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BBC

More or Less: Behind the Stats

Thomas Sampson speaks to presenter Tim Harford about the US tariffs on global trade that were announced by president Donald Trump on 2 April 2025 ... Read more...

Financial Times

Apprenticeships can help fix the UK's growth problem

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

CEP Announcement

Funding for Centre for Economic Performance to boost economic growth

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

The Economist

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

Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber comment on proposed changes to the planning system in Britain, arguing the government has shied away from the reform that is needed. ... Read more...

WonkHE

Higher education should lift students out of poverty – not trap them within it

Lee Elliot Major writes about the need for new financial arrangements for universities to uphold the principle that a university education should be accessible to all. ... Read more...

The Guardian

'He's one of the best': The economist shaping Rachel Reeves's growth plans

John Van Reenen has spent his professional lifetime probing the weak spots of the UK economy. Now he is based in an office next to Reeves's at the Treasury, with his three fellow advisers. One Labour source says they str... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Almudena Sevilla made CBE in New Year’s honours

Congratulations to Almudena Sevilla, professor of economics and public policy in LSE’s Department of Social Policy, and associate of the Centre for Economic Performance who has been recognised in the New Year's Hon... Read more...

The Times

UK exporters suffer £27bn hit from Brexit

Research from the Centre for Economic Performance, a think tank based at the London School of Economics, said Brexit led to a 6.4 per cent drop in the UK's global exports.  ... Read more...

Financial Times

Brexit hit to UK trade less than predicted, says study

Brexit has hit UK trade less than many forecasters predicted thanks to larger companies adapting to red tape at the border, according to research by the London School of Economics. Researchers estimated UK worldwide good... Read more...

The Guardian

Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years, review finds

The damage from Brexit to trade links with the EU cost the UK £27bn in the first two years, but the overall impact was more limited than forecasters first estimated, according to the most comprehensive review of th... Read more...

CEP announcement

Henry Overman appointed to Industrial Strategy Advisory Council

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

BBC Radio 4

Steel Dragons

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

CEP announcement

Daniel Chandler awarded the Voltaire Lecture Medal

Congratulations to Daniel Chandler who has been awarded the 2024 Voltaire Lecture Medal for his work on how to create a fair society. Chandler, research director of the LSE’s Programme on Cohesive Capitalism and a... Read more...

Financial Times

Policies must be justified by their wellbeing-to-cost ratio

Richard Layard writes that Labour must apply the wellbeing-to-cost test to every departmental proposal in the spending review. ... Read more...

Times Higher Education

Academic research has ‘bigger role to play in new UK government’

Academics have an opportunity to exert more influence in policymaking with demand for robust evidence on the rise, according to Richard Layard, co-author of a report that seeks a "radical change in the government's spend... Read more...

The Guardian

Extra for mental health would help UK more than new roads, study says

Spending extra cash on mental health services would boost economic growth and improve the nation’s wellbeing more than building new roads, according to an academic analysis from the London School of Economics. Rich... Read more...

The Telegraph

Force workers to retire later to reduce misery, Reeves urged

Forcing workers to retire later would free up funding for policing and mental health services and "reduce misery" in Britain, a report co-authored by Richard Layard and published by the London School of Economics has sai... Read more...

Financial Times

The UK skills crisis holding back growth

A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain's young people are falling behind. Lord Richard Layard talks about a fundamental injustice in Britain's edu... Read more...

BBC

Ucas to reform university personal statements

Ucas is reforming personal statements from next year. Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, said he believed the reform was a "significant step in making the university admissions ... Read more...

The Guardian

Rachel Reeves to announce economic advisory council to boost UK growth

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

Financial Times

The workplace under Labour: employers braced for biggest shake-up in a generation

From ending zero-hours contracts to boosting benefits, Britain's new government wants to shift power back to staff. Stephen Machin, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth explain how the power balance stands now. ... Read more...

CEP announcement

Henry Overman made OBE in King's birthday honours

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

Time

To fight inequality, America needs to rethink its economic model

Daniel Chandler writes that to address the vast inequalities in the United States, a fundamental rethink of economic institutions and the values that guide them is needed. ... Read more...

The Telegraph

Britons are happier than Germans for the first time in seven years

The World Happiness Report 2024 reveals that those in the UK feel they have a greater sense of freedom than Germans and believe there is less corruption in the country. When looking at age demographics, the largest gap b... Read more...

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan warns rising cost of living is fuelling crime in London

Sadiq Khan highlights modelling from the London School of Economics showing that a 10% rise in Londoners' living costs is accompanied by an eight per cent overall increase in violence, robberies, shoplifting, burglary an... Read more...

The Observer

Tax and spending cuts will backfire, economists warn Jeremy Hunt

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

New Statesman

Labour's "good jobs" agenda could be transformative

Daniel Chandler discusses how the Labour party can develop a "good jobs" policy where work would provide dignity and respect for everyone, and be a key source of people’s meaning and wellbeing.  ... Read more...

Financial Times

Four years on and Brexit still isn’t 'done'

Thomas Sampson discusses how UK growth in goods exports and imports has been "the weakest in the G7", which has "contributed to the ongoing stagnation of the UK economy".  ... Read more...

Futurum

How can economists combat crime?

How can economists help police forces to better assign their police officers onto the streets, thereby providing a better service to the public? In the Policing and Crime Research Group at the London School of Economics ... Read more...

The Guardian

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

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

Economics Observatory

Crime story

As more data on crime and policing become available, economists are getting deeper insights into the causes and effects of criminal behaviour, and a greater understanding of how the criminal justice system works. Tom Kir... Read more...

Financial Times

Rationing access to apprenticeships is increasing the UK's skills deficit

Places for vocational training should be funded in the same way as degrees and match demand from young learners, says Richard Layard. ... Read more...

Freakonomics

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

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

Freakonomics

How to succeed at failing, part 1: the chain of events

We tend to think of tragedies as a single terrible moment, rather than the result of multiple bad decisions. On this episode of Freakonomics, John Van Reenen, Amy Edmondson, Helen Fisher, Ed Galea, Gary Klein, David Ried... Read more...

The Hill

Does working from home damage productivity? Just look at the data.

Working from home keeps employees happy, reduces pollution by cutting billions of commuting miles and supports millions of employees with care and disability challenges in work. Nick Bloom reviews the existing data on wo... Read more...

The Economist

Nicholas Bloom predicts a working-from-home Nike swoosh

Nick Bloom explores the forces driving the predicted increase in remote work over the coming decade. He outlines that working from home will benefit firms, employees and society.  ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Anna Valero appointed to the Office for Budget Responsibility's advisory panel

Congratulations to Anna Valero, distinguished policy fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, who has been appointed to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) advisory panel.   Established in 2011... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Saul Estrin becomes a Fellow of the British Academy

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

Financial Times

Growing green awareness gives eco-innovation a competitive edge

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

CEP Announcement

Professor Brian Bell reappointed as chair of the Migration Advisory Committee

Brian Bell has been reappointed as chair of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) for a further three years.  Professor Bell, an associate in CEP’s labour market programme, was appointed chair of the MAC on ... Read more...

iNews

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

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

CEP Announcement

Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like? makes the FT's summer reading list

Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like? has been chosen as one of the best reads on economics for this summer by the Financial Times. The book by Daniel Chandler is described by the paper’s chief econ... Read more...

Bloomberg

Brexit Caused a Third of UK Food Price Inflation, LSE Paper Says

Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance show that Brexit is responsible for a third of UK food price inflation since 2019 - regulatory, sanitary and other border checks added almost £7 billion to total... Read more...

The Guardian

Brexit food trade barriers have cost UK households #7bn, report finds

Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance, from the London School of Economics, estimate that extra barriers on EU food imports have pushed up bills by £250 on average since Brexit.  ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Anna Valero joins the chancellor's economic advisory council

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

The Guardian

If Labour is to succeed it needs not just new policies, but a whole new philosophy

After four general election defeats, the Labour party seems likely to form the next government. In this Guardian opinion piece, Daniel Chandler shares his view that, for the Labour party to succeed, it needs not just new... Read more...

Financial Times

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

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

The Economist

For Britain to grow faster it needs better managers

John Van Reenen and Nick Bloom's study of management practices suggests that more than half of the productivity gap between Britain and the US is due to poor management. ... Read more...

Financial Times

How London's property market became an inheritocracy

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

The Economist

A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution

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

TIME

Working From Home Is the Trend of the Year - And Next Year Too

Working from home accounted for only 5% of all workdays before the pandemic. But now it’s common to find many employees working from home at least part of the week. As of December 2022, almost 30% of paid workdays ... Read more...

The Guardian

Swati Dhingra of the Bank of England: 'Are we going to end up deepening the recession?'

Richard Partington interviews Swati Dhingra on the future of Britain's economy, as she elaborates on the lengthy and painful recession facing the UK.  ... Read more...

The Independent

Brexit has added more than £200 to UK household food bills, study finds

Brexit has cost UK households more than £5.8bn in higher food bills, according to new research linking Britain’s exit from the EU to soaring inflation. Leaving the bloc has added an average of £210 to B... Read more...

The Guardian

Brexit added nearly £6bn to UK food bills in two years, research finds

Brexit added almost £6bn to UK food bills in the two years to the end of 2021, affecting poorest households the most, research from the London School of Economics (LSE) found.  ... Read more...

BBC News

Brexit added £210 to household food bills, LSE says

Researchers at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) looked at data tracking the flow of trade and prices of food products between the UK and the European Union (EU) to work out how shoppers were being affected... Read more...

Financial Times

Brexit and the economy: the hit has been ‘substantially negative’

The UK debate around Brexit is shifting in light of new data showing the consequences of leaving the EU. Economists have reached a consensus: Brexit has significantly worsened the country’s economic performance. In... Read more...

CNBC Events

Hybrid work is here to stay

As the unofficial "Father of Hybrid Work", Stanford's Nick Bloom has spent years studying how we work and how we will work. He'll present new research and share his thoughts on what companies should be preparing for, a... Read more...

Financial Times

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

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

BBC Radio 4: The Briefing Room

Britain's productivity puzzle

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

Prospect Magazine

The British economy is headed for a perfect storm

The UK has spent years in hock to a failed economic orthodoxy. Now the consequences are coming to a head—all at the same time, Will Hutton writes.  ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Henry Overman becomes a Fellow of the British Academy

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

Independent

Shoppers face £454 increase in annual grocery bill as food inflation soars

Economists from the LSE Centre for Economic Performance found that the UK’s departure from the EU caused a 6 per cent increase in British food prices. ... Read more...

