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Economists from the LSE Centre for Economic Performance found that the UK’s departure from the EU caused a 6 per cent increase in British food prices. ... Read more...
20 July 2022
Researchers from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance find that a “clear and robust impact of Brexit-induced trade frictions” had led to an increase in prices. ... Read more...
27 April 2022
Trade recovered quickly after 2008 because the collapse wasn't long enough for firms to dismantle their portfolios, writes Giordano Mion. ... Read more...
29 April 2020
Richard Davies talks to Fortune magazine about what helps economies recover from extreme shocks, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
26 April 2020
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
In a new CEP Discussion Paper, "Affordability, Financial Innovation and the Start of the Housing Boom" my coauthors and I study the relationship between the start of the housing boom and the use of non-traditional mortga... Read more...
26 April 2019
A company's performance during and after a recession depends not just on the decisions it makes but also on who makes them. In a 2017 study, Raffaella Sadun (of Harvard Business School), Philippe Aghion (of College de Fr... Read more...
16 April 2019
Doing better financially than your parents is an important marker of success, and for much of the last half century, real earnings growth in the UK was strong enough that most young people achieved this milestone. But ne... Read more...
12 April 2019
In Episode 4 of the DIAL Podcast, Dr Jo Blanden from the University of Surrey talks about her research using the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society to look at home ownership and earnings for younger... Read more...
09 April 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...
27 March 2019
By Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais Labour hoarding - the practice of retaining excess employees during a negative shock - could potentially help firms avoid re-hiring and training costs when economic conditions imp... Read more...
25 January 2019
A study of three researchers Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven j. Davis has revealed that the current economic uncertainty is still higher than during times of 9 / 11 or the Lehman collapse. The expert... Read more...
31 January 2017
Paul Cheshire, Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics is a longstanding critic of Britain’s byzantine planning system. [No link] ... Read more...
02 December 2016
More jobs but lower living standards: that's been how most people have experienced Britain's economic performance since the financial crisis. ... The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance has referr... Read more...
18 August 2016
Decades of planning policies that constrain the supply of houses and land and turn them into something like gold or artworks is to blame for the current housing crisis in the UK rather than foreign buyers, according to a... Read more...
17 August 2016
Paul Cheshire argues that golf courses capitalise on green belt planning laws which keep down land prices and contribute to a housing shortage. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on August 10, 2016 Link to th... Read more...
10 August 2016
There is another house price bubble under way in the Dublin area. Notwithstanding the efforts by the Central Bank to keep mortgage credit under control, some extraordinary prices have been quoted recently for the small p... Read more...
07 July 2016
To some Professor Luis Garicano of the London School of Economics is a leading expert in the fields of productivity and industrial organisation, but to many he's the man Queen Elizabeth asked: ''Why did no one see it com... Read more...
27 June 2016
Comedian Colm O'Regan takes a look at productivity and its decline in the UK since the financial crisis in 2008. He speaks to Anna Valero from the London School of Economics and Richard Cullen, managing director of ... Read more...
10 June 2016
According to various studies at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) of the London School of Economics, Brexit does reduce the fiscal deficit. That would be, according to CEP, the main benefit. The principal cost wo... Read more...
13 May 2016
There is enough green-belt land in Greater London to build 1.6m houses at average densities, says Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics (LSE) - about 30 times the number of new houses London needs a year. But o... Read more...
30 April 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
New research by London school of economics Professor Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis provides strength and evidence of the connection between high housing pr... Read more...
12 April 2016
It costs a relatively large amount of money to buy a house in the UK - something readers from the UK will almost certainly agree with. But economists differ over why this is. This column argues that strict planning regul... Read more...
10 April 2016
John Van Reenen is director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. ''Over the last seven or eight years, wage growth has been very disappointing all over the world. After the Second Wo... Read more...
09 March 2016
On Monday 15 February Paramount Pictures hosted a private screening of the movie "The Big Short" at the Picturehouse Central cinema. Prof. Tim Besley and Prof. Richard Layard joined a panel discussion afterwards with... Read more...
15 February 2016
Climate change experts have backed calls for tighter planning restrictions to prevent new building on flood plains after the worst national flooding crisis in a generation. After a major study of city floods around the w... Read more...
07 January 2016
Government initiatives to support home ownership and build new houses will fail to have any real impact in 2016, with UK property prices expected to keep climbing. John Van Reenen, Director, Centre for Economic Performa... Read more...
03 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...
Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Economics has studied unemployment in former industrial areas and says every city needs the equivalent of an export sector - something to bring money from outside the area,... Read more...
04 October 2015
In the East London case, wrote Paul Cheshire, an emeritus professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, via email, ''the very early relatively poor but mainly educated/drop-out pioneer gentrifiers - ... Read more...
30 September 2015
This was based on a study by Professor Paul Cheshire, of the London School of Economics, which declared that... This article was published by The Times on September 30, 2015 [Subscription needed to view article.] Re... Read more...
It's a powerful and timely point. Rent extraction and rising inequality are two sides of the same coin. Research by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen last year suggested that up to two-thirds of the increase in the overall ... Read more...
24 August 2015
So if innovation seems to be booming, why has productivity growth been muted? A common argument is that the effect of innovation is being incorrectly measured. The advent of the Sharing Economy, which forms a chapter in ... Read more...
30 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...
09 July 2015
... 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...
Leading academics from the London School of Economics have called on both Greece and its international creditors to adopt a more responsible approach. This article was published online by Business Reporter on July 9, 20... Read more...
Twenty-six members of the faculty at the London School of Economics (LSE) have called for Greece's creditors to ease the austerity measures they have imposed over the last five years. In an open letter, the professors wr... Read more...
Dennis Novy live interview, commenting on the dramatic developments on Greece and the Eurozone crisis. This interview was broadcast by Sky News on June 29, 2015 Link to interview here [Starts at 9.40am] Related links... Read more...
29 June 2015
In the following op-ed, 13 prominent economists from around the world call on Greece to sign a credible agreement with the Europeans immediately. CEP's Professor Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureate, London School of ... Read more...
Interview with LSE Professor and Economics Nobel Prize winner Christopher Pissarides on proposed austerity measures in Greece. The interview was broadcast by BBC News on June 25, 2015 [No link available] Related link... Read more...
25 June 2015
Similar work by Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber, of the London School of Economics, estimated that in the early 2000s this regulatory shadow tax was roughly 300% in Milan and Paris, 450% in the City of London, and 800... Read more...
22 June 2015
8.50am: live radio interview Dennis Novy interviewed, speaking about Greece and the looming IMF deadline. The interview was broadcast by BBC Coventry and Warwickshire on the Shane O'Connor Breakfast Show on June 22, ... Read more...
Dennis Novy interviewed, speaking about Greece and the looming IMF deadline. This interview was broadcast by BBC News on June 21, 2015 [No link available] Related links Dennis Novy webpage Globalisation Programm... Read more...
21 June 2015
Deutsche Bank has been the first one to fire a warning shot over the UK vote to leave the EU, but others are certainly already preparing too, says Dr. Dennis Novy, associate professor in the department of Economics at th... Read more...
16 June 2015
Paul Cheshire discusses using limited amount of London's green belt for housing. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 News on June 14, 2015 [No link available.] Related Publications The Green Belt: A Plac... Read more...
14 June 2015
Dennis Novy did an interview with Radio Sputnik, a Russian radio station. The topic was Greece and the Eurozone crisis. The interview was broadcast by Radio Sputnik (Russia) on June 12, 2015 Link to interview here ... Read more...
12 June 2015
Britain's politicians say they are keen to reward aspiration, but soaring house prices are a significant block to achieving this. Professor Christian Hilber, from the London School of Economics, explains to Ferdinando Gi... Read more...
09 June 2015
Partly as a result London house prices per square foot are now the second highest in the world after Monaco, according to the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. The problem is acute: the average... Read more...
02 June 2015
London School of Economics professor John Van Reenen said Britain was also suffering from government inaction over infrastructure such as high-speed broadband, roads and airports. This article was published online by ... Read more...
26 April 2015
The story of the first coalition government in Britain since the second world war is the story of austerity and thwarted deficit reduction plans. It is the story of a delayed economic recovery. It is the story of falling... Read more...
15 March 2015
It is likely that there will be tax increases after the election whoever wins, concludes a new report from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), based at LSE, in the latest in a series of background briefings on the... Read more...
13 March 2015
The stereotype of concrete London is misleading: a fifth of all land in the Greater London Authority is green belt, according to a report by the London School of Economics, business group London First and planning firm Q... Read more...
27 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...
08 February 2015
Building an economy upon a massive and growing distortion in the market for land is foolish In a recent paper, Christian Hilber of the London School of Economics and Wouter Vermeulen of the Netherlands bureau for econom... Read more...
05 February 2015
''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
According to the latest research in scatenarla crisis is not linked to money or old age but to the collapse of expectations and loss of job Terence c. Cheng, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew j. Oswald of the University o... Read more...
26 January 2015
Consider the example of planning policy. On one side of the barricades, there are those opposed to new development - perhaps not in general, but certainly when it comes to any specific attempt to build much-needed new h... Read more...
21 January 2015
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...
Aging: is the pension system sustainable? 23:14 hours JL Conde Ruiz, Professor of Economics, co-editor and author of the blog NadaesGratis.es book.. What will happen to my pension?: ''Pensions will be lower and will nee... Read more...
07 December 2014
Another 1m public sector jobs are expected to be lost over the next five years as part of the latest squeeze on the public finances. ... Adjusted for inflation, wages have fallen by about a 10th since the financial crisi... Read more...
03 December 2014
In an item about the cooperative Vura Music Project in Uganda and its long-term future, Professor Luis Garicano mentioned: As shown in the Economist, Professor Luis Garicano advises that to emerge from the crisis huma... Read more...
27 November 2014
Europe is facing a problem of long-term stagnation Europe and Spain within it, has ''a problem of long-term economic stagnation'' because of their limited level of labor productivity to the aging demographic prospects, ... Read more...
20 November 2014
In a letter to the Editor, Professor John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance says traders have been given free rein by banks - that there has been a a failure of banking regulation and governanc... Read more...
13 November 2014
Paul Cheshire discusses housing affordability and need to build new housing. This interview was broadcast by BBC South on November 6, 2014 (no link available) Also on: BBC Radio Oxford Related links Paul Ches... Read more...
06 November 2014
Article by Luis Garicano A stable two-party political system has been among Spain's greatest strengths in the post-Franco era. But since 2008 the brutal economic crisis - together with growing evidence that large sectio... Read more...
05 November 2014
Similar considerations are linked with the far more important question: does more money give greater satisfaction? Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Michael Norton, professors from the London School of Economics and Harvard Univ... Read more...
19 October 2014
Professor Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics, has written that ''the unstoppable damage they do to societal fairness, housing affordability, the economic efficiency of our cities, even the environment, is de... Read more...
Luis Garicano, Professor at the London School of Economics, says that ''Investors are waiting for a long time for the three things proposed by Mario Draghi (President of the European Central Bank) to happen: Germany to l... Read more...
18 October 2014
Alluding to research from the London School of Economics, which showed more of Surrey if devoted to golf courses than housing, Dr Cable said if he was in a middle-income family struggling to find a home in the county, he... Read more...
16 October 2014
Is the mid-life crisis just an excuse? However, a study published earlier this year found that an average decrease of subjective happiness, or welfare as described by economists in middle age, between 40 and 42 years oc... Read more...
14 October 2014
Article by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Michael I. Norton We find evidence that the life satisfaction of individuals is between two and eight times more sensitive to negative growth as compared to positive economic growth. ... Read more...
09 October 2014
New homes should be built on golf courses in an attempt to solve the housing crisis, Vince Cable has suggested. ... Dr Cable was responding to a study by the London School of Economics which suggested that more of Surrey... Read more...
08 October 2014
Article by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Luis Garicano Summer reading: the new regeneration Our normally apathetic civil society mobilizes periodically to demand institutional changes that bring us closer to Europe ... Read more...
19 July 2014
Only 10 per cent of the value of land in expensive cities is due to its natural scarcity. The rest is planning restrictions. Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber at the London School of Economics applied the same trick to ... Read more...
16 July 2014
Presenter quotes an earlier appearance by Paul Cheshire on the BBC's 'Sunday Politics Show' discussing the use of the green belt for new housing sites. This mention was on the BBC Radio Bristol News on July 11, 2014... Read more...
11 July 2014
Article by Francesco Caselli, Angus Armstrong, Jaghit Chadha and Wouter den Haan How should UK policy-makers respond to potential dangers to the economy from the housing market? As this column reports, a majority of res... Read more...
