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MIT's Simon Johnson sits down with fellow Nobel laureate economist Philippe Aghion to examine what ails Europe and how to revive its dynamism. ... Read more...
10 June 2026
Peter Lambert and Yannick Schindler's research into reasons for a fall in entry-level hiring, shows the drop off began after Covid and before AI, John Burn-Murdoch discusses their findings in his Data Points column. ... Read more...
29 May 2026
Swati Dhingra has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to... Read more...
12 May 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’. ... Read more...
11 April 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stain Westlake explain why the UK government's focus on funding overlooks many levers for innovation policy. ... Read more...
30 March 2022
Remembering Richard Layard's research on the need for evidence-based therapies, the Economist looks at developments in mental health provisions over the 15 years. ... Read more...
02 October 2021
A multi-million-pound research programme to help boost UK productivity is to be led by Professor John Van Reenen, associate and former director of the Centre for Economic Performance. The Programme on Innov... Read more...
21 August 2020
School closures during the coronavirus lockdown could leave disadvantaged children six months behind their peers, researchers find. ... Read more...
29 April 2020
This paper looks at the effects of changing teachers on children's GCSE grades. Published 2018. ... Read more...
17 April 2020
Steve Gibbons and Sandra McNally review research on the causal effects of school resources on secondary education. ... Read more...
08 April 2020
Political forecasting is a thankless task, especially so in today's Britain. Even still, it's worth looking at what may improve a particular party's chances in the 12 December election. One factor ... Read more...
05 November 2019
Meanwhile, some studies suggest that research productivity is slowing down, so that it takes more scientists to glean each new insight across a variety of fields. Fighting this slowdown is a worthy goal, but a difficult... Read more...
03 October 2019
2019 winner: Sara Signorelli (Paris School of Economics) Do skilled migrants compete with native workers? Analysis of a selective immigration policy ... Read more...
21 September 2019
A new paper by economists Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and Heidi Williams canvasses the principal policies that governments have used to nurture innovation. A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation, Nicholas Bloom... Read more...
20 September 2019
Ignore for a moment, the horrendous costs involved in this wholesale re-direction of human work. The question is which jobs are most at risk in which sectors. According to MIT economist David Autor, automation will subst... Read more...
19 September 2019
Research published by the London School of Economics estimated that the spike in inflation that followed the 2016 referendum was costing the average household £7.74 a week - a figure equivalent to £404 a year... Read more...
03 September 2019
Just 41 percent of all 30-year-olds earned more in 2017 than their parents did when they were the same age. Two decades earlier, the proportion had been two-thirds higher: in 1995, 69 percent of the age group were better... Read more...
02 September 2019
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
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19 August 2019
A recent article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives by Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen, and Heidi Williams examines the productivity slowdown and innovation policy. They note that in 2015 the United States spent the... Read more...
16 August 2019
Economists Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and Heidi Williams have a new paper outlining possible ways to make that happen. They conclude that there are three policies that are fairly effective at spurring economically b... Read more...
09 August 2019
Of course, the relationship between R&D spending and broader technological progress is complicated. Translating research discoveries into goods and services isn't a simple or mechanical process. Other important elements ... Read more...
07 August 2019
Last year research by academics at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance found that phonics improved children's reading. Sandra McNally, one of the authors, notes that, whereas the boost faded with time for better-of... Read more...
18 July 2019
An evaluation by LSE's Centre of Economic Performance found "robust evidence" that the Healthy Minds curriculum improves physical health of participants. The report's authors, Grace Lordan, Associate Professor in Behavio... Read more...
However, at this point in time, even some economists want a change in focus. For example, Professor Lord Richard Layard, from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, recently proposed that ... Read more...
16 July 2019
In a 2015 Centre for Economic Performance study in Britain, researchers found that a school smartphone ban improved the academic performance of students in the bottom quarter of the test group significantly (14%) in high... Read more...
04 July 2019
In this latest blog post, Steven McIntosh of University of Sheffield discusses CVER contributions to the recent Augar Review of Post-18 Education, and the findings that came out of that research. Individual Consequences... Read more...
25 June 2019
A 2015 study by the London School of Economics found that banning phones could give low-achieving and low-income pupils an additional hour a week in school.... Read more...
20 June 2019
It is harder to quantify the emotional impact of losing a plant where generations of the same families had worked for a century. From the beach, the idle works hulk over the skyline. Research by Sascha Becker, Thiemo Fet... Read more...
06 June 2019
Populism has been used by right-wing forces as a lever to undermine the ruling elite, exploiting discontent. The solution? "The European Union now has the task of working on a new idea of sovereignty, which goes beyond n... Read more...
03 June 2019
Snippet: ...have they can bring them into school was on was switched off and kept in lockers or somewhere safe and there's also an academic research Katie you're aware of which is linked to banning phones to better GCSE ... Read more...
19 May 2019
Snippet: ...school? According to this group of head teachers yes, they should be. The reason they make this argument is they think mobile phones are a complete distraction in school, and there has been evidence from a st... Read more...
18 May 2019
Snippet: ...nd the head teacher who bans mobile phones", adding: "Children in school should not be being distracted by their phones." Banning phones in schools delivers an average 6 per cent increase in test scores, acco... Read more...
A widely cited 2015 paper from the London School of Economics and Political Science found "student performance in high stake exams significantly increases" if mobile phones are banned.... Read more...
10 April 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...
Carmen Villa comments on the economics of crime in relation to police numbers and knife crime Outlet: BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio 5 Live and over 15 other local BBC Radio Stations Crime Research... Read more...
07 March 2019
Carmen Villa comments on the economics of crime in relation to police numbers and knife crime. ... Read more...
06 March 2019
But Prof Will Jennings, a political scientist at the University of Southampton, and Prof Tom Kirchmaier, who lectures on crime and policing at the LSE, both tell me that the increase in knife crime is probably real. What... Read more...
10 February 2019
Almost all schools are thought to have some controls over mobile phone use. Some ban them outright and others restrict their use in lessons or during playtime. A 2015 study by the London School of Economics found that ba... Read more...
02 February 2019
Snippet: ... A new ESRI study shows smartphone ownership among children has a detrimental impact on their education. And a 2015 study by the Centre of Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that aft... Read more...
17 January 2019
Discussion of LSE research (Healthy Minds Project) urging the government to incorporate life skills into the national curriculum. Reported widely on local BBC radio stations. ... Read more...
30 November 2018
Healthy Minds is a unique curriculum that redefines personal, social and health education in secondary schools. It aims to develop emotional resilience and self-efficacy in students. The London School of Economic and the... Read more...
27 November 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
By sticking with the UK, the London School of Economics estimated Scotland will be £30bn worse off after Brexit, and the Bank of England reckoned incomes will be 900 a year less . ... Read more...
10 June 2018
“If Jeremy Corbyn fails to back this and lets Theresa May drag us out of the Single Market our party will be abandoning workers in Aberdeen, Inverness and towns and cities across Scotland. That... Read more...
29 May 2018
We must go back in time to grasp this issue, both economic and societal. According to researcher Nicholas Bloom, the profound technological and structural change that has transformed business operations in rec... Read more...
22 May 2018
Economists Jeffrey Sachs, John Helliwell and Richard Layard pointed out several factors that affect the well-being of citizens, including GDP per capita, life expectancy, corruption and social support. However... Read more...
16 May 2018
…A mixture of different types of schools, all free from local authority control, leads to higher grades among pupils but also to greater unhappiness, according to researchers at the London School of Eco... Read more...
Giving parents more choice over the type of school their children can attend raises academic attainment but leads to more unhappy pupils, researchers have found. This is because schools that face greater compe... Read more...
15 May 2018
The competition created by increased access to autonomous schools, such as academies, faith schools and private schools, raises academic achievement but decreases pupil wellbeing, a new study from the London S... Read more...
Finland, a perennial chart-topper on global rankings of well-being and prosperity, has just been named the world’s happiest country in the World Happiness Report. Finns are not happy about the news. &hel... Read more...
14 May 2018
12 May 2018
Health economists Zack Cooper, Stuart V. Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen recently released an updated version of an older paper analyzing variations in health-care pricing for privately ins... Read more...
10 May 2018
On a related note, health economists Zack Cooper, Stuart V. Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen recently released an updated version of an older paper analyzing variations in health-care pricin... Read more...
We’ve known for decades now that there is widespread variation in what different hospitals charge for the same medical procedures. Study after study confirms this finding (one of my favorite studies show... Read more...
09 May 2018
Although telecommuting is not yet universal, its adoption by technology giants and startups is very telling. Accordingly, many perks account for the meteoric rise of this nascent shift. On the employees’... Read more...
This is hardly a fringe view. Economists Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen point out that house prices would be 35 per cent lower if the most restrictive parts of the country (the South-East) were merely a... Read more...
08 May 2018
Pointing out the weaknesses of the small business, Professor Nicholas Bloom and his colleagues developed a survey instrument for measuring business quality. According to the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Ind... Read more...
02 May 2018
More industries have embraced remote positions in response to the desires of an evolving workforce, with a study by Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom finding that working remotely was directly tied to increase... Read more...
In the UK, real wages are still below their pre-2008 recession levels. The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance revealed that during 2007-2015 British workers saw their wages fall by an average of five pe... Read more...
29 April 2018
As urban traffic gets more and more jammed, housing prices in urban centers are getting higher and higher, commuting distances are getting longer and longer, and professional women have family burns in their h... Read more...
26 April 2018
But beyond just the numbers, the onset of globalization and its impact on international finance and global commerce has forced American business schools to seek new ways to burnish their “international&r... Read more...
25 April 2018
"The management of the company was a bit pessimistic," says researcher Nicholas Bloom in a Ted Talk about the research. "They expected the homeworkers to go to bed.&nb... Read more...
23 April 2018
One notable study was conducted in 2015 by Stanford University researcher Nicholas Bloom, who wanted to test whether the belief that workers slack off more when working from home was valid. Bloom and his crew ... Read more...
22 April 2018
And academics at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE looked at the relationship between marginal seats and hospital closures between 1997 and 2005. They found “Marginality…has a significant... Read more...
19 April 2018
Mautz cites a two-year study conducted by Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom, where 250 of 500 employees from China-based travel agency Ctrip volunteered to work from home. Then, over the 24 months, t... Read more...
17 April 2018
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
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...
09 April 2018
Article by Thomas Sampson. The full economic consequences of Brexit will not be realised for many years. But 21 months after the referendum, we can start to assess how the Brexit vote ha... Read more...
05 April 2018
Lord Layard comments on the funding of the NHS. ... Read more...
26 March 2018
The creators of NEUARBEITEN explain why working from home in this country is still a niche topic and how it can still benefit employees and employers. … Home office offers employees one thing above all:... Read more...
22 March 2018
In the latest issue of the Economic Journal, there’s new research looking at how marathon runners respond to prize money pots, studying races over the past three decades. It turns out that the contests w... Read more...
09 March 2018
That’s helped to boost growth and employment, but now it means that regions like the north east are vulnerable to any increase in barriers to trade, as demonstrated by recent research at the University o... Read more...
02 March 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
The approach to happiness and bad luck translates into expectations regarding the social security system, including taxes and benefits. If we assume that nobody is fully responsible for their achievements, soc... Read more...
12 February 2018
Last week’s highlights - Assessing the impact assessments - Almost all of the interesting results you get out of modelling Brexit are down to the judgments and assumptions you put in, said Robert Chote, ... Read more...
11 February 2018
Moreover, when we consider these findings in light of research published last July by Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance, which suggested that Aberdeen’s economy would be hit harde... Read more...
09 February 2018
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12429 Related publications Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Nancy Holman, SERC Discussion Paper No.171, Febru... Read more...
05 February 2018
A decade ago, economists at Berkeley, Stanford and the World Bank conducted a randomised trial in which the bank paid for some textile factories in Mumbai to receive consulting advice from a global company. Th... Read more...
02 February 2018
The green belt is associated in most people’s minds with England’s “green and pleasant land” immortalised by William Blake in his poem Jerusalem. But according to Paul Cheshire, profess... Read more...
01 February 2018
Swati Dhingra and John Morrow discuss Efficiency in Large markets with Firm Heterogeneity. ABSTRACT: Empirical work has drawn attention to the high degree of productivity differences within industries, an... Read more...
18 January 2018
Politics: 29 October 2012 The extra physical healthcare necessitated by mental illness costs the NHS a further £10 billion a year, according to the London School of Economics. ... Read more...
17 January 2018
Type: Broadcast Mention of LSE report which said that Aberdeen would be the UK city worst hit by a hard Brexit. ... Read more...
15 January 2018
Mention of LSE report which found Aberdeen would be worst hit by a hard Brexit. ... Read more...
A study conducted in 2013 by Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at Stanford University, and graduate student James Liang, who is a co-founder of Chinese travel website Ctrip, proved that working at home in... Read more...
A no-deal Brexit would leave Britain’s economy diminished and its people poorer. That is the conclusion of the economic forecast commissioned by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan from Cambridge Econometric... Read more...
11 January 2018
Snippet: ... Mrs May was asked about it in a television interview on Sunday. She was doubtful but some Conservatives, such as the former cabinet member Oliver Letwin, like the idea. Other admirers include the ... Read more...
09 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
Even as NHS crises come around like comets, the ritual is the same each time. Producer interests want more money. Ministers want structural reform. The difference is split and the NHS creaks arthritically on. ... Read more...
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
IBM recently made headlines for dismantling its policy that allowed remote work. The technology giant was following in the footsteps of Yahoo Inc., which in 2013 also called its employees back to the office, s... Read more...
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
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
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...
20 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...
19 December 2017
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...
Research by the London School of Economics a few years ago showed that while mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill health in the under-65s, only a quarter of people in need of treatment actually g... Read more...
16 December 2017
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
Last month, a study by the London School of Economics found that the average household will already be paying at least an extra £400 in shopping annually, due to Brexit-induced infl... Read more...
14 December 2017
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
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
There is another B word that keeps popping up whenever the shortcomings of B for Brexit are highlighted. B for Bandwidth. We heard it from Alan Milburn as he explained why he was stepping down from his work he... Read more...
The decision to leave the UK from the EU negatively affected the quality of life of citizens. This conclusion was reached by the specialists of the Center for Economic Performance research center, having found... Read more...
08 December 2017
… within the next half an hour Mole Valley and Drygate and Banstead among the areas which would be hit hardest by Brexit according to a report by researchers at the London School of Economics say both e... Read more...
A recent study by LSE said Brexit without a trade deal would cost London over £100bn over five years, while staying in the single market would reduce the losses to some £58bn. ... Read more...
06 December 2017
Snippet:... A recent study by LSE said Brexit without a trade deal would cost London over £100 billion over five years, while staying in the single market would reduce the losses to some £58 billio... Read more...
Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom said in a TED talk earlier this year that requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated tradition that doesn’t take into a... 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
Our final #GeekoftheWeek goes to Henry Overman with his NIESR chart looking at the local economic impact of Brexit. ... Read more...
03 December 2017
The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Cities estimates the British capital could lose as much as £18 billion in annual revenue and as many as 30,000 jobs, a f... Read more...
01 December 2017
New job openings attract not only local workers, but also those living relatively near, write Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo..... Related publications "How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence fro... Read more...
How will your local area be affected by #Brexit? Our final #GeekoftheWeek goes to @HenryOverman with his @NIESRorg chart looking at the local economic impact of Brexit. Peston on Sunday Retweeted ... Read more...
30 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...
29 November 2017
The report defines a hard Brexit as being on World Trade Organisation (WTO) tariffs with no customs union, and a soft Brexit with the UK staying in a form of customs union and tariffs remaining at zero with a ... Read more...
Article by Christian Hilber and Teemu Lyytikainen How replacing stamp duty with better-designed local taxes could alleviate the crisis of housing availability. The SDLT (commonly labelled ‘stamp... Read more...
28 November 2017
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...
Article by Henry Overman Much has been written about the impact that Brexit might have on the national economy. We know far less about how that impact might vary across the UK. In a recent paper published i... Read more...
Richard Layard and his co-workers wanted to know how much money the British government has to allocate to reduce mental illness, physical ill health, unemployment and poverty. They concluded that the cheapest ... Read more...
26 November 2017
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...
… 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
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...
If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the gre... Read more...
... 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...
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...
UK economy: Britain is on course for its longest fall in living standards since records began, with wages not returning to their pre-financial crisis levels until at least 2025. … “Right now, the ... 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...
Brexit is already costing the average UK household £7.74 per week or £404 per year, according to new analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and Po... Read more...
21 November 2017
Wales and Northern Ireland have suffered the worst spikes in inflation in the UK as a result of last year’s vote for Brexit, according to new research from the London School of Economics. The analysis by... Read more...
20 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 households. &ldqu... Read more...
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...
Snippet: ...e Thank you very much Steve France's reporting for us there in Cardiff and serve loaded of the have been in touch about food prices someone texted me to say food has increased by 5% since June ... Read more...
10 November 2017
Meanwhile, the risks of Scotland crashing out of the EU without the UK government securing a deal have been revealed in a damning report by the London School of Economics. Figures show that every single part o... Read more...
08 November 2017
Ronnie Cowan, SNP, Inverclyde: A report from the centre for cities and the Centre for economic performance and the London School of Economics said that all cities would schedule increasing cost... Read more...
06 November 2017
In practice, competitors often do not only choose their level of effort; they also have to decide between more or less risky strategies. For example, a pharmaceutical firm that is lagging behind in a patent ra... Read more...
02 November 2017
Rising inflation combined with flatlining wage growth means that households have seen incomes drop in real terms and are therefore beginning to feel the squeeze of higher prices. Worryingly, UK wages have drop... Read more...
Another study by the institute examining the regional implications of Brexit concludes that the south around London is likely to be hit particularly hard, as well as the region around Manchester and the south ... Read more...
Berlingieri, G., Blanchenay, P. and Criscuolo, C. The Great Divergence(s): CEP Discussion Paper No 1488. (Centre for Economic Performance, 2017) cited in ‘The State of Small Business: Putting UK Entrepre... Read more...
01 November 2017
One of the most remarkable studies done to measure telecommuters’ performance was conducted by Stanford University. Led by Professor Nicholas Bloom, a team of scholars performed a Work From Home (WFH) ex... Read more...
31 October 2017
Research by the London School of Economics forecasts that even in the event of a Brexit transition deal being struck, the Argyll and Bute economy will shrink by 2 per cent. ... Read more...
Scotland’s Brexit Secretary Mike Russell told the convention that a report out last week revealed a soft exit from the EU would leave the area £150million worse off, while a “hard, no deal Br... Read more...
Mention of figures from the London School of Economics on the impact of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit on Birmingham’s economy. ... Read more...
29 October 2017
The overall impression in other European capitals is that the British want to have their cake and eat it, by leaving the EU and yet retaining all its advantages, a demand which no EU government is prepared to ... Read more...
28 October 2017
The standard metric of monopoly power is the concentration ratio, or the share of the market accruing to the top four (or 20) firms. In a 2017 paper, MIT’s David Autor, Christina Patterson, and John Van ... Read more...
26 October 2017
Snippet: Mention of LSE study on cost of Brexit for Scotland ... Read more...
…there have been numerous studies claiming that better management – sometimes equated with more management – is the key to productivity. One in particular – done by economists in Stanf... Read more...
Scottish Secretary David Mundell has told opponents of Brexit to stop bandying about “damning figures” such as an analysis that Aberdeen will be worst hit by the divorce from Brussels. The London S... Read more...
25 October 2017
However, the Department for Exiting the EU recently rejected requests to publish the analysis, arguing that there was a risk of a knock-on effect on national and regional economies . But the Lib Dems have work... Read more...
But the analysis will be shared with the Scottish government, David Davis told a committee of MPs. Mr Davis told the Brexit select committee that publishing the analysis could undermine the national interest. ... Read more...
It is still unclear whether we are heading for a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ Brexit but, amid calls for a second referendum, it is important that voters are told about the UK Government’s ow... Read more...
Snippet: Discussion of study on cost of Brexit for Scotland ... Read more...
24 October 2017
Scotland’s biggest cities stand to lose billions of pounds if the UK government fails to secure a Brexit deal, the Liberal Democrats have claimed (Hamish Macdonell writes). The party commissioned analysi... Read more...
Every part of Scotland and the UK as a whole would be affected by a soft Brexit, which would retain access to the single market during a transition period, according to the London School of Economics (LSE). Ho... Read more...
23 October 2017
Birmingham would be the second most damaged city in Britain by a hard Brexit, new research has revealed. The city's economy would lose £6.82 billion over five years. The figures, published by the res... Read more...
London boroughs from the suburbs to the City stand to lose billions of pounds from Brexit, new research revealed today. The impact of a “hard” exit without a trade deal would cost the capital&rsquo... Read more...
Newcastle’s economy would shrink by £1.92bn, a fall in economic output of 5%. The figures, published by the respected Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, show how muc... Read more...
Using calculations based on research by the London School of Economics, the Lib Dems say that if the UK exits the EU in March 2019 without a deal, Britain’s economic output in the five years after Brexit... Read more...
22 October 2017
Leaving the EU will cost Britain £430billion over five years if no deal is done, research suggests. Even a “soft” Norway-style Brexit could cost the country £235billion – spa... Read more...
21 October 2017
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20 October 2017
The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Cities estimates the British capital could lose as much as £18 billion ($23.7 billion) in annual revenue and as many as ... Read more...
19 October 2017
Alex Eble, Peter Boone and Diana Elbourne, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, October 2017 DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhw034 Related links Peter Boone CEP Alumni webpage: http://www.effi... Read more...
10 October 2017
A working group will be set up to prepare Pembrokeshire for the effect of Brexit, following a council vote. The county could lose £35.4m in trade if the United Kingdom opts for a "hard" Brexit,... Read more...
09 October 2017
When it comes to debating a work-from-home policy, there are two schools of thought on the subject. While one group believes employees will abuse the system and productivity will be lost, the other believes th... Read more...
06 October 2017
Brexit will hit Pembrokeshire harder than the Sea Empress disaster, according to a comparison made in a report for Cabinet next week. The Director of Development’s report ahead of an agenda item called &... Read more...
According to a survey conducted by Stanford University Professor of Economics Nicholas Bloom in Singapore, those who work from home are happier than those who work in the office. We asked the people who work a... Read more...
01 October 2017
This is stated in the unique study of Stanford University economics professor Nicholas Bloom. According to the study, the number of people working from home has tripled in the last 30 years. However, the numbe... Read more...
30 September 2017
Over the last decade, economists have worked hard on the impact of management on productivity. The effectiveness of management, measured by a set of indicators (quality of internal monitoring, setting clear ob... Read more...
26 September 2017
To what extent does the quality of management matter for a business to be successful? ask Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen ... Read more...
13 September 2017
Earlier in the summer, research from think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics revealed Reading is likely to be one of the areas hit hardest by Brex... Read more...
12 September 2017
Snippet: down and down and then the NHS within a matter of the housing crisis for napping and all that get blamed on immigrants. Mention of a study done at the London School of Economics looking at the relatio... Read more...
09 September 2017
I've been working with colleagues at the Centre for Economic Performance (Swati Dhingra and Steve Machin) and the Centre for Cities (Naomi Clayton) to take a first look at the local economic impacts of Bre... Read more...
07 September 2017
A report by the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance had suggested Brexit would leave all British cities adversely affected. Related publications ‘Brexit, Trade and the E... Read more...
06 September 2017
The Centre for Economic Performance at London School of Economics has predicted a soft brexit is likely to increase the cost of EU trade by 2%, causing a subsequent 1% fall in British GDP, while a hard Brexit ... Read more...
03 September 2017
There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that proactive rather than reactive mental healthcare and treatment is in the interest of the NHS as well as individuals. A report by The Centre for Economic Performanc... Read more...
30 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...
16 August 2017
THE economies of both Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge will suffer in the coming years due to Brexit, a new report by the London School of Economics claims. Titled The Local Economic Effects of Brexit, the study ... Read more...
A rebalancing is long overdue. “Regional disparities are wider in the UK than other western European countries,” according to the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance. ... Read more...
12 August 2017
Experts have predicted that Thanet would be the hardest hit area of Kent in a 'soft Brexit' scenario. A new study by the London School of Economics revealed that Thanet could lose £27.2 million &... Read more...
10 August 2017
What if there is no deal? A “very, very bad outcome,” in the words of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond. The U.K. would regain control of laws, money, immigration and ability to negotia... Read more...
People up and down the country can ill afford for silly season squabbles to distract us from the complexity of Brexit …amidst the summer politicking and parties, a new report by Centre for ... Read more...
A London School of Economics report in June showed that Britain was one of just three out of 28 countries that saw wages fall in real terms between 2007 and 2015. The only country where wages fell more... Read more...
09 August 2017
Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Misato Sato, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017 ... Read more...
08 August 2017
Their research found that every local authority would be negatively affected under either scenario but concluded that the economic impact of leaving the single market and customs union would be around twice as... Read more...
06 August 2017
A new report by think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) predicts Worthing will be on the places hit hardest by an expected downturn in trade after the country leaves the... Read more...
New research suggests that Slough will be among the top five UK urban areas to be negatively impacted by Brexit. A report by the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance and think tank Centre... Read more...
05 August 2017
A new report put Reading in third place of areas worst hit by a hard Brexit A new report by the think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics reveals... Read more...
02 August 2017
The authors of the report, Naomi Clayton and Professor Henry Overman of the LSE’s Centre For Economic Performance, said: “All British cities are set to be negatively affected as a result of higher ... Read more...
01 August 2017
The London School of Economics has published an analysis of the possible effects of a ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ Brexit on towns and cities all over the country. The report predicts that Swin... Read more...
31 July 2017
We are also now beginning to see why Scots voted 2:1 to remain in the EU. The thinktank Centre for Cities has predicted that Scotland’s major cities will suffer the worst consequences of Brexit, hard or ... Read more...
30 July 2017
Middlesbrough has been singled out as one of the places which could be hardest hit by Brexit. As the debate over the terms of the UK’s exit of the European Union continue to be debated, the potential ... Read more...
Brexit will hit hardest in the South of England, according to new research. But although the more prosperous cities of the South will lose the most, they will find it easiest to adapt. Aberdeen in the Nor... Read more...
29 July 2017
Brexit will hit Scottish oil capital Aberdeen the hardest of all Britain’s cities, with London also ranking highly and facing a medium-term blow to economic output of as much as 2.6 percent, academics at... Read more...
28 July 2017
Woking has the highest density of golf courses of anywhere in the UK at more than 10% According to The Guardian , Surrey has more land for golf courses than homes thanks to planning policies that ensure the... Read more...
The study by the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic performance at the London School of Economics found that cities with large high-skilled service sectors, such as business and financial services, ... Read more...
Smaller cities Crawley and Barnsley are predicted to have the lowest downturn in economic output of either a "hard" or "soft" Brexit, alongside cities like Hull and Wakefield. A new report ... Read more...
Aberdeen and Edinburgh are the cities set to take the biggest financial hit when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, according to a think tank that predicts a downturn in trade even if ministers stri... Read more...
The impact of Brexit on Aberdeen’s economy will not be as bad as predicted, according to junior Brexit minister Robin Walker. Mr Walker was responding to a bombshell report from the Centre for Cities, wh... Read more...
…Evidence again that any form of Brexit will do more damage to Scotland’s farming sector than it will to the UK as a whole. At least the city economies will be OK though? Not a chance. The report ... Read more...
Aberdeen can rise to the challenge of finding news ways to boost the economy, politicians and industry leaders said today. The confident comments come despite a report yesterday that predicts Brexit will hit A... Read more...
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...
All areas of the North East would be hit by Brexit and may take longer to recover than other parts of the country, a new study says. The study by the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (... Read more...
Wealthy Southern cities are predicted to be hardest hit by Brexit, according to a new report. The study, by the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, foun... Read more...
A think tank analysed the potential impact of both a “hard” and “soft” Brexit on British cities in the 10 years following the implementation of new trade arrangements with the EU. It is... Read more...
27 July 2017
All cities in the UK are looking set to see a fall in economic output regardless of whether a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ Brexit is delivered, experts have today warned – but more prosperous... Read more...
Centre for Cities and Centre for Economic Performance analysis also places Edinburgh sixth in a top ten of urban conurbations hit most if the country fails to strike a deal with the EU. Related publications... Read more...
Aberdeen will be the hardest hit city in the UK by Brexit, according to a new report on the economic impact of withdrawal from the European Union (EU). Other cities or urban areas such as London, Slough and Ed... Read more...
Worthing is among the top ten towns that will suffer the most by Britain’s exit from Europe, according to a study that overturns assumptions that poorer areas of the UK will suffer the most. For the firs... Read more...
Cities that are successful and have large high-skilled service sectors, mainly located in the south of England, will be hit the hardest by Brexit, whether it is ‘hard’ or ‘soft’. A repo... Read more...
A new report today named Aberdeen as the UK city predicted to be the worst-hit by a so-called hard Brexit. London and Edinburgh also ranked in the top 10 list compiled by researchers at the think tank Centre f... Read more...
Research done by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and the Centre for Cities predicted an economic downturn of 3.7 per cent for Aberdeen and 2.7 per cent in Edinburgh ... Read more...
The joint Centre for Cities and Centre for Economic Performance study predicts that Bristol’s economic output will decrease by up to 2.6 per cent – the 11th worst-hit city in the country. However, ... Read more...
The LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (working with the Centre for Cities think tank) has carried out a study shedding light upon the local economic impact of Brexit. Henry G. Overman writes that it ... Read more...
Article by Henry Overman I've been working with colleagues at the Centre for Economic Performance (Swati Dhingra and Steve Machin) and the Centre for Cities (Naomi Clayton) to take a first look at the l... Read more...
Nicholas Bloom, a professor at Stanford University, was interested in the phenomenon of working from home, a particular mode of work that allows employees of a company to stay at home rather than going into sp... Read more...
16 July 2017
A similar trend can be observed at the organizational level. A recent study by Erling Bath, Alex Bryson, James Davis and Richard Freeman has shown that the spread of individual wages since the 1970s is linked ... Read more...
14 July 2017
Nicholas Bloom, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, conducted a study on a large, multi-thousand research group: employees of a Chinese travel company Ctrip. Have not you heard of her? Not... Read more...
12 July 2017
Working from home gets a bad rap. Google the phrase and examine the results—you’ll see scams or low-level jobs, followed by links calling out “legitimate” virtual jobs. But Stanford Gra... Read more...
“There are bigger potential gains from doing a deal with Europe than with the U.K. on its own, just because Europe is a bigger market,” said Thomas Sampson, an economist at the Centre for Economic ... Read more...
Letter from Edwin Loo, Singapore Singapore is one of only a few jurisdictions in the world to have successfully implemented a comprehensive system of land value capture through betterment taxes and revenues... Read more...
Snippet: ... signs of faltering market with a slight drop in house prices month on month quarter-on-quarter but they're still up on a year ago a man quoted in many areas house prices crash stories was Prof... Read more...
09 July 2017
Mental health issues are often stigmatized, or even considered "made up illnesses." But according to a report by The Centre for Economic Performance’s Mental Health Policy Group at The London S... Read more...
08 July 2017
Newspaper headlines this week have been shouting about a crash in the housing market. Massive collapse! Property prices could plunge! We hear from the man quoted in many of those stories, Professor Paul Cheshi... Read more...
A study by Zack Cooper, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen — economists at Yale, Carnegie Mellon University, and the London School of Economics, respectively — concludes that lack of competition and... Read more...
02 July 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
Encouraging better work-life balance does not lead to higher productivity, academics at London School of Economics found. Neither does forcing workers into miserable servitude. Related publications &lsqu... Read more...
Nick Bloom – a Stanford GSB expert shows how companies and employees benefit from workplace flexibility. Related publications Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment, Nichol... Read more...
22 June 2017
In total, the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) calculates, it would be best for the British economy to remain part of the EU’s common market. Related publications ‘#GE2017Economists: The... Read more...
10 June 2017
A year ago, in June 2016, the British voted on their country's EU membership. Economists and financial markets were in bright turmoil and warned of the consequences of a Brexit. Today, twelve months later,... Read more...
08 June 2017
The London School of Economics (LSE) has published a report assessing all of the party manifestos and how respective policies will affect key voter issues. Intended to be "objective, brief and non-tech... Read more...
For the first time in years, UK voters have a real choice between economic models The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has published a series of election analyses, looking a... Read more...
06 June 2017
Although last year's vote to quit the EU has had "no obvious effect" on GDP growth, the collapse in the value of the pound - down 13% against the US dollar and 9% against the euro by the end of l... Read more...
31 May 2017
Article by Ross Levine; Yona Rubinstein ISSN 0033-5533, EISSN 1531-4650. Related publications ‘In brief...'Smart and illicit': the making of a successful entrepreneur’ R... Read more...
25 May 2017
The parties all recognised funding shortfalls, rising costs, demographic pressures, increased expectations, and changes in health technology and medical practice, the London School of Economics Centre for Econ... Read more...
Higher price inflation as a result of sterling’s depreciation following the vote to leave the EU, coupled with nominal wage growth stuck at a norm of 2% a year, means that once again the UK faces falling... Read more...
22 May 2017
Article by Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynfolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta Eksten and John Van Reenen Disentangling the relationship between management practices and productivity ha... Read more...
17 May 2017
Freeing schools from council control raises academic attainment because it makes them compete, a study suggests. Researchers at the London School of Economics found that a mix of academies, free schools, faith... Read more...
16 May 2017
Researchers Maarten Goos and Alan Manning posit in “Lousy and Lovely Jobs: the Rising Polarization of Work in Great Britain” that there is a general “hollowing out of middle income routine jo... Read more...
10 March 2017
The government is refusing to say whether more funding will be given to two “pioneering” FE research centres after their start-up grants end shortly. Meanwhile, the Centre for Vocational Educati... Read more...
03 March 2017
A dedicated tax is the only way that we can be sure the government is reflecting public wishes, argues Richard Layard, emeritus professor at the London School of Economics. He points out that Britain currently... Read more...
09 February 2017
Britain currently spends less on health as a share of national income than other equivalent countries, according to economist Professor Richard Layard BRITS should pay a dedicated tax to fund the ailin... Read more...
A dedicated tax is the only way that we can be sure the government is reflecting public wishes, says Richard Layard, but John Appleby argues it would not protect funding from economic uncertainty Yes—... Read more...
08 February 2017
In December 2016 an electronic version of a new report became available, prior to its imminent publication in book form, by the London School of Economics. Dubbed ‘The Layard Report’ after key... Read more...
23 January 2017
After decades languishing as one of the most underfunded medical problems, mental illness began to receive some of the attention it deserved under Tony Blair’s government. In 2006, a London School of Eco... Read more...
09 January 2017
A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. A simple question was asked: are hospitals... Read more...
27 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
Here’s the second episode of our podcast, with Jules Evans interviewing Richard Layard, former government ‘happiness tsar’ and the creator of the NHS talking therapies service; and Wili... Read more...
19 December 2016
HUGE THREAT TO ECONOMY TO OVERSHADOW TORY BUDGET The Scottish National Party has said that the threat of a hard Brexit will be the ‘elephant in the room’ at the Autumn Statement. “The T... Read more...
20 November 2016
The impact on productivity is as bad. The LSE (Centre for Economic Performance) suggests reduced trade will reduce productivity amounting to between 6.3 per cent and 9.5 per cent of GDP. This article was pu... Read more...
Dr Swati Dhingra joined the discussion programme. The topic was the demonitization of the 500 and 1000 rupee notes in India. The interview was broadcast by Al Jazeera television on November 15, 2016 ... Read more...
15 November 2016
A study carried out by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics shows that these students have a positive effect on the English students. "Data from the Catholic schools, w... Read more...
13 November 2016
Trump’s true legacy will be that of rural vandalism on a colossal scale. A unique wilderness at Menie destroyed for a golf course. This was a site of Special Scientific Interest, the highest environmenta... Read more...
01 November 2016
Pupils make substantially more progress in literacy if they follow a pen-and-paper course than if they take a similar programme online, new research has found. Researchers working with pupils in 51 primary schools found ... Read more...
28 October 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 pound has lost nearly 18 per cent of its value against the dollar since Britain voted Brexit, two per cent more than during the 2008 financial crash. On Thursday it reached its lowest point for 168 years. ''Movements... Read more...
14 October 2016
Many government ministers have suggested that immigration is an obstacle to natives getting jobs. Jonathan Wadsworth takes up the home secretary's challenge to talk about immigration and how it may affect young people's ... Read more...
07 October 2016
However, land regulation may play a bigger role. According to a recent paper by Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen of the London School of Economics, alongside Greater London, scarcity of open, developable land is gre... Read more...
24 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
There have been major changes to Ireland's apprenticeship system over the past few years, and now the overall number of apprentices is expected to increase to about 10,700. And, although Ireland's apprenticeship system i... Read more...
13 September 2016
Dennis Novy interviewed. The topic was the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the recent political backlash from France and Germany. The interview was broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 The World Ton... Read more...
30 August 2016
Brexit will be deeply damanging to Scotland's economy, warns Nicola Sturgeon. ...by the Treasury, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performanc... Read more...
23 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
New initiatives planned to end 'unacceptable and unlawful' discrimination against working women Employers are being told to do more to help mothers breastfeed their babies at work, as part of the government's latest i... Read more...
15 August 2016
Professor Curran said said non-tariff barriers could raise costs for NI farmers by between 2% and 4% and a recent study by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) found that a 2% increase in non-tariff barriers could a... Read more...
27 July 2016
Finally, there is the low reputation of economists, the result of a global financial crisis that only a few in the profession warned us against. But the institutes that analysed the risks and rewards of Brexit can hardly... Read more...
20 July 2016
Olympians who won the silver medal are less happy than their counterparts who achieved bronze according to the results of a new study of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Researchers behind the study argue tha... Read more...
17 July 2016
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
''You're going to see in increase in consumer prices from Brexit and most of that is going to hit the middle income,'' Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at LSE's Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Performan... Read more...
24 June 2016
The heads of three leading economic think-tanks warned of the dire consequences of leaving the EU. The analysis by National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Centre for Economic ... Read more...
21 June 2016
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...
Dennis Novy appeared on a show dealing with the EU and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), answering questions from members of the public who are worried about TTIP and what it might mean for the N... Read more...
Study after study confirms that EU migrants have an overwhelmingly positive effect on the British economy. They have a higher employment rate (78.2%) than people born in the UK (72.5%), those from Poland and other A8 acc... Read more...
10 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
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...
27 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 Jonathan Wadsworth, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen Many people believe immigration wave has hurt UK workers and think that leaving the EU would make things better. To investigate this ... Read more...
11 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
Poor land-use regulation is the main reason for Londons crazy prices. Two problems stand out. ... There is enough green-belt land in Greater London to build 1.6m houses at average densities, says Paul Cheshire of the Lo... Read more...
25 April 2016
Leaving the EU would cause Britain's economy to shrink and tax receipts to plummet, and cost the average household thousands of pounds a year, an official analysis from the UK treasury has warned. The treasury assess... Read more...
18 April 2016
The loss of income per household from reduced trade and lower productivity that would result from the UK voting to leave the European Union could be similar to the decline in UK GDP during the global financial crisis, ac... Read more...
15 April 2016
A leaflet being sent out by Britain Stronger in Europe says: ''Jobs at risk, higher prices and your family worse off by at least £850 a year if we leave Europe.'' Is that figure true? The £850 per household ... Read more...
13 April 2016
Article by Swati Dhingra Like the Out campaigners of the 1970s, Brexit supporters believe EU membership is bad for British workers and the British economy but the data tells another story This article was published onl... Read more...
12 April 2016
Brexit will affect British trade and living standards Article by Swati Dhingra, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen Smaller turnover in foreign trade in the wake of weaker integration ... Read more...
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
There is a wage premium for getting a first or upper second, find Shqiponja Telhaj and colleagues Since the early 1960s, with developments in the field of human capital research, analysis of the returns to education has... Read more...
01 April 2016
David Cameron has mocked eurosceptics for failing to work together as a new report claims each British family pays £200 a year less thanks to the European Union. ... Meanwhile a report produced by the Centre for E... Read more...
31 March 2016
Swati Dhingra of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics talks about the key economics of Brexit. The interview was recorded at the Royal Economic Society annual conference at The University... Read more...
30 March 2016
Hunt argues that, with the NHS budget already under huge pressure, funding levels can only be maintained if the British economy remains strong. He cites a series of economic surveys, including from the CBI, the London Sc... Read more...
26 March 2016
For over two years, a research team at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) has been studying the likely impact of the UK leaving the European Union. Their latest report focuses on the impact of 'Brexit' through cha... Read more...
21 March 2016
The CBI also said savings from reduced contributions to the EU's budget and regulation would be greatly outweighed by the negative impact on trade and investment. Last week a report by the Centre for Economic Performance... Read more...
A British exit from the European Union would wipe as much as 6,400 pounds ($9,300) from average household incomes in the U.K. as trade deals sour, according to research by the London School of Economics. &ldqu... Read more...
18 March 2016
Weekly recommendations include: On the LSE Business Review blog, work by Nguyen and Van Reenen using an RDD to show that tax credits increased R&D spending and innovation among SMEs in the UK. The item was published by... Read more...
Scholars who have read the paper say it makes a valuable contribution to the field. The model ''is stylized but rich enough, I think, to capture some of the main features of the sector,'' explains John Van Reenan, an eco... Read more...
15 March 2016
According to studies conducted by John Van Reenen, director at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, differences in productivity between other countries and the US c... Read more...
11 March 2016
UK business R&D would be 10 percent lower in the absence of tax breaks, write Kieu-Trang Nguyen and John Van Reenen. This article was published by the LSE Business Review blog on March 11, 2016 Link to article here ... Read more...
Recently, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen released a landmark study on national private health care price variation that was completely at odds with Medicare data on health care spending. T... Read more...
10 March 2016
London is not representative of the entire economy of Britain, however; leaving the European Union would cause a large economic shock. The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics predicted a 6.3... Read more...
07 March 2016
The London School of Economics' Center for Economic Policy[sic] has calculated that, even if trade barriers with other European countries do not significantly increase, per capita income in Britain will fall by between 1... Read more...
05 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
Paul Cheshire is interviewed about building on the green belt in the South East. The interview was broadcast by BBC South East on the Inside Out programme on February 29, 2016 Link to recorded interview here Related... Read more...
29 February 2016
Dennis Novy gave a live TV interview with Deutsche Welle TV. The topic was the letter issued by various UK business leaders arguing in favour of Britain remaining a member country of the European Union. Dennis discussed ... Read more...
23 February 2016
[David] Blanchflower and [Stephen] Machin argue labour market must tighten further before pay growth picks up, something Bank of England consistently fails to acknowledge. This article was published by The Guardian on F... Read more...
02 February 2016
CEP's Anna Valero written evidence for the Government's Productivity Plan Inquiry contributed to the final report. The Government's heralded 'Productivity Plan' lacks clear, measurable objectives and largely amounts to ... Read more...
29 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 cost of medical care varies widely across the United States, a new study reports. Hospitals negotiate the cost of medical services with insurance companies. And, the new report found that prices at hospitals in monop... Read more...
26 December 2015
Article by David Metcalf Would it be sensible to fill vacancies by attracting extra nurses from outside of the EU? These are the main questions the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to examine ... Read more...
16 December 2015
A new ''Big Data'' project from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics demonstrates that the prices hospitals negotiate with private ... Read more...
Health care is among the largest sectors of the U.S. economy and accounted for more than 17 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014. About 60 percent of the U.S. population has private health insurance, which pay... Read more...
15 December 2015
Commercial health plans that cover workplace benefits for millions of Americans pay higher prices to hospitals that have little or no competition, according to a new study that raises questions about how to slow U.S. hea... Read more...
Economists at Yale, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics have released a paper that shows vast differences in charges for hospital procedures across the country. Unlike some... Read more...
Three of the nation's largest insurance companies - Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealth - have let researchers have a look at the negotiated prices they pay for services and procedures like C-sections, MRIs and hospital sta... Read more...
The prices hospitals negotiate with health insurance companies vary enormously within and across geographic regions in the United States, according to a new study coauthored by a Yale economist. ... ''Virtually everythin... Read more...
According to the report, titled ''The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured,'' information collected on Medicare has largely impacted the country's health-care policy as data on ... Read more...
While many studies have shown that Medicare gets a good deal in Rochester, Duluth and Minneapolis, new work from four economists suggests that private insurers in those cities pay noticeably more for care. This article ... Read more...
Researchers have compiled data on $682 billion worth of claims to look at the truth behind medical costs. This article was published online by Marketplace.org on December 15, 2015 Link to article here Related publi... Read more...
Hospitals that face fewer competitors have considerably higher prices, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economi... Read more...
... But a new study casts doubt on that simple message. The research looked not only at Medicare but also at a huge, new database drawn from private-insurance plans - the sorts used by most Americans for health care. And... Read more...
Article by Linda Yueh My own research with John Van Reenen has shown that GDP growth would be lower by between 0.43 to 1% per year if not for joint ventures that allowed for transfers of knowledge and technology, as opp... Read more...
09 December 2015
Chancellor George Osborne survived the Bush Tucker trial that was Wednesday's spending review. ... Professor John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance, said: ''The sexy centrefold was a naked rever... Read more...
28 November 2015
Sustained public investment in research can boost business, writes Romesh Vaitilingam In the government's recent Spending Review, Chancellor George Osborne had surprisingly good news for UK researchers and UK businesses... Read more...
26 November 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
John Van Reenen, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, joins us to discuss the economics of management, productivity, and information technology. Li... Read more...
09 November 2015
London School of Economics Professor Richard Peter Layard, author of Thrive, discusses progress made in treating mental health and the impact of mental illness on the global economy. He speaks on 'Bloomberg Surveillance... Read more...
29 September 2015
David Attenborough, Brian Cox, Paul Polman, Jeffrey Sachs and Arunabha Ghosh all sign letter calling for action by UN climate conference in December The international group of experts and CEOs back a new 'Global Apollo ... Read more...
16 September 2015
Martin Knapp comments on costs of NHS beds and cost of private provision. This interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4, Your and Yours show, on September 3, 2015 Link to programme here Related links Martin Knapp webpa... Read more...
03 September 2015
...Unprecedented and profound mutation in the English system", says Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics at the University College of London (UCL). This article was published online by Acteurspublics on September 1, 2... Read more...
01 September 2015
David Cameron's plan to toughen visa rules for foreign workers could backfire by forcing British companies to expand overseas and hitting the quality of university research, the Government's immigration advisers warned y... Read more...
14 August 2015
In a new paper from London's Center for Economic Research [sic] George Graetz, of Uppsala University, and Guy Michaels, of London School of Economics found that industrial robots have actually driven labor productivity a... Read more...
13 August 2015
Dennis Novy interviewed on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in the light of households in Kenilworth protesting with the message to protect the NHS from TTIP. This article was published by BBC C... Read more...
12 August 2015
Consider a paper presented at the Summer Session of the National Bureau of Economic Research by Raj Chetty, Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, ''Innovation Policy and the Lifecycle of Inventors.'' (T... Read more...
10 August 2015
It was some considerable interest that I read a contribution in dementia policy, co-authored by one of my previous bosses, Prof Martin Rossor. The other co-author was Prof Martin Knapp from LSE. This article was publis... Read more...
04 August 2015
Article by Bill Gates Last month, during a trip to Europe, I mentioned that I plan to invest $1 billion in clean energy technology over the next five years. This will be a fairly big increase over the investments I am a... Read more...
03 August 2015
Those of us who have run hospitals where we've been serious about achieving improvements in quality and safety know that without a highly committed board of trustees, the results will never be sustainable. And so it is l... Read more...
In a March 2015 paper, Robots at Work, Georg Graetz of Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics concentrate on the economic effects of industrial robots. They base their research on data coll... Read more...
31 July 2015
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
A February study by economists Georg Graetz of Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics (LSE), using data from the International Federation of Robotics, has shown that robots of the same qual... Read more...
01 July 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. Researchers analyzed for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, us... Read more...
20 June 2015
Scientists Georg Graetz of the Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics come to the following conclusion: the average over 10 percent of increase of the gross domestic product and 15 percent ... Read more...
19 June 2015
In fact, there is not much evidence on how even today's automation is affecting employment. Guy Michaels and his colleague Georg Graetz at the London School of Economics recently looked at the impact of industrial robots... Read more...
16 June 2015
Georg Graetz of the Swedish University of Uppsala, and Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, consider them, that the automation of services as the industry will perform well, but on one, or even two generation... Read more...
14 June 2015
Anna Sivropoulos-Valero interviewed on productivity. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4's More or Less Programme on May 29, 2015 Link to interview here [Interview begins around 08:24.] Related publications ... Read more...
29 May 2015
The authoritative How Mental Health Loses Out in the NHS study, published by the LSE in 2012, revealed that for people aged 65 or less, nearly half of all ill health was mental ill health. This article was published o... Read more...
15 May 2015
Article by Dennis Novy TTIP could be the most ambitious free trade agreement in history. It has the potential to benefit millions of consumers and might be the last opportunity for individual European countries to set h... Read more...
23 April 2015
The rise of the robots - how automation of the shop-floor is increasing as is the household use of these machines - has been expansively commented upon. But what the gradual adoption of bots has meant for industry, has, ... Read more...
31 March 2015
... go away'', said David Marsden, an expert in employee relations at the London School of Economics. How management deals with the current tragedy could affect the tenor of future talks, said ... This article was p... Read more...
30 March 2015
Few politicians have a credible plan to ensure that Britain's young people can make their way in the world. But Labour at least recognises the problem. In the UK too, as LSE's Steve Machin argues, ''productivity improvem... Read more...
29 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...
New research from a group of economists at Harvard, the Treasury Department, and the London School of Economics provides a particularly vivid illustration of how disadvantage can harm the economy at large. The researcher... Read more...
16 March 2015
Article by Dennis Novy If successfully concluded, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would be the most ambitious free trade agreement in history. Dennis Novy writes that while the potential bene... Read more...
28 February 2015
Can the NHS cope with the rapid rise in dementia patients? Ros is one of 670,000 carers, but she needs help - £350 will provide a support nurse Professor Martin Knapp, from the London School of Economics, said: '... Read more...
23 February 2015
In Switzerland and under the mattress here is where the money goes that Greeks have withdrawn from ATMs The great capitals [wealth], however, are probably already fled. And Switzerland, according to research by economi... Read more...
07 February 2015
Competition among hospitals is linked to better quality management and lower death rate, suggests research published in The Review of Economic Studies. But competition on quality rather than price is likely to be key, sa... Read more...
30 January 2015
Research by the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance was published in The Review of Economic Studies and involved 61% of all NHS providers of acute care in England. The study shows that adding one extra hospital in a ne... Read more...
29 January 2015
As David Cameron lambasts Ed Miliband for allegedly wanting to ''weaponise'' the National Health Service in the election, new research gives the UK prime minister some ammunition of his own. LSE economists have measured ... Read more...
The Labour Party believes in reforming the NHS as much as in spending more taxpayers' money on it, and that the more independent providers of NHS services the better, if they can do a good job. ... It is also worth notin... Read more...
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...
01 January 2015
Poll respondent Sir Christopher Pissarides, professor at the London School of Economics, said the prospect that governments in London and Edinburgh would compete to attract taxpayers would far outweigh any gains; and adm... Read more...
21 November 2014
Give doctors bonuses for asking the right diagnosis Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, Martin Knapp, says such incentive schemes tend to have an effect. He thinks this controversial measure wi... Read more...
20 November 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...
19 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
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 Dennis Novy If you have been following the TTIP negotiations in the press over the past year, you might have been under the impression that TTIP is a corporate sell-out and nothing but a threat for the averag... Read more...
05 October 2014
There is no question that real wages have been squeezed to an unprecedented extent over the past five years and living standards are under pressure. A report from the Centre for Economic Performance this week found the r... Read more...
30 September 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
Two of the key figures behind government reform in mental health care have spoken of the success of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative. Professor Lord Richard Layard, Emeritus Professor of ... Read more...
19 August 2014
History teaches us that labour markets are able to recover from the changes wrought upon them by technological change, said Alan Manning, professor of economics at the London School of Economics. ''If I take an historica... Read more...
18 August 2014
The economist Richard Layard, after advocating that the goal of public policy should be to maximise happiness, set out to learn what the greatest impediment to happiness was today. His conclusion: depression. Depression ... Read more...
15 August 2014
In translation: The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) along with the Imperial College Business School have conducted a curious study that analyzed the evolution of the price of more than one millio... Read more...
05 August 2014
Home owners in London are willing to pay up to 8 percent above the market price for properties in areas offering very fast internet speeds, according to new research from the London School of Economics (LSE) and Imperial... Read more...
Londoners show a greater willingness than the rest of the country to pay for broadband, reflecting very high usage in the capital city for both work and personal reasons. ''Speed matters,'' says Gabriel Ahlfeldt, associa... Read more...
Londoners show a greater willingness than the rest of the country to pay for broadband, reflecting very high usage in the capital city for both work and personal reasons. ''Speed matters,'' says Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Associa... Read more...
31 July 2014
The SNP has been in government in a devolved Scotland for more than seven years. During that time it has had control over most of the levers of social justice, from education to healthcare, from local authority spending ... Read more...
27 July 2014
Mental health is receiving just 10% of NHS spending across England, with some areas dedicating more like 6 percent of their budgets to it, Sky News can reveal. Charities say the figures ''paint a profoundly worrying pict... Read more...
25 July 2014
The EIB Institute announces that this year's 'Outstanding Contribution Award' - with a prize of EUR 40,000 - will go jointly to Professors Nicholas Bloom (Department of Economics, Stanford University) and John Van Reenen... Read more...
22 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
Once upon a time, David Cameron said that general wellbeing matters as much GDP. What's it all for if a country grows richer but its people feel no better? A genuine attempt at prioritizing wellbeing would be revolutiona... Read more...
09 July 2014
Ultimately the biggest task remains ensuring our creaking health service is more responsive to the needs of mental health outpatients. And here there may be cause for cautious optimism. Because new research by Professo... Read more...
07 July 2014
If there is one area of the NHS in desperate need of change, it is mental healthcare provision. Professors Richard Layard and David Clark highlight in Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies that it i... Read more...
04 July 2014
Article by Richard Layard Nearly 40 percent of all illness in this country is mental illness, but most of it is untreated. It is the greatest injustice in our society and every party's manifesto needs a plan to redress ... Read more...
01 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...
The upshot of this is that the price of labour (wages) has fallen and the price of capital has increased, so firms have had incentives to substitute cheaper workers for more expensive machinery and buildings. And while t... Read more...
30 June 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...
Article by Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen The fall in productivity in the UK following the Great Recession was particularly bad, whereas the hit to jobs was less severe. This column discusses recent research expl... Read more...
28 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...
19 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
Every team is simply trying to score goals while preventing its opponent from doing the same. But they all seem to go about it in distinct ways, don't they? To understand what is happening on the fields in Brazil at the ... Read more...
15 June 2014
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...
09 June 2014
In 2010, the US Census Bureau conducted the first large-scale survey of management practices in America, gathering data on more than 30,000 manufacturing plants. Nicholas Bloom and colleagues find strong links between es... Read more...
21 May 2014
In their blog, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen say that good management in schools has a stronger effect than class sizes or quality teaching. This blog was posted in the guardian.com teachers' blog on May 20, 2014 ... Read more...
20 May 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
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...
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
The commission's authors (who include Richard Layard, an academic who has long supported more use of well-being indices in policy), favour the second measure of general satisfaction with life. More comprehensive cross-co... Read more...
27 March 2014
Crime in British neighborhoods that have experienced mass immigration from Eastern Europe over the last 10 years has fallen significantly, according to research that challenges a widely held view over the impact of forei... Read more...
04 May 2013
MENTAL health is such an important issue it deserves its own Government minister, says a top professor.The call by Lord Layard follows an explosion in mental illness. It now accounts for almost half of all sickness in th... Read more...
18 June 2012
Despite its prevalence, three-quarters of people suffering from mental illness are not getting treatment as the NHS fails to meet their needs, according to a report. The authors, from the Mental Health Policy Group at th... Read more...
Mental health problems account for nearly 40% of all illness but only 13% of NHS funds are devoted to their treatment, according to a major report published today by the London School of Economics. The article appeare... Read more...
Talking therapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy relieves anxiety and depression in 40% of those treated, says the Mental Health Policy Group led by Lord Layard. But despite government funding to train more therapis... Read more...
Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, in a speech to the Centre for Social Justice, said: I recently shadowed a GP in Coventry and was surprised by the number of time he referred to IAPT. As he said, a huge... Read more...
31 January 2012
Recent evidence from the LSE has been widely cited as showing positive effects from choice and competition between hospitals in the NHS. A recent Lancet piece was highly critical of the LSE research (and a number of ... Read more...
20 October 2011
A survey by the LSE, McKinsey and American health academics has found that larger hospitals enjoy superior outcomes in key areas and tended to be better managed. This article appeared in The Economist on Octo... Read more...
01 October 2011
Competition among hospitals in England led to a 7% fall in the number of deaths from acute myocardial infarction over three years, saving around 900 lives, a new study claims. Zach [sic] Cooper, a health economist workin... Read more...
01 August 2011
Research has suggested that family-owned companies have the UK's most satisfied workforces. John van Reenen of the LSE recently accused family businesses of inefficiency due to poor management quality. This article ... Read more...
19 July 2011
CEP has produced rigorous research evidence on the impact of hospital competition, pay regulation and management performance on quality, productivity and equity in the NHS. Policy needs to be informed by evidence. Below ... Read more...
13 June 2011
Treating NHS hospitals with competition and closures. Patients in England, especiallly the poorest, have benefited from choice and competition according to LSE economist Zack Cooper. This article appeared in ... Read more...
23 February 2011
In a series of recent studies, health economists at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) have demonstrated that the introduction of patient choice and hospital competition into the NHS from 2006 onwards has improved... Read more...
13 July 2010
New paper by Pawel Bukowski and Filip Novokmet “Inequality in Poland: Estimating the Whole Distribution by g-percentile 1983-2015” combines national accounts, survey and tax data in order... Read more...
29 November 2007