pollution exposure may have... Read more...

The Times

Pandemic turns up pace of workplace innovation

Research by Capucine Riom and Anna Valero finds the Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses to adopt new technologies and ways of working that will increase the breadth of economic productivity. ... Read more...

BBC

Firms at risk: 'We are worried about how we can survive'

More than 900,000 small businesses are at risk of going under, according to research from Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen, and backed by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. ... Read more...

The Independent

Around 900,000 small firms at risk in `cruel spring of bankruptcy? if Covid help stopped, Rishi Sunak warned

Research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warns around 900,000 small firms – employing 2.5 million workers – are at risk of going bust if Covid-19 rescue schemes are wound up. ... Read more...

The Guardian

Gordon Brown calls for urgent budget help as 1 in 7 UK firms face collapse

Gordon Brown has called for emergency measures to support businesses in the budget after new research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warned almost 1m UK companies were at risk of failure in the next thre... Read more...

Financial Times

UK economists? survey: recovery will be slower than in peer countries

A survey of nearly 100 economists revealed that most of them expect the size of the economy not to return to pre-pandemic levels until the third quarter of 2022, despite the expectation of a strong consumer-le... Read more...

The Economist

Covid-19 has forced a radical shift in working habits

The Economist examines the benefits of working from home in light of lockdown, and cites findings made by Nick Bloom that those who worked from home were more productive. ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Thinks

Ralf Martin & John van Reenen | The case for a COVID-19 carbon tax

Ralf Martin and John Van Reenen explain how a carbon tax could both help pay for the enormous costs of the pandemic and encourage ‘clean’ investment. Crucially, it should be levied in a few years&r... Read more...

Blogs: CoronaNomics

"What Just Happened?" Ep2. | CoronaNomics Live! with Miatta Fahnbulleh and Richard Davies

The economic impact of coronavirus. Presented by Ben Chu (economics editor of The Independent) with Lizzy Burden (economics reporter of The Daily Telegraph). This episode features Miatta Fahnbulleh, chief e... Read more...

Fortune

5 lessons for the coronavirus recovery, from an expert on success and failure in crisis

Richard Davies talks to Fortune magazine about what helps economies recover from extreme shocks, such as the Covid-19 pandemic.  ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE US Centre

How hoax information on social media about COVID-19 might be worsening the pandemic.

How hoax information on social media about covid-19 might be worsening the pandemic. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Growth

Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment

This paper uses evidence of increased productivity among two samples of call centre staff working from home to highlight the potential in new management methods. Published 2013. ... Read more...

Blogs: MIT Technology Review

We talked to one of MIT's best economists about the covid-19 recession

John Van Reenen says success in restarting our economy depends on trust in the government, the quality of our health care, and our ability to monitor those with covid-19. ... Read more...

Blogs: Vox

Working from home can make people more productive. Just not during a pandemic.

Remote work works best if it’s by choice and not every day. Many people are being forced to work from home for the first time during the coronavirus outbreak. That could have negative impacts on our... Read more...

BBC Radio 3

Free Thinking: Does Growth Matter?

Anne McElvoy discusses economic futures with demographer Danny Dorling and economists Richard Davies and Petr Barton. ... Read more...

Los Angeles Times

News Analysis: Gender bias turned out to be a wonderful indicator of WeWork?s incompetence

Harvard Business School professor Raffaella Sadun and her colleagues have studied more than 12,000 companies and found that organizations that do the basic, boring work of managing - documenting processes, setting clear ... Read more...

Press Release

The gig economy; management; inequality; later life outcomes

New research reports from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics are highlighted in the Autumn 2019 CentrePiece magazine. As CEP approaches its thirtieth birthday in 202... Read more...

Local Government Chronicle

Henry Overman: Lessons on how to help `left behind places?

Disadvantaged areas need evidence-based approaches, not policy innovation, argues the director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. Evidence-based policy in disadvantaged places, What Works Centre for Eco... Read more...

Investors Chronicle

Brexit: Trick or Treat?

The think tank, The UK in a Changing Europe, estimate that these effects will eventually reduce UK GDP per person by around 2.5 per cent, relative to what it would have been were we to stay in the EU. Less trade, however... Read more...

What Works Centre for Economic Growth Blog

How can evidence-based policy help in disadvantaged places?

We are very pleased to have launched our collaborative work on disadvantaged places. This project looks in depth at policy, and the use of evidence, in places in the UK that are most disadvantaged, sometimes referred to... Read more...

The Conversation ? France

Debate: Does free education guarantee the accessibility of higher education?

Snippet: For example, since 1989, Australia has introduced the system of contingent repayment loans (PARCs) which allow higher education to benefit from public funding supplemented by funding provided by the beneficiarie... Read more...

Guardian

How successful was Britain?s plan for its own Silicon Valley?

Every city wants a cluster, a concentration of high-productivity firms and workers beavering away in a particular industry in a particular place. Proximity means ideas and productivity growing and spreading. Who doesn't ... Read more...

The Sunday Times (London)

Sterling to rally further as hopes grow for Brexit breakthrough

In a report to be published today by the UK in a Changing Europe think tank, economists say that the prime minister's proposals are likely to end in a "Canada-minus" trade agreement less comprehensive than that between t... Read more...

Financial Times

How Boris Johnson?s hard Brexit would hit the UK economy

The Brexit deal that Boris Johnson, the prime minister, is seeking to strike with Brussels this week would push the UK down the route of a hard Brexit, resulting in the nation missing out on up to 7 per cent of growth, a... Read more...

Investors Chronicle

PATRIOT GAMES; James Norrington examines how investors might position their portfolios in an era of economic nationalism

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) releases its Pink and Blue Books on the balance of payments at the end of October (interestingly the date is later than usual and coincides with the current Brexit departure date)... Read more...

Irish Independent

US economy relies on innovation that needs helping hand; OPINION

Meanwhile, some studies suggest that research productivity is slowing down, so that it takes more scientists to glean each new insight across a variety of fields. Fighting this slowdown is a worthy goal, but a difficult... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Measuring the effect of innovation on productivity inside firms

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...

LesEchos.fr

Avoir raison contre tous / To be right against all

In a context made even more complicated by the situation in Ireland, the economists of the Center for Economic Performance of the LSE underline that the Brexiters also neglect the economic benefits of integration in the ... Read more...

C-Span

US Congress - Video Clip Of Race and Gender-Based Wealth Gaps [02:40]

Lisa Cook, Michigan State University Economics Professor references Opportunity Insights' Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Pet... Read more...

EXPRESS (Online)

Piers Morgan takes swipe at Remainers' project fear after Britain sees investment boom

Another, Swati Dhingra, lecturer in economics at the London School of Economics, said that since the EU referendum, "the number of foreign investments and expansions… are showing disconcerting reductions."... Read more...

Business in Vancouver

How Canada can up the country?s lacklustre innovation game

A new paper by economists Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and Heidi Williams canvasses the principal policies that governments have used to nurture innovation. A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation, Nicholas Bloom... Read more...

BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service

BBC Radio 4

Richard Davis talks about his new book, Extreme Economies. ... Read more...

Financial Times

Martin Wolf: why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy

Work by the OECD and Oxford Martin School also notes widening gaps in productivity and profit mark-ups between the leading businesses and the rest. This suggests weakening competition and rising monopoly rent. Moreover, ... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Glasgow's voyage from riches to ruin is a lesson for all

To find the world's most extreme economies you generally have to travel far from the beaten track. There is one exception to this rule, a city closer to home that was described best by Sean Connery in The Bowler and the ... Read more...

Capital (Newspaper)

What would happen if Facebook were turned off?

Such things occur outside idle thought experiments. 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 France. When t... Read more...

The UK in a changing Europe

What the immediate impacts of a no-deal will have on UK trade

Dr Thomas Sampson explains what the immediate impacts of a no-deal will have on UK trade. Professor Thomas Sampson from @CEP_LSE explains what the immediate impacts of a #nodeal will have on UK trade.#Nodealexplain... Read more...

The Guardian

From pecan pralines to `dots? as currency: how the prison economy works

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Forbes Online

The Mobile Phone Ban In French Schools, One Year On. Would It Work Elsewhere?

Supporters of the ban cite research undertaken by the London School of Economics which shows that limited phone use in schools directly correlates to exam success, partly because of an increase in concentration. The same... Read more...

El Sol de Cualtla

La Universidad como motor de la economia / The University as an engine of the economy

In a recent study, Ana Valero and John van Reenen tell us how much the economic benefits of the presence of a university in the region amount to by studying 15 thousand universities located in 1,500 different regions in ... Read more...

OUPblog

How helping disabled people find employment affects the job market

By Barbara Petrongolo, Felix Koenig, and John Van Reenen Policy makers have long been concerned with helping people on disability benefits find some employment as this group has grown dramatically in recent decades. In ... Read more...

U.S News.com

Urban Growth and Ivory Towers

"This plays out over and over, at every scale and within every state," says Muro. And while major coastal metros may attract a higher concentration of elite firms and global talent, midsize cities with universities benef... Read more...

Tech Bang

Want to make the company more successful? Start with improving employee benefits

It can be seen from the strikes in Taiwan in recent years that for the company's top management, only shareholders are the most important targets for care. It is like giving them more benefits. But the British media The ... Read more...

World Finance

Why GDP is no longer the most effective measure of economic success

Lord Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics, has been a pioneer in this area, and believes the government should prioritise policies that boost happiness over growth. His research has gone on to in... Read more...

Forbes Mexico

Bored?, let's look for job happiness

Beyond the fact that each one of us has to look for a concordance between the vocation and the labor field, employers can do a lot to achieve this goal. According to Lord Richard Layard, the elements that integrate work ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

The 2018 trade war: consumers are paying a high price

There is an almost complete pass-through of tariffs into prices paid by US importers; consumers pick up the tab, write Mary Amiti, Stephen Redding and David E. Weinstein.... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Panel

Trade wars may `bloc up? world trade

Write David Jacks, Dennis Novy Against the backdrop of new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration and retaliation from targeted countries, notably China, the trade wars of the 1930s have received renewed attention... Read more...

LSE US Centre

How the Panama Canal reshaped the economic geography of the United States

More than a century ago, the opening of the Panama Canal revolutionized international trade by making it much quicker and easier to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But, write Stephan Maurer and Ferdinand ... Read more...

Forbes

New Zealand Ditches GDP For Happiness And Wellbeing

Described as a "game-changing event" by London School of Economics Dr. Richard Layard, New Zealand's budget has set a new standard for progressive policy "no other major country that has so explicitly adopted well-being ... Read more...

What works centre for local economic growth (blog)

Make the most of devolution: a lesson from the apprenticeships grant

Dr Chiara Cavaglia Make Devolution is also affecting "education and skills", e.g. with the Adult Education Budget being managed locally form 2019/20. With this in mind, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Apprenticeshi... Read more...

BBC Radio

Today in Parliament (18:10 ? 22:00)

Coverage of LSE's #EvidencePod at Evidence Week in Parliament.... Read more...

La Republica

Aranceles y petroleo dominaran los temas en la cumbre del G20 en Osaka / Tariffs and oil will dominate the issues at the G20 summit in Osaka

Reaffirming this idea, John Van Reenen, economist at MIT, explained that this division could point to a scenario in which the only one harmed is the global economy. "Given the assault of Trump and the growing band of 'st... Read more...

The Pioneer

Why women must work

Research by Nick Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying on Ctrip in China showed a 13.5 per cent rise in worker productivity through work from home policies as employees completed their full shift of wor... Read more...

Investors Chronicle FT

Damaging uncertainty

Thirdly, it is exporters who are being especially hard hit by Brexit uncertainty and it is these who tend to be more efficient than the average company. Brute maths, says Stanford University's Nick Bloom, means that this... Read more...

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Three Years since the Brexit Vote: Looking Back

3) In the Fall 2017 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Thomas Sampson sums up the research on what is known and what might come next in "Brexit: The Economics of International Disintegration," In turn, I... Read more...

New York Times (International Ed)

Globalization Is Moving Past the U.S. and Its Vision of World Order

"One thing is really clear: There has got to be a reset in the world trading system," said Swati Dhingra, an economist at the London School of Economics. "It's all breaking at the seams at this point."... Read more...

San Francisco Business Times Online

The New York Times Globalization is moving past the U.S. and its vision of world order

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VoxEU

Patri budoucnost statnimu kapitalismu? / Does the future belong to state capitalism?

The achievements of the Chinese and Vietnamese economies lead to a debate on state capitalism as a viable model of further development. Economists Leonardo Baccini, Giammario Impullitti and Edmund Malesky present on VoxE... Read more...

Lewiston Sun Journal

Robert Samuelson: Trade seen as a way to punish adversaries

In a fascinating new paper, economists David Jacks and Dennis Novy argue that today's contentious trade disputes recall what happened during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Led by Great Britain and Germany, competing ... Read more...

The Globe and Mail (Canada)

Trump's trade wars spin out of control; His methods will do more harm than good if - and he seems to want this - it leads to a reduction in global Commerce

"At the moment, we have not witnessed a wholesale collapse of the modern trading system. This is partially for the fact that policymakers seem to have learned some of the lessons of interwar history by not responding in ... Read more...

Spectator

Donald Trump has done Britain a favour with his NHS grab

Who compromises most in such cases? Generally, size matters: big trading economies are usually in a position to dictate terms to smaller partners. In the words of professor Dennis Novy of the University of Warwick: "Th... Read more...

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The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Moving Away From Big Multi-Lateral Trade Agreements

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Deseret News

Robert Samuelson: The brave new world of trading blocs

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Business Times

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Santa Cruz Sentinel

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Alabama Public Radio (podcast)

The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Moving Away From Big Multi-Lateral Trade Agreements

To help us sort out the prospects of a bilateral trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. and to look at the historical context, we're joined by Professor Dennis Novy. He's an economist at the University of Warwick. Welc... Read more...

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial: Counting the trade war?s casualties

The economic losses from Trump's trade war compound that burden. A study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia University and Princeton University found that trade warfare was costing Americans... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Who Pays the Trump Tariffs? We Do, These Americans Say

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Financial Times

US consumers start to pay price of trade war with China

Research from Mary Amiti of the New York Fed, Stephen Redding of Princeton University and David Weinstein of Columbia University in March found that the "full incidence" of the tariffs has fallen on domestic consumers so... Read more...

BBC News

Who loses out in the US-China trade war?

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NPR (Radio)

Most Americans Still Don't Know What The Latest Round Tariffs Mean For Their Pocketbooks

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The Australian Financial Review

Job Markets in Top Gear

"We used to think that unemployment responded to growth in the economy. We used to think I it took about 2 percent growth to make any in roads into unemployment But the recovery since the recession has gone against that ... Read more...

The New York Times

Trump?s Trade War Escalation Will Exact Economic Pain, Adviser Says

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The New York Times

Trump?s Tariffs Are a New Tax on Americans

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Speigel Online

"Dieser Handelskrieg kann noch viel hasslicher werden"

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VOX Talks (Podcast)

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LSE Business Review

The cost of discrimination against senior Jewish managers in Nazi Germany

Less efficiency and lower profitability for firms carry lessons for Britain and the US, write Kilian Huber, Volker Lindenthal and Fabian Waldinger. Talented individuals are often excluded from leadership positions if th... Read more...

Harvard Business Review

How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward

A company's performance during and after a recession depends not just on the decisions it makes but also on who makes them. In a 2017 study, Raffaella Sadun (of Harvard Business School), Philippe Aghion (of College de Fr... Read more...

Finance.co.uk

GENERATION GAP: Evidence that young Brits are now less likely to `do better? than their parents

Doing better financially than your parents is an important marker of success, and for much of the last half century, real earnings growth in the UK was strong enough that most young people achieved this milestone. But ne... Read more...

Caixan online / The blog of the Shannon Economic Academic Circle

Do we need industrial policies? Evidence from regional funding programs

Original information: Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, John Van Reenen. Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy. American Economic Review, 2019, 109(1): 48-85. Governments around the world provide la... Read more...

Daily Mail

Young people are doing WORSE than their parents: Just a THIRD of 30-year-olds are earning more than their dads

Jo Blanden, co-author of the study, said: 'Research and political debate have focused on relative social mobility - that is, whether those with higher incomes are likely to have children who are also relatively well-off'... Read more...

PRI (Radio)

Who?s paying for Trump?s tariffs? China, or American shoppers?

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Bloomberg.com

Evidence Grows That Trump's Trade Wars Are Hitting U.S. Economy

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TIME

Trump's Trade War Is Costing Americans $3 Billion a Month in Higher Taxes, Study Says

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Wall Street Journal

Real Time Economics: The U.S. Trade Deficit Is About to Break Another Record

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The Economist

Trade talks will probably end with tariffs still in place

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The Financial Times

Is the Lighthizer brigade about to charge through London?

Figure of the week - $1.4bn a month. The hit to US prices and welfare produced by Mr Trump's trade policies in 2018, according to research by Mary Amiti of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Stephen Redding of Princet... Read more...

LSE Business Review

As the Phoenicians sailed across the Mediterranean, they spread mice and growth

One of the first major trade expansions in human history provides early evidence that trade promotes growth, write Jan David Bakker, Stephan Maurer, Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch. ... Read more...

Stigler Centre

The Costs of Trump?s Import Tariffs Have Landed Entirely on US Citizens

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Financial Times

Improving resilience to devastating floods

From Dr Guy Michaels, London School of Economics, UK Joseph Cotterill, in "Aid groups battle to reach cyclone survivors" (March 21), describes the terrible devastation that recent floods have wreaked in Mozambique and n... Read more...

Fortune

Trump Tariffs Shedding $1.4 Billion a Month in Consumer Income, Study Says

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CNBC

Trump tariffs costing US consumers $1.4 billion per month, study shows

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CNN

Women inventors, long overlooked, are churning out more patents than ever

However, women inventors made up only 12% of all inventors on patents granted in 2016 - the most recent year for which data is available - according to the patent office. That disparity is not a good sign and even hurts... Read more...

Yahoo Finance

Low Interest Rates Might Be What's Hurting Growth

Meanwhile, a very interesting new paper by economists Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, Remy Lecat and Helene Maghin looks at the relationship between credit constraints and productivity at the level of i... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Regulating mobile money: what?s at stake

A new analysis suggests a trajectory and policy recommendations, write Adeline Pelletier, Susanna Khavul and Saul Estrin. In the past decade, mobile payment systems (MPS) have rapidly emerged in many developing economies... Read more...

Conversable Economist

What Did Gutenberg's Printing Press Actually Change?

In a similar spirit, I of course know that the introduction of a printing press with moveable type by to Europe in 1439 by Johannes Gutenberg is often called one of the most important inventions in world history. However... Read more...

LSE Business Review

UK economy since the Brexit vote: slower GDP growth, lower productivity, and a weaker pound

Evidence of the UK's economic performance since the EU Referendum is clear: GDP growth has slowed down, productivity has suffered, the pound has depreciated and purchasing power has gone down, and investments have declin... Read more...

Financial Times

Bank of England policymaker warns of risk to UK jobs market

Jonathan Haskel worried by falling business investment driven by uncertainty.... Read more...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

Gutenberg?s moving type propelled Europe towards the scientific revolution

Book prices fell, the salaries of university professors rose, and revolutionary religious ideas spread, write Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold.... Read more...

BBC News

India election 2019: The next manufacturing superpower?

"It's important to remember that China started with a much more broad-based and educated workforce when it embarked on its economic transition," says Swati Dhingra, from the London School of Economics. "India has seen m... Read more...

The HuffPost Canada

Cell Phones In Classrooms Are So Distracting, U.S. Teacher Shows In Viral Experiment

Bans on mobile phones significantly increases student performance in high-stakes exams, according to a 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science paper.... Read more...

London Free Press

TVDSB welcomes proposed cellphone ban in Ontario classrooms

...which are designed to create positive learning environments." They note that many school boards have policies that allow students to bring their own devices into the classroom for educational purposes. A 2015 London S... Read more...

Vice

Doug Ford is Banning Cell Phones in Schools

The Toronto District School Board dropped its ban in 2011, and last summer, it also lifted its ban on Snapchat, Instagram and Netflix. A 2015 London School of Economics study found that ... ... Read more...

Bloomberg

BOE?s Haskel Warns Brexit Deal May Not End Economic Uncertainty

Bank of England policy maker Jonathan Haskel warned that the UK may not see a material pickup in investment growth even if the government secures an exit deal with the European Union this month. Haskel, in his first spe... Read more...

China Daily

Trade dispute costing US billions, 2 studies find

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Market Watch

Opinion: Forget what Donald Trump said: Tariffs are a tax on American consumers

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The Washington Post

As trade deficit explodes, Trump finds he can?t escape the laws of economics

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South China Morning Post

Tariff war cost US companies and consumers US$44 billion a month in 2018

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The Japan Times

Evidence grows that Trump's trade wars are hitting U.S. economy and Americans are footing the tariffs

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Barrons

Podcast: $4.4 billion in Trade War Costs For Americans, and Two Other Numbers You Need to Know

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Quartz

Trump Tariffs Shedding $1.4 Billion a Month in Consumer Income, Study Says

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Woodrow Wilson School

Trade War Results in Substantial Losses for U.S. & Other Countries

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Long Room

Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries

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Washington Examiner

Trump tariffs costing Americans $1.4 billion a month in income, study says

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Business Telegraph

Is the Lighthizer brigade about to charge through London?

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Business Insider

Trump's trade war cost Americans $1.4 billion a month last year, according to a new report

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Yahoo Finance

Evidence Grows That Trump's Trade Wars Are Hitting U.S. Economy

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Vanity Fair

Trump?s Dumb Trade War Cost Americans $3 Billion a Month Last Year

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NPR (Radio)

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EurekAlert!

Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries

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Phys Org

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The New York Times

As Trump Moves to End Trade War With China, Business Asks: Was It Worth It?

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VideoVox

Technological Revolutions Must be Matched by Policies

Phlippe Aghion (College of France, LSE, and CEPR) discusses work on merged datasets from the UK - one detailing occupation & wages, the other looking at R&D and investment. ... Read more...

The New York Times

How Goes the Trade War?

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CEPR Discussion Paper

The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare

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The Daily Star

Brexit referendum spurs British firms into investing in EU

The referendum result led to a 12 percent increase in foreign direct investment transactions from Britain into the EU between mid-2016 and September 2018, researchers from the London School of Economics' Centre for Econo... Read more...

Vox

Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

Media reports suggest that some UK firms have started to move production abroad in anticipation of Brexit. Using data on announcements of new foreign investment transactions, this column reports evidence that the Brexit ... Read more...

Express (online)

Brexit BETRAYAL: Firms ditch UK to invest #7.7 BILLION in EU claim London experts

Dennis Novy, one of the report's authors, told CNBC: "The economic risk of Brexit is larger on the UK side of the Channel.... Read more...

Continental Telegraph

Brexit Is Reducing UK Domestic Investment And Foreign

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Sky News

Brexit is clearly taking its toll on UK economic growth

A study published this morning by the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE dissects how foreign investment has changed behaviour since the referendum. According to the LSE researchers, UK firms appear to have star... Read more...

LSE Brexit Blog

Voting with their money: Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

Are firms moving investment abroad because of Brexit? Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson (LSE) use a 'doppelganger method' to estimate how foreign direct investment would have evolved without... Read more...

CNBC

British firms have diverted $10 billion of investment to the EU due to Brexit, study claims

A study conducted by academics from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) looked into how the vote to leave the EU has affected outward investment by U.K. companies. ... Read more...

CNBC Europe

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VOX CEPR Policy Portal

Winners, losers and future prospects: The economic geography of transition countries

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...

Economics of Education Review (Journal)

The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen

Volume 68, February 2019, Pages 53-67 The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe, Anna Valero, John Van Reenen. NBER Working Paper No. 22501 How universities boost economic growth Anna Valer... Read more...

ITPro

The fund will be split between fifteen projects which will all aim to encourage SMBs to adopt the latest technologies

"Lessons from this RCT will provide valuable insight into the most (a) effective and (b) cost-effective means of driving adoption of AI; whether education and convening is sufficient to drive adoption or whether a degree... Read more...

iPolitics.ca

Brexit chaos belies Quebec sovereigntist promise of painless breakup

Long term is worse. "Our best estimate is that GDP per capita will be 6.3 to 9.5 per cent per year lower than it would be if we were to remain in the EU," wrote John Van Reenen, today an economics professor at MIT. "At t... Read more...

ActuAI (video)

Conference < Intelligence artificielle et croissance > par Philippe Aghion/ Conference "Artificial Intelligence and Growth" by Philippe Aghion

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Financial Times

The FT polled 81 economists about prospects for 2019

Swati Dhingra, associate professor, LSE Slowdown like earlier, low GDP growth relative to other OECD countries. Dampening of investments. Hard to predict numbers here because short-term forecasts are not the most relia... Read more...

Financial Times

May moves on workers? rights in pursuit of legacy beyond Brexit

Alongside the new labour market rights, the government is also set to create a new single labour market enforcement body following a review by David Metcalf, the UK's first director of labour market enforcement, who re... Read more...

The Economist

Letters to the editor

Snippet: ... Build, build, build! Free exchange (November 24th) argued that there is more to high house prices in Britain than constrained supply. Well, yes, and no. The underlying cause of housing unaffordability is con... Read more...

The Observer

Why are so many UK businesses just barely managing to get by?

John Van Reenen argues that competent managers are desperately undervalued in the UK. The MIT economics professor, who until recently headed the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, concedes that most studies ... Read more...

The Telegraph (India) Online

Global economy: not alarming but worrying

"We see a lost generation," said Swati Dhingra, an economist at the London School of Economics. "There was already wage stagnation and productivity stagnation. The trade war has exacerbated all of that."... Read more...

International New York Times

Global Growth Cools, Leaving Scars of ?08 Unhealed

"We see a lost generation," said Swati Dhingra, an economist at the London School of Economics. "There was already wage stagnation and productivity stagnation. The trade war has exacerbated all of that."... Read more...

Financial Times

Brexit doubts weaken productivity growth

Nick Bloom on Brexit uncertainty. A survey of 3,000 companies, funded by the Bank of England, which notes "Brexit's importance as a source of uncertainty has risen further in recent months". Nick Bloom, said: "Le... Read more...

NIESR (Blog)

Our housing crisis ? not market failure: persistent policy failure

By Paul Cheshire With housing nothing seems to change. This is what I wrote in 1999: “Concerns [about rising house prices] focus on the short term symptoms but it is really a long term problem. The... Read more...

Warwick.ac.uk

Wiley Prize in Economics awarded to Associate Professor Mirko Draca of Warwick Economics

The prize, sponsored by Wiley is worth £5,000 and is awarded annually for achievement in research by an outstanding early career economist. Associate Professor Mirko Draca was named by the British Ac... Read more...

The Independent

UK economy will suffer more than EU in 'no deal' Brexit scenario, warns IMF

The OECD estimated before the referendum that a WTO Brexit could cost the UK up to 5.1 percent of GDP over 15 years. A study by the London School of Economics estimated a 9.5 per cent hit. ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

How the Blitz enhanced London's economy

The German bombing offensive brings lessons about worker density and zoning restrictions in London - and perhaps New York and Tokyo, write Gerard Dericks and Hans Koster.  ... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

Brexit is still a hot topic on Twitter, but public sentiments remain largely unchanged

Article by Josh De Lyon, Elsa Leromain and Maria Molina-Domene:  The Brexit debate is intense and continues to dominate the UK policy agenda. It concerns the entire population. The authors use Twitter dat... Read more...

Times Higher Education

Are universities engines or products of economic growth?

Research productivity – measured by number of papers produced per head of population – also correlates reasonably strongly with economic development measures. So do enrolment levels in tertiary edu... Read more...

Austin American Statesman (USA)

Eanes gets new school board president, record donation

Parents seeking a school cellphone ban for grades five through eight also spoke in Open Forum. “I’m here representing 612 families … asking for reforms to the district’s middle school ... Read more...

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

MEP calls on Labour to act to prevent north-east from being `hardest-hit? by Brexit

  “If Jeremy Corbyn fails to back this and lets Theresa May drag us out of the Single Market our party will be abandoning workers in Aberdeen, Inverness and towns and cities across Scotland. That... Read more...

World Economic Forum

Are towns stuck in the wrong places?

Article by Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch  The world is urbanising rapidly (World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision). Some of its rapidly growing cities, however, seem to be misplaced. They are ... Read more...

World Economic Forum

Are towns stuck in the wrong places?

  Article by Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch  The world is urbanising rapidly (World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision). Some of its rapidly growing cities, however, seem to be misplaced.... Read more...

Science Times ? blog (China)

The ?headline party? is polluting our scientific and technological community

Recent studies show that scientific progress is decelerating and tends to stagnate on the whole. In the paper “Innovating Harder and Harder to Find?” published in March of this year, four economist... Read more...

FT

Dark factories: labour exploitation in Britain?s garment industry

Last year, the government appointed Sir David Metcalf to a newly created post: director of labour market enforcement. He published his first strategy last week, devoting a page to Leicester’s garment sec... Read more...

Out ? Law.com

Warning to UK employers on low paid labour market enforcement

Sir David Metcalf was appointed in January 2017 to provide oversight and set strategic priorities for the government's three labour market enforcement agencies: the national minimum wage (NMW) enforcement ... Read more...

Bloomberg

Bank of England Vacancy Provides Chance to Tackle Gender Problem

The Treasury could also look to academia. Tenreyro sits on the board of the Womens’ Committee of the Royal Economic Society, where her colleagues include Bristol University’s Sarah Smith, Grace Lor... Read more...

Asharq Al-Awsat

Maybe this is as Good as Innovation Gets

That daunting prospect has received some support from a new paper by economists Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb, entitled “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?” They... Read more...

Scottish Daily Mail

Daily grind? Work makes us happy!

Of all economic indicators, a high employment rate is most likely to correlate with greater happiness, according to researchers. The London School of Economics consulted 29 academics, of whom 24 agreed that em... Read more...

Scottish Daily Mail

Daily grind? Work makes us happy!

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ESRC blog ? Shaping Society

Becoming a Research Institute: the Centre for Economic Performance

Article by Stephen Machin.  As Director of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE, I am delighted that the Centre has been named as one of the two inaugural ESRC Research Institutes. This is tes... Read more...

Guardian

Firms could be named and shamed over abuse of workers' rights

Companies whose suppliers fail to pay the minimum wage or curb holiday pay could be named and shamed under a new regime proposed by the government’s workers’ rights tsar. In his first annual full s... Read more...

BBC News

Measures to tackle low pay exploitation published

Firms which exploit staff could face higher financial penalties and increased risk of prosecution under recommendations to the government. A report by a government-backed body has made 37 recommendations in... Read more...

The Hindu

Secularising Europe?s economy

It is widely known that the Protestant Reformation, which was launched by popular reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin in the 16th century, brought about an abrupt end to the massive and unquestioned p... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

One to One

The Economist's Soumaya Keynes continues her quest to find out why the study of economics is so dominated by men. Does that affect the kind of economics we get, and why does that matter? In her second prog... Read more...

CEP awards

CEP?s Professor Barbara Petrongolo and her co-author, Dr L. Rachel Ngai, have been awarded the American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Macroeconomics Paper prize

The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Award highlights the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics... Read more...

Foreign Affairs

Trump?s trade rhetoric is already hurting America

Since Trump was elected president, many measures of policy uncertainty have jumped. Take the widely used monthly U.S. Policy Uncertainty Index created by the economists Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven ... Read more...

Bloomberg.com

Maybe this is as good as innovation gets

The scary idea is that easy-to-discover technology is a finite, exhaustible resource. … That daunting prospect has received some support from a new paper by economists Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, ... Read more...

LSE Blog - British Politics & Policy

Kwasi Kwarteng: Does the UK need its own infrastructure bank?

Several commentators have suggested that a domestic infrastructure bank could fill the void if the UK was unable to access EIB support. The LSE Growth Commission have promoted the creation of such an... Read more...

Deseret News

In our opinion: Creating the best learning environment means pocketing the phone

Scholars from the London School of Economics and Political Science found cellphone bans in classrooms had a neutral effect on high achievers, but had a positive impact on low-achieving students. ... Read more...

China Daily

App to reward non-use of phone

Smartphone disruption is an issue in schools too. A study by the University of Texas has suggested that just having a smartphone within eyeshot can reduce productivity, slow down response speed and reduce grad... Read more...

Star Connect

ESRC rolls out #2m to support industrial strategy research

SWINDON, United Kingdom – The Economic and Social Research Council(ESRC) has announced that the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), the What Works Centre for Loca... Read more...

ESRC press release

#2 million boost for ESRC research centres to support industrial strategy

The Economic and Social Research Council is delighted to announce that the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth Centre (L... Read more...

IBS Instytut Bada&#324; Strukturalnych (YouTube)

Top incomes during wars, communism and capitalism: Poland 1892-2015

Pawel Bukowski (LSE) about the research presented at the IBS seminar “(Un)equal wages, incomes and wealth in Poland?” (Warsaw, 23/10/2017).  ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Public education benefited from oil booms in the postbellum South

Oil-rich counties were more likely to contribute funds to build schools and hire more teachers for rural black children, writes Stephan Maurer. In a recent study, I analyse how local oil booms in the Southern ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

The multiplier effect of the German government move to Berlin

Relocation is one successful example of public sector jobs boosting private sector activity, write Giulia Faggio, Teresa Schlüter and Philipp vom Berge.  In a recent SERC discussion paper, we study t... Read more...

ESRC press release

ESRC Research Institutes launched

   Today for the first time, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is to recognise its global centres of excellence with official ESRC Research Institute status. The move acknowledg... Read more...

Scientific American

Cross-Check: Is science hitting a wall?, Part 1

Once again, I’m brooding over science’s limits. I recently posted Q&As with three physicists with strong opinions on the topic--David Deutsch, Marcelo Gleiser and Martin Rees--as well as this c... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

Britain is already paying a price for voting to leave the EU

  Article by Thomas Sampson.  The full economic consequences of Brexit will not be realised for many years. But 21 months after the referendum, we can start to assess how the Brexit vote ha... Read more...

Times of Malta

Brexit could cost the average Briton up to #1,700 a year

Disruption to trade caused by Brexit could cost the average Briton as much as £1,700 a year, with Remain-backing areas bearing the brunt, a report has claimed. The research suggested many of the worst-af... Read more...

LSE EUROPP (European Politics and Policy) blog

What local socio-economic conditions can tell us about the patterns of support in Italy?s election

The 2018 Italian election had a notable geographic split in voting behaviour, with Lega having more support in the north of the country and the Five Star Movement proving more successful in the south. Monica L... Read more...

The Barre Montpelier Times Argus

A basic tenet: livable wages

Numerous studies have shown that raising the minimum wage doesn’t hurt job growth, and differences in minimum wages in neighboring states don’t cause businesses to move significantly. As long as th... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

The trade impact of the transatlantic telegraph

The telegraph was the Victorian equivalent of today’s ‘big data’, helping firms to forecast future demand, writes Claudia Steinwender.  How do exporters gather information about overseas... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

How useful are the estimates of the economic consequences of Brexit?

In this blog, Josh De Lyon (LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance) discusses some of the concerns with the economic forecasts of the effects of Brexit and suggests that the available reports are inf... Read more...

The Irish News

DUP openly supporting further division in our divided land

Opinion – Letters to the Editor:  Alastair Hamilton must acknowledge Brexit realities Writing in the Huffington Post Invest NI chief executive Alastair Hamilton has described the concern that Brexit... Read more...

Campus Review (Australia)

Student smartphone obsession? There?s an app for even that

A 2017 University of Texas study found that simply having a smartphone within one’s view can reduce productivity, response speeds and grades. The results of another study , by the London School of Econom... Read more...

Chronicle Live (Northumberland)

Here's what the North East needs to hear from Theresa May on Brexit

That’s helped to boost growth and employment, but now it means that regions like the north east are vulnerable to any increase in barriers to trade, as demonstrated by recent research at the University o... Read more...

Helsingborgs Dagblad (Sweden)

Teachers at the school are more pleased with the job

The survey was made by Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren, London School of Economics and the Institute of Business Research. Teachers in independent primary schools, and especially in company-owned independent school... Read more...

Telegraph

App tackles digital addiction by rewarding users for avoiding their phone

Researchers at University of Texas last year claimed that smartphones could negatively affect attention span by just being in someone’s line of sight. Another study, conducted by the London School of Eco... Read more...

FE Week

DfE hands out #2m for more FE research

The Centre for Vocational Educational Research had its mid-term review at the beginning of this year. After an initial £3 million grant from the Department for Education in May 2015, and there had been s... Read more...

NY Times

Book Review: The redemption of Chris Hughes

The Stanford professor and economist Nicholas Bloom brought up the potential for fraud, adding that government enforcement would be difficult. ... Read more...

Herald Scotland

Education experts say 'ban phones in school as they damage learning'

MOBILE phones in schools should be banned because they pose a much graver risk to children's education than previously considered, the author of a flagship report on their use says.  Increasing phone ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Does social media foster polarisation? A close look at the handle @realdonaldtrump

Extreme polarisation is not persistent over time; people are more likely to react to specific events or news, writes Maria Molina-Domene. Social media facilitates communication and an appealing question i... Read more...

Financial Times

The old normal - Your weekly briefing on the UK economy

Last week’s highlights - Assessing the impact assessments - Almost all of the interesting results you get out of modelling Brexit are down to the judgments and assumptions you put in, said Robert Chote, ... Read more...

The Times

Phone home

Other studies have come to similar conclusions. In 2015 researchers at the London School of Economics studied results at 91 secondary schools in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leicester that banned mobile ... Read more...

Centre for Cities ? blog

Aberdeen?s economic slowdown highlights the dangers of being a one-sector city

Moreover, when we consider these findings in light of research published last July by Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance, which suggested that Aberdeen’s economy would be hit harde... Read more...

The Times

Children of positive mothers get better GCSE grades

Findings suggest that a mother’s personality has a big impact on the academic performance of teenagers, regardless of other factors. Academics assessed women’s “internal locus of control&rdqu... Read more...

Guardian

Research every teacher should know: self-control and learning

With technology such as mobile phones in some classrooms increasing distractions, the ability to improve self-control and delayed gratification has become a particularly important skill. Perhaps it’s not... Read more...

EdSurge News

Why college is not an employment agency

While Caplan dismisses the possibility that universities offer society any real economic benefit, data shows otherwise. After studying new data from UNESCO’S World Higher Education Database, covering 15,... Read more...

The Economic Journal, Volume 128, Issue 608, February 2018

Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation (pages 298-329)

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BBC Radio 4

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   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...

Chicago Booth Review

Economy-boosting ideas are increasingly hard to find

To sustain economic growth, the United States must double its overall research effort every 13 years. That’s because it is taking an increasing amount of effort to generate enough ideas to power the econ... Read more...

Irish Daily Mail

Teachers: get phones out of our schools

Snippet: ... to answer Facebook calls, to answer Facebook messages.' She added that the gadgets are having a negative impact on the children's ability to concentrate in class, a key finding of recent r... Read more...

The Economic Times (India)

How performance-based rankings are shaking up the rigid world of government

Rankings inform the world who is the biggest, the richest, the happiest, the saddest, the most powerful or the most successful. In the 1990s, Stephen Nickell at the Centre for Economic Performance in the Londo... Read more...

Gloucestershire Echo

Letters:Brexit aftermath is not rosy

…nearly six years.  The Centre for Economic Performance says that the vote has cost the … ... Read more...

IG

What is the economic impact of Brexit?

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...

Epoch Times (China)

Bonus spending to reduce the era of high pay for large companies gone

Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and his cohort analyzed the federal revenue data from the late 1970s to 2013 and found that the gap has shrunk to 20%. Professor Bloom said: "The big pay has existed for ... Read more...

Freakonomics Radio

What does a CEO actually do?

Today on Freakonomics Radio, we’re launching “The Secret Life of C.E.O.’s,” a special series that’ll get inside the minds of these rare and rarified creatures. Some of the questio... Read more...

Macleans (Canada)

Editorial: MPs should put down their phones and get back to governing

  A recent British study by the Centre for Economic Performance compared student results across schools based on cellphone-use policies and concluded, "Schools that restrict access to mobile phone... Read more...

Universommma.it (Italy)

Trovato il segreto della felicita per I bambini di oggi: parola di esparto/Found the secret of happiness for today's children: word of esparto

Trovato il segreto della felicita per I bambini di oggi: parola di esparto/Found the secret of happiness for today's children: word of esparto After investigating the factors that in a person's life... Read more...

Original 106 FM

(1/15/2018 9:00:24 AM)

Type: Broadcast Mention of LSE report which said that Aberdeen would be the UK city worst hit by a hard Brexit. ... Read more...

Kaplan Herald (USA)

Rockland: cellphones at school? The principles differ

Students scored almost seven percent higher following strict phone bans at school, according to a 2015 study published by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. ... Read more...

Original 106 FM

Original 106 FM (7:00:48 AM)

Mention of LSE report which found Aberdeen would be worst hit by a hard Brexit. ... Read more...

Financial Times

More grammar schools and lower tuition fees are not the answer ? the reshuffle at education could mean taking another wrong turn on social mobility

The first criticism of Ms Greening was that she was insufficiently radical in pursuing structural reform — more academies, free schools and grammar schools. Research by the LSE, the Education Policy Inst... Read more...

Handbook of the economics of education vol 3

Handbook of the economics of education vol 3

The Government and Public Sector Report has been published today. It provides updated in 2018 year analysis of Government and Public Sector Industries. How does education affect economic and social outcomes... Read more...

BBC Radio Kent

(1/11/2018 6:50:11 AM)

Snippet: ... there has been a study by the London School of Economics which found where mobiles were banned test scores improved. Richard Murphy, one of the authors, is interviewed o... ... Read more...

BBC Radio Kent

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BBC Radio Kent

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Vox Video

Brexit and living standards

The average British household is already worse off than it was before the Brexit vote. Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson discuss how much of the rise in inflation is due to Brexit. Higher prices are costing the a... Read more...

Sputnik News ? Education (Russia)

Thousands of EU professors left Britain because of Brexit

According to the calculations of the Center for Economic Performance (CEP), Brexit will significantly affect inflation, the national currency rate, as well as the income level of the British and the overall qu... Read more...

The Western Mail

Blair think-tank expert?s bleak Brexit predictions

AREPORT written by a Welsh political consultant for a thinktank set up by Tony Blair paints a bleak picture of a post-Brexit future. Dafydd Rees, who has held senior positions with the BBC, Sky and Bloomberg, ... Read more...

Institute for Global Change

Tony Blair: Brexit ? what we now know ? briefing

Executive summary: This document sets out some of the key things we have learnt since the referendum. These include: The Office for Budget Responsibility has downgraded UK growth expectations for the ... Read more...

States News Service

Brexit ? what we now know

The following information was released by the Office of Tony Blair: Executive summary The Centre for Economic Performance says that the Brexit vote has cost the average household 404 a year. ... Read more...

Portfolio (Hungary)

Pesszimistak a britek a Brexit kell&#337;s kozepen/Pessimists are the British in the middle of Brexit

The latest forecasts from major London economic research houses seem to provoke pensive respondents. The renowned London Economics University, a study by the London School of Economics (CEP), has shown that th... Read more...

Financial Times

Gloomy growth projections cloud hopes for UK economy

The UK will remain a relative laggard among developed countries this year as the after-effects of the Brexit referendum mean the economy will only enjoy limited benefits from a global upswing in growth, econom... Read more...

The Scotsman

Leader comment: Let's not jump off a Brexit cliff in 2018

The London School of Economics has estimated that failing to agree a trade deal could cost the UK economy up to £430 billion over five years. ... Read more...

Nap.hu (Hungary)

Will big pay rise come next year in Hungary?

Large London think tanks have also drawn attention to the real wage erosion in Great Britain. The recent London-based Economics Research Center (CEP), the London-based Economics University of London, has shown... Read more...

Napi.hu (Hungary)

That?s half of every fifth British employee

The recent study of the London School of Economics (CEP) in London has demonstrated with various model calculations that the unexpected market and real economy shock of a British EU member, who won a narrow ma... Read more...

Arah (Indonesia)

Usia Berapa yang Paling Membahagiakan Dalam Hidup? Ini Jawabannya/What age is most joyful in life? This is the answer

A study published by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics says the happiest age in human life, statistically, is 23 and 69 years. Based on data from 23,161 people aged 17 and 8... Read more...

Vox

Lost Einsteins: How exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor

Article by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and  John Van Reenen: Relatively little is known about the factors that induce people to become inventors. Using data on the lives of over... Read more...

International Business Times

What's the point of blue passports if we can't even afford holidays after Brexit?

Brexit analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance recently found that the living standard of every income group in the UK would decrease after Brexit, with those on middle incomes suffering slightly mor... Read more...

SMOPO ? Schweizer Morgenpost (Germany)

Frankreich verbietet Mibiltelefone an Schulen/France prohibits mobile phones in schools

A study published in 2015 by the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics found that after a telephone ban, students had nearly 7 percent higher test scores. ... Read more...

Prospect

Dismal ignorance of the ?dismal science? ? a response to Larry Elliott

In a recent Guardian column, Elliot reproduced some classic misconceptions about what economists actually do By Stephen Machin and co-authors It has become routine to assault the “dismal science&rd... Read more...

Adevarul.ro (Romania)

The real cost of Brexit for Great Britain: 350 million pounds a week

According to a study by the Financial Times, which analyzed a wide range of estimates and predictions, output in the UK is about 0.9% below the potential for remaining in the single market. In a complementary ... Read more...

Alternatives-economiques.fr (France)

Ce que nous dit l?indicateur du bonheur sur l?etat du monde/What the happiness indicator tells us about the state of the world

Moreover, despite the birth of a true sub-discipline of economics - the economy of happiness - it will still take more than 40 years between the publication of the great article founder Richard A. Easterlin (&... Read more...

Sohu.com (China)

Economic trend tracking (1795) the Federal Reserve rate hit

Swati Dhingra of the Center for Economic Performance at London School of Economics (LSE) said "Inflation data provides the most useful information." She said the overall impact of uncertainty is more... Read more...

TES

`Principals are one of the most effective means to improve college performance?

Article by Jennifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Camille Terrier and Clémentine Van Effentererre Principal quality matters for educational performance, argue researchers from the Centre for Vocational Education ... Read more...

Iz.ru (Russia)

The EU was told about the multi-billion losses due to Brexit

As the portal iz.ru wrote, according to calculations for the Center for Economic Performance, each British family will lose up to £404 per year because of Brexit. This is due to rising prices for consume... Read more...

Watson.ch

Europa ist wieder sexy/Europe is sexy again

Everything paletti thus? Not quite. There is a loser, and that means Great Britain. It is becoming increasingly clear that Brexit was not a good idea, at least economically. Thomas Sampson and his colleagues f... Read more...

Watson.ch

Europa ist wieder sexy/Europe is sexy again

Everything paletti thus? Not quite. There is a loser, and that means Great Britain. It is becoming increasingly clear that Brexit was not a good idea, at least economically. Thomas Sampson and his colleagues f... Read more...

MSN

The real price of Brexit begins to emerge

Thomas Sampson and colleagues at the London School of Economics have examined the direct effect of sterling’s depreciation since the EU referendum on prices and living standards. With the pound falling a... Read more...

Left Foot Forward

This is how much Brexit has cost already

Business investment grew by 1.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2017, this is down almost five-fold against official forecasts for growth drawn up in 2016. This economic downturn after Brexit has already cost... Read more...

Financial Times

The real price of Brexit begins to emerge

FT research shows that the weekly hit to the British economy could be the same £350m that Leave campaigners promised to claw back Thomas Sampson and colleagues at the London School of Economics have e... Read more...

Economist (online)

How the economics of robbery are changing

And crooks respond to the changing value of goods, says Mirko Draca of the University of Warwick. With colleagues at the University of Glasgow and the London School of Economics, he examined the effect of pric... Read more...

Russia Today (TV)

The big country

A recent study by the London School of Economics found that banning mobiles can improve academic results ... Read more...

CICC Online (China)

Sino-U.S. EU Economic Situation The global perception of China has completely changed

In June 2016, a referendum was held in Britain and the result was to withdraw from the EU. This opens the door to an experiment: what happens when an economy wants to reduce its globalization and lift its ties... Read more...

Londynek.net (Poland

France to impose total ban on mobile phones in schools

According to research carried out by the London School of Economics, students of schools where cell use is forbidden achieve better results by more than 6.4 percent. in relation to those studying in institutio... Read more...

Guardian

A tool or a distraction? How UK schools? approaches to mobile phones vary widely

The debate about access to mobile phones in schools is ongoing in the UK, where more than 90% of teenagers have mobiles. A recent study by the London School of Economics found that in schools where mobiles wer... Read more...

Fortune

The desperate search for the next great American idea

John Van Reenen, an economist at MIT and another of the “Ideas” paper’s authors, has performed studies that look at talent cultivation in the U.S. by trying to determine the likelihood of som... Read more...

Economy.bg (Bulgaria)

France completely forbids mobile phones in schools

According to a London School of Economics study of 2015, schools that have banned mobile phones in class have reported improved performance for their students. ... Read more...

Feminis Romania

See which country forbids the use of mobile phones in schools

However, research is on the French side, and in line with a study conducted in 2015 and published by the London School of Economics, school students who began to prohibit the use and even the presence of mobil... Read more...

KSYL.com Radio online

France to ban mobile phones in primary, middle schools starting next fall

The French education minister said it is a matter of "public health," and believes that "children should not be too often, or even at all, in front of a screen before the age of 7." A 2015 ... Read more...

Wirtualnemedia.pl

France wants to ban the use of smartphones in schools. ?The problem exists, but the ban will deepen the lack of understanding?

According to researchers from the London School of Economics, who carried out research in schools in Birmingham, London, Leicester and Manchester, where the ban was imposed on the use of cells, teens had bette... Read more...

Giga.de (Germany)

Smartphone-Verbot an Schulen: Frankreich geht vor ? sollte Deutschland folgen?/Smartphone ban in schools: france comes first ? should Germany follow?

According to a study by the London School of Economics, even a performance improvement of 6.4 percent was identified. A potential problem could be emergency situations where parents need to reach their childre... Read more...

GOV'T SLAVES

France is banning mobile phones in schools

Research is on Bloomberg—and the French government’s—side. According to a 2015 working paper (pdf) published by the London School of Economics, schools that banned mobile phones saw test scor... Read more...

KLAMM.DE (Germany)

Handys verboten! Frankreichs Regierung setzt auf Radikalma?nahme an Schulen/Phones prohibited! France?s government relies on radical measures in schools

  A study by the London School of Economics found that the test results of 16-year-old students after a complete ban on mobile phones in the school by 6.4 percent better than before. In France, one wil... Read more...

Kroneen Zeitung (Austria)

Frankreich: Komplettes Handyverbot an Schulen/France: Complete mobile phone ban at schools

Educators do not see it that black. Thus, the teacher and author Arne Ulbricht already spoke in 2015 to the "mirror" for a smartphone ban in schools: "Otherwise, we breed a generation that panic... Read more...

French Tribune

Mobile phones banned in French schools

Teachers and parents have expressed skepticism at the new plan, as already existing classroom phone bans are commonly broken. However, the government is basing their plan on research conducted by the London Sc... Read more...

Proto Thema.gr (Greece)

The "jungle of mobile" in schools: Students do not separate it!

However, according to a London School of Economics study on mobile phone issues, after the ban on mobile use, test scores improved by 6.4%. The impact on bad students was even more important, with their own sc... Read more...

ABC News

France to ban mobile phones in primary, middle schools starting in September 2018

The French education minister said it is as a matter of "public health" and believes that "children should not be too often, or even at all, in front of a screen before the age of seven." A... Read more...

Newsweek

Phones in school could be banned for 'Public Health' reasons

There's evidence that forcing students to put their phones away during school can help reverse some of the negative side effects. A 2015 study by the Centre for Economic Performance at the L... Read more...

Treehugger

France will ban cell phones in elementary schools

While Vincent does have a point, I think Blanquer deserves praise for his decision. There is no reason for children and young teens to be handling mobile phones at any point throughout the school day. They'... Read more...

The Times

Ban children from bringing mobile phones to school

Snippet: ...ist, but if for the sake of argument Leonardo had imagined them as aides to scholastic culture and attainment he would have been laughed out of the Renaissance. Now that they do exist, the evidence... Read more...

Szaopressa.com (Russia)

May: The estimated amount of "compensation" for Brexit will be approximately 35-39 billion pounds

In a study of the English Center for Economic Performance, published in late autumn, it is reported that only the fact of voting for England's withdrawal from the European Union has resulted in serious los... Read more...

Quartz

France is banning mobile phones in schools

On Sunday, France’s education minister announced that mobile phones will be banned from primary, junior, and middle schools, calling it a matter of “public health.”  Research is on Bloom... Read more...

Circular (Russia)

Each British family loses about $ 530 a year because of Brexit: the decision to withdraw from the EU has negatively affected inflation and the standard of living in the UK

Thus, the report for the Center for Economic Performance shows that voting for exit from the EU "was an unforeseen shock for the UK economy," the researchers conclude. "Our results provide convi... Read more...

BBC Radio Surrey (6:30:41 AM)

CEP on Radio

… within the next half an hour Mole Valley and Drygate and Banstead among the areas which would be hit hardest by Brexit according to a report by researchers at the London School of Economics say both e... Read more...

Gulf Times online

Premier faces growth Tory civil war over soft Brexit deal

A recent study by LSE said Brexit without a trade deal would cost London over £100bn over five years, while staying in the single market would reduce the losses to some £58bn. ... Read more...

Evening Standard (London)

Now Tory civil war deepens over soft Brexit

Snippet:... A recent study by LSE said Brexit without a trade deal would cost London over £100 billion over five years, while staying in the single market would reduce the losses to some £58 billio... Read more...

Derstandard (Austria)

Globaler Vergleich: Osterreich verschlaft Pensionsreformen/ Global comparison: Austria overseats pension reforms

The skepticism about future growth potential is becoming international. Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom recently pointed out that innovation as a growth engine has become increasingly costly. "What worr... Read more...

Tvzvezda.ru (Russia)

&#1087;&#1086; Brexit/May and Junker could not agree on Brexit

Article by Thomas Sampson, Dennis Novy, Holger Breinlich and Elsa Leromain Most economists believe that Brexit will be bad for the UK economy in the long-run. But what about the short-term? How ha... Read more...

ITV television

Peston on Sunday

Our final #GeekoftheWeek goes to Henry Overman with his NIESR chart looking at the local economic impact of Brexit. ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

If we want to create jobs in local areas, the idea of `local? needs to be revisited

New job openings attract not only local workers, but also those living relatively near, write Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo.  Place-based policies that target disadvantaged areas are widespread in b... Read more...

The Street

Britain?s opposition leader says Labour Party a `threat? to investment banks

The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Cities estimates the British capital could lose as much as £18 billion in annual revenue and as many as 30,000 jobs, a f... Read more...

Twitter

Peston on Sunday&#8207; : @pestononsunday

How will your local area be affected by #Brexit? Our final #GeekoftheWeek goes to @HenryOverman with his @NIESRorg chart looking at the local economic impact of Brexit.   Peston on Sunday Retweeted ... Read more...

Centre for Cities

City Talks: If we build it, will they come?

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...

Freakonomics Podcast

Are we running out of ideas? - Freakonomics

Economists have a hard time explaining why productivity growth has been shrinking. One theory: true innovation has gotten much harder – and much more expensive. So what should we do next? John V... Read more...

Independent

Brexit has lost UK economy #300m per week since EU referendum result, analysis finds

A report by the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economics Performance earlier this month estimated that the Brexit-related spike in inflation in the UK had already cost the average UK household ar... Read more...

Get Surrey

Reigate & Mole Valley 'will be hit harder by Brexit than almost anywhere in the UK, study suggests

The report defines a hard Brexit as being on World Trade Organisation (WTO) tariffs with no customs union, and a soft Brexit with the UK staying in a form of customs union and tariffs remaining at zero with a ... Read more...

CEP mentioned in the Budget Resolutions Debate

CEPresearch was used in the post budget debate by MPs.

Alison Thewliss MP (SNP), Shadow SNP spokesman for Cities and Treasury referred to the recent CEP report The Brexit Vote, Inflation and UK Living Standards estimate "that the average household has... Read more...

CAPX

Brexit is already costing Britain

Article by Thomas Sampson et al Most economists believe that Brexit will be bad for the UK economy in the long-run. But what about the short-term? How has the referendum affected households in the first yea... Read more...

NIESR Blog

The local economic impacts of Brexit

Article by Henry Overman Much has been written about the impact that Brexit might have on the national economy. We know far less about how that impact might vary across the UK. In a recent paper published i... Read more...

De Welt

Britische Regionen fordern Brexit-Extrawurste

However, the regions that are now calling for special rules do not belong to those parts of the country that Brexit is likely to hit particularly hard economically. According to calculations by economists at t... Read more...

Pakistan Today

Change course or risk Brexit chaos, Ireland warns Theresa May

The latest work by economists at the London School of Economics estimates that, if the UK crashes out of the EU with no deal, the impact will be far more severe than the projections in the budget suggested. Th... Read more...

Birmingham Evening Mail

We?re #800 a year worse off thanks to Brexit, report says

… Dr Thomas Sampson, who co-authored the Centre for Economic Performance research, said: "Even before Brexit occurs, the increase in inflation caused by the Leave vote has already hurt UK household... Read more...

Guardian

Irish warn Theresa May: change course or risk Brexit chaos

Government sources said ministers would this week release sections of assessments into the potential economic impact of Brexit carried out across Whitehall, which until recently they had tried to keep secret. ... Read more...

HispanTV.com

Brexit: United Kingdom undergoes its lowest growth in 5 years

Growth largely rested on household spending. The companies, influenced by the uncertainty created by the Brexit - exit of the United Kingdom of the European Union (EU) -, invested cautiously while clearing unk... Read more...

Sputnik News (Russia)

Revenues of the British fell after Brexit and shrink still

According to the Center for Economic Performance Research Center (CEP), one of the main consequences of the vote on leaving the European Union was a marked decrease in the quality of life of British subjects. ... Read more...

De Welt (Germany)

Britische Regionen fordern Brexit-Extrawurste

However, the regions that are now calling for special rules do not belong to those parts of the country that Brexit is likely to hit particularly hard economically. According to calculations by economists at t... Read more...

Premium Official News

New study reveals hit to living standards from Brexit

... according to new analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London  ... ... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe Newsletter

Brexit squeeze

In the first detailed statistical analysis of how the referendum outcome has affected UK inflation, wages and living standards Thomas Sampson and his team show UK households are paying a high economic price fo... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Budget 2017: productivity is the focus, but `fixes? are unlikely to be enough

The danger is not making a real difference to productivity when the country needs it the most, writes Anna Valero. Budget 2017 began with a bleak assessment of the UK’s growth prospects. For those of us ... Read more...

Eldiario.es (Spain)

The moral urgency of mental health

In support of this statement we can mention a recent investigation by a team of economists from the London School of Economics, directed by Richard Layard. The researchers analyzed data from surveys conducted ... Read more...

Zarojel.hu (Hungary)

British workers have already paid weekly for Brexit

In the referendum on British EU membership last June, a small, 51.9 percent majority of the participants voted out. The study, published on Monday by the prestigious London Economics University at London Schoo... Read more...

Financial Mail

DINNER PARTY INTEL: Tencent takes on the world

In the referendum on British EU membership last June, a small, 51.9 percent majority of the participants voted out. The study, published on Monday by the prestigious London Economics University at London Schoo... Read more...

The Conversation (blog)

No, we aren?t running out of new ideas

We’ve picked all the low hanging fruit when it comes to new ideas, and the world is set for more parsimonious times. This is the idea put forward in a recent research paper by Nicholas Bloom, John Van Re... Read more...

Iran Daily

Statistics report shows Brexit?s influence on inflation in UK

A statistical analysis on the consequences of the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom was released on Monday, showing how the referendum outcome has affected inflation and living standards of people across the c... Read more...

Rosbalt.ru (Russia)

British authorities have reserved another 3 billion pounds for planning Brexit

Recently, the Center for Economic Performance (CEP), a local research center, recently released a survey according to which every British family, on average, loses 400 pounds sterling per year due to Brexit. ... Read more...

GQ

Budget 2017: Brexit is the least of Philip Hammond?s worries

“One of the guys who pays my wages has decided he’s pulling investment from the UK,” my private fund manager mate tells me on Sunday as we stand on the touchline, watching our kids play rugby... Read more...

The Herald (Scotland)

Beware: Spreadsheet Phil will be flying blind in this Budget

Meanwhile, on the home front consumers have been fighting raging price increases thanks to the collapse in the value of the pound. The average household has lost £404 last year according to the Centre fo... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

UK households are already paying an average of #404pa for Brexit

On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. As soon as the result became clear, sterling depreciated sharply and, since the vote, UK inflation has dramatically increased. How much of the rise in inflat... Read more...

Bailiwick Express

Households are #852 a year worse off due to Brexit, study finds

Dr Thomas Sampson, who co-authored the Centre for Economic Performance research, said: “Even before Brexit occurs, the increase in inflation caused by the Leave vote has already hurt UK households. &ldqu... Read more...

Fars News Agency (Tehran)

Research: Brexit costs UK househilds over $500 per year

According to research conducted by the UK-based Centre for Economic Performance "By June 2017, the Brexit vote was costing the average household £7.74 per week through ... Read more...

Vox

The consequences of the Brexit vote for UK inflation and living standards: First evidence

Article by Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson. On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. As soon as the result became clear, sterling depreciated sharply and, since the vote, ... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe blog

New evidence shows UK households paying high economic price for vote to leave EU

The first detailed statistical analysis of how the referendum outcome has affected UK inflation, wages and living standards shows UK households are paying a high economic price for the vote to leave the Europe... Read more...

Bloomberg View

Small colleges can save towns in middle America

Other research confirms that the beneficial effect of universities isn't just correlation. A 2015 paper by economist Shimeng Liu found that areas where the U.S. federal government made land grants to unive... Read more...

Financial Times

One to watch: four economies in focus

While movements in global commodity markets helped raise inflation, price rises in the UK have outstripped those in other leading economies. By September 2017, prices were up 3 per cent over the past year comp... Read more...

What Works Growth blog

The good news about exports

Article by Henry Overman: With Brexit looming, we’ve been running a series of workshops with local areas to think about different policy responses and consider what the evidence says on effectiveness. On... Read more...

Financial Times

The great Brexit test begins to unfold

“The inflation figures are the most informative,” says Swati Dhingra, at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. She says the impact of broad uncertainty has been har... Read more...

LBC Radio

5:45:12 pm

Snippet: ...e Thank you very much Steve France's reporting for us there in Cardiff and serve loaded of the have been in touch about food prices someone texted me to say food has increased by 5% since June ... Read more...

The NBER Digest

Bang for the R&D buck is in a long, steady decline

In Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? (NBER Working Paper No.23782), Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb argue that, to maintain a given rate of economics growth, resources devote... Read more...

EuroNews

Trump said America?s economy was better than Japan?s and he was probably right

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...

Employee Benefits

Property deposit saving challenge impinging on millennial wealth

According to research from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance the average weekly earnings between 2002 and 2008 rose at an average rate of 4% a year and prices at just 2... Read more...

Scottish Energy News

CBI survey shows 98% of British energy firms want post-Brexit investment framework

Meanwhile, the risks of Scotland crashing out of the EU without the UK government securing a deal have been revealed in a damning report by the London School of Economics. Figures show that every single part o... Read more...

BBC Parliament

Live House of Commons

Ronnie Cowan, SNP, Inverclyde:  A report from the centre for cities and the Centre for economic performance and the London School of Economics said that all cities would schedule increasing cost... Read more...

Welt

Schon jetzt kostet der Brexit jeden Briten 682 Euro/Already, the Brexit costs every Briton 682 euros

Another study by the institute examining the regional implications of Brexit concludes that the south around London is likely to be hit particularly hard, as well as the region around Manchester and the south ... Read more...

Daily Telegraph

The headmaster who banned mobile phones?and now wants to bring back textbooks

A growing body of evidence supports Mr Phillips’s stance. Schools where phones are banned saw scores improve 6.4 per cent for 16-year-olds and by 12.2 per cent for lower achieving students, according to ... Read more...

Vox

The religious roots of the secular West: The Protestant Reformation and the allocation of resources in Europe

Article by Davide Cantoni, Jeremiah Dittmar and Noam Yuchtman. Five hundred years ago today, Martin Luther posted 95 theses on the Wittenberg Castle church door critiquing Catholic Church corruption, setting o... Read more...

News Shopper

Do mobile phones have a place in the future of education?

Study in 2015 published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. showed that across multiple schools, when mobile phones were banned, tests scores went up an average of 6.4% in... Read more...

Helensburgh Advertiser

New figures reveal likely Brexit impact on Argyll and Bute

Research by the London School of Economics forecasts that even in the event of a Brexit transition deal being struck, the Argyll and Bute economy will shrink by 2 per cent. ... Read more...

Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

Argyll could be #350 million out of pocket as a result of Brexit

Scotland’s Brexit Secretary Mike Russell told the convention that a report out last week revealed a soft exit from the EU would leave the area £150million worse off, while a “hard, no deal Br... Read more...

LiveMint

Innovation problem

Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb show through detailed analysis of firms that research productivity is declining even as research efforts are rising. One of their key findings: &... Read more...

BBC TV Midlands

Sunday Politics

Mention of figures from the London School of Economics on the impact of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit on Birmingham’s economy. ... Read more...

The Straits Times

Messy divorce looms as Brexit talks go nowhere

The overall impression in other European capitals is that the British want to have their cake and eat it, by leaving the EU and yet retaining all its advantages, a demand which no EU government is prepared to ... Read more...

City A.M.

No matter what the research says about the UK as a whole, productivity in London is actually pretty good

An excellent study published last month by a research group at the London School of Economics looks at the differences in economic activity in varying parts of the UK. The finding are intriguing and sometimes ... Read more...

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

Scottish Secretary ?does not recognise? expert analysis of Brexit hit to Aberdeen

Scottish Secretary David Mundell has told opponents of Brexit to stop bandying about “damning figures” such as an analysis that Aberdeen will be worst hit by the divorce from Brussels. The London S... Read more...

Yorkshire Post

Leeds set to lose out on #6.4bn in a `Hard? Brexit

However, the Department for Exiting the EU recently rejected requests to publish the analysis, arguing that there was a risk of a knock-on effect on national and regional economies . But the Lib Dems have work... Read more...

BBC News online

Brexit impact study `will not be published? UK government assessments of the potential economic impact of Brexit on Scotland will not be made public, the Brexit secretary has confirmed.

But the analysis will be shared with the Scottish government, David Davis told a committee of MPs. Mr Davis told the Brexit select committee that publishing the analysis could undermine the national interest. ... Read more...

The Scotsman

Leader comment: Brexit figures must not be kept secret

It is still unclear whether we are heading for a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ Brexit but, amid calls for a second referendum, it is important that voters are told about the UK Government’s ow... Read more...

The Times (Scotland)

Cities stand to lose billions from Brexit

Scotland’s biggest cities stand to lose billions of pounds if the UK government fails to secure a Brexit deal, the Liberal Democrats have claimed (Hamish Macdonell writes). The party commissioned analysi... Read more...

Guardian

Universities deplore `McCarthyism? as MP demands list of tutors lecturing on Brexit

Tory whip writes to every vice-chancellor to ask for syllabus and any online material Academics are accusing a Tory MP and government whip of “McCarthyite” behaviour, after he wrote to all unive... Read more...

The Herald (Scotland)

New analysis suggests Scotland would lose billions of pounds with Brexit

Every part of Scotland and the UK as a whole would be affected by a soft Brexit, which would retain access to the single market during a transition period, according to the London School of Economics (LSE). Ho... Read more...

Birmingham Mail

Birmingham would lose almost #7 billion from a `hard Brexit?

Birmingham would be the second most damaged city in Britain by a hard Brexit, new research has revealed. The city's economy would lose £6.82 billion over five years. The figures, published by the res... Read more...

Evening Standard

Hard Brexit `would cost London more than #100bn?

London boroughs from the suburbs to the City stand to lose billions of pounds from Brexit, new research revealed today. The impact of a “hard” exit without a trade deal would cost the capital&rsquo... Read more...

ChronicleLive (Newcastle)

This is how much a `no-deal? Brexit would drain out of Newcastle and the rest of the North East

Newcastle’s economy would shrink by £1.92bn, a fall in economic output of 5%. The figures, published by the respected Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, show how muc... Read more...

Mail online

Leaving the EU without a trade deal could cost Britain #430 BILLION over five years, warns Vince Cable

Using calculations based on research by the London School of Economics, the Lib Dems say that if the UK exits the EU in March 2019 without a deal, Britain’s economic output in the five years after Brexit... Read more...

The Times

Life without strife

An LSE study two years ago found that schools that banned phones did 6.4 per cent better in exams. ... Read more...

Daily Mirror

New Brexit research suggests Britain?s bill for leaving the EU without a deal

Leaving the EU will cost Britain £430billion over five years if no deal is done, research suggests. Even a “soft” Norway-style Brexit could cost the ­country £235billion – spa... Read more...

Quartz

We?re running out of big ideas

Modern-day inventors–even those in the league of Steve Jobs–will have a tough time measuring up to the productivity of the Thomas Edisons of the past. That’s because big ideas are getting har... Read more...

The Street.com

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein trolls Britain?s Brexit plans with Frankfurt tweet

The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Cities estimates the British capital could lose as much as £18 billion ($23.7 billion) in annual revenue and as many as ... Read more...

MIT Sloan Experts

Good managers, not machines, drive productivity growth - John Van Reenen

 Article by John Van Reenen. When people discuss what drives long-run productivity, they usually focus on technical change. But productivity is about more than robots, new drugs and self-driving vehicles.... Read more...

Spectator ? Coffee House blog

The embarrassing role of economists on Brexit

A major impediment to clarity has been the weight of advice from what Michael Gove calls ‘organisations with acronyms’ suggesting that  a ‘no deal’ on trade will greatly damage the... Read more...

CEP recent awards

Sara Evans-Lacko, PSSRU

Awarded an European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant for the NCore project, which aims to develop a mobile app which facilitates access to mental health services and treatments for young peopl... Read more...

LSE Research Briefing October 2017

New LSE report on uneven spread of UK industry

The South-East is not the country’s productivity engine, rather a band stretching west from the capital towards Bristol is, according to a new LSE report which challenges prevailing wisdom on the uneven ... Read more...

VRT.be (Belgium)

Nobel Prize winner Economy: "I'm going to try to spend my prize money as irrationally as possible"

Behavior Economist and Nobel Prize Winner Economics Richard H. Thaler is best in joking when a journalist asks him from Stockholm what he will do with the prize. A jovial man also confirms his Belgian colleagu... Read more...

BBC News

Pembrokeshire council vote for Brexit working group

A working group will be set up to prepare Pembrokeshire for the effect of Brexit, following a council vote. The county could lose £35.4m in trade if the United Kingdom opts for a "hard" Brexit,... Read more...

Western Telegraph

Report to Pembrokeshire County Council cabinet compares likely impact of Brexit to Sea Empress oil disaster

Brexit will hit Pembrokeshire harder than the Sea Empress disaster, according to a comparison made in a report for Cabinet next week. The Director of Development’s report ahead of an agenda item called &... Read more...

Exame (Brazil)

Esta ficando mais dificil encontrar boas ideias?/Is it getting harder to find good ideas?

"Ideas, and in particular the exponential growth they entail, are getting harder and harder to find," according to a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research in the United States. The... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Where industry is strong and where it?s weak ? key facts of UK business geography

Financial services aren’t as London-centric as the creative industries, and the coast-inland divide is growing, write Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies, and Anna Valero. The UK’s financial services... Read more...

The Highlander (University of California, USA)

Banning cell phones at schools will only result in good

For instance, as reported by the Guardian, a 2015 study called “Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance” found that, after schools banned mobile phones, the test scores... Read more...

Huffington Post

Can We Talk? Schools Try to Wrest Cell Phones From Students' Hands

Another study, published by a journal of the London School of Economics and Political Science, found that student test scores rose in four schools that banned cell phones, with most of the rise occurring among... Read more...

BBC Brasil

Why injustice upsets inequality, according to research

A society in which poverty does not exist sounds utopian - this society is equal but unfair, so it risks collapse, argues Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford University. "People do not wo... Read more...

Telegram.com (Mass; USA)

Cellphones a tricky issue for school districts in Central Mass.

Whether students are better off under more lax phone rules is yet to be determined, according to some school officials who said their policies are still too new to properly evaluate. But some recent studies ha... Read more...

The Beacon

How the UK can benefit from a free trade future after Brexit - even outside the Single Market

Too many economists have refused to take seriously the idea that Brexit has the potential to provide economic benefits to the UK. Before the referendum, Treasury economists assured the public that a vote to le... Read more...

Kurzy.cz (Czechoslovakia)

Governing excessive growth pessimism, we do not believe so many official numbers

There may come a whole range of inventions that we can hardly imagine today. Already existing innovations also need some time to affect productivity in production chains. This concerns robotics and a range of ... Read more...

The Wire

As scaling effects of research productivity diminish, India must step up R&D investment

A new working paper at the NBER looks into the productivity of research effort, that is, how research effort correlates with an increase in output. ‘Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find‘, authored by N... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Where industry is strong and where it's weak: Key facts of UK business geography

Article by Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies and Anna Valero: The UK’s financial services industry is not nearly as London-centric as the creative industries. Rather than the South East of England being the... Read more...

NJ Today (New Jersey, USA)

Big ideas are getting harder to find

Nicholas Bloom, a SIEPR senior fellow and co-author of a paper released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, contends that so many game-changing inventions have appeared since World War II th... Read more...

The Times

The M4 corridor is more productive for the British economy than the southeast, report finds

The M4 corridor is more productive for the British economy than the southeast, report finds A study into the industrial breakdown of the country by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London Sc... Read more...

LSE News

New LSE report on uneven spread of UK industry

The South-East is not the country’s productivity engine, rather a band stretching west from the capital towards Bristol is, according to a new LSE report which challenges prevailing wisdom on the uneven ... Read more...

Writer Beat blog

Why small isn't always beautiful: labor regulations and firm growth

Article by John Van Reenen: What are the costs and benefits of regulation? Most countries treat smaller firms more generously when it comes to business regulation, exempting them from some of the burdens on la... Read more...

Vox

Ideas aren't running out, but they are getting more expensive to find

Article by Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb: The rate of productivity growth in advanced economies has been falling. Optimists hope for a fourth industrial revolution, while p... Read more...

European Union News ? Durham University: Thought Leadership

How the UK can benefit from a free trade future after Brexit ? even outside the single market

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...

Financial Times ? Gavyn Davies? blog

American growth pessimism may be overdone

A fascinating new paper by Nicholas Bloom and colleagues at Stanford and MIT has created waves by claiming that ideas are getting harder to find, which implies that many more researchers are needed to maintain... Read more...

Stanford News

Stanford scholars say big ideas are getting harder to find

Nicholas Bloom, a SIEPR senior fellow and co-author of a paper released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, contends that so many game-changing inventions have appeared since World War II th... Read more...

IlSole24ore (Italy)

Smartphone a scuola, si on no? Come funziona all?estero/Smartphone at school, yes or no? How it works abroad

Effects would seem to be beneficial: a report from the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, published in 2015, estimated 6.4% improvements following bans, a week more than "r... Read more...

Financial Times ? Alphaville

It?s not about the low hanging fruit, it?s about the ideas

…the “dearth of new ideas” thesis still resonates. A new paper from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, Michael Web and MIT’s John Van Reenen examines this particular aspec... Read more...

Blasting News (Italy)

Cellulari in classe? Arriva l?apertura della ministra Fedeli/Cell phones in class? The Minster of Faith opens

According to research by economists Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy published in 2015 on the British Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics in four English cities, combining... Read more...

Fudzilla

Humanity is running out of ideas

A team of top boffins is starting to worry that humans are running out of ideas and are citing the tech industry’s inability to come up with a solution for Moore's Law as a case study. Economic resea... Read more...

GetReading

See how MPs for Berkshire voted in the Brexit Repeal Bill

Earlier in the summer, research from think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics revealed Reading is likely to be one of the areas hit hardest by Brex... Read more...

Evolve Politics

Academy Head blames parents for awful GCSE results and then introduces ridiculous new rules for kids

Great Yarmouth High isn’t the only school in the county stepping up its strictness in attempt to improve its reputation. Tim Gibbs, headteacher of Reepham High, hopes the school’s new ban on mobile... Read more...

The A Register

Boffins fear we might be running out of ideas

Research just isn’t as effective as it used to be In a paper published Monday through the National Bureau of Economic Research, "Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?", economics professors Nich... Read more...

Nelson Mail (New Zealand)

Golden Bay school challenging the norm over its wi-fi ban

A paper published by the London School of Economics in 2015 found banning mobile phones in schools resulted in a 6.41 per cent improvement overall in the school's' performance. ... Read more...

Spectator

Off days

Snippet: .Is using a smart phone at school really that bad? Schools with an embargo on mobiles saw the test scores of 16-year-olds improve by 6.4 per cent on average, while the results of lower-achieving stude... Read more...

Social Europe

How Bad Will Brexit Really Be For The UK?

The great majority of the economic forecasts have concluded that Brexit will damage the UK economy. In the case of ‘no deal’ between the UK and the EU, the majority view is that the loss of GDP cou... Read more...

What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth blog

The local economic impacts of Brexit

I've been working with colleagues at the Centre for Economic Performance (Swati Dhingra and Steve Machin) and the Centre for Cities (Naomi Clayton) to take a first look at the local economic impacts of Bre... Read more...

Oxford Times

Brexit has had 'little affect' on Oxford's finances, report finds

A report by the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance had suggested Brexit would leave all British cities adversely affected. Related publications ‘Brexit, Trade and the E... Read more...

LSE Public Affairs News

Student Immigration Figures

The government has commissioned independent advisers on migration (the Migration Advisory Committee) to complete a detailed assessment of the social and economic impact of international students... Read more...

Conatus News

Post-Brexit Industrial Strategy ? Dawn of a New Era for Britain?

The Centre for Economic Performance at London School of Economics has predicted a soft brexit is likely to increase the cost of EU trade by 2%, causing a subsequent 1% fall in British GDP, while a hard Brexit ... Read more...

Marginal Revolution

French cities are Roman sites rather than by the sea

Snippet…Here is the amazing fact: today, 16 of France’s 20 largest cities are located on or near a Roman town, while only 2 of Britain’s 20 largest are. This difference existed even back in ... Read more...

Project Syndicate

The Two Pillars of French Economic Reform

Article by Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner The French government has just announced the guidelines for a new labor code, its first major reform to boost France’s economy, by giving more flexibili... Read more...

Canadian Investment Opportunities & News

B.C.'s new business as usual: political and economic uncertainty

Research shows that policy uncertainty can drive down business investment by six to 10.5 per cent. To see how the election created uncertainty in B.C., the Fraser Institute created a proxy measure using newspa... Read more...

Education Week

Can Banning Phones in School Curb Cyberbullying?

There's some evidence that banning phones correlates with better academic outcomes: A 2015 study released by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School for Economics and Public Policy found t... Read more...

A Fine Theorem

Resetting the Urban Network, G. Michaels & F. Rauch (2017)

..With incredible timing, Michaels and Rauch, alongside two other coauthors, have another working paper called Flooded Cities. Essentially, looking across the globe, there are frequent very damaging floods, oc... Read more...

Helensburgh Advertiser

Parents back idea of mobile phone classroom ban

The Conservatives have called for a national ban following a 2015 study by the London School of Economics which found that schools which banned mobile phones saw an increase in test scores – with improve... Read more...

The Gazette

Councils refuse to answer calls to ban mobile phones in primary schools

Academics at the London School of Economics found schools which restrict access to mobile phones “subsequently experience an improvement in test scores”. They also found banning phones “impro... Read more...

Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter

Schools impose ban on taking mobile phones into the classroom

But the Scottish Government seem intent on leaving the question of mobile phones in the classrooms up to head teachers. A spokesman said: “Head teachers can already ban phones in school if they wish to, ... Read more...

Yahoo! Finance

Leading economists say #135bn hard Brexit boost claim 'defies gravity'

The LSE quartet – professors Thomas Sampson, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen – do concede that there is, potentially, a very minor boost to going it alone. Their own model... Read more...

Kingdom FM

Kingdom FM [14:00:01]

Mention of LSE study that found banning mobile phones from classrooms improved test scores. Click to open ... Read more...

City A.M.

Instilling competitive gender quotas could end the Crisis of the Mediocre Men

…A paper in the latest American Economic Review (AER) provides an intriguing perspective on the issue. Tim Besley of the LSE and two Swedish colleagues carried out a very detailed empirical analysis ... Read more...

BBC News

Call for mobile phone ban in Scottish primary schools

Mobile phones should be banned from primary schools, according to the Scottish Conservatives. Scottish Conservative MSP Michelle Ballantyne urged the government to overhaul this guidance, calling for an out... Read more...

Times of Tunbridge Wells

Report claims Brexit will sting whatever guise it comes in?

THE economies of both Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge will suffer in the coming years due to Brexit, a new report by the London School of Economics claims. Titled The Local Economic Effects of Brexit, the study ... Read more...

Scottish Daily Mail

Heads 'need to be able to ban phones'

Snippet: ...Scottish MSP Michelle Ballantyne highlighted research by academics at the London School of Economics into the impact of banning mobile phones in schools. The authors concluded schools that restrict... Read more...

Scotsman

MSP wants headteachers to be allowed to ban mobiles in school

Headteachers should have the power to ban mobile phones in schools, a Tory MSP has said. South Scotland MSP Michelle Ballantyne has urged the Scottish Government to overhaul its 2013 guidance on the use of mob... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review

A global measure of uncertain economic times

Uncertainty about a nation’s economic policies can influence both politics and financial markets, and the effects often spread beyond the country’s borders. Building on his research with Northweste... Read more...

Forsal.Pl (Poland)

What about international trade after brexit? Here are the possibilities and their consequences

The Center for Economic Performance estimated that in the case of such a scenario over the decade, trade would have fallen by 40 percent and average income by 2.6 percent. ... Read more...

Perspectiva.com

Wealth or wellbeing?

According to a study by the London School of Economics (LSE), with the participation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, most human misery is not due to economic factors, but to faile... Read more...

The Times

The regions can be our road to revival, but only if transport links are improved

A rebalancing is long overdue. “Regional disparities are wider in the UK than other western European countries,” according to the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance. ... Read more...

KentLive

Thanet is predicted to be the worst affected area in Kent by a `soft Brexit?

Experts have predicted that Thanet would be the hardest hit area of Kent in a 'soft Brexit' scenario. A new study by the London School of Economics revealed that Thanet could lose £27.2 million &... Read more...

Bloomberg Politics

Britain?s Not-So-Sweet Options for an EU Trade Deal

What if there is no deal? A “very, very bad outcome,” in the words of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond. The U.K. would regain control of laws, money, immigration and ability to negotia... Read more...

Prospect magazine

Hard or soft, Brexit will hit every British city?and pro-Leave areas will find it hardest to recover

People up and down the country can ill afford for silly season squabbles to distract us from the complexity of Brexit …amidst the summer politicking and parties, a new report by Centre for ... Read more...

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

`The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Competitiveness?

Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Misato Sato, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017 ... Read more...

Liberation.fr (France)

Sorti de l?UE: l?orchestre cacophonique de Londres/Exit of the EU: the cacophony orchestra of London

Theresa May on vacation, the ministers of soft and hard Brexit clash in the most perfect disorder. Economists, on the other hand, predict a decline in growth. The government's hesitations have an impact... Read more...

Wales online

Top economists have calculated the impact of a soft or hard Brexit on Swansea

Their research found that every local authority would be negatively affected under either scenario but concluded that the economic impact of leaving the single market and customs union would be around twice as... Read more...

Spirit FM

West Sussex town ranked `second most affected' area post-Brexit

A new report by think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) predicts Worthing will be on the places hit hardest by an expected downturn in trade after the country leaves the... Read more...

The Irish Sun

The New Love Island?

Snippet: ... "I felt like I was sold the dream, but entered a nightmare^” And you may also recognise a familiar voice on the show, as it’s narrated by MasterChef’s voiceover artist India... Read more...

Slough Express

Slough to be among top urban areas to feel negatie impact of Brexit, study says

New research suggests that Slough will be among the top five UK urban areas to be negatively impacted by Brexit. A report by the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance and think tank Centre... Read more...

Getreading

Reading has been named as one of the areas likely to be hit hardest by Brexit

A new report put Reading in third place of areas worst hit by a hard Brexit A new report by the think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics reveals... Read more...

This is Wiltshire

Business leaders optimistic despite shock statistics that put Swindon among hardest hit by Brexit

The authors of the report, Naomi Clayton and Professor Henry Overman of the LSE’s Centre For Economic Performance, said: “All British cities are set to be negatively affected as a result of higher ... Read more...

Swindon Advertiser

Business leaders optimistic despite shock statistics that put Swindon among hardest hit by Brexit

The London School of Economics has published an analysis of the possible effects of a ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ Brexit on towns and cities all over the country. The report predicts that Swin... Read more...

Gazette Live

Hard or soft Brexit? This is what experts think the impact could be on Middlesbrough either way

Middlesbrough has been singled out as one of the places which could be hardest hit by Brexit. As the debate over the terms of the UK’s exit of the European Union continue to be debated, the potential ... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

The UK areas that will be hit most (and least) by Brexit

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...

LSE Business Review blog

How the rise of the service sector boosted the demand for women workers

The historical growth in the service sector has created jobs for which women have a natural comparative advantage, write Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo ..There has been a vast amount of research on the ... Read more...

City AM

These are the six UK cities that will suffer most from a 'hard' Brexit

The study by the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic performance at the London School of Economics found that cities with large high-skilled service sectors, such as business and financial services, ... Read more...

Click Lancashire

Aberdeen will be hit hardest by Brexit deals

Smaller cities Crawley and Barnsley are predicted to have the lowest downturn in economic output of either a "hard" or "soft" Brexit, alongside cities like Hull and Wakefield. A new report ... Read more...

Newburgh Gazette (Illinois, USA)

Aberdeen and Edinburgh `to be hit hardest by Brexit'

Aberdeen and Edinburgh are the cities set to take the biggest financial hit when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, according to a think tank that predicts a downturn in trade even if ministers stri... Read more...

Energy Voice

Brexit's impact on Aberdeen `not as bad as thought', minister says

The impact of Brexit on Aberdeen’s economy will not be as bad as predicted, according to junior Brexit minister Robin Walker. Mr Walker was responding to a bombshell report from the Centre for Cities, wh... Read more...

The National (Scotland)

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp: Scotland WILL bear the brunt of Brexit recession

…Evidence again that any form of Brexit will do more damage to Scotland’s farming sector than it will to the UK as a whole. At least the city economies will be OK though? Not a chance. The report ... Read more...

Aberdeen Evening Express

Aberdeen's politicians and businesses remain upbeat despite prediction City will suffer most from Brexit

Aberdeen can rise to the challenge of finding news ways to boost the economy, politicians and industry leaders said today. The confident comments come despite a report yesterday that predicts Brexit will hit A... Read more...

Shropshire Star

Telford less likely to be hit by hard Brexit than other UK towns and cities

Telford will be among the UK towns least-affected by a hard Brexit, a report claims – although economists today denied its suggestion that a lack of skills in the town will cushion the blow. Researche... Read more...

Chronicle Live

All areas of North East will be hit by Brexit, new study shows

All areas of the North East would be hit by Brexit and may take longer to recover than other parts of the country, a new study says. The study by the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (... Read more...

Business Insider UK

The 6 UK cities that will suffer most from a `hard' Brexit

Wealthy Southern cities are predicted to be hardest hit by Brexit, according to a new report. The study, by the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, foun... Read more...

Blackpool Gazette

Resort named in Brexit hit list

A think tank analysed the potential impact of both a “hard” and “soft” Brexit on British cities in the 10 years following the implementation of new trade arrangements with the EU. It is... Read more...

Yahoo! Finance

Brexit will hit southern regions hardest while 'vote leave' areas to be least affected

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Yahoo! Finance

Brexit will hit southern regions hardest while 'vote leave' areas to be least affected

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Tyden.cz (Czechoslovakia)

Bezplatna terapie po telefonu: britsky experiment zatim funguje/Free therapy by phone: British experiment yet works

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Public Sector Executive

Economy and infrastructure

All cities in the UK are looking set to see a fall in economic output regardless of whether a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ Brexit is delivered, experts have today warned – but more prosperous... Read more...

Insider.co.uk

Aberdeen `worst affected city in UK if there's a hard Brexit'

Centre for Cities and Centre for Economic Performance analysis also places Edinburgh sixth in a top ten of urban conurbations hit most if the country fails to strike a deal with the EU. Related publications... Read more...

International Business Times

Revealed: the cities Brexit will hit hardest

Aberdeen will be the hardest hit city in the UK by Brexit, according to a new report on the economic impact of withdrawal from the European Union (EU). Other cities or urban areas such as London, Slough and Ed... Read more...

Worthing Herald

Study reveals Worthing will suffer from Brexit

Worthing is among the top ten towns that will suffer the most by Britain’s exit from Europe, according to a study that overturns assumptions that poorer areas of the UK will suffer the most. For the firs... Read more...

The Planner

Brexit will hit southern UK cities hardest ? report

Cities that are successful and have large high-skilled service sectors, mainly located in the south of England, will be hit the hardest by Brexit, whether it is ‘hard’ or ‘soft’. A repo... Read more...

Aberdeen Evening Express

Aberdeen will be hit hardest by Brexit deals

A new report today named Aberdeen as the UK city predicted to be the worst-hit by a so-called hard Brexit. London and Edinburgh also ranked in the top 10 list compiled by researchers at the think tank Centre f... Read more...

Commonspace

Brexit will hit Aberdeen harder than any other city in UK, report says

Research done by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and the Centre for Cities predicted an economic downturn of 3.7 per cent for Aberdeen and 2.7 per cent in Edinburgh ... Read more...

Bristol Post

Bristol to be one of the UK's cities worst hit by Brexit

The joint Centre for Cities and Centre for Economic Performance study predicts that Bristol’s economic output will decrease by up to 2.6 per cent – the 11th worst-hit city in the country. However, ... Read more...

Bloomberg Politics

Here are the places in the UK that will be hit hardest by Brexit

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...

LSE EUROPP (European Politics and Policy) blog

CEP study: the UK areas that will be hit most (and least) by Brexit

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 G. Overman writes that it ... Read more...

SERC blog

The local economic impacts of Brexit

Article by Henry Overman I've been working with colleagues at the Centre for Economic Performance (Swati Dhingra and Steve Machin) and the Centre for Cities (Naomi Clayton) to take a first look at the l... Read more...

Education Policy Institute

The impact of academies on educational outcomes

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published a new paper examining the impact of academies on educational outcomes. The comprehensive report brings together EPI’s own analysis, along with research ... Read more...

Neue Rheinische Zeitung

Dauer-Strohfeuer

Trump and Brexit are rapidly becoming the main threat to the upturn. Once the downturn begins, all fingers will point to them. But the real causes lie somewhere else: Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom points t... Read more...

ItalyEurope24

A new course for economic liberalism

A recent study by Erling Bath, Alex Bryson, James Davis, and Richard Freeman showed that the diffusion of individual pay since the 1970s is associated with pay differences between, not within, companies. The S... Read more...

MarketPlace

Now we can measure economic policy uncertainty

In the world of business and economics, there’s a bit of a fixation on uncertainty. To start, there's the VIX, a measure of investor fear, that tracks expected volatility in the markets. But the... Read more...

Lasiritide.it

Rettrice Unibas, 'L'Universita e un `bene comune' della Basilicata'/ President Unibas, 'The university is a ' common good ' of Basilicata'

At the G7delle University, which took place recently in Udine, "I talked about the role of universities – concluded sun-in the development of the economic revival of the internal areas, as demonstra... Read more...

The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 84, Issue 3, July 2017

'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Olivier Marie and Ulf Zölitz ... Read more...

ESRC Press

Winner of the 25th Kenneth J. Arrow award

The 25th Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics is awarded to Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper, and [CEP Alumni]  Stephan Seiler for their paper “Free to choose? Reform, choice and considera... Read more...

LSE The education blog

Judith Shapiro and Steve Pischke on recommended summer reads

As has become the tradition for our last post of the academic year, we’re featuring summer reading recommendations from special people at LSE. This year, two winners of the LSESU Teaching Excellence Awar... Read more...

Kashmir Observer

How Mobile Phones (Mis)Use Is Affecting Our Health and Social Fabric

There are other consequences of using mobile phones as well. A research published by London School of Economics argues that banning pupils from carrying mobile phones in schools showed a sustained improvement ... Read more...

La Voce

Quando la mobilita del lavoro fa la differenza/When labour mobility makes the difference

What explains this persistence? The results of our recent work suggest some considerations. The evolution of economic activity throughout the country has systematically favoured at the expense of other area... Read more...

The Herald

Herald View: Holyrood's role means hard Brexit is dead and buried

But the greatest potential trouble is on Brexit, with the constitutional uncertainty growing and economists laying out this week just what a hard or chaotic Brexit could mean for the economy: the pound droppin... Read more...

QJE Highly Cited Articles

The Quarterly Journal of Economics received an Impact Factor of 6.662 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 9.681, according to the most recent Journal Citation Reports? (Thomson Reuters).

The Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations i... Read more...

dziennik.pl (Poland)

Bukowski I Novokmet: Bogaci stali sie jeszcze bogatsi. Udato nam sie dogonic Niemcy. Niestety

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Economic Journal, Volume 127, Issue 602, June 2017

`Adjusting Your Dreams? High School Plans and Dropout Behaviour'

Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin   Related publications ‘in brief… What can be done to help low-Achieving teenagers?’ Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin.&... Read more...

Independent

Only economic study showing benefits of Brexit debunked as 'doubly misleading'

The assumptions of the Economists for Brexit group – now rebranded as Economists for Free Trade - were previously criticised as grossly unrealistic on other grounds, including ignoring the fact that coun... Read more...

MIT Sloan Management Review

The importance of structured management practices

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...

Financial Times

Economists point finger of blame over Brexit forecasts

On Monday, Swati Dhingra of the London School of Economics told the Royal Economic Society annual conference that most academic economists had predicted a 1-3 per cent fall in economic output by five years aft... Read more...

Allmediascotland.com

Media Release: SCDI Forum ? Exporting key to resilient growth during Brexit and second independence referendum

The SCDI Forum – ‘Brave New Worlds? Economic Growth & Wealth Creation’ – will today (Thursday 16 March) consider the challenges and changes facing our economy, with presen... Read more...

Journal of Economic Geography

CEP Journal Articles

‘Agglomeration externalities and urban growth controls’, Wouter Vermeulen, Journal of Economic Geography Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2017 http://bit.ly/2n719tK Related publications Agglome... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Call for statistics to measure quality of economic growth

National figures on economic growth fail to take into account of regional variations and ignore quality of life, such as the gap in life expectancy between Surrey and the north east of England, the Inclusive G... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Three ways to value gold. Three conclusions

Then three economics and finance professors—Scott Baker of Northwestern University, Nick Bloom of Stanford University and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago—created a series of Economic Poli... Read more...

Yibada (English Chinese News, USA)

China's high-speed rail technology game: the significant role of transfer deals

Yatang Lin, a researcher from the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, enthused that "there were ambitions to get everything done pretty quickly. Of course, there were politi... Read more...

Europe 1

Should we ban cell phones in school?

A brake to the concentration. Still, according to a study of 2015 to the United Kingdom by the London School of Economics, the use of the current mobile phone impair concentration. The study, which looked at t... Read more...

Repubblica.it

Irrinunciabile smartphone. 'Ma i divieti non servono'/Essential smartphone. 'But the bans are not needed'

Research by the London School of Economics in 2015 calculated that at maturity, in schools where the mobile phone is banned, the boys get ratings of 6.4% higher. Related Publications In brief ... Phone h... Read more...

LSE Business Review

LSE Growth Commission: invest more in people, not only buildings and machines

The LSE Growth Commission sets out a new blueprint for inclusive and sustainable growth that deals with the challenges facing the UK, old and new. Based on the latest research, analysis and evidence from leadi... Read more...

Le Huffington Post (France)

Macron veut durcir la loi qui encadre l'usage du portable a l'ecole, mais qu'en est-il aujourd'hui?/ Macron wants to tighten the law that oversees the use of the laptop to school, but what about today?

According to a study published in the journal of the London School of Economics in may 2015, the ban on mobiles in schools would be beneficial for the academic performance of students. Researchers have shown t... Read more...

LSE Staff News

New report from LSE Growth Commission

Last Friday, the LSE Growth Commission released a new report setting out a blueprint for inclusive and sustainable growth in the UK, which deals with both old and new challenges. Related publications ... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Britain is damning itself to a low wage, low productivity economy

As the London School of Economics’ “Growth Commission” noted in a recent update on the UK economy, growing self-employment is eroding the incentives for companies to invest in training and sk... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Our nation of shoppers needs a new growth model

…"more coherent and comprehensive than anything the government has yet come up with" Article on the LSE Growth Commission Report. Related publications 'UK Growth: A New Chapter',... Read more...

Public Finance

LSE growth commission sets out economic reform proposals

Britain’s tax laws are biased in favour of the self-employed and should be reformed to enable greater investment in people instead of buildings and machines, the LSE Growth Commission has said. This was ... Read more...

Bloomberg News online

Brexit Bulletin: What Can By-Elections Tell Us About Brexit?

Snippet: ... Due today: latest migration figures from the ONS, and a report on the economy from the LSE Growth Commission. ... Read more...

CEP Journal Articles

Gender Inequality and Economic Development: Fertility, Education and Norms'

Henrik Kleven and Camille Landais, Economica, 14 March 2017 DOI:  10.1111/ecca.12230 ... Read more...

Australian Economic Review

Observations on Uncertainty (pages 79?84)

© The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Volume 50, Issue 1 Pages 1 - 132, March 2017 Observations on Uncertainty (pages 79–84) Nicholas Bl... Read more...

Dien dan (Vietnam)

The index of real economic policy of China in record level 672.82 points

Index of uncertainty in the economic policy of China and Hong Kong (China-Hong Kong Economic Policy Uncertainty Index-CHEPUI) are at record levels 672.82 points after soaring up fivefold higher than the averag... Read more...

Bloomberg

China economic policy has never been more uncertain. Sort of.

Economic policy is always challenging to decipher in China, where Communist Party leaders steer one of the world's most opaque central banks. Indeed, one measure of uncertainty has never been hig... Read more...

Bloomberg

Monopolies are worse than we thought

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...

Huffington Post Deutschland

US-Top-and#336;konom erwartet unter Trump 'wirtschaftliche Blute ungekannten Ausma?es'/US top economist expected to trump 'economic boom of unprecedented proportions

Von anderen Star-Ökonomen waren eher pessimistische Stimmen zur Wirtschaftsentwicklung unter Trump zu hören. So sagt Stanford-Ökonom Nicholas Bloom, ... Related publications 'Meas... Read more...

Al Jazeera TV

CEP on TV/Radio

Dennis Novy gave a live TV interview to Al Jazeera. The topic was the confirmation of Steven Mnuchin as the new U.S. Treasury Secretary. The interview covered the proposed U.S. tax reforms and how changes to f... Read more...

Independent

Brexit four times worse for UK economy than previously believed, say MIT economists

New research claims leaving the EU will have bigger impact on UK productivity than had been thought Britain’s departure from the European Union could cause output losses of as much as 9.5 per cent, ac... Read more...

CNBC

Brexit will leave Britons more than $4,000 poorer, says MIT professor

Britons' incomes could be slashed by as much as 9.5 percent once the U.K. formally leaves the European Union, a new study released today by MIT economics professor John Van Reenen has claimed. The repor... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Work improves general happiness, but are you happy while you work?

By checking on people at random times of the day via an app, Alex Bryson and George MacKerron uncover the misery of work. Related links Alex Bryson, CEP Alumni, Labour Markets Programme. ... Read more...

Vox

On the spatial distribution of development: the roles of nature and history

Economists point to three factors to explain how population is distributed: geographical characteristics, agglomeration, and history. This column, taken from a new Vox eBook, examines ... Read more...

NZZ.at (Germany)

Ignorant and irresponsible

Not surprisingly, when an index for global political uncertainty, compiled records so unsafe level, inter alia by the Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, on a high, (Stanford). And Austria's foreign trade m... Read more...

Bloomberg Quint

Blame monopolies for short-changing U.S. workers

There are several worrying trends in the global economy, such as rising inequality within countries and slowing productivity growth. But perhaps the most troubling of them is the fall in labor’s share of... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Does a firm hiring an experienced manager improve its performance?

Exporters to Angola that hired managers with specific types of experience were more likely to succeed, write Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Alessandro Sforza. The enormous variation in firm perform... Read more...

New Statesman

If you want to fix Britain's economy, there's one word you need to remember

And it isn't "infrastructure" Improving our management skills is part of this. John van Reenen at the London School of Economics has written about how the quality of management in different co... Read more...

Wall Street Journal Americas (Spanish)

Hechos alternativos para Trump y el Mercado de acciones

"It genuinely feels that the political uncertainty is very high," said Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Stanford and co-developer of the index of uncertainty. ... Read more...

20 Minutos blog

Perder el empleo baja la nota media de los hijos

La inestabilidad de los contratos y el desempleo de los padres tienen efectos negativos en el rendimiento educativo de sus hijos. Es una de las principales conclusiones de un estudio elaborado por la investiga... Read more...

Marketplace

5 things you need to know about the World Economic Forum

Next week, government and business leaders from around the world will meet in Davos, Switzerland for the 2018 World Economic Forum to discuss this years's theme: "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractur... Read more...

Middlesex Minds (Middlesex University London)

Is a robot after your job?

Evidence published in 2015 by Michaels and Graetz from a dataset of companies in 17 countries gathered between 1993 and 2007, suggests that while productivity increases with robotic innovation and some semi-sk... Read more...

Foreign Affairs (New Zealand)

Press Release: Sir David Metcalf named as the first Director of Labour Market Enforcement

Sir David Metcalf has today (5 January 2017) been named as the first Director of Labour Market Enforcement to oversee a government crackdown on exploitation in the workplace. ... Read more...

The Times

It is the sport of kings and, apparently, tsars as well...

The minimum wage tsar is more interesting than the government would have you believe. The biography, as released by Whitehall, of Professor Sir David Metcalf, who has been appointed as the first director of la... Read more...

Home Office - gov.uk

Sir David Metcalf named as the first Director of Labour Market Enforcement - press release

Sir David, who was chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee until August 2016, will set the strategic priorities for the: Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority Employment Agency Standards Inspecto... Read more...

The Times

Employers face jail over minimum wage

Employers who deny workers the minimum wage could face two years in jail under plans to accelerate a crackdown on unscrupulous companies and gangmasters.  The government will appoint a “labour marke... Read more...

Investors Chronicle

More profit warnings

Investors should brace themselves for more profit warnings in 2017. This isn't simply because economic growth will slow this year: economists expect an expansion of only 1.2 per cent this year after 2 p... Read more...

The Financial Times

Economists gloomy on UK prospects for 2017

Growth will slow, incomes will be squeezed and investment delayed, FT survey finds Question: ‘How much, if at all, do you expect UK economic growth to slow in 2017?’ Stephen Machin, professor... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Former PWC boss knighted in New Year's Honours

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...

Investor view.dk (Denmark)

Robot teknologi kan fa hjaelp I 2017

We have seen signs that the companies which manage to exploit the robots and the Internet of Things (IoT) in their production machinery can compete with factories in the distant economies. This trend is furthe... Read more...

Sport (English version)

Ciudadanos harsh attack on Messi which forgot about Ronaldo

An economist claimed Messi would be in prison now in the United States Economist Luis Garicano was recently elected by the Ciudadanos to take over one of the vice presidencies of the Party of the Alliance o... Read more...

Epcatalunya.es

La perdida de trabajo del padre puede afectar hasta medio punto la nota media de los hijos

In the study’Job Loss at Home: Children’s School Performance during the Great Recession in Spain’, researcher Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London Sch... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Minister: Teachers should confiscate iPads as pupils use them to bully and harass

More than 90 per cent of teenagers have mobile phones, but a study by the London School of Economics claimed schools where they were banned saw test scores rise by an average of 6 per cent. ... Read more...

LSE Brexit Vote blog

There is no inevitable negative effect of immigration on the quality of people's lives in the UK

Many people think that migrants take jobs away from citizens, reduce wages or both. Others argue that immigrants benefit the economy because they take risks and start businesses.  In three short videos be... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Autumn Statement does little to dampen fears for the economic health of the UK

Brexit and the uncertainties surrounding it present an unprecedented challenge, writes Anna Valero In his first Autumn Statement (and last – since he has decided to abolish them in favour of an annua... Read more...

The Northern Echo (Darlington)

Failing the school test

WE were told that the drive to convert schools into academies would boost choice, results and quality. However, a new study by the London School of Economics casts doubt on the Government’s determinat... Read more...

Financial Times

May seeks solution to productivity conundrum

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...

MailOnline

Primary schools' academy conversions `have not boosted pupil performance'

The conversion of primary schools into academies has not boosted pupils' performance, according to research. All primary and secondary schools in England were given permission to be run independently of lo... Read more...

Halstead Gazette

Study shows converting primary schools into academies has 'not boosted pupils' performance'

NEW research shows the conversion of primary schools into academies has not boosted pupils' performance. All primary and secondary schools in England were given permission to be run independently o... Read more...

Times Educational Supplement

Academy conversion does not improve primary Sats scores

Pupils in primary academies do no better in key stage 2 tests than comparable local authority schools, study finds   Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Ec... Read more...

Guardian

Making primary schools into academies does not boost results, says report

Pupils at early conversters to academy status did not outperform children at schools that converted later, according to LSE research. “The results cast doubt on whether further expansion of the academ... Read more...

Napi.hu (Hungary)

Szeretne 24 szazalekos hozamot? - Akkor irany az iskola!/24 percent to yield? ? you can head to the school!

Anna Valero, the London School of Economics, and John Van Reenen of MIT assessed exactly how much universities contributed to GDP. A total of 78 countries were examined over six decades, looking... Read more...

Gov.UK

news story: Professor Alan Manning appointed as Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee

Professor Manning appointed for a 3 year term. Professor Manning has been appointed for a 3 year term following a rigorous recruitment process regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Home ... Read more...

CKWX News (Vancouver, Canada)

News 1130

Dr Swati Dhingra interviewed, talking about the potential international implications of a Trump White House as well as initial reactions from (Brexit) UK. The interview was broadcast by CKWX News on the Ne... Read more...

Daily Journal (Illinois, USA)

Robert Samuelson: Trump's mission impossible?

… "Uncertainty is a real risk," said economist Michael Strain, of the American Enterprise, a right-of-center think tank. "I'd be reluctant to start a business now, and if I had one, I... Read more...

FXStreet

What will Brexit do to Britain's growth rate?

We have gone back to the post-Brexit growth forecasts made earlier this year by six organisations – the NIESR, the Treasury, the OECD, the London School of Economics, the Confederation for British Indust... Read more...

Share Radio

Belgium puts EU-Canada trade deal in flux

EU trade ministers have had Belgium on their minds today - but rather than tucking into chocolate and waffles they've been dealing with the more unappetizing problem of a regional Belgian parliament that's blocking thei... Read more...

The Guardian

Theresa May given stark warning about leaving customs union

The studies, by the Treasury, the thinktank NIESR and the Centre for Economic Performance and London School of Economics, predicted the effect on the British economy if the UK was to opt for a Norway-style model. That wo... Read more...

The Times

Playing it safe may mean giving Brexit Britain a very wide berth

Foreign direct investment is also much more economically potent than the domestic variety. It brings with it new technological and managerial knowhow that can dramatically boost productivity, according to London School o... Read more...

WallStreetcn.com (China)

'The news quiz' United Kingdom 'hard back in Europe,' you need to know

CEP research article previously published by Vox referenced in article published in PRC: [8]Swati Dhingra, Thomas Sampson: UK-EU relations after Brexit: What is best for the UK economy? This article was published onlin... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

China's highly successful demand for technology transfer in high-speed trains

The rate of growth in technological innovations in China has increased significantly in the past two decades (see Figure 1). What's more, it is widely believed that the ability to learn from foreign technology and chase ... Read more...

BBC Three Counties Radio

Jasmeen Khan

Caller mentions research by the Centre for Economic Performance at around 01:11:05 Caller: ... not in many cases a cynical attempt on the part of employers to simply cheat workers by paying them the lowest wages that th... Read more...

indy100 Independent

Jeremy Corbyn is absolutely right about immigration. Here's why

3. Immigrants have not depressed the wages of UK workers A report by the London School of Economics this year showed that there was no correlation between an increase in immigration and the recent dip in wages. While ... Read more...

The East Anglian Times

Will you harm your child's academic progress if you buy them a new iPhone 7?

Last year, a study by the London School of Economics claimed schools where mobile phones were banned saw test scores rise by an average of 6%. Perhaps a study should look at the gains such a move could make when it comes... Read more...

Handelsblatt

Taten mussen folgen

Even [Sadiq] Khan's predecessor Boris Johnson campaigned with several plans to build 55,000 new homes in London and to slow down the price increase caused by demand pressures. Up to the end of his tenure, he failed. Khan... Read more...

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Must-Read: Anna Valero and John Van Reenen: The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe

Must-Read: Anna Valero and John Van Reenen: 'The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe' This article was published online by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth on September 22, 2016 Li... Read more...

La Croix.com (France)

Brexit, l'economie britannique fait de la resistance

With a major question mark: foreign groups continue to invest in the country? The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics estimated that membership of the EU has indeed increased foreign direct ... Read more...

The Sydney Morning Herald

Faster growth demands better chief executives

A paper by Nicholas Bloom and others, from Stanford University, finds that well-managed firms perform better than their peers and make a greater contribution to a nation's total-factor productivity. ... Bloom and colleag... Read more...

The Conversation

How universities boost economic growth

Article by Anna Valero In 1900, just 1% of young people in the world were enrolled at university. Over the course of the next century this exploded to 20%, as recognition of the value of such an education became widespr... Read more...

Bloomberg Gadfly

So long, pay rise

See this study by Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen. This article was published online by the Bloomberg Gadfly blog on September 2, 2016 Link to article here Related Publications Decoupling of Wage Growth and... Read more...

Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist blog

Are universities worth it?

A recent research paper by Anna Valero and John Van Reenen of the LSE takes a statistical look at universities around the world, asking whether they seem to boost their regional economies. (Examples of a ''region'' inclu... Read more...

Accuracy in Academia

Do colleges + universities = economic growth?

''We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the number of universities are positively associated with future growth of GDP per capita (and this relationsh... Read more...

Bloomberg View

The age of the never-ending performance review

For the past decade, Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and a rotating crew of co-authors (most consistently MIT's John Van Reenen) have been documenting that the management best practices developed at high-performing com... Read more...

Bloomberg View

Another reason to cheer for local U

Most of the work on the value of college has focused on whether the return is worth the student's considerable investment. (Thus far, the yeas still have it.) But more and more research lately has asked whether colleges ... Read more...

Press Reader

ONS hires former MPC member for its experts panel

Britain's statistics office has recruited a group of economic heavyweights to boost its ability to crunch numbers on the health of the economy. ... Three economics professor have also been recruited to the working group... Read more...

Naked Capitalism

How CEOs get paid for luck

By Brian Bell, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, and John Van Reenen Director of the Centre for Economic Performance and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Originally published at VoxEU... Read more...

Vox

CEO pay and the rise of relative performance contracts: the role of governance

Article by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen Lacklustre growth seems to be the new normal almost everywhere in the world except for one area - CEO pay. This column uses data on UK publicly listed firms to examine whether ... Read more...

Simon Radford blog

Three to read

Three short paragraphs to explain the Brexit vote: The British people have suffered tremendously since the financial crisis. The real wages of the average person fell by about 10 per cent between 2007 and 2015. This... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Are academic economists out of touch with voters and politicians?

A new CFM survey discusses the implications of Brexit for the economics profession, write Wouter Den Haan, Ethan Ilzetzki, Martin Ellison and Michael McMahon Before the referendum, there was near unanimity in the profe... Read more...

InDaily.com.au (Australia)

Unions should evolve to reflect enterprise

Professor Saul Estrin of the London School of Economics has shown, for example, that an increase in the level of employee participation in the running of an enterprise from zero to full participation increases output by ... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

The aftermath of the Brexit vote - the verdict from a derided expert

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...

Vox

A new eBook: Brexit beckons

The 23 June 2016 Brexit vote saw British voters reject membership in the European Union. This column introduces a new VoxEU eBook containing 19 essays written by leading economists on a wide array of topics and from a br... Read more...

The Economist

The impact of free trade: Collateral damage

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...

La Tribune

Le poids des emotions dans l'economie

What is contraction that leads to uncertainty, or the opposite? Last year, as part of a working paper, the economists Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis built a rate of economic uncertainty (UPR, Economi... Read more...

Independent

It turns out that companies don't do better when bosses have very high pay - but this will have to change after Brexit

Brian Bell and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance have carried out a similar exercise looking at top bosses' pay at 500 large listed UK companies between 1999 and 2014. Unl... Read more...

National Governors' Association

Research Matters - Are academies better? National Governors' Association

This finding is mirrored at least in part by a study of sponsored academies established under the previous Labour government, conducted by the London School of Economics, which argues that the impact of conversion should... Read more...

The Economist

Fear and favour

The evidence is that foreign managers improve the companies they acquire A paper by Nick Bloom of Stanford University and others shows that the David Brents can learn from the Jack Welches: when they take over British f... Read more...

The Independent

Think you know why people actually voted for Brexit? Think again.

The dominant narrative suggests it was a 'howl of pain' about immigration, stagnant wages and an out-of-control housing market - but figures suggest that's not really true Statistical work by the labour economists Brian... Read more...

Debuque Telegraph Herald (USA)

Company that listed Dubuque as drunkest city now ranks it among healthiest

... University and the London-based Centre for Economic Performance. ''Health insurance coverage and ... This article was published by Dubuque Telegraph Herald (USA) on July 13, 2016 Link to article here [Subscrip... Read more...

Vox

Gender gaps in performance among high-skilled professionals

Article by Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer Gender gaps in earnings exist in high-skill industries despite male and female workers having similar educational backgrounds. This column uses evidence from the legal industry t... Read more...

The Independent

'No evidence' academy status improves grades at good or satisfactory schools

New research has found ''no evidence'' that academy status leads to better grades for pupils at schools rated good or satisfactory. The study, by the London School of Economics and the Education Policy Institute (EPI)... Read more...

The Scotsman

Bill Jamieson: Secret report makes you choke on the canapes

For example, I have obtained an internal Scottish Enterprise document circulated last week among senior managers declaring the consequences of Brexit for the Scottish manufacturing sector ''to be overwhelmingly negative'... Read more...

Royal Economic Society Newsletter

Conference Report 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...

Time

The worst of the Brexit fallout is still to hit the UK

John Van Reenen, head of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said that Britain's Brexit decision will have both short-term and long-term consequences. ''There is a lot of uncertainty ab... Read more...

La Izquierda Diario (Spanish)

El Brexit, mala noticia para el segundo semestre

First views on the global economic impact of such episode refer to one (even minor) world growth rate. Thus for example claimed John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics, who said the effect ''disincentive'' to i... Read more...

CNBC (USA)

Turbulence and uncertainty for the market after 'Brexit'

The world map has been redrawn with the rules of commerce across Europe, the largest marketplace on earth. Britain's vote on Thursday to leave the European Union has set in motion an unprecedented and unpredictable proce... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Foreign investors love Britain - but Brexit would end the affair

Foreign investment brings many benefits to the UK, including higher pay and productivity. But a Brexit vote could end it all, write Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen. First, not being... Read more...

Consultancy.uk

Charles-Edouard Bouee reflects on the impact of a Brexit

And while some experts argue that FDI is high in the UK due to a favourable business environment, others, such as the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, suggest that ''being fully in the s... Read more...

ProActiveInvestors

10 ways Brexit will impact UK business

The Institute for Fiscal Studies, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the Centre for Economic Performance have all predicted lower real wages in the event of Brexit, higher prices for goods and ser... Read more...

The Mail Online

Michael Gove makes grovelling apology for comparing pro-EU experts to Nazi propagandists after Cameron accuses him of having 'lost it' during referendum battle

In a dramatic escalation of Tory infighting earlier, Mr Cameron told Sky News: 'To hear the Leave campaign today sort of comparing independent experts and economists to Nazi sympathisers - I think they have rather lost ... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Brexit's real impact would be gradual and global

The Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics finds that EU immigrants to Britain are better educated and more likely to ... This article was published online by The Wall Street Journal on Ju... Read more...

Policy Forum.net

Counting the cost of Brexit

The economic impacts of Britain leaving the EU With the referendum fast approaching, Thomas Sampson analyses the economic consequences should Britain vote to leave the European Union. Proponents of Brexit, as leaving ... Read more...

Politico

Brexit Corner - Three days to go

Today Morning Trade talks Brexit and the future of U.K. trade policy with Swati Dhingra, a lecturer in economics at the London School of Economics and a member of the trade research program of the Institutions's Center f... Read more...

Britain more prosperous 'IN'

The Telegraph

We are economists who care about Britain and its future. We feel compelled to speak out on the risks of Leaving and opportunities from Remaining in the EU. If Britain votes to Leave we believe that: • A recessio... Read more...

The Daily Mail online

Things you need to read about Brexit: Best articles to help you decide

Things to read about Brexit Below is a selection of informative things to read about Brexit that can help you decide. Please suggest your own in comments, but you cannot post links there. You can send links to editor... Read more...

The Daily Mirror

The 6 experts saying Brexit will cost you - and the 1 that disagrees

Numbers are being thrown around by the Vote Leave and Vote Remain campaigns like they're going out of fashion - but what do the experts say and can we trust them? Six out of seven reports predict a Brexit will hurt us ... Read more...

The Guardian

Predictions of recession if UK leaves EU based on 'bizarre assumptions'

Economists for Brexit group claims that downturn would be avoided if Britain removed all trade barriers after leaving EU Economists campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union have accused the Treasury and inter... Read more...

Belfast News Letter

Brexit campaign falls on poor grasp 'basic facts' says report

Economics experts have blasted key assumptions underpinning the Brexit campaign's financial arguments in favour of leaving the EU. The report by the London School of Economics and Political Science's Centre for Econ... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

The /Britain Alone' scenario: how Economists for Brexit defy the laws of gravity

Article by Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen The possibility of the UK leaving the European Union (EU) has generated an unusual degree of consensus among economists. Acr... Read more...

Bloomberg

UK consumers would have a 'great time' in Brexit, Minford says

Britons would benefit from lower prices if the U.K. left the European Union, according to Patrick Minford, a professor at Cardiff University and co-chairman of Economists for Brexit. According to Minford, t... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

How do `Economists for Brexit' manage to defy the laws of gravity?

The possibility of the UK leaving the European Union (EU) has generated an unusual degree of consensus among economists. Acrimony and rancour surrounded debates around austerity and joining the euro, but analysis from th... Read more...

Daily Mail

Tories at war: Iain Duncan Smith accuses former Cabinet colleague of being two-faced over the EU as tensions escalate with a month to go before

Responding to Hilton’s article, Javid said: “Steve is entitled to his view … the central issue here is that economically, we are far better off being part of this single market … Now you have the Bank of England, the IMF... Read more...

Market Inspector

Would TTIP be a good deal for European Citizens?

According to Dennis Novy, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick: ''TTIP has the potential to benefit millions of consumers. It goes far beyond an economic project. Its current timetable seems ambi... Read more...

The Guardian

Are EU migrants really taking British jobs and pushing down wages?

The most recent research from the centre for economic performance at the London School of Economics says ''the areas of the UK with large increases in EU immigration did not suffer greater falls in the jobs and pay of UK... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

What is Brexit-related uncertainty doing to UK growth?

The UK will soon vote on whether to end its 43-year membership in the European Union. Opinion polls suggest the vote is too close to call, with the ''stay'' and ''leave'' side switching leads on a regular basis, and this... Read more...

The Financial Times

Brexit would hit UK growth and impede foreign investment

However, if there is one thing we as investors don’t like, it is economic uncertainty. As several important bodies have said — the International Monetary Fund, Bank of England, London School of Economics, the Treasury an... Read more...

The Jordan Times

The economic consequences of Brexit

The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance calculates the long-term costs to Britain of lower trade with the EU could be as high as 9.5 per cent of GDP, while the fall in foreign investment could cos... Read more...

Mainly Macro blog

Brexit, immigration and #100

With so many heavyweights, from Barack Obama to Mark Carney, saying that we will be worse off with Brexit, why are the polls still neck and neck? There seem to me two reasonable explanations: that the tabloid media have ... Read more...

In Facts - Why Britain Should Stay in the EU

Bank of England governor: Brexit could trigger recession

Brexit uncertainty ''would tend to push up risk premia'', as InFacts has already pointed out. Funding costs for banks could go up, as would borrowing costs for homeowners and consumers. The UK's current account deficit i... Read more...

Vox

Estimating border effects in international trade: user beware

Article by Cletus C. Coughlin and Dennis Novy Borders impede trade, and a major objective of research in international trade has been to identify by how much. This column argues that bilateral trade data can give a misl... Read more...

BBC News online

The economy and Brexit - a tangled tale

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...

Straits Times (Singapore)

The numbers show Britain should stay in the EU

A very awkward fact for the Brexit campaign is that in the last quarter of 2015, Britain's current-account deficit hit a record 7 per cent of GDP. That needs to be financed. But the risk of Brexit is already acting like ... Read more...

Financial Times

Tim Harford: How politicians poisoned statistics

The frustrating thing is that politicians seem quite happy to ignore evidence - even when they have helped to support the researchers who produced it. For example, when the chancellor George Osborne announced in his bud... Read more...

The Conversation

How Brexit would reduce foreign investment in the UK - and why that matters

Article by John Van Reenen Foreign investors love Britain, but Brexit would kill the vibe. According to new research colleagues and I have conducted at the Centre for Economic Performance, leaving the European Union cou... Read more...

Benefits Canada

How would Brexit impact the financial industry?

Whether Britain loses access to the single market depends on the terms of any exit. Under the optimistic scenario, Britain would join the European Economic Area as non-member countries like Norway and Switzerland have do... Read more...

FT Magazine

How politicians poisoned statistics

The frustrating thing is that politicians seem quite happy to ignore evidence - even when they have helped to support the researchers who produced it. For example, when the chancellor George Osborne announced in his bud... Read more...

RISE - Research on Improving Systems of Education

New research into developing management tools could aid education reform

A new RISE working paper, describing the development of an expanded survey tool, presents research findings that could be used to help systematically measure management practices in schools in developing countries, and p... Read more...

Business Standard

Swati Dhingra: Avert raw deal on EU-India trade pact

Article by Swati Dhingra Last week's Brussels visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started speculations that there will now be a renewed push for talks on the stalled EU-India broad-based trade and investment agree... Read more...

Economic Calendar

UK Budget encourages more saving with higher ISA Allowance

The Centre for Economic Performance estimates that Brexit would reduce UK gross domestic product (GDP) by up to 3.1%. However, this doesn't factor in losses associated with lower foreign direct investment (FDI), fewer sk... Read more...

European Politics and Policy blog (EUROPP)

Growth multiplier: How university expansion increases national income

What impact do universities have on a country's economy? Outlining the results of a study of universities across 78 countries, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen find that doubling the number of universities in a region inc... Read more...

Times Higher Education

Opening universities linked to increased GDP

Expansion of higher education systems around the world is likely to continue, according to a study that found a strong correlation between opening universities and significantly increased economic growth. An analysis... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

The more universities in a country, the faster its economic growth

If the UK added 1 university to each region, national income would grow 0.7%, write Anna Valaero and John Van Reenen. This article was published by the LSE Business Review blog on March 23, 2016 Link to article here ... Read more...

RTE News (Ireland)

Brexit would cause 'serious economic shock' - Confederation of British Industry

The CBI also said savings from reduced contributions to the EU's budget and regulation would be greatly outweighed by the negative impact on trade and investment. Last week a report by the Centre for Economic Performance... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Budget 2016: Osborne rolls with the blows, but the politics tramples good economics

John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, gives his reaction to the 2016 Budget. The austerity approach continues, despite it having little economic sense. Fuel duty is frozen as a sweetener to hi... Read more...

CNSNews.com

British activists incensed by claim that Obama will lobby for UK to stay in EU

Although the report also raised as an option Britain signing onto the North American Free Trade Agreement, report co-author Swati Dhingra said she does not envisage that happening. Even if it did, Dhingra said, it would ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

News

John Van Reenen discusses why wages aren't growing. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 News on March 13, 2016 Link to interview here Also ran on BBC World Service Linda Yueh interview John Van Reenen discus... Read more...

Opinion Online

Por que los salarios son tan bajos?

''In the last seven to eight years, wage growth has been very disappointing in the world,'' says John Van Reenen, director of the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics (LSE). This article was... Read more...

BBC News Online

Why aren't salaries growing more?

John Van Reenen is director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. ''Over the last seven or eight years, wage growth has been very disappointing all over the world. After the Second Wo... Read more...

BBC World Service

John Van Reenen interviewed

John Van Reenen discusses a decade of weak wage growth worldwide and its consequences This interview was broadcast by BBC World News on March 8, 2016 Link to interview here Also on WUWM-FM , WUNC-FM, WBFO-FM, NPR/Na... Read more...

Vox

Life after Brexit: the UK's options outside the EU

Article by Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson In June, UK voters will decide whether to remain part of the EU. This column explores the UK's options if a majority votes in favour of Brexit. One possibility is for the UK, ... Read more...

The Conversation

Why are so many people still living in flood-prone cities?

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...

The State of Working Britain - blog

Are immigrants taking all the new jobs?

Latest State of Working Britain blog by Jonathan Wadsworth The central message is that it would be wrong to conclude from analysis of the net change in employment that migrants take all new jobs. Rather the net change i... Read more...

The Telegraph

Britain lags rivals in robots - but automating the workplace may not mean huge job losses