08 July 2014
The Government's Help to Buy scheme was also helping first time buyers move into the market, she added but Prof. Cheshire rejected the measures as ''putting fingers in dykes''. ''The help to buy scheme is simply a rec... Read more...
06 July 2014
Luis Garicano interviewed regarding Spanish finance system. This programme was broadcast by Antena 3 on July 1, 2014 Link to broadcast here Related links Luis Garicano webpage Productivity and Innovation Program... Read more...
01 July 2014
Barry Sheerman MP mentioned LSE report which highlighted percentage of greenbelt land which could be used for housing. The broadcast was made by BBC Parliament on June 30, 2014 Related publications Turning houses ... Read more...
30 June 2014
... te pristi. Co ji zpusobi? Albrecht Ritschl, profesor ekonomie na London School of Economics Pristi velka krize muze byt o cenach nerostnych surovin, o spekulacich s nimi. Nebo muze ... (Not) the final crisis: int... Read more...
19 June 2014
As Prof Paul Cheshire points out in London School of Economics journal Centrepiece, more of the county of Surrey is devoted to golf courses than houses. Just 10 per cent of England is built up, and gardens cover nearly h... 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
According to Professor Paul Cheshire, you could build 1.6 million homes at average densities if just a fraction of that greenbelt space, much of it riding schools and golf courses, were reclassified. This article was... Read more...
16 June 2014
A debate on why Britain is failing to build enough homes and how best to fix the problem which was held at LSE. Speakers included Paul Cheshire. This programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on June 11, 2014 Link... Read more...
11 June 2014
Paul Cheshire talks about the housing crisis. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on the World at One show on June 6, 2014 Link to programme here Also on: Heart Northampton B... Read more...
06 June 2014
La Monarquia parece una afrenta a los principios democraticos. Como puede nacer una persona con mas privilegios que los demas? No debemos ser meritocraticos y democraticos en todo? Tal razonamiento parece conducir a la R... Read more...
04 June 2014
Paul Cheshire discusses need for more housing on greenbelts. This interview was broadcast by BBC Berkshire on May 14, 2014 No link available. Related publications Turning houses into gold: the failure of Britis... Read more...
14 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
Green belt polices that aim to keep ''the urban unwashed out of the Home Counties'' are causing a housing affordability crisis, according to a London School of Economics (LSE) professor. Britain's booming house prices ha... Read more...
02 May 2014
Article by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Luis Garicano and Tano Santos By the end of the 1990s, under the incentive of Eurozone entry, most peripheral European countries were busy undertaking structural reforms and puttin... Read more...
30 April 2013
The financial sector has proved remarkably resilient, with wages in the City rising while other workers saw pay fall between 2008 and 2011, according to research from the London School of Economics. Inequality before the... Read more...
22 February 2013
…el punto muerto: la senda hacia la salida de la crisis. Entre los españoles figuran Luis Garicano, del London School of Economics, o Guillermo de la Dehesa. También suscriben el documento los alemanes Lars... Expe... Read more...
25 July 2012
Euro doomed, say experts The euro has broken down and faces collapse with 'incalculable economic losses and human suffering', according to an extraordinary warning from a group of leading economists. The experts include... Read more...
Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to distance Britain from European efforts to save the euro isn't likely to make the U.K. more independent of the bloc. "Politically the U.K. has lost power and credibility, and its... Read more...
14 December 2011
Professor Albrecht Ritschl of the London School of Economics says the Germans face a stark choice. Albrecht Ritschl:They will indeed have to be the decision between accepting a probably softer eurozone, or thinki... Read more...
05 December 2011
Of course, if the eurozone turned itself into a real fiscal union with all the member states guaranteeing each other's debt, that would stop the crisis in its tracks. But Tim Leunig of the London School of Economics s... Read more...
04 December 2011
Albrecht Ritschl: Now it turns out that the whole debt burden of southern Europe combined is quite a bit too big to be shouldered by the Germans. This article appeared in Marketplace on December 3, 2011 Link to ar... Read more...
03 December 2011
Many experts believe that if the eurozone were to break apart it would be because richer members leave it rather than continue to try to bail out poorer ones. In fact, there are already some signs that the richer countr... Read more...
02 December 2011
Germany's hardline attitude is making the situation in Europe worse Economics professor at the LSE, Albrecht Ritschl, comments on Germany's reaction to the worsening euro crisis. This article appeared in The Guardi... Read more...
08 November 2011