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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...
17 June 2024
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...
25 June 2023
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...
27 January 2023
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...
22 July 2022
High energy prices are causing problems, as are the consequences of the Covid pandemic and the effects of Brexit. But research by the Resolution Foundation and the Center for Economic Performance suggests the causes of t... Read more...
15 July 2022
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...
18 March 2022
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...
02 February 2022
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...
15 December 2021
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...
03 January 2021
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...
01 November 2019
A new data set helps address the lack of innovation data able to capture firms' internal mechanisms and behaviours, write Max Nathan and Anna Cecilia Rosso. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth... Read more...
02 October 2019
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...
23 September 2019
Richard Davis talks about his new book, Extreme Economies. ... Read more...
19 September 2019
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...
14 September 2019
Such things occur outside idle thought experiments. Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford, studied the fortunes of Roman-era towns in Britain and France. When t... Read more...
09 September 2019
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...
05 September 2019
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30 August 2019
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...
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...
24 August 2019
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...
12 August 2019
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...
24 July 2019
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...
23 July 2019
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...
11 July 2019
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...
28 June 2019
"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...
21 June 2019
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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...
19 June 2019
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...
06 June 2019
"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...
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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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...
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...
17 May 2019
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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...
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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...
16 April 2019
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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...
27 March 2019
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...
26 March 2019
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...
25 March 2019
"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...
13 March 2019
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...
12 March 2019
...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...
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...
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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...
12 February 2019
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...
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...
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...
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...
11 February 2019
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...
Mention of CEP report showing British firms investing outside of the UK because of Brexit. ... Read more...
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...
04 February 2019
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...
18 January 2019
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...
11 August 2018
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...
09 August 2018
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...
20 July 2018
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...
25 June 2018
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...
21 June 2018
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...
30 May 2018
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...
24 May 2018
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...
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...
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...
17 May 2018
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...
15 May 2018
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...
14 May 2018
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...
13 May 2018
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...
10 May 2018
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...
09 May 2018
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...
08 May 2018
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...
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...
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...
07 May 2018
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...
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...
02 May 2018
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...
26 April 2018
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...
17 April 2018
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...
16 April 2018
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...
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...
12 April 2018
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...
09 April 2018
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...
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...
07 April 2018
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...
20 March 2018
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...
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...
13 March 2018
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...
07 March 2018
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...
05 March 2018
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...
28 February 2018
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...
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...
24 February 2018
The Stanford professor and economist Nicholas Bloom brought up the potential for fraud, adding that government enforcement would be difficult. ... Read more...
21 February 2018
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...
18 February 2018
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...
16 February 2018
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...
10 February 2018
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...
08 February 2018
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...
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...
06 February 2018
Related publications Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation (pages 298-329) The Economic Journal Volume 128, Issue 608, February 2018 Warn N. Lekf... Read more...
05 February 2018
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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...
02 February 2018
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...
29 January 2018
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...
28 January 2018
…nearly six years. The Centre for Economic Performance says that the vote has cost the … ... Read more...
25 January 2018
With the UK due to leave the EU at 11pm on 29 March 2019, countries on both sides of the channel are figuring out what Brexit will mean for their economies. We speak to Panmure Gordon’s David B... Read more...
19 January 2018
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...
18 January 2018
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...
17 January 2018
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...
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...
16 January 2018
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...
15 January 2018
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...
14 January 2018
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...
13 January 2018
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...
11 January 2018
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...
08 January 2018
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...
07 January 2018
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...
05 January 2018
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...
04 January 2018
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...
03 January 2018
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...
01 January 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...
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...
29 December 2017
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...
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...
28 December 2017
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...
24 December 2017
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...
22 December 2017
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...
21 December 2017
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...
20 December 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
19 December 2017
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...
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...
18 December 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
16 December 2017
A recent study by the London School of Economics found that banning mobiles can improve academic results ... Read more...
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...
15 December 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
14 December 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
13 December 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
12 December 2017
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...
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...
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...
11 December 2017
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...
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...
10 December 2017
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...
05 December 2017
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...
04 December 2017
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...
30 November 2017
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...
29 November 2017
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...
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...
27 November 2017
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...
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...
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...
26 November 2017
… 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...
25 November 2017
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...
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...
24 November 2017
... according to new analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London ... ... Read more...
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...
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...
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...
23 November 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
22 November 2017
“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...
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...
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...
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...
20 November 2017
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...
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 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...
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...
13 November 2017
“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...
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...
10 November 2017
Is it possible, as Trump’s statement suggests, to compare two countries’ economies and which indicators would we use to do so? GDP per capita is considered a baseline when comparing two economies. ... Read more...
09 November 2017
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...
02 November 2017
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...
31 October 2017
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...
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...
30 October 2017
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...
26 October 2017
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...
24 October 2017
An LSE study two years ago found that schools that banned phones did 6.4 per cent better in exams. ... Read more...
21 October 2017
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...
20 October 2017
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...
18 October 2017
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...
13 October 2017
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...
12 October 2017
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...
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...
09 October 2017
"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...
03 October 2017
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...
02 October 2017
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...
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...
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...
01 October 2017
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...
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...
28 September 2017
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...
27 September 2017
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...
26 September 2017
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...
25 September 2017
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 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...
22 September 2017
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...
20 September 2017
Professor of Finance and Economics, Kevin Dowd (Durham University), Professor David Paton (Nottingham University) and Professor David Blake (University of London) discuss how the UK can benefit from a free tra... Read more...
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...
17 September 2017
14 September 2017
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...
…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...
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...
13 September 2017
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...
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...
11 September 2017
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...
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...
10 September 2017
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...
09 September 2017
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...
08 September 2017
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...
04 September 2017
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...
03 September 2017
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...
01 September 2017
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...
31 August 2017
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...
..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...
30 August 2017
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...
25 August 2017
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...
24 August 2017
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...
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...
21 August 2017
Mention of LSE study that found banning mobile phones from classrooms improved test scores. Click to open ... Read more...
16 August 2017
…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...
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...
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...
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...
15 August 2017
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...
14 August 2017
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...
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...
13 August 2017
Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Misato Sato, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017 ... Read more...
08 August 2017
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...
05 August 2017
Article by Henry Overman: The LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (working with the Centre for Cities think tank) has carried out a study shedding light upon the local economic impact of Brexit. Henry ... Read more...
28 July 2017
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...
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...
27 July 2017
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...
19 July 2017
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...
18 July 2017
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...
17 July 2017
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...
12 July 2017
Olivier Marie and Ulf Zölitz ... Read more...
02 July 2017
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...
27 June 2017
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...
26 June 2017
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...
25 June 2017
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...
21 June 2017
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...
16 June 2017
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...
06 June 2017
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...
19 April 2017
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...
10 April 2017
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...
05 March 2017
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...
04 March 2017
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...
03 March 2017
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...
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...
02 March 2017
Henrik Kleven and Camille Landais, Economica, 14 March 2017 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12230 ... Read more...
22 February 2017
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...
20 February 2017
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...
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...
14 February 2017
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...
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...
08 February 2017
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...
31 January 2017
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...
27 January 2017
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...
26 January 2017
"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...
24 January 2017
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...
23 January 2017
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...
19 January 2017
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...
05 January 2017
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...
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...
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 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...
04 January 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...
02 January 2017
Professor John Van Reenen, who predicted ahead of the referendum that Brexit would cost up to £1,700 per household per year, has been given an OBE for services to economics and public policy making. Othe... Read more...
30 December 2016
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...
20 December 2016
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...
03 December 2016
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...
30 November 2016
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...
29 November 2016
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...
22 November 2016
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...
21 November 2016
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...
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...
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...
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...
16 November 2016
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...
… "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...
15 November 2016
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...
18 October 2016
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...
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...
17 October 2016
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...
16 October 2016
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...
13 October 2016
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...
09 October 2016
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...
28 September 2016
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...
25 September 2016
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...
22 September 2016
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...
21 September 2016
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...
15 September 2016
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...
22 August 2016
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...
18 August 2016
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...
05 August 2016
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...
04 August 2016
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...
03 August 2016
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...
02 August 2016
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...
01 August 2016
However, mounting evidence suggests that the gains from free trade are not shared equally. A body of research on the American economy shows that import competition from poor countries can depress the incomes of the low s... Read more...
30 July 2016
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...
29 July 2016
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...
27 July 2016
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...
22 July 2016
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...
20 July 2016
... 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...
13 July 2016
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...
12 July 2016
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...
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...
09 July 2016
The Society's Annual Conference was held at the University of Sussex, 21-23 March. This report was prepared by Ferdinando Giugliano, focusing on four fields of economic research: development economics; political economy;... Read more...
01 July 2016
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...
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...
22 June 2016
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
21 June 2016
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...
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...
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...
16 June 2016
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...
06 June 2016
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...
02 June 2016
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...
01 June 2016
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...
30 May 2016
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...
27 May 2016
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...
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...
23 May 2016
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...
20 May 2016
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...
12 May 2016
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...
08 May 2016
Today eight economists have struck out against much mainstream economic thinking and suggested that the UK economy would flourish outside the European Union. They are up against formidable opposition - what those who su... Read more...
28 April 2016
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...
19 April 2016
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...
16 April 2016
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...
15 April 2016
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...
14 April 2016
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...
04 April 2016
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...
23 March 2016
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...
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...
16 March 2016
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...
14 March 2016
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...
04 March 2016
Article by Guy Michaels Over the last 30 years, floods have killed more than 500,000 people globally, and displaced about 650m more. In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined why so... Read more...
01 March 2016
Dr Thomas Sampson from the Centre for Economic Performance says the EU accounts for about half of all UK trade. This interview was broadcast by Sky News Tonight on January 25, 2016 Link to interview here Related pub... Read more...
25 January 2016
Professor Paul Cheshire accused the tycoon of hugely exaggerating the size and benefits of his stake in Scotland and said promises made by him were falling apart at the seams. This article was published by the Mail on ... Read more...
10 January 2016
The Treasury's top civil servant, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, is set to stand down in April, having led the Government department for over a decade. George Osborne, the Chancellor, said he would ''miss'' Sir Nicholas, 56,... Read more...
04 January 2016
The size of the current account deficit and the UK's reliance on household consumption are among the main worries for Britain's leading economists. John van Reenen, Director, Centre for Economic Performance: First... Read more...
03 January 2016
The biggest issue for 2016...is the same as it was for 2015: the possibility of Brexit Section by John Van Reenen Being part of the world's largest economic trading block benefits the UK through more trade and foreign ... Read more...
31 December 2015
The World Bank Group launched the Competitive Cities report [1] on December 10 - ''Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth: What, Who and How,'' which represents almost two years of research and analysis to put together a... Read more...
18 December 2015
There is much in the Ciudadanos programme, drawn up by Luis Garicano, a London School of Economics professor, to appeal to investors. This article was published in The Times on December 17, 2015 Link to article http:/... Read more...
17 December 2015
We said in reporting official Labour Market Statistics that ''Three in four new jobs go to migrants from EU countries'' (News, Nov 12). This was wrong. The Office for National Statistics has stated that its estimates of ... Read more...
10 December 2015
Article by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Private tutoring is booming and elite universities remain preserve of middle classes; something must change, say Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Social mobility is t... Read more...
09 December 2015
Analysts already point to Ciudadanos as the likely kingmaker after the December 20 election. The party is expected to command a parliamentary group so large that it would be impossible for others to rule without it. Ciud... Read more...
08 December 2015
Money should follow patients and they need information and choice, write Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen In work with Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler, we evaluate whether competition improves hospital quality, in pa... Read more...
25 November 2015
Richard Layard profiled: ''Richard Layard, who believes the basic purpose of economics is the maximization of happiness and well-being'' A day after sharing a stage with the Dalai Lama, London School of Economics (LSE)... Read more...
Hoboken, NJ - John Wiley and Sons, Inc., and the British Academy are pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Wiley Prize in Economics and the Wiley Prize in Psychology The annual Wiley Prize in Economics, made in p... Read more...
29 October 2015
Liberal Ciudadanos defends the idea of a single contract to end a two-tier labour market, with ''a core of the temporary workers, much less protected and highly protected workers even as the United States'', said economi... Read more...
22 October 2015
Henry Overman interviewed by Philip Salter It's easy to make policy, but it's hard to make the right ones. These are the sorts of questions the excellent What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth looks at. It recently... Read more...
25 September 2015
Richard Layard, emeritus Professor of economics at the LSE interviewed on action for happiness campaign for increased happiness and kindness in the UK. The interview was broadcast by BBC World Service on September 21, 2... Read more...
21 September 2015
In the afternoon, an enthusiastic and friendly audience of more than 2000 awaited His Holiness's arrival at the Lyceum theatre. He was met at the stage door by his old friend Lord Richard Layard, who with Director of Act... Read more...
Primary colours But, when it comes to the truth, Sala i Martin has refused to discuss publicly with Luis Garicano, another heavyweight, Professor at the London School of Economics. The worst has been disappointing argum... Read more...
In the 70's, the New Yorker Richard Easterlin Economist concluded that, once past a certain level of income in the richest nations, happiness not increased as a result of higher revenues. Today we know for scientific res... Read more...
16 September 2015
The Coordinator of the economic program and citizens Social (C's), Luis Garicano, has invited the Economist Xavier Sala-i-Martin, favourable to the independence of Catalonia, to discuss the economic implications of that ... Read more...
Joan Costa Font interviewed regarding the push for Catalan independence in Spain. The interview was broadcast by Al Jazeera International on September 12, 2015 [No link available.] Related links Joan Costa Font webpa... Read more...
12 September 2015
... Tambien lo estudio el historiador Albrecht Ritschl, de la London School of Economices (LSE). En medio de la Guerra Fria, los... Germany suffers from amnesia Also studied it the historian Albrecht Ritschl, of the Lo... Read more...
03 September 2015
Centre for Economic Performance's Director, Professor John Van Reenen among economists signing a letter critical of Labour Party leader candidate, Jeremy Corbyn's economic plans. The letter was published by The Financia... Read more...
Uppsala University's Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels from the London School of Economics looked at productivity and employment in a variety of countries between 1993 and 2007 to see if the trepidation about the increased u... Read more...
01 September 2015
Solidarity Economy: Conversations with the Dalai Lama about altruism, development and compassion The Mind and Life Institute was born in 1987 ... the Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics, Lo... Read more...
28 August 2015
Article by Dennis Novy Alexis Tsipras will be able to survive, for one simple reason: there’s no better alternative. The Greeks don’t want to leave the Eurozone. The last months have shown that the government's prev... Read more...
17 August 2015
[Gabriel] Ahlfeldt, an Associate Professor of Urban Economics and Land Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says as long as outward growth is prevented by policies such as the 'green belt'... Read more...
10 August 2015
John Van Reenen interviewed on the UK budget. This interview was broadcast by China Central TV Europe (CCTV) on July 9, 2015 Link to broadcast here [Interview with Prof Van Reenen starts around 02.30] Related publicat... Read more...
09 July 2015
Albrecht Ritschl is interviewed on market crashes and China. The interview was broadcast by CNN International Europe - The Business View News on July 9, 2015 [No link available] Related publications 'Reparations, Def... Read more...
... creditors, in exchange for pro-market reforms'', said Professor Albrecht Ritschl of the London School of Economics. West Germany was able to borrow on international markets again, and, free ... This article was publ... Read more...
Article by Max Nathan Despite the recent hype, London's digital sector appears to have shrunk since 2010, with much of the 2000s surge wiped out, and has only recently turned the corner. This article was published onl... Read more...
06 July 2015
Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muuls, Laure B. De Preux and Ulrich J. Wagner have received the 2015 Erik Kempe Award for their paper 'Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading... Read more...
29 June 2015
For the first question, the argument for lowering the rate is that a higher rate makes people behave in such a way that there is less income to be taxed in the first place. So a higher rate may not bring in much more mon... Read more...
25 June 2015
A paper by Uppsala University and the London School of Economics in February revealed that industrial robots do increase labor productivity and raise a country's average growth rate by 0.37 percentage points. The ar... Read more...
23 June 2015
See: Comment by georgep76 3dago - below the cartoon Germany has been described as the biggest ''debt transgressor'' of the 20th Century, with restructurings in 1924, 1929, 1932 and 1953. Total debt forgiveness for Germ... Read more...
21 June 2015
The study 'Robots at Work' (Robots at work), published in February 2015 analyzes the impact of the growing automation in the economic development of 17 countries. Its authors Georg Graetz of the University of Uppsala and... Read more...
A look back: national bankruptcies are not so rare The economic historian Albrecht Ritschl called Germany the most wayward of the 20th century: ''The Federal Republic owes your today's financial stability and its status... Read more...
18 June 2015
Letter from Ha-Joon Chang, Thomas Piketty, David Blanchflower and others Emeritus professor of Economics, Cambridge University Prof Hugh Willmott, CASS Business School Prof Steve Keen, Professor of Economics, Kingston U... Read more...
12 June 2015
Citizens violate their economic program in the Andalusian pact No sign of economist [Luis] Garicano's proposals to simplify administration. Queues at a theater to hear an economic program of a party was an unprecedente... Read more...
11 June 2015
Article by Keyu Jin Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang recently cited job creation as vital to his country's ''ultimate goal of stability in growth''. His observation could not be more accurate. In fact, one of the mos... Read more...
04 June 2015
However, Keyu Jin of the London School of Economics now says the Chinese economy is not creating enough jobs. This article was published by The Epoch Times on June 3, 2015 Link to article here Related links Keyu J... Read more...
03 June 2015
''The challenge is as big as putting a man on the moon,'' says Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, one of the founders of the programme along with other prominent scientists, economists and industrialists. ... Read more...
A number of Britain's leading experts in the field of climate research are focused on achieving the goal of solving the world's most pressing problem: the continued global temperature rise. This article was published on... Read more...
Marco Manacorda filmed giving a talk at the Festival of Economics on Trento. There is abundant anecdotal evidence but poor empirical evidence of the benefits enjoyed by the relatives of politicians in the labor market. ... Read more...
02 June 2015
Lord Richard Layard, an economist at the London School of Economics and member of the Apollo group, said it was barely believable that the world only spent 2% of its R&D money on its ''most pressing problem'' of clim... Read more...
Earning more money, bagging the fabulous job you have always wanted, or travelling the world might seem like keys to happiness. But, according to ''happiness expert'' Paul Dolan, making simple changes is the key to bring... Read more...
01 June 2015
More money, the job of your life may seem like the keys to a happier life. However it is no less true that happiness is, according to Professor Paul Dolan. Just small changes that bring joy and give meaning to life can... Read more...
31 May 2015
According to happiness expert Prof Paul Dolan, making simple changes are the key to creating joy. Prof Dolan, of the London School of Economics, has claimed a work promotion may bring more stress, travelling can be lonel... Read more...
WHEN Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 she set about bulldozing the trade unions, which had frequently brought Britain grinding to a standstill in the 1970s. On May 27th David Cameron indicated that his Conservativ... Read more...
30 May 2015
Article by Camille Terrier French teachers went on strike on May 19 to voice their disapproval of two major reforms that have been proposed by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the French education minister. The two reforms are v... Read more...
22 May 2015
The Conversation is fact checking political statements in the lead-up to the May UK general election. Statements are checked by an academic with expertise in the area. A second academic expert reviews an anonymous copy o... Read more...
28 April 2015
Both labour and its opponents make too much of a new policy Labour made two housing policy commitments over the weekend, only one of which was interesting. The uninteresting one was the promise to cut stamp duty for fir... Read more...
27 April 2015
Theories abound over the causes of the UK's slump in productivity since the financial crisis; Some economists, including John Van Reenen at the Centre for Economic Performance, believe the productivity puzzle is a co... Read more...
19 April 2015
Article by Ian Preston, Andrew Street, Claudia Hupkau, David Chivers, Peter Beresford and Simon Burgess The Conversation's Manifesto Check, where academics subject each party's election manifesto to unbiased, expert scr... Read more...
17 April 2015
Article by Maria Goddard, Anand Menon, Christine Merrell, Claudia Hupkau, Hilary Steedman, Ian Preston, Jonathan Perraton and Steve Higgins Welcome to The Conversation's Manifesto Check, where academics subject each par... Read more...
13 April 2015
The possible spending plans of Labour and the Tories illustrate the fact that there are real choices to be made at the election, writes John Van Reenen. When viewed over the longer term, the state of the UK economy is n... Read more...
30 March 2015
El economista Luis Garicano, autor del programa economico del partido de Albert Rivera, opina que la inversion en la alta velocidad de Galicia es un ''derroche keynesiano'' que debe paralizarse Economist Luis Garicano... Read more...
Then there is the vital question of productivity. As Professor John van Reenen from the LSE observes, ''What the Chancellor didn't mention is that UK GDP per person is 16 per cent lower than we would have expected on pr... Read more...
27 March 2015
Since the global financial crisis, workers' real wages and family living standards in the UK have suffered to an extent unprecedented in modern history. The one group in society for whom living standards have risen since... Read more...
26 March 2015
The big squeeze in UK living standards after the 2008 crash has been driven by a historically large squeeze in real wages (wages taking into account inflation). This was all set out in a new report from the Centre for Ec... Read more...
Article by John Van Reenen Public service spending is in for a rollercoaster ride. The implication of the Autumn Statement was that public service spending would be cut to levels not seen since 1948. Now they will be 36... Read more...
19 March 2015
Iglesias's left-wing economic proposals have put business leaders on guard, while Rivera's economic programme, drawn up by Luis Garicano of the London School of Economics, has been better received by the business world. ... Read more...
11 March 2015
Article by Professor John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance All elections since 1992 have been followed by net tax increases of around £5 billion in today's money. It is therefore incumbe... Read more...
Discover the Government to catapult the economy and the stock market in Spain In a double election year in Spain, what is the best option to boost economic growth and improve our living conditions? ... We also believe... Read more...
10 March 2015
Spain prepares for bipartisanship in a crowded election year His economic program, developed by a professor at the London School of Economics, Luis Garicano, reassures companies. It also has support from the media. ... Read more...
Immigration and security minister James Brokenshire responded ... ''Uncontrolled, mass immigration makes it difficult to maintain social cohesion, puts pressure on public services and can force down wages.'' But even a m... Read more...
03 March 2015
Spain: an array of new players signals yearning for change. ... A new recruit whose academic credentials will impress some voters: Luis Garicano, a professor of ''economics and strategy'' at the London School of Economi... Read more...
28 February 2015
A new report from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) shows that there is no evidence of a negative impact of immigration on jobs, wages, housing or the crowding out of public services. The author, Professor Jonath... Read more...
27 February 2015
Alex Bryson, John Forth and Richard Freeman present research into the benefits of all-employee stock purchase plans. They find that employees who joined the plan were more committed to the firm, more satisfied with their... Read more...
12 February 2015
Q: How do you calculate reparations for something as catastrophic as WWII? A: Were Germany to pay reparations for the whole of the destruction it caused during the war - the Nazis were estimated to have been responsib... Read more...
10 February 2015
Albrecht Ritschl interviewed, discussing Greece's claim that it helped Germany financially after the Second World War and the political motivations behind it. The interview was broadcast on the BBC World Service Globa... Read more...
09 February 2015
According to the new Greek government, Germany has an enormous unpaid account in Greece. The Germans never paid anything for the murdering and plundering in the Second World War. The 'Zwangsanleihe', an extorted loan of ... Read more...
Citizens will present on Feb. 17 in Madrid the first axis of its economic program in a ceremony that will feature the leader of the formation, Albert Rivera, and Economist Luis Garicano, 'signed' to implement economic me... Read more...
08 February 2015
Greek officials are seeking support for a new debt agreement. ... The Germans are conveniently ignoring is their own record as one of history's biggest deadbeats. In the 1920s, according to a prominent German economic hi... Read more...
''Germany's resurgence has only been possible through waiving extensive debt payments and stopping reparations to its World War II victims'', economic historian Albrecht Ritschl told Der Spiegel in 2011, describing Germa... Read more...
30 January 2015
Der Mindestlohn in GroÐ’britannien Alan Manning interviewed and Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) research on the minimum wage mentioned in an issue produced by the German government about the introduction of the mi... Read more...
29 January 2015
Dr Dennis Novy talking about Europe's economy if Syriza win the Greek election. The interview was broadcast by Sky News on January 28, 2015 Link to broadcast here Related links Dennis Novy webpage Globalisatio... Read more...
28 January 2015
Select Committee publications: education 3. The growth in the number of academies and free schools and the significance of their impact on the educational landscape in England led us to decide that it would be timely to... Read more...
Stephen Machin, professor of Economics at University College London, says, ''Creating jobs with decent pay as innovative technologies evolve is a challenge, given the UK's traditional difficulties in generating good jobs... Read more...
Economist Stephen Machin, a professor at University College London said: ''Creating jobs with decent pay as innovative technologies evolve is a challenge given the UK's traditional difficulties in generating good jobs fo... Read more...
20 January 2015
Only a tenth of education reforms carried out around the world since 2008 have been analysed by governments for the impact they have on children's education. A new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and... Read more...
19 January 2015
The Center for American Progress has published a lengthy and ambitious report on how to achieve ''inclusive prosperity'' - a subject that is sure to play a prominent role in the [US] 2016 election. The report is the p... Read more...
15 January 2015
New report from Inclusive Prosperity Commission, transatlantic group convened by the Center for American Progress, will present policy proposals to promote broadly shared prosperity throughout the United States Washingt... Read more...
Britain's recovery is secure and will continue at a good pace in 2015 even if growth is likely to be a bit weaker than last year, economists said in one of their most optimistic assessments since the financial crisis. ... Read more...
01 January 2015
The UK government's goal of cutting public spending so public finances are back in the black by 2018-19 with a large annual surplus by the end of the next parliament will not be delivered, most economists believe. How... Read more...
Barbara Petrongolo will take over from Joseph Zweimuller as Director of the Labour Economics Programme from 1 August 2015. Barbara is Professor of Economics at Queen Mary University and Research Associate at the Centre... Read more...
11 November 2014
Is there a future for industry in Europe and North America? Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Gianmarco Ottaviano use the example of the newly merged transatlantic car-maker Fiat Chrysler to debunk a number of myths about the ... Read more...
20 October 2014
When the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, it created what London School of Economics associate professor Daniel Sturm calls a ''perfect experiment''. While people in West Germany voted in free elections, read independent new... Read more...
12 October 2014
Veronica Rappoport of the Centre for Economic Performance comments on her choice to be recipient(s) of this year's Nobel Prize for Economics: ''At some point should touch the area of economic growth: Romer, Aghion and... Read more...
10 October 2014
In a letter to the Financial Times, academics from Scotland and England warn that separation is a gamble with very poor odds. Professor John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance; Professor Mike El... Read more...
17 September 2014
En el otro lado, el economista Luis Garicano, tambien de la London School of Economics, advirtio de los ''brutales costes de un divorcio a las bravas'', pero dejo tambien un duro ataque a la actitud del Ejecutivo de Mari... Read more...
02 September 2014
Draghi: an offer you should not refuse Article by Luis Garicano The Spanish and European economic course opens with the bad news of growth in real GDP and prices in the euro area in the second quarter and the response ... Read more...
30 August 2014
Tiger mothers predestine their children to do well at school even before they are born, research has suggested. Babies born to highly competitive women who believe that they have the power to shape their children's prosp... Read more...
19 August 2014
Babies born to mothers who hold a stronger belief that their fate is in their own hands and not down to luck tend to perform better in their GCSE exams 16 years later. That is the central finding of new research by the C... Read more...
18 August 2014
Letter page Sir, In his very timely commentary, Martin Wolf addressed the increasingly urgent issue of personal misery and its social impact caused by our failure to treat depression and crippling anxiety, now affectin... Read more...
18 July 2014
Article by Henry Overman Our latest evidence review on the economic impact of cultural and sport projects might make for uncomfortable reading for some local decision makers. We looked at these programmes' effects on wa... Read more...
16 July 2014
A new study adds some empirical firepower to the idea that poor patent laws are crushing innovation in the technology industry. Researchers from the London School of Economics studied citations from patents that were inv... Read more...
12 July 2014
Article by Tim Besley and John Van Reenen In 2013 the LSE Growth Commission published a report into future UK growth. The aim of the Commission was to identify institutions and policies that could generate more growth i... Read more...
10 July 2014
The Northern Futures project is a new approach to policymaking which means that rather than decisions being made by politicians and civil servants in Whitehall, the power is given to the people who live and work there. .... Read more...
04 July 2014
Another report, published by the London School of Economics and backed by Nick Clegg, stated that our strategy for dealing with drugs ''can no longer be justified''. It's not just statistics that point towards the need f... Read more...
There are now more than 1.1 million children in our schools whose first language ''is known or believed to be other than English'' according to the latest government figures. ... Chinese students are our highest performi... Read more...
01 July 2014
David Clark was interviewed, discussing pscyhcological treatments for depression and anxiety. The interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on July 1, 2014 Link to programme here [Starts at 2:46:30] ... Read more...
Article by Richard Layard and David M. Clark Treating mental health problems produces extraordinary savings - fewer people on welfare benefits, and fewer people being treated for physical illnesses made worse by mental ... Read more...
Henry Overman, a London School of Economics professor who authored the report, has continued to lobby for ''agglomeration'' of big northern cities. Prof Overman said recently that reducing travel time between Leeds and M... Read more...
23 June 2014
"We owe it to the 44 million people living with dementia across the world to find new treatments for this cruel condition. But with the latest research from the London School of Economics now showing that a treatmen... Read more...
19 June 2014
But globally we desperately need to see new investment flowing into dementia research. ''We know from detailed analysis done by the London School of Economics that there is an impelling case both for economic and social ... Read more...
...errores Uno de los analistas economicos mas acreditados, el catedratico de la London School of Economics, Luis Garicano, autor de un certero diagnostico reciente sobre la coyuntura de este pais... Spain and the ri... Read more...
17 June 2014
Abgesehen davon gibt es generelle MaBnahmen, die sowohl den Einwanderern, als auch den Einheimischen selbst zugute kommen. Richard Layard wirbt beispielsweise für eine fortschrittliche Steuerpolitik, um die wirtschaftli... Read more...
16 June 2014
In a keynote paper to last week's Modelling World conference, Henry Overman said much greater discipline needed to be imposed on the claims made by policy-makers about transport investment's impact on the economy. ... Read more...
13 June 2014
The team, which also included investigators from the London School of Economics, analyzed existing literature in both countries, updating and supplementing as needed to estimate the cost of accommodation, medical and non... Read more...
10 June 2014
Autism is the most costly medical condition in Britain, say researchers. It costs the UK £32 billion a year - more than heart disease, cancer and stroke combined. Researchers at the London School of Economics and ... Read more...
Today's findings, by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics and Political Science, look beyond age 18 to include the costs of a potential lifelong disability. T... Read more...
09 June 2014
The figures showed a clear need for more effective interventions to treat autism, ideally in early life, to make the best use of scarce resources, said lead researcher Prof Martin Knapp, of the London School of Economics... Read more...
Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science assessed the care costs for families in the United States and Britain. The article was published in The Daily Telegraph on June 9, 2014 (no link av... Read more...
Autism costs the US and UK economies $175bn (£104bn) and £32bn a year respectively, more than any other medical condition and greater than the cost of cancer, strokes and heart disease combined, according to ... Read more...
Com'è la giornata tipo di un manager nel mondo? Quante ore lavora e cosa fa in quelle ore? Uno studio su amministratori delegati europei, americani, indiani e brasiliani condotto da Raffaella Sadun (che insegna Bu... Read more...
03 June 2014
THE UK housing market needs Help to Supply, not Help to Buy. The government's housing scheme has helped first-time buyers get a leg-up onto the property ladder, but that privilege has come at a price - with house prices... Read more...
21 May 2014
Meanwhile, justification for rapid academisation is scant. A 2009 report by LSE academics Stephen Machin and Joan Wilson signals there was little proof that New Labour's academies raised the attainment of poorer students... Read more...
14 May 2014
The high prices reflect that people want to live in Australia, according to John Van Reenen, the director of the centre for economic performance at the London School of Economics. 'However, as the commodity boom and Chin... Read more...
12 May 2014
In the long run, the answer to Britain's out-of-kilter housing market is an increase in the supply of homes. Paul Cheshire, an academic at the London School of Economics, says there has been a slowdown in the number of n... Read more...
11 May 2014
New research reports from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics are highlighted in the Spring 2014 issue of CentrePiece magazine. Social housing: Natives and immigrants... Read more...
08 May 2014
The problem of Spain: No deterrent for fiscal offences without imprisonment for perpetrators ... Luis Garicano, con su libro El dilema de Espana. Si los gobernantes no interiorizan que deben reformar las instituciones d... Read more...
03 May 2014
An online network aims to bring policymakers together with academics studying higher education, potentially stimulating new research on neglected areas such as the effectiveness of access spending. The ''Economics of Hig... Read more...
21 November 2013
In addition, my research with John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics shows that JVs (joint ventures) are 23% more productive on average than other firms. Those which had a technology transfer agreement that di... Read more...
01 May 2013
Today's British economy is the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. The governments that succeeded her did not change the broad lines of her policies. John Major privatised the railways. Labour lightly regulated the City of Lond... Read more...
11 April 2013
Article by John Van Reenen Margaret Thatcher's economic legacy lives on. This column provides a markedly balanced assessment of her mistakes and achievements. Most pressingly, Thatcherism left the UK failing to properly... Read more...
John Van Reenen analyses the economic legacy of Margaret Thatcher. In the late 1970s, when the UK was behind other developed nations in terms of material wellbeing, her supply side policies spurred economic revival. Ther... Read more...
10 April 2013
The consensus in 2000 of a team of American, British and Canadian scholars working under the auspices of America’s National Bureau of Economic Research, and Britain’s Centre for Economic Performance and its Institut... Read more...
09 April 2013
John Van Reenen, head of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said: "The changes [under Thatcher] helped shift Britain from a century of relative decline to three decades where we c... Read more...
08 April 2013
Margaret Thatcher's demolition of the trade unions in the 1980s has helped to keep Britons in work through the latest financial crisis, leading economists suggested yesterday...Economists have been baffled by the conundr... Read more...
06 April 2013
In a blog, Jonathan Portes writes, NIESR has just published research estimating the economic impact of immediate versus delayed fiscal consolidation in the UK. The research was undertaken by Dawn Holland (NIESR), John Va... Read more...
03 August 2012