Die Welt (German)

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

High energy prices are causing problems, as are the consequences of the Covid pandemic and the effects of Brexit. But research by the Resolution Foundation and the Center for Economic Performance suggests the causes of t... Read more...

Sky News

Brexit will leave workers poorer than they would have been and has damaged Britain's competitiveness, new study says

Brexit has damaged Britain's competitiveness, will reduce productivity and leave the average worker poorer than they otherwise would have been, according to a new study from the Resolution Foundation and LSE's Centre for... Read more...

The Guardian

Brexit 'dragging down growth and costing hundreds a year in pay'

Britain's cost of living crisis is being made worse by Brexit dragging down the country's growth potential and costing workers hundreds of pounds a year in lost pay, say researchers. The Resolution Foundation thinktank a... Read more...

The Times

Brexit hitting production and wages, warns Resolution Foundation

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

Financial Times

Rees-Mogg asks public to say which retained EU laws they want to scrap

Thomas Sampson, an associate professor of economics at the London School of Economics who has modelled the effects of Brexit on UK trade, said there was no economic basis for the assertion that cutting EU regulation woul... Read more...

Bloomberg UK

Are workers more productive at home?

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

The Economist

How to unleash more investment in intangible assets

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

The New Statesman

How poor mental health costs the economy billions

Mental illness accounts for over 40 per cent of all sickness absence - reducing productivity at work. Richard Layard explains how this highlights the need for wellbeing provision in management practice. ... Read more...

The Guardian

Immigration and vocational training: UK evidence

Researchers from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance find that a “clear and robust impact of Brexit-induced trade frictions” had led to an increase in prices. ... Read more...

The Telegraph

'No evidence' of sustained hit to UK exports to EU since Brexit trade deal

Researchers find Brexit’s impacts on trade were only felt once the Trade and Cooperation Agreement kicked in, rather than steadily since the referendum. ... Read more...

Independent

Brexit has devastated UK exports to smaller EU countries, study says

LSE finds one-third decline in trading relationships under Boris Johnson’s deal – which has hit small firms hardest. ... Read more...

Financial Times

UK-EU trade relationships tumble after Brexit

Findings from the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance chime with warnings from business groups: that smaller firms have struggled to absorb customs controls, VAT and regulatory red tape, with many quitting exporting al... Read more...

The Times

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

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

Financial Times

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

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

Research Professional News

Intangible economy demands a broader view of R&D

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

The Guardian

Finland named world’s happiest country for fifth year running

Experts say social support, honesty and generosity key to wellbeing, as Afghanistan and Lebanon struggle in global ranking. ... Read more...

BBC Two

Newsnight

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

The Telegraph

University personal statements 'favour' middle class students, admits minister

The written part of university applications could be changed to provide more support to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the universities minister has said. The proposal comes after Lee Elliot Major criticise... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Philippe Aghion awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea

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

MIT Sloan

Want better forecasts? Start with better management

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

Financial Times

Stable job market is ‘mixed blessing’ for UK workers

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

The Times

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

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

The Economist

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

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

ITV News

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

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

The Economist

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

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

Financial Times

UK’s levelling-up agenda won’t solve productivity problem, report suggests

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

Financial Times

UK’s levelling-up agenda won’t solve productivity problem, report suggests

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

CEP announcement

Josh De Lyon wins TIISA Young Scholar Award

Congratulations to Josh De Lyon who has won a Trade and Investment in Services Associates (TIISA) Young Scholar Award for his paper The Labour Market Effects of Services Importing: Evidence from the United Kin... Read more...

The Economist

England’s pioneering mental-health programme hits a ceiling

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...

BBC

In need of modernisation? The UK’s housing crisis close up

Paul Cheshire speaks on some of the wider problems of the UK housing market. ... Read more...

Wharton Research Data Services

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

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

The Economist

How German bombs shape London’s gangs

Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin and Carmen Villa-Llera examine the relationship between areas of London that were bombed in the Second World War and crime rates. Discovering that the probability of finding a ga... Read more...

The Economist

Domestic violence surges after a football match ends

A study by Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas finds that a “considerable amount of domestic abuse” could be mitigated by arranging football fixtures on weekdays or... Read more...

The Independent

Day drinking and early kick-offs linked to rise in domestic abuse after football matches

Researchers find alcohol consumption - rather than heightened emotions - is to blame for rises in male-on-female violence following matches, and this could be reduced by more evening and weekend games. ... Read more...

The Guardian

Early kick-offs linked to more alcohol abuse and violence in the home

Researchers at the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance find alcohol consumption following football matches is fuelling domestic abuse in the hours after a game and suggest that... Read more...

The Telegraph

Scarred by Covid: As infections subside, India now faces a difficult road to recovery

Swati Dhingra speaks to the Telegraph about the impact of Covid-19 on attempts to overcome poverty in India, describing how many lower and middle urban workers are having to borrow money to make up for a ... Read more...

ITV

Covid volunteering surge can be ‘positive legacy’ for NHS in future

Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science found Volunteering for the NHS during the pandemic felt as good as getting a £1,800 bonus from work. ... Read more...

Financial Times

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

The Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics launch an important inquiry, analysing how the country must grapple with recovery from Covid-19, the af... Read more...

The Independent

UK faces ‘decisive decade’ of change and risks falling further behind other nations, report warns

The country is not neither prepared for, nor used to, change on the scale required to deal with climate change, Brexit, an ageing population, Covid and technological shifts, says report by the Economy 2030 Inq... Read more...

The Guardian

UK economy could resemble that of Italy by end of 2020s – report

A joint project by the Resolution Foundation thinktank and the London School of Economics said the UK was neither used to nor prepared for the challenges posed by the aftermath of Covid-19, Brexit, the ne... Read more...

Centre for Economic Performance

UK facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change

The UK is facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change as five seismic economic shifts – the Covid aftermath, Brexit, the Net Zero transition, an older population and rapid technological change - com... Read more...

The Independent

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

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

iNews

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

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

The Independent

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

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

Financial Times

We’re still in the dark about insecure work

The Financial Times cites research by Alan Manning and Graham Mazeine while analysing the dabate around improving job security as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...

Financial Times

UK business groups call for mandatory reporting of ethnicity pay gap

Amid criticism of a government-commissioned race report for downplaying the extent of problems in the labour market, Alan Manning explains there's no evidence for pay gaps being smaller than they we... Read more...

The Telegraph

London risks house price crunch as Covid boom ends

House prices could fall when the stamp duty holiday comes to a close. London is particularly vulnerable because the price of houses rose particularly sharply over 2020, while the population of the capital... Read more...

Financial Times

Detached homes close to central London enjoy biggest price rises

LSE study says there has been little exodus to rural areas in past year but buyers have sought space, with detached houses close to the centre of London seeing the biggest price increases over the past year. ... Read more...

Freakonomics

Are You Ready for a Fresh Start?

Ferdinand Rauch explains how temporary events, such as the London Tube strikes and recent pandemic restrictions, can lead to positive long-term change - a fresh start - on Stephen Dubner's Freakonomic... Read more...

The Conversation

Ensuring the minimum wage keeps up with economic growth would be the best way to help workers and preserve FDR’s legacy

In light of the Biden adminstration's Covid-19 Relief Bill, Felix Koenig analysis the historical impact of minum wage bills on jobs and wages. ... Read more...

Quartz

How much more stimulus will the UK economy need?

A report by Nicolás González-Pampillón, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim and Katharina Ziegler shows that footfall in restaurants increased by 5-6% during the UK government's Eat Out to Help O... Read more...

The Independent

Brexit disruption in first weeks of year is sign of more to come, economists warn

Thomas Sampson, associate economics professor at the London School of Economics, has predicted a 36 per cent fall in exports to the EU over the next decade. He said it was too early to claim that economists... Read more...

Forbes

Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

Few aspects of modern society have remained unaffected in some way by the Covid-19 pandemic, and so it's perhaps no surprise that a new report by Jiaqi Li, Anna Valero, Guglielmo Ventura shows that jo... Read more...

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth

New research shows that reductions in air pollution have intergenerational consequences

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

LSE Ideas

UK Economic Diplomacy report published: CEP experts on commission

The final report of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission, which proposes a framework for the UK’s trade agenda that seeks to balance commercial openness with strategic domestic and foreign policy aims, ... Read more...

Bloomberg

‘Tough’ Isn’t the China Question Biden Has to Answer on Trade

In a recent working paper, Chad Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar and Lorenzo Trimarchi calculate the higher cost of imported inputs caused by those tariffs leveled at China caused the U.S. economy to create ... Read more...

The Times

Pandemic turns up pace of workplace innovation

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

The Times

Why your weekly shop costs a lot more than you think

Study by LSE's Richard Davies finds price volatility during the Covid-19 pandemic has been higher than in any comparable period since 1991. ... Read more...

BBC

Scottish independence trading costs calculated

Study into trade concludes that the costs of Scottish independence would be two to three times greater than the impact from Brexit, and that joining the European Union would do little to offset that cost. ... Read more...

The Telegraph

Economic hit to Scotland from independence three times bigger than Brexit

Trade barriers with the rest of the UK would deal a hit to the Scottish economy far greater than Brexit, warns report by Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson and Patrick Schneider. ... Read more...

The Herald

People would be up to £2,800 a year worse off in independent Scotland, claims new research

Study by Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson and Patrick Schneider concludes independence would hit the Scottish economy harder than Brexit because Scotland’s trade with the rest of the UK is around f... Read more...

The Scotsman

Independence would hit Scottish economy harder than Brexit, say researchers

Academics from the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance say the economic costs of independence are two or three times greater than Brexit due to the volume of Scotland’s trade with the rest of the... Read more...

Financial Times

Independence would cost Scotland far more than Brexit, study finds

Independence from the UK would cost Scotland’s economy up to three times as much in lost trade as Brexit will, according to analysis by the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performan... Read more...

The Independent

Independence would hit Scotland's economy ‘two to three times' harder than Brexit, say economists

Independence would damage Scotland’s economy and leave the country “considerably poorer” than staying inside the UK, according to a study by economists Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson ... Read more...

The Guardian

Independence could cost Scotland's economy £11bn a year, forecast suggests

Economists say impact of leaving UK’s common market would hit two to three times as hard as leaving EU. ... Read more...

BBC

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

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

The Independent

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

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

The Guardian

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

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

The Daily Telegraph

Why Britain's falling population equals economic trouble

Alan Manning considers the possible outcomes of a drop in immigration and population growth on productivity, economic growth and the labour market. ... Read more...

The Independent

Exports to EU to plunge by more than one-third because of Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal, study warns

Research by Thomas Sampson suggests UK exports to the EU may fall by over a third, and income per capita is forecast to fall by 6 per cent – just 2 per cent less than under a no-deal departure. ... Read more...

Hindustan Times

Farm laws: What India can learn from Kenya’s agri experiment

Swati Dhingra examines a decade of high-quality farmer-buyer data from Kenya during a period when it introduced radical farm laws to encourage agri-businesses to determine impacts on small farmers. ... Read more...

Financial Times

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

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

The Guardian

What happens if the UK and EU fail to agree a Brexit deal?

A report by the Centre for Economic Performance found that seven in 10 firms “expect a no-deal Brexit to negatively impact their business”, adding that the consequences of no deal are "se... Read more...

Financial Times

Covid crisis threatens UK boom in self-employed work

New research by Jack Blundell, Steven Machin and Maria Ventura finds a fifth of the self-employed workforce expect to leave self-employment as a result of the Covid-19 crisis; and the proportion is h... Read more...

The Times

Self-employed switching to regular jobs

A survey by Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds one in five self-employed workers plan to switch to other forms of employment because of Covid-19. ... Read more...

The Guardian

A million people may quit self-employment in Covid-hit UK – study

Survey findings from Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds the trend of more people working for themselves under threat during the Covid-19 pandemic. A fifth of the self-employed... Read more...

The Telegraph

Only six in ten pupils are getting full education despite schools reopening, report finds

During late September and early October, just 59 per cent of pupils benefitted from “full schooling”, says new report. ... Read more...

BBC

'Generation Covid' hit hard by the pandemic, research reveals

BBC Panorama reports on CEP research, fiding people aged 16-25 were more than twice as likely as older workers to have lost their job, while six in 10 saw their earnings fall, according to new research. ... Read more...

TES

Revealed: UTC attainment gap for pre and post-16s

New research finds that while 14-year-olds who enrol at University Technical Colleges (UTCs) get significantly worse GCSE results than their peers, 16-year-olds who enrol at a UTC outperform their peers in sk... Read more...

Department for International Trade

CEP associates to join new UK trade panel

Two Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) associates are members of a new expert trade panel set up to support UK trade negotiations. The Department for International Trade (DIT) has said that Professor Tony Venables, B... Read more...

Economics Observatory

Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus?

Big cities thrive because of the economic and social benefits of proximity – but proximity also helps to spread Covid-19. Does this mean an end to the big city revival of recent years? Much will depend o... Read more...

BNN Bloomberg

The world is losing the money laundering fight

Amidst increasing levels of money laundering, Tom Kirchmaier suggests a three-step solution to the issues faced by banks. ... Read more...

ISQOLS

Richard Layard wins Distinguished Researcher award

Richard Layard wins the ISQOLS Distinguished Quality-of-Life Professor Lord Richard Layard has been given the 2020 award for his substantial contribution to wellbeing research.  ... Read more...

VoxEU

Importing inequality: immigration and the top 1%

Top incomes have grown rapidly in recent decades and this growth has sparked a debate about rising inequality in Western societies. Felix Koenig et al investigate whether migration can account for the maj... Read more...

The Economist

Covid-19 has forced a radical shift in working habits

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

The Guardian

How coronavirus piled misery on India's workers

Shania Bhalotia, Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli examine the impact of lockdown imposed in late March on more than 8,500 urban workers, finding 52% went without work or pay during lockdown, while less than... Read more...

Bloomberg

India’s Gen Z Risks Getting Left Out of Formal Jobs, Study Says

India has been struggling with an unemployment problem and the coronavirus pandemic. New research by Shania Bhalotia, Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli, finds Federal and state governments recogniz... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Why we need to do something about the monopsony power of employers

Why we need to do something about the monopsony power of employers - Alan Manning writes about how monopsony lowers worker mobility and wages, in this new blog article at LSE. ... Read more...

ESRC

Professor John Van Reenen to lead £5m research programme into boosting UK productivity

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...

The Independent

Low-income workers three times more likely to have hours cut during pandemic then high-income workers

'Realistic' unemployment rate is 15 per cent, and disadvantaged groups are much more likely to be affected, finds new research by Brian Bell, Mihai Codreanu and Stephen Machin. ... Read more...

The Telegraph

The future of skyscrapers: a mile high, slimmer than ever and made from wood

Paul Cheshire, associate of the CEP, talks about how planning rules shape London and why big-name trophy architects are used so often, in this piece about the future of skyscrapers. ... Read more...

The Guardian

Brexit will deliver double shock to UK economy, study finds

Sectors unscathed from coronavirus crisis face being severely affected by Brexit, finds a report from Dr Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon. ... Read more...

Local Government Chronicle

Pay rather than visa system will tackle social care recruitment

Employers are not vocal enough about the need for higher pay, writes Alan Manning, former chair of the government's Migration Advisory Committee and professor of economics aat LSE. ... Read more...

The Guardian

End of the office: the quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home

The assumption has been that remote workers slack without direct supervision. But do they? Economist Nick Bloom staged a trial – the first of its kind – involving 250 members of a Ctrip call cen... Read more...

The Telegraph

Social care targets UK jobless as Government closes off migrant recruitment in new points system

Social care companies are starting to tap into the growing pool of potential employees who have lost jobs in the Covid-19 crisis.  Alan Manning, former Chair of the Government's Migration Advisory ... Read more...

BBC Two

Newsnight

Interview with Swati Dhingra - industries that have weathered Covid could be hit by Brexit. ... Read more...

World Politics Review

To Save the Economy From COVID-19, Protect Informal Workers

In India, the pandemic reportedly tripled the unemployment rate in just three weeks, and the vast majority of those newly unemployed worked were in the informal sector. The government respo... Read more...

The Independent

'Screaming and smashing around': Surge in neighbours and family members reporting domestic abuse to police in lockdown

A new study, carried out by the London School of Economics, said police have seen around 380 more domestic violence calls per week on average as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. Finding the cause is &ldqu... Read more...

Felix Koenig wins the EALE Young Labour Economists Prize 2020

Congratulations to Dr Felix Koenig on winning the 2020 Young Labour Economist Prize from the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). The prize was awarded for his CEP discussion paper: Technical C... Read more...

Blogs: Economics Observatory

How is coronavirus affecting the self-employed?

The self-employed are being hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 crisis. Many have been offered a lifeline through the government’s Self-Employment Income Support Scheme – but does it go far enoug... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Thinks

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

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

The Independent

Lockdown burnout: Women face mental exhaustion as they juggle childcare, housework and jobs

Professor Barbara Petrongolo talks to the Independent about her research into how women are more likely to deal with homeschooling, childcare and chores around the house, even if they are working. ... Read more...

Blogs: CoronaNomics

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

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

About Manchester

More than a third of self-employed ‘lack money for basics’

The survey, published by the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), finds that the self-employed have been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 crisis, with around three out of every four responde... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

How will Covid-19 shape the future economic role of the British state?

With our sizeable state and private sector, the question is more whether the state will be a bit bigger or a bit smaller, writes Alan Manning. ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Building back better: policies for a strong and sustainable recovery

There's an opportunity to build a new social contract, tackle inequality, foster innovation and adopt a long-term industrial strategy, write Sam Unsworth and Anna Valero. ... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Economy still in limbo as working parents continue to juggle childcare; With schools remaining closed, productivity levels will continue to suffer, writes Russell Lynch

But the short-term productivity hit of a workforce partly hamstrung by childcare, could be dwarfed by the longer-run economic blow to the children missing school and the wider economy, according to education e... Read more...

Independent

Women bearing burden of childcare and homeschooling in lockdown, study finds.

Report on research by Dr Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo which suggests the coronavirus outbreak is widening the gender gap in the workplace and at home. ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

How is Covid-19 affecting businesses in the UK?

Real-time survey data shows that 50% of companies had a lower volume of business in April, and the situation is expected to get worse over the next three months, write Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon. ... Read more...

TES

Extra teaching needed to plug disadvantage 'chasm'

School closures have cost £1bn per week in lost 'teaching inputs' and extra teaching hours will be needed to help some pupils, finds the study Covid-19 school shutdowns: What will they do to our ... Read more...

Independent

A former head of the civil service has warned that Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” agenda is in danger of becoming a casualty of the coronavirus recession.

Speaking to Econ Films’ CoronaNomics show Lord Gus O’Donnell said he feared the impact of the lockdown was undermining the Prime Minister’s ambitions of reducing income and regional... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

How is Covid-19 affecting businesses in the UK?

Real-time survey data shows that 50% of companies had a lower volume of business in April, and the situation is expected to get worse over the next three months, write Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon. ... Read more...

Hindustan Times

It’s time to refresh old ideas like universal job guarantee

Even in more advanced countries, national statistics have proved inadequate in recording informal workers outside the organised sector, especially the new breed of self-employed and temporary workers in cities... Read more...

Blogs: VoxEU

Protecting informal workers in urban India: The need for a universal job guarantee

The Covid-19 lockdown implemented in India is estimated to have tripled the urban unemployment rate. Most low-income urban workers will fall through the cracks of the provisions being put in place to supp... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Covid-19 and the international trade downturn: lessons from 2008

Trade recovered quickly after 2008 because the collapse wasn't long enough for firms to dismantle their portfolios, writes Giordano Mion. ... Read more...

Fortune

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

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

Blogs: LSE US Centre

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

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

Blogs: VoxEU

COVID-19 and gender gaps: Latest evidence and lessons from the UK

This column combines survey data from the UK with occupation classifications to show that that – unlike previous recessions – the current crisis is harming women’s labour market prospects mor... Read more...

Blogs: VoxEU

How the UK government should respond to the unequal local economic impacts of COVID-19

The economic crisis caused by COVID-19 will play out unequally across areas. This column focuses on the UK and argues that, in the short run, we will need to target immediate support through existing mechanism... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Covid-19 is increasing the divide in life chances between rich and poor

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin propose reforms and urgent actions to tackle economic and educational inequalities in the UK. ... Read more...

New York Times

The World Has a $2.5 Trillion Problem. Here's How to Solve It.

The coronavirus has not yet exploded in the developing world, but poor countries are already suffering from the pandemic. Their economies have been battered by lockdowns, falling commodity prices, declining re... Read more...

Blogs: CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog

COVID-19: Crashing the Economy so what will it do for the Housing Market?

To speculate usefully about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Britain’s housing markets one needs a clear analytical understanding of how our housing markets work and what forces cause them to chan... Read more...

TES

How rocketing unemployment damages children's education

Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, CEP research economist, writes about how job insecurity during the Covid-19 crisis will dramatically affect education outcomes for the families involved. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Labour Markets

Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms

Research on childcare and gender norms in Sweden, shows that policy changes had a bigger effect if they were in line with people's norms than if they worked against them. Published 2019. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Education

Teacher turnover: does it matter for pupil achievement

This paper looks at the effects of changing teachers on children's GCSE grades. Published 2018. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Trade

The upside of London Tube strikes

Research showing that when people are forced to change their behaviour, some find a better way of doing things. Published 2015. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Trade

Trade crisis? What trade crisis?

An investigation of the determinants of trade collapse in Belgium in 2008-09. The paper highlights the extent to which firms factor in sunk costs. Published 2010. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Labour Markets

The gig economy and worker's preferences for steady jobs

This research finds that workers in atypical employment, such as gig economy workers, are willing to give up approximately 50% of their hourly wage for a permanent contract and around 35% of their hourly wage ... Read more...

Relevant research: Growth

Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment

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

CentrePiece

The UK's self-employed workers: who they are and what they need

Jack Blundell identifies groups among self-employed workers, to aid in finding methods to support and protect workers through public policy. ... Read more...

Blogs: MIT Technology Review

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

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

Blogs: LSE Politics and Policy

COVID-19 and wages: prepare for large cuts if you are younger and work in a small firm

Brian Bell, Nick Bloom, Jack Blundell, and Luigi Pistaferri estimate how the ongoing pandemic may impact earnings by age group, gender, and firm size. The data suggests that young men ... Read more...

Blogs: VoxEU

The large and unequal impact of COVID-19 on workers

The spread of COVID-19 has already had a large negative impact on labour supply and earnings of workers in many countries. In this column, the authors leverage newly collected data from the US and the UK to sh... Read more...

Relevant research: Communities

Comparing conventional and machine-learning approaches to risk assessment in domestic abuse cases

Published February 2020, this paper finds evidence that the use of machine-learning can be an effective tool in assessing risk in domestic abuse cases, and so informing priorities for police response. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Wellbeing

The key determinants of happiness and misery

This CEP discussion paper, published in June 2017, provides evidence from survey data on USA, Australia, Britain and Indonesia which indicate the things that matter most to people’s life satisfaction are social relations... Read more...

Bloomberg News Wire

How Low U.K. Unemployment Masked Holes Exposed By Virus Pandemic

The U.K. has record-high employment and the lowest jobless rate since the 1970s. But the labor market - and many workers - are more vulnerable to the economic fallout from the coronavirus than those headline n... Read more...

Blogs: VoxEU

Building effective short-time work schemes for the COVID-19 crisis

Short-time work is a subsidy for temporary reductions in the number of hours worked in firms affected by temporary shocks. Evidence suggests that it can have large positive effects on employment and ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE European Politics and Policy

Coronavirus crisis: Coverage from around Europe

A selection of comments from academics, journalists and other experts on the crisis facing many countries across Europe. ... Read more...

Blogs: Vox

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

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

BBC Radio 3

Free Thinking: Does Growth Matter?

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

Blogs: LSE British Politics and Policy

Budget 2020: a bold response to coronavirus, but more must be done if it becomes widespread in the UK

While the 2020 Budget offers an overall adequate response to the challenges currently posed by coronavirus, there are three issues that need to be addressed further, especially as the outbreak becomes more wid... Read more...

BBC

Digital Planet

How can AI help police forces determine who might be most at risk of domestic abuse? Ria Ivandić talks about work being done at CEP to use existing information to help police prioritise emergenc... Read more...

BBC Radio 4 Analysis

Unequal England

Professor Stephen Machin, director of CEP, and Henry Overman, research director of CEP, contribute to an investigation into the differences in wages and opportunities across the country and why some towns and ... Read more...

National Review

Contra the Skeptics, Trade and Technology Really Do Benefit Most American Workers

Robots and other new technologies change the mix of tasks and jobs, but they do not decrease the overall demand for labor. Automation can replace existing tasks, especially jobs involving routine manual labor,... Read more...

New Statesman

The long and winding road to HS3

Transport upgrades are a key part of the Northern Powerhouse strategy, but there is some criticism about how much large-scale public investment in transport can act as a panacea for economic development. Profe... Read more...

Financial Times

UK backs restrictions on low-skilled migrants; Conservative government; Ministers say plans are based on aspects of Australia's points system

As part of the new system, the government is expected to drop plans for a salary threshold of £30,000 for applicants. The government immigration adviser, the Migration Advisory Committee, recommended las... Read more...

The Financial Times

Understanding the Lebanese financial crisis

A guest post by Fadi Hassan, a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Ugo Panizza, a professor of economics and the Pitchet chair in finance and development at the... Read more...

Financial Times

The myth of crowding out

Yet, as it turns out, this economic theory might not hold. A new working paper by Enrico Moretti, John Van Reenen, , Claudia Steinwender, from the economics departments of the University of California, Berkeley and MIT,... Read more...

Local Government Chronicle

Henry Overman: Manifestos show parties don’t understand regional divides

Policies targeted at specific places don't always benefit the intended people, the research director of the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance warns. ... Read more...

City AM

Getting Brexit done will not help UK economy, say academics

Carrying out Brexit will not improve the UK's struggling economy but will usher in years more uncertainty about Britain's trading relationships, a new report has said. The hard Brexit that Prime Minister Boris J... Read more...

Bloomberg

Plunging Social Mobility in U.K. Was a Brexit Factor, Study Says

Britain has become much less socially mobile in recent decades, especially in areas that voted for Brexit in 2016, according to a new report by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.... Read more...

05/11/2019

The Independent - Daily Edition

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...

Los Angeles Times

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

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

Office for National Statistics

ONS Research Excellence Awards 2019 - People's Choice Award to Dr Swati Dhingra

Congratulations to Dr Swati Dhingra, associate professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Performance, who has won the People's Choice Award at the ONS research excellence awards 2019. The ONS's research excell... Read more...

Press Release

The gig economy; management; inequality; later life outcomes

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

Wbur (Radio)

Brexit's Long Term Economic Impact (Audio)

Host Jeremy Hobson speaks with international trade expert Thomas Sampson of the London School of Economics about the potential long-term economic impacts of Brexit. The economic impact of Boris Johnson's Brexit proposa... Read more...

Metro (UK)

Locals pay the price for ban on second homes in St Ives

But their ban has backfired, according to a report by the London School of Economics. The developers have simply walked away, causing the number of new homes being built to shrink and for prices to soar. And ... Read more...

Financial Post

William Watson: How trading with thuggish China helped the U.S.

A new research paper from the U.S. Federal Reserve Board suggests the record is not all negative - as you might actually expect, given that China's success in penetrating the U.S. market was not imposed on Americans but ... Read more...

Falmouth Packet

Second homes ban in St Ives, Cornwall backfires according to new study

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Cornwall Live

St Ives second homes ban backfired new study claims

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The Telegraph

St Ives second home ban backfires as construction companies leave and house prices rise, LSE study finds

However, Professor Christian Hilber believes the ban could increase the "ghost town effect" as it inadvertently reduced the number of available homes due to building companies finding new work in surrounding areas. The ... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

The ABCD of social mobility: four game-changing policies

How can social mobility be improved? Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin write that merely tweaking existing policies will not transform society. They outline four major changes that have the potential to actually do so.... Read more...

Research Professional

Swings and silicon roundabouts

Max Nathan is an associate professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. London's technology ecosystem is thriving. The city has more than 50,000 tech firms, with over 260,000 employe... Read more...

Financial Times

Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal poses a rules-of-origin conundrum

Thomas Sampson If Brexit is a divorce, then Northern Ireland is a child at the centre of a messy custody fight. The new Brexit deal seeks to solve the Irish border problem through joint custody. Whether Northern Ireland... Read more...

Local Government Chronicle

Henry Overman: Lessons on how to help ‘left behind places’

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

Investors Chronicle

Brexit: Trick or Treat?

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

What Works Centre for Economic Growth Blog

How can evidence-based policy help in disadvantaged places?

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

The Conversation – France

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

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

OUP blog

How alternative employment contracts affect low wage workers

Contemporary labour markets are characterised by more atypical or alternative work arrangements. Some of these - like independent contractors - have emerged in the context of self-employment, while others - like zero hou... Read more...

Quartz

Girls’ math scores suffer when they grow up in families biased towards sons

A team that included two Northwestern researchers - Sapienza and David Figlio, dean of the School of Education and Social Policy—conducted two analyses to examine whether a family’s attitude toward boys and girls cou... Read more...

Guardian

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

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

The Sunday Times

Johnson's deal loosens ties with EU - and that won't help; 'Level playing field' commitments have been watered down. However, much has yet to be decided, says David Smith

Professor Jonathan Portes and Thomas Sampson, among the authors of the UK in a Changing Europe report, said that while the political declaration provided scope for a closer relationship with the EU than Johnson had first... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Johnson's deal loosens ties with EU - and that won't help; 'Level playing field' commitments have been watered down. However, much has yet to be decided, says David Smith

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The Century Foundation

How Robots Are Beginning to Affect Workers and Their Wages

Another widely cited study - by Georg Graetz at Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics - also uses the IFR data but a different methodology, and shows that industrial robots increase produc... Read more...

Leverhulme Trust

2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners

Congratulations to Benjamin Moll and Xavier Jaravel, who are both winners of this year's Philip Leverhulme Prizes.... Read more...

Zonebourse

GB: inflation rate unchanged at 1.7% in September (ONS)

Dennis Novy, professor of economics at the University of Warwick, points out that the UK experienced a surge in inflation in 2016 after the Brexit referendum, which had drastically slumped the pound by around 10%, which ... Read more...

The Sunday Times (London)

Sterling to rally further as hopes grow for Brexit breakthrough

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

Financial Times

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

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

The Independent

Boris Johnson's Brexit plan would leave everyone in the UK £2,000 worse off, study finds

Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan would leave knock up to £50bn off the economy and leave everyone in the UK £2,000 worse off, new analysis has found. The Academic think-tank The UK in a Changing Europe sa... Read more...

The Guardian

Without the Beeching report there might not have been Brexit

Even now, 56 years after its release, you don't need to be a transport buff to know about the Beeching report. Following its publication in March 1963, hundreds of stations and thousands of miles of track were axed. The ... Read more...

Investors Chronicle

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

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

Irish Independent

US economy relies on innovation that needs helping hand; OPINION

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

LSE Business Review

Measuring the effect of innovation on productivity inside firms

A new data set helps address the lack of innovation data able to capture firms' internal mechanisms and behaviours, write Max Nathan and Anna Cecilia Rosso. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Panel

New dawn fades: The post-referendum rise in import costs has hurt UK workers

Some commentators argue that globalisation is systematically connected to the real-wage and productivity stagnation seen across the developed world. This column analyses the relationship between international trade and w... Read more...

The Times

Breathing polluted air on exam day can lower students' grades; CLEAN AIR FOR ALL Pollution link to exams

Researchers warned that pollution exposure before "high stakes" tests such as A levels risked serious consequences, as one poor day could cost pupils a university place. Sefi Roth, of the London School of Economics, who ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Book Review: Social Mobility and its Enemies by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin

In Social Mobility and its Enemies, Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin offer a thought-provoking assessment of the state of social mobility in Britain. In the context of much social and political change and rising level... Read more...

CVER Blog

Is there a socio-economic gap in students’ academic match?

Young people from less well-off backgrounds are more likely to pursue lower ranked upper-secondary qualifications than their prior attainment would suggest that they can achieve. Recent research from Konstantina Maragko... Read more...

LesEchos.fr

Avoir raison contre tous / To be right against all

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

C-Span

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

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

mepca

A Call to (Robotic) Arms

In their robotics focussed study carried out in 2015, Graetz and Michaels concluded that robot densification increased the annual growth of GDP and labour productivity by about 0.37% and 0.36% respectively across 17 coun... Read more...

EXPRESS (Online)

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

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

The Sunday Telegraph (London)

Build 1,000 'commuter villages' on green belt, ministers urged

Home Affairs editor A THOUSAND "commuter villages" with 2.1million new homes should be built on the green belt near railway stations to help solve the housing crisis, a leading government adviser and academic has propose... Read more...

The Sunday Telegraph

Red alert for unions as Corbyn and Labour bid to reverse tide of decline; With the dogfight between pilots and airlines called off, overall disputes are the lowest on record amid a long-term fall in union members

Prof Stephen Machin, at the London School of Economics, says on the decline in membership: "It is not because of getting rid of unions where they are already in place, it is actually the failure to organise new workplace... Read more...

The Telegraph

How the trade unions’ Labour stranglehold is belying their increasing irrelevance in the workplace

Prof Stephen Machin at the London School of Economics says on the decline in membership: "It is not because of getting rid of unions where they are already in place, it is actually the failure to organise new workplaces.... Read more...

EALE

Young Labour Economist Prize Winner 2019

2019 winner: Sara Signorelli (Paris School of Economics) Do skilled migrants compete with native workers? Analysis of a selective immigration policy ... Read more...

Business in Vancouver

How Canada can up the country’s lacklustre innovation game

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

Youtube

LSE Shape the World

Interview with CEP’s Ria Ivandic about the CEP Crime research programme.    ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service

BBC Radio 4

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

MENAFN

The AI road to serfdom?

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...

Financial Times

Martin Wolf: why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy

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

Správy RTVS (Radio and Television of Slovakia)

Interview with Dennis Novy

On Brexit and the potential future trading options for the UK and the EU27. This interview was part of a larger piece for the 6 o'clock news programme. ... Read more...

The Sunday Times

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

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

WeForum

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

Of course, the elasticity of the response to automation is an empirical question. Recent studies indeed find evidence of positive employment responses in some industries with new information technologies, automation, and... Read more...

VOXEU

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

Of course, the elasticity of the response to automation is an empirical question. Recent studies indeed find evidence of positive employment responses in some industries with new information technologies, automation, and... Read more...

WTO

WTO announces winners of 2019 Essay Award for Young Economists

The winners of the 2019 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists are Jan Bakker of Oxford University and Federico Huneeus of Princeton University, who were ranked in equal first place by the Selection Panel. They will share ... Read more...

The Conversation

A no-deal Brexit won’t end the uncertainty for business

A no-deal Brexit means that Britain will revert to WTO rules to trade with the EU and the rest of the world. This means import duties and various controls on trade, which economists at LSE's Centre for Economic Performan... Read more...

Capital (Newspaper)

What would happen if Facebook were turned off?

Such things occur outside idle thought experiments. Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford, studied the fortunes of Roman-era towns in Britain and France. When t... Read more...

Eurasia Review

Jihadi Attacks, Media, And Local Anti-Muslim Hate Crime – Analysis

The attacks on mosques in Oslo and Christchurch have again called attention to the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment that is increasingly becoming normalised in media and on social platforms. This column studies the role the... Read more...

LSE Business Review

How management structures can help firms hire and keep their best people

More structured managerial practices have a strong relationship with firm productivity, writes Daniela Scur. ... Read more...

China Times

Chinese editorial, Hong Kong, Taiwan, are you happy?

The national survey on happiness index is a late development, because social economists have found that although the economies of various countries will grow more or less, the happiness of the people has not continued to... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Portal

Jihadi attacks, media, and local anti-Muslim hate crime

The attacks on mosques in Oslo and Christchurch have again called attention to the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment that is increasingly becoming normalised in media and on social platforms. This column studies the role the... Read more...

The UK in a changing Europe

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

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

The National (Online)

Pound recovers after MPs secure right to table to bills blocking no-deal Brexit

Although the short-term impact of a no-deal Brexit could be relatively benign, leaving without a deal would prove costly in the long term, a new paper by the UK in a Changing Europe and the London School of Economics' Ce... Read more...

Metro

What does the pound falling mean for you?

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...

Metro Online

What does the pound falling mean for you?

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...

Die Welt

The dream of a better life for children is in danger; Not even half of the 30-year-old British reach the salary level of their parents. The phenomenon is less pronounced in Germany

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...

The Guardian

From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how the prison economy works

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Marketnews.com

MNI INTERVIEW: BOE Likely Understating Impact Of Sterling Fall

LONDON (MNI) - The Bank of England risks substantially underestimating the upward inflationary pressure from sterling's depreciation due its practice of using trade weights to assess the impact of currency movements, a s... Read more...

Forbes Online

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

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

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)

Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities

By Felipe Carozzi In a recent paper we study how air pollution - as measured by fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration - is shaped by cities' population density in the United States. In particular, we want to fin... Read more...

CNN International [Aired 15:00 ET]

Queen Elizabeth Approves U.K. Prime Minister's Request to Suspend Parliament; European Commission Reacts to Boris Johnson's Move to Prorogue U.K. Parliament; Italian Parties Reach Deal to Form New Government. Aired 3-4p ET

QUEST: John Van Reenen is professor of economics at MIT, he says a no-deal Brexit is a battle for the soul of Britain. Why? JOHN VAN REENEN, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, MIT: It's about the soul of Britain. I think today, Bo... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Why No-Deal Brexit is a battle for the soul of our nation

Britain is lurching towards an economic, political and moral disaster, writes John Van Reenen.... Read more...

El Sol de Cualtla

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

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

La Republica

Guerra comercial está llevando a algunas empresas a reducir inversiones", The Economist / Trade war is leading some companies to reduce investments, The Economist

The high level of uncertainty is measurable. A 2016 study by Scott Baker of Northwestern University, Nick Bloom of Stanford University, and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago, quantified political uncertainty in t... Read more...

OUPblog

How helping disabled people find employment affects the job market

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

LSE Business Review

Compact cities have many advantages – clean air isn't one of them

Despite shorter commutes and better access to commercial and recreational activities, dense cities create environmental pollution, write Sefi Roth and Felipe Carozzi. ... Read more...

U.S News.com

Urban Growth and Ivory Towers

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

LSE Business Review

Is the big-box store killing Main Street?

City centres aren't dying as a response to big-box openings; they are only changing their commercial structure, writes Maria Sanchez-Vidal. ... Read more...

New QQ

Will the size of the city be born affecting personal income?

What is the mechanism of the impact of the size of a native city on an individual's adult income? A general "level solidification" is obviously not fully explained. Therefore, the two authors of the above study, French e... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Trade with China benefited US consumers

A large increase in US consumers' purchasing power compensated for trade-related job losses, write <b?Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager. This blog post appeared first on the LSE USA blog. It's based on 'What are the Pric... Read more...

British Politics and Policy at LSE (blog)

Residential mobility in the UK: how distance and local economic conditions drive residential choices

Monica Langella and Alan Manning find that high unemployment in an area induces people to move away, and has an even stronger effect on the attractiveness of that area to potential movers. They also find that younger and... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)

Why banning the construction of second homes in St. Ives and elsewhere has been a bad idea and what to do instead

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Wired

The foods you'll really need to stockpile for a no-deal Brexit

A report commissioned by dairy giant Arla and published last year by the London School of Economics makes for sobering reading. In a press release accompanying the release of the report, the MD of the company that commis... Read more...

Vox CEPR Policy Portal (video)

Investing in Brexit

As Brexit nears (again), are British firms choosing to invest in the UK or in other European markets? Are European firms investing in the UK to preserve access to its markets? And has "global Britain" got off the drawing... Read more...

Forbes

How To Generate More Innovation In America

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...

LSE US Centre

Despite job losses, lower prices from trade with China have left US households massively better off

When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, exports to the US market surged. In new research Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager find that the rise of lower priced Chinese imports also helped to reduce prices of U... Read more...

enmibarrio-parquelisboa (blog)

Los robots ya están aquí / The robots are already here

Here it is interesting to visualize the implementation of industrial robots, the reference to the work of Graetz and Michaels, "Robots at work", of which they contribute the published picture 'Number of Industrial Robot... Read more...

Tech Bang

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

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

Bloomberg

Great Ideas Are Growing Scarce. That's Not So Great.

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...

What Works Well (blog)

Will that Lamborghini make me happy?

To help John and the journalist, we asked our World Wellbeing Panel to comment on the wellbeing arising from luxury goods. With aspirations of one day owning that Lamborghini, we expected our panel of economists to agree... Read more...

Conversable Economist

Innovation Policy: Federal Support for R&D Falls as its Importance Rises

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...

Open Access Government

'Remainers' suffered mental distress equivalent to migraine after Brexit vote

The research by Nick Powdthavee, of Warwick Business School, Anke Plagnol, of City University London, Andrew Clark, of Paris School of Economics, and Paul Frijters, of the London School of Economics, also found that repo... Read more...

CityLab

Why Children Born in Big Cities Earn More As Adults

That's the question at the heart of a new study published in the Journal of Urban Economics. In the study, economists Cleement Bosquet of the University of Cergy-Pontoise in France and Henry G. Overman of the London Scho... Read more...

Financial Times

What is the effect of the falling pound on Brexit Britain?

"But all UK households lose from a depreciation that pushes up the cost of imported goods, raising prices in the shops and eroding the real value of their earnings and savings. Research published by the London School of ... Read more...

World Finance

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

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

LSE Business Review

Most trade in services happens between cities rather than countries

Facilitating trade in services, particularly knowledge-intensive ones, requires strong global cities as trade hubs, write Saul Estrin and Daniel Shapiro.... Read more...

Forbes Mexico

Bored?, let's look for job happiness

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

i-Independent (Print)

How phonics took over for teaching children to read in primary schools

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...

LSE Business Review

The 2018 trade war: consumers are paying a high price

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

LSE Business Review

Workers respond to local job losses by migrating and changing the commute

New UK evidence may lend support to heavier investment in transport infrastructure that facilitates longer-distance commuting, write Michael Amior and Alan Manning.... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Panel

Trade wars may ‘bloc up’ world trade

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

LSE US Centre

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

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

Secolo d’italia

Benessere e azionariato dei lavoratori, avanza un nuovo “modello”? / Welfare and employee ownership, is there a new "model" advancing?

The study conducted by Christian Krekel, George Ward and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve tries to shed light on the relationship between well-being and company performance. ... Read more...

Emirates-Business.ae

America cannot shake the Baumol cost disease

But looking at the details of health-care pricing casts doubt on this explanation. For example, economists Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen have uncovered a number of odd anomalies in the way ... Read more...

The Times

Ban on second homes backfires in Cornwall

A study at the London School of Economics has found that such bans damage local construction and tourism industries. At the same time, outsiders, who are banned from new-build homes, flood the market for older places, pu... Read more...

BNN Bloomberg

America Can’t Shake the Cost Disease

But looking at the details of health-care pricing casts doubt on this explanation. For example, economists Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen have uncovered a number of odd anomalies in the way ... Read more...

The Economist

How phonics took over English schools

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...

News Medical.net

New curriculum to improve soft skills in schools boosts children’s health and behaviour

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LSE News

New soft skills training in schools improves children’s health and behaviour

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...

Finans.dk

Topforsker advarer: Regelstramning er nytteløs – bankers forsvar mod hvidvask har spillet fallit / Top researcher warns: Regulatory tightening is useless - banks' defense against money laundering has failed

"We have a money laundering system that doesn't work. Therefore, we must not just introduce more rules. It does not help. Extensive reform is urgently needed," says Professor Tom Kirchmaier, who researches at Copenhagen ... Read more...

What Works Wellbeing (blog)

HOW WELLBEING IMPACTS BUSINESS, AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RETAIL, MANUFACTURING, FINANCE, AND SERVICES

This week's guest blog comes from Christian Krekel, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, working with George Ward from MIT Sloan and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve from Oxford Unive... Read more...

VideoVox

The Rise of Superstar Firms

John Van Reenen, MIT, discusses work he has done on how 'superstar firms' such as Google and Apple have changed the global economy. The superstars, although big, employ relatively few workers and this has contributed to ... Read more...

TES (Online)

What if schools valued wellbeing more than results?

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...

Forbes

How Beneficial Could Apprenticeships Be In The Future Of Work?

A recent study set out to explore how effective apprenticeships were at supporting students as they both learn new skills and make their way into the workplace. The researchers assess young people who completed their GCS... Read more...

Forbes

New Zealand Ditches GDP For Happiness And Wellbeing

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

What works centre for local economic growth (blog)

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

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

VoxEUVideoVox

Did Brexit Break the Bank?

CEPR Fellow Swati Dhingra, LSE, looks at what Brexit tells us about the contribution of globalisation to the productivity and wage stagnation we see across the developed world. Following the Brexit vote, sterling suffere... Read more...

BBC Radio 4 (7/8/2019 8:36:47 PM)

BBC Radio 4 PM

Snippet: ...'s virtually impossible However good the advice they get is are trying to understand the make your way through that is extremely hard and Professor Sandra McNally runs the centre for vocational education rese... Read more...

BBC Online

Lockington Crescent: 'We camped in our cars to buy a house'

Properties on the Lockington Crescent estate were on the market for between £4,500 and £7,000 - considerably cheaper than in London, where homes were up to 30% more expensive, according to economic historian ... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review

Should nationality figure into eurozone leadership choices?

Nicholas Bloom of Stanford made an analogy with a quite different arena: "Barcelona does not pick its team based on being born in Barcelona—if it did it would not win anything. The ECB should also pick the best." So to... Read more...

LSE IN PARLIAMENT

Lord Layard contributes to Lords debate on Apprenticeships and refers to LSE research findings on the economics of T-levels

According to LSE research (from the Centre for Vocational Educational Research) apprentices are earning 20% more than the people who take the full-time college route, Lord Layard said in his contribution to the debate ar... Read more...

Mind Matters

The Smartest Phone Is Silent in Class

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...

naked capitalism

Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe

By Gianmarco Ottaviano, Professor of Economics, Bocconi University. Originally published at VoxEU... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Portal

The economic geography of sovereignist Europe

By Gianmarco Ottaviano Economic geography strikes back. After a couple of decades of easy talk about the 'death of distance' in the age of globalisation, the promise of a world of rising living standards for all is inc... Read more...

McKinsey & Company

Happiness and work: An interview with Lord Richard Layard

The preeminent happiness researcher shares some surprising results on connecting well-being, mental health, and how employers can play a role in improving our lives at work. ... Read more...

Le Monde

When the tax at 75% was removed, the number of taxpayers declaring more than 1 million euros per year has increased

The income declared by the richest fell sharply between 2012 and 2013, report four economists, among whom Philippe Aghion. But is this a real decrease, or a more widespread practice of tax optimization?... Read more...

Project Syndicate

The Roots of Our Discontent

Tito Boeri interviews Raghuram G. Rajan With industrialized countries beset by a political backlash against trade, technology, migration, and other hallmarks of the modern global economy, expert solutions are needed now... Read more...

BBC Radio

Today in Parliament (18:10 – 22:00)

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

La República

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

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

The Pioneer

Why women must work

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

Investors Chronicle FT

Damaging uncertainty

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

The Independent

Decline in living standards and GDP drop to result from Brexit, report finds

The slide in sterling since the referendum has pushed up prices without doing much to boost UK exports, while wage growth has lagged behind inflation, the analysis has found. Authors cite estimates by the London School o... Read more...

CVER blog

Changing Aspirations and Outcomes in Post-16 Education

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...

LSE Business Review

When firms have asymmetric market power, stronger multilateral cooperation is needed

Free trade is not necessarily efficient when larger, more productive firms can charge higher markups than smaller, less productive ones, write Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Matteo Salto. ... Read more...

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Three Years since the Brexit Vote: Looking Back

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

New York Times (International Ed)

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

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

San Francisco Business Times Online

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

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The Independent

Could a smartphone ban in schools curb cyberbullying?

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...

VoxEU

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

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

Fast Company

Hate your job? Being unhappy at work might have long-term health effects

"The striking fact is that over time, people simply do not adapt to being unemployed," says Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, an associate professor of economics and strategy at Oxford University and associate editor of th... Read more...

Farming UK

Egg producers criticise critical labour after Brexit list

MAC chairman Professor Alan Manning said: "Today's labour market is very different to the one we reviewed when the last SOL was published in 2013. "Unemployment is lower and employers in various industries are facing di... Read more...

Irish Examiner

Brexit pound slide ‘hit wages’

In sectors where import prices rose because of the drop in sterling, training and wages for workers fell, the paper said. That could have negative long-term implications for productivity, skills and living standards, iss... Read more...

BreakingNews.ie

BUSINESS NEWS Brexit pound slide 'hit wages'

UK workers took a hit from the Brexit-related depreciation in the pound in the form of lower wages and training, according to an academic paper. In sectors where import prices rose because of the drop in sterling, train... Read more...

Bloomberg

Brexit’s Pound Drop Hurt Workers Without Boosting Exports

In sectors where import prices rose because of the drop in sterling, training and wages for workers fell, the paper said. That could have negative long-term implications for productivity, skills and living standards, iss... Read more...

Emirates-Business.ae

The brave new world of rival trading blocs

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

The Daily Telegraph

Cambridge applicants fail to make the grades

The statistics reflect research warnings that the majority of A-level grades predicted by teachers are incorrect. A 2016 report by Dr Gill Wyness of the UCL Institute of Education found that one in six A-level grade pred... Read more...

The Economist

Four years after its steelworks shut, Redcar is recovering

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...

Lewiston Sun Journal

Robert Samuelson: Trade seen as a way to punish adversaries

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

The Globe and Mail (Canada)

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

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

Spectator

Donald Trump has done Britain a favour with his NHS grab

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

WFAE 90.70 (podcast)

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

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Euronews

Is the US right to claim the EU is not treating it fairly on trade?

The US and the EU may be threatening each other with tariffs, but experts say the trade relationship is balanced. "I find it difficult to understand exactly what the basis is for the US administration's complaints on th... Read more...

KCCU (podcast)

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

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KGOU (podcast)

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

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WPPB (podcast)

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

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KCLU (podcast)

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

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KTEP (podcast)

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

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

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Delmarva Public Radio (podcast)

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

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Deseret News

Robert Samuelson: The brave new world of trading blocs

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Business Times

The brave new world of trading blocs

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Santa Cruz Sentinel

Robert Samuelson: The brave new world of trading blocs

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Daily Tribune

News of Bahrain - The trade wars are here. Are trade blocs next?

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

LSE Brexit blog

How the post-Brexit pound has hurt Britain’s workers

The unexpected result of the Brexit referendum, working through the rapid depreciation of sterling, has hurt British workers. Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra and Stephen Machin (LSE) show that the big drop in the value of the p... Read more...

ArcaMax

The brave new world of trading blocs

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Alabama Public Radio (podcast)

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

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

L' Adige

Festival, serve un rilancio non la rivoluzione / Festival, we need a revival, not a revolution

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...

NPR (Radio)

All Things Considered (Interview with Dennis Novy) - The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Moving Away From Big Multi-Lateral Trade Agreements

AUDIE CORNISH: One item on the docket for Trump's visit this week - negotiating a potential trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. to go into effect after the U.K.'s expected departure from the European Union. The nego... Read more...

The Washington Post

The trade wars are here. Are trade blocs next?

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

Financial Times

UK urged to expand priority list of occupations open to migrants

Explaining the changes, Professor Alan Manning, chair of the committee, said the labour market was "very different" to the one that existed during the last shortage occupations review six years ago."Unemployment is lower... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Apprenticeships bring returns for young people with low-medium qualifications

However, pay varies among different sectors, which contributes to an earnings gap between men and women, write Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura. ... Read more...

The Sun

SAJ'S MIGRATION BID Sajid Javid to scrap plans that recommended EU migrants must earn £30k to work in Brexit Britain

In the letter to MAC chair Professor Alan Manning he makes clear he now wants the Committee "involved in the process". He says: "The Government is committed to engaging extensively over the course of this year before co... Read more...

Manufactura

Inteligencia artificial y automatización, ¿el fin del trabajo humano?

In this sense, one of the most complete studies to date was carried out by the economists Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, of Uppsala University and the London School of Economics (in Robots at Work, The Review of Economic... Read more...

Raconteur

Can and should manufacturing be brought home?

Dr Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at the London School of Economics, specialising in globalisation and industrial policy, says there's not enough trained staff to power it. "Compared to other creative or tech-based ... Read more...

BBC Radio Kent

BBC Kent (5/20/2019 8:09:59 AM)

Snippet ... 80% of new housing is going on so called brownfield land in the south-east but relatively little brownfield land in the right places at the you can develop a reasonable prices that have to build on some green... Read more...

LBC

LBC (5/19/2019 7:27:22 AM)

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...

BBC News Channel

BBC News

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...

BBC Wales Television

Breakfast

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...

The Daily Telegraph

School mobile phone ban will help pupils focus

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...

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial: Counting the trade war’s casualties

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

Financial Times

‘Global Britain’ is an illusion because distance has not died

Distance matters, big time. Moreover, it matters more now than it did a century ago. Thus, another study reveals that the negative effect of distance was larger between 1950 and 2000 than it had been between 1870 and 191... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

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

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Financial Times

US consumers start to pay price of trade war with China

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

BBC News

Who loses out in the US-China trade war?

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NPR (Radio)

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

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The Australian Financial Review

Job Markets in Top Gear

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

apolitical

Poor children have poor outcomes — but income is only half the story

This article was written by professor Andrew E. Clark (LSE), and professor Conchita D'Ambrosi and Marta Barazzetta, from the University of Luxembourg. A version of this article was first published on the LSE blog. For mo... Read more...

The New York Times

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

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The New York Times

Trump’s Tariffs Are a New Tax on Americans

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Speigel Online

"Dieser Handelskrieg kann noch viel hässlicher werden"

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Capital. Gr

What does Greece 'win' from the Single European Market and what 'others'

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Le Monde

Le marché intérieur de l’Union européenne profite d’abord à Zurich et à Londres / The internal market of the European Union benefits first in Zurich and London

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RTL Today

Luxembourg, London, and Zurich inhabitants benefit the most from EU Single Market

A comprehensive study undertaken by the Bertelmann Stiftung and University of Sussex examines the real impact of the EU Single Market on incomes. Economists Giordano Mion (University of Sussex) and Dominic Ponattu (Bert... Read more...

Financial Times

Why life in the UK feels better than ever

Since the referendum, self-reported British subjective wellbeing has stagnated, finds a study led by Georgios Kavetsos of Queen Mary University of London. Pro-Europeans are predictably upset, but even anti-Europeans saw ... Read more...

The Economist

How is Brexit affecting FDI into Britain?

Brexit affects domestic firms, too. In January Barclays bank received legal approval to move €190bn ($213bn) of assets to Dublin, fearing no-deal. The London School of Economics recently found the Brexit vote had ca... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Amplifying Islamophobic hate crime: UK media in the wake of terror attacks

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin study the empirical connections between local anti-Muslim hate crimes and international jihadi terror attacks. They find that local Muslim populations face a media-magnified... Read more...

Business Insider Italia

Il mercato unico ha fatto guadagnare 800 euro all’anno ai cittadini dell’Ue. Ma la Germania e i paesi del centro intascano di più / The single market has earned 800 euros a year for EU citizens. But Germany and the countries of the center pocket more

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Taiwan News

EU single market benefits Germany and export hubs most

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Spiegel Online

So unterschiedlich profitieren Europäer vom Binnenmarkt / Europeans benefit so differently from the single market

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The Conversation AU

Bill Shorten's promise of a living wage is both realistic and necessary. But it's not enough

Exbibit C: Inequality is increasing, a point recently acknowledged by the Productivity Commission. At the top it seems to be driven more by the seeking of favours than by productivity, a point persuasively argued by Gigi... Read more...

CITY AM

Small businesses to be given artificial intelligence boost

Dr Anna Valero, innovation fellow at the London School of Economics, said the results of the funding would inform local and national governments to improve access to technology.... Read more...

Farmers Weekly

Agricultural workers at risk from minimum wage violations

Workers in the agricultural sector are among the most vulnerable to being paid below the minimum wage and HMRC needs to be more proactive in punishing non-compliant businesses, a leading employment expert has warned. ... Read more...

American Economic Review

What drives differences in management?

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Quarterly Journal of Economics

Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation

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Journal of Urban Economics

Relocation of public sector workers: Evaluating a place-based policy

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LSE Politics & Policy Blog

Childhood circumstances and young adult outcomes: the role of parental financial problems

Is there a relationship between childhood circumstances and outcomes later on in life? Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, and Marta Barazzetta consider the cognitive and non-cognitive consequences on young adults who ... Read more...

Parliamentary Debate

Migration Advisory Cttee (MAC) - Parliamentary Debate

During a debate on the composition of the MAC, it was noted that the Chairman, Professor Alan Manning, is an economist from LSE. George Eustice MP (Con, Cambourne and Redruth) called for the Cttee to be expanded to bring... Read more...

Bloomberg

The US Doesn't Need More Superstar Companies

Economists David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen, who wrote one of the first papers to bring attention to the phenomenon of rising concentration, also endorse a story of so-calle... Read more...

Business Standard

Are superstar companies killing competition and taking over the US economy?

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CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog

Financial innovation in mortgage products spurred the rapid increase in credit and house price growth during the last housing boom

In a new CEP Discussion Paper, "Affordability, Financial Innovation and the Start of the Housing Boom" my coauthors and I study the relationship between the start of the housing boom and the use of non-traditional mortga... Read more...

CVER blog

Family Matters: how early disadvantage impacts employment outcomes of young people

Dr Stefan Speckesser, Dr Matthew Bursnall and Jamie Moore share the findings of a new report.... Read more...

Guardian

Poorer children 'twice as likely to be out of work in later life'

Dr Stefan Speckesser from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, which conducted the analysis, said the study showed that some local areas were more successfully tackling the negative effects of disadvan... Read more...

The Times

Change UK offers a clean sheet to tackle injustices that have plagued our society for too long

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Metro

Business Briefing: Youths from poor homes more likely to be jobless

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Huffington Post

'Youth Jobs Gap' Means Poorer Children More Likely To Be Out Of Work Than Richer Peers

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Times Education Supplement

Disadvantaged students left behind in 'youth jobs gap'

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Independent

'Youth Jobs Gap' Means Poorer Children More Likely To Be Out Of Work Than Richer Peers

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Shropshire Star

Study reveals youth jobs gap between rich and poor

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VOX.eu

Employee wellbeing, productivity, and firm performance: Evidence from 1.8 million employees

A growing number of companies place a high priority on the wellbeing of their workers, assuming that happier workers will lead to improved productivity. This column examines this link based on a meta-analysis of independ... Read more...

VOX Talks (Podcast)

The 2018 trade war

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Ekonamik

The Short-Term Effects of Trade Tariffs

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LSE Business Review

The cost of discrimination against senior Jewish managers in Nazi Germany

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

Harvard Business Review

How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward

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

Finance.co.uk

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

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

Phys.org

Parental influence on educational attainment much greater than previously thought, new research finds

Dr. Federico Rossi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Warwick University and Dr. Marta De Philippis of the Bank of Italy's Department of Economics and Statistics investigated the school performance of... Read more...

Dawn

Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out

Researchers at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance found that the "subjective well-being," or happiness, of Britons has declined since the 2016 referendum regardless of a person's position on ... Read more...

Caixan online / The blog of the Shannon Economic Academic Circle

Do we need industrial policies? Evidence from regional funding programs

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

Eurasia Review

AI Technology And Gender Inequality – Analysis

There is growing concern that human jobs are being replaced by the rapid technological progress of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and automation (Acemoglu and Restrepo 2017, Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2014, Ford 20... Read more...

The Times of Israel

‘Brexhaustion’: Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out

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ABC News

Brexhaustion: Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out

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GENERATION GAP

Evidence that young Brits are now less likely to ‘do better’ than their parents

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

Daily Mail

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

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

Abbotsford News (Newspaper)

Brexhaustion: Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out

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NIHCM Foundation

Announcing the Winners of the 25th Annual Research Award

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Toronto Star Online

Schools struggle with phone bans: ‘These devices continue to cause major problems’

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...

DIAL podcast

Jo Blanden: How well are youngsters getting on compared with mum and dad?

In Episode 4 of the DIAL Podcast, Dr Jo Blanden from the University of Surrey talks about her research using the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society to look at home ownership and earnings for younger... Read more...

LSE Business Review

The value of having a view to a canal

House prices indicate the value of canals as an environmental resource to local residents in England and Wales, write Stephen Gibbons, Cong Peng and Cheng Keat Tang. ... Read more...

DAILY POST

Less cheese, fish, veg, but more carbs - how a worse case Brexit could hit your weekly shop

...roposed extensions to the official date for leaving Europe, the deadline is creeping closer.In this article, we take a look at how Brexit could impact your weekly shop. Less cheese (Image: Sunday Mirror) A report by ... Read more...

ITIF

The Case Against Taxing Robots

Robots are already driving productivity. Investment in robots contributed to 10 percent of GDP growth per capita in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1993 to 2016.5 There is also... Read more...

PRI (Radio)

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

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Log24

Czy roboty zabiora nam prace? / Will robots take our work?

Robots increase productivity when used for tasks that perform more efficiently and at a higher and more stable level of quality than people. In a research focused on robotics for the Center for Economic Performance at th... Read more...

Bloomberg.com

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

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TIME

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

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Wall Street Journal

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

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The Economist

Trade talks will probably end with tariffs still in place

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The Financial Times

Is the Lighthizer brigade about to charge through London?

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

Der Spiegel

Bringt eine Zollunion die Lösung? / Will a customs union bring the solution?

"How unequal power relations can be, is shown by the example of Turkey, whose customs union with the EU has hitherto been limited to industrial products. If the EU lowers the industrial tariffs for a particular trading p... Read more...

LSE Business Review

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

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

Afterposten

Britene er fortsatt i EU. Men brexit har alt hatt store omkostninger / The British are still in the EU. But brexit has all had great costs

The value of the British pound is ten percent lower than in 2016. A study by the Center for Economic Performance estimated that increased inflation had cost an average household an estimated weekly wage all the first yea... Read more...

TES (Online)

Vocational Stem courses beat degrees on pay

Snippet: ...es at non-Russell Group universities, new research shows. Researchers at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) affiliated with the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) - ... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)

Valuing the environmental benefits of canals using house prices

Our recent research investigates the value of this resource to local residents in England and Wales, using house prices. Analysis of house prices is a well-established method within urban and environmental economics for ... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

Voting for Brexit has already made the UK poorer

How has voting to leave the EU affected the UK's economy? The difficulty in answering this question is that we do not know what would have happened to the economy if Remain had won. Consequently, researchers look for way... Read more...

BBC World News (TV)

World Business Report

Snippet: ...according to a study by the London School of Economics British companies have delivered almost 11 billion dollars worth of new investment away from Britain through the EU since the Brexit vote so UK firms hik... Read more...

Tribune de Genève

Les Britanniques, fatigués et traumatisés par le Brexit /The British, tired and traumatized by Brexit

And the mood of the British is deeply affected. "The level of post-referendum satisfaction has deteriorated significantly in the UK compared to other EU countries," Georgios Kavetsos, a professor of behavioral science at... Read more...

City A.M. (Print)

THE COST OF TAKING BACK CONTROL

Snippet: ...A fall in the pound increases the costs of UK imports, and in the year after the vote consumer prices rose rapidly. Analysis from 2017 by researchers at the Centre for Economic Performance estimated that the ... Read more...

BBC World News (TV)

Business Briefing

Snippet: ... so what does the investment picture look like in the UK since the referendum in June 20 16th government figures show that last year business investment fell slightly by 0.4% to around 247 billion dollars acc... Read more...

El Diario de Madryn

Crear universidades impacta directamente en el crecimiento económico de la región / Creating universities directly impacts the economic growth of the region

Snippet: Creating universities directly impacts the economic growth of the region Snippet: According to a study conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics in England and the Massachusetts Institute of T... Read more...

LBC

Shelagh Fogarty 1 – 4PM

Snippet: ...know that element happens to be one OK that's enough Fabio 10 M&S group protection to keep control all leading Britain's conversation LBC with was speaking to Dr Thomas Sampson associate Professor of economic... Read more...

Finans

Bekæmpelsen af hvidvask er brudt sammen - sådan fikser vi systemet / The fight against money laundering has broken down - how we fix the system

We should shift the entire responsibility for money laundering with the respective financial authorities and invest much more in IT technology, writes CBS professor and expert in money laundering, Tom Kirchmaier.... Read more...

Investors Chronicle (Magazine)

The dark side of the jobs miracle

Secondly, workers are not being displaced by new technology. Business investment has fallen since 2016. There are countless reasons for this, many of them longstanding structural ones. One, which might have become more i... Read more...

Axios

Gutenberg's legacy and populism

Johannes Gutenberg died in 1468, a little over a decade after inventing movable type. But he had already set in motion a gold rush-like frenzy of European entrepreneurs who flung open print shops to cash in on his techno... Read more...

Stigler Centre

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

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Le Monde

Quand une star scientifique meurt, d'autres idées fleurissent /When a scientific star dies, other ideas flourish

In 2010, along with two other colleagues at MIT and the University of California at San Diego, he had already observed that the productivity of former star coworkers decreased by 5% to 8% after such a fatal event. "Since... Read more...

Financial Times

Improving resilience to devastating floods

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

Emirates Business

Low interest rates might be what is hurting growth

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

CNBC

Elizabeth Warren's $700 billion plan to get women off mommy track and boost their careers

And a review of studies by a Boston College economist Christina Olivetti and British colleague Barbara Petrongolo showed that nearly all developed nations have some form of subsidized early-childhood education. The U.S. ... Read more...

The LightHouse

A disorderly divorce: why a reversal of Brexit could be the best outcome

...13, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics.... Read more...

Fortune

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

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CNBC

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

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Innovaspain

Robots en América Latina: ¿cuántos son, dónde están y cuánto tributan? / Robots in Latin America: how many are they, where are they and how much are they taxed?

However, the phenomenon that has promoted the economic viability of new technology around the world has been the reduction of prices. According to Graetz and Michaels [5], the price of industrial robots has been reduced ... Read more...

CNN

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

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

Yahoo Finance

Low Interest Rates Might Be What's Hurting Growth

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

LSE Business Review

Regulating mobile money: what’s at stake

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

BBC News Mundo

Por qué tu celular puede hacer que gastes más cuando compras por internet / Why your cell phone can make you spend more when shopping online

Abi Adams, a specialist in behavioral economics at the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London, UK, tells the BBC that new websites and online shopping applications "are changing our relationship with money."... Read more...

Bloomberg Quint

Low interest rates might be what's hurting growth

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

BBC Radio 4

Money Box (11:20)

To what extent does the way we bank affect the way we spend, or don't spend, our money? Guest: Abi Adams, Behavioural Economist at the University of Oxford.... Read more...

Conversable Economist

What Did Gutenberg's Printing Press Actually Change?

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

Financial Times

No-deal Brexit will hammer both UK and EU

The report was authored by Giordano Mion, a professor of economy at the University of Sussex, and Dominic Ponattu, a researcher at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany.... Read more...

LSE Business Review

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

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

Independent

The UK will have very little control over trade tariffs in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Despite calls to 'take back control' the economic reality is that tariffs will be determined by the 'bound rates' that the UK already has in place under the WTO and, ultimately, no tariff regime will make up for loss of ... Read more...

The Unassuming Economist

Paul Cheshire on Urban Economics

In this interview, Paul Cheshire shares his over 50 years of experience on urban economics. He talks about why "land is making a comeback", reasons for the dramatic turnaround in the value of land, the "key tools in the ... Read more...

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Cities are the Most Welfare Enhancing Human Innovation In History

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Financial Times

Bank of England policymaker warns of risk to UK jobs market

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

LSE Business Review (Blog)

Gutenberg’s moving type propelled Europe towards the scientific revolution

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

Financial Times

Politics is failing on Brexit but economics has been on the money

A few days before the vote, three of the UK's most reputable economic institutions - the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Economic Performance at the... Read more...

BBC News

India election 2019: The next manufacturing superpower?

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

New Statesman America

Even if MPs pass Theresa May’s deal, the UK’s Brexit nightmare won’t end

If, in spite of all this, the government manages to negotiate a trade agreement with the EU, what will be the economic and political consequences for the UK? Will it all be worthwhile in the end? A good guide to the econ... Read more...

The HuffPost Canada

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

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

London Free Press

TVDSB welcomes proposed cellphone ban in Ontario classrooms

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

Vice

Doug Ford is Banning Cell Phones in Schools

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

Bloomberg

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

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

Financial Times

Pervasive uncertainty - Your weekly briefing on the UK economy

What we're reading Political Quarterly is continuing its excellent series on Britain and Brexit. This week Swati Dhingra examined what a post-Brexit trade policy could look like while Duncan Weldon asked if Brexit really... Read more...

CNBC

Elizabeth Warren wants to turn the internet into a literal sewer (service): Commentary

Arguably, it is also simply getting harder to innovate. As economists Nick Bloom, Chad Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb argue, .... ... Read more...

Truth on the Market (Blog)

Elizabeth Warren wants to turn the internet into a literal sewer (service)

Arguably, it is also simply getting harder to innovate. As economists Nick Bloom, Chad Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb argue, .... ... Read more...

iNews

How are British housebuilders making such juicy profits amid a housing crisis?

But according to a forthcoming paper from Felipe Carozzi, Christian Hilber and Xiaolun Yu of the London School of Economics, the clearest impact of Help to Buy has been to raise house prices, potentially by as much as 5 ... Read more...

The Economist (Online)

Why British housebuilders are making such juicy profits

Snippet: ...home buyers. It was supposed to increase home-ownership rates among the young. Economists dispute whether it actually has. But according to a forthcoming paper from Felipe Carozzi, Christian Hilber and Xiaolu... Read more...

BBC Radio Scotland

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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...

BBC2 (Broadcast)

Newsnight (19.20)

Ben Chu, Economics Editor of BBC Newsnight, showed a graph on FDI outflows from the UK (actual vs. expected) on BBC2 Newsnight on 07 March 2019. This graph is taken from CEP Brexit Analysis No. 13, Figure 2. 19:20min ... Read more...

China Daily

Trade dispute costing US billions, 2 studies find

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Market Watch

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

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The Washington Post

As trade deficit explodes, Trump finds he can’t escape the laws of economics

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BBC Radio 5 Live

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Unherd

Do police numbers really affect knife crime?

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...

Harvard Business Review

Research: Better-Managed Companies Pay Employees More Equally

By Nicholas Bloom Scott Ohlmacher Cristina Tello-Trillo Melanie Wallskog For 2010 and 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau fielded the Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS) in partnership with a research team of... Read more...

South China Morning Post

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

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The Japan Times

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

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Barrons

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

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Quartz

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

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The Political Quarterly

Brexit and the Future of Trade

The United Kingdom is one of the most open economies in the world. Its exports and imports were over £600 billion (30 per cent of UK GDP) each last year. It is 'extremely open' from an investment perspective, both its o... Read more...

USNews.com

A Boom in High-Rises Alters London's Skyline

But Christian Hilber, a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, says even if those empty apartments were occupied, they wouldn't help mitigate the affordable housing crisis.... Read more...

Woodrow Wilson School

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

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Long Room

Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries

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Washington Examiner

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

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Business Telegraph

Is the Lighthizer brigade about to charge through London?

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Business Insider

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

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Yahoo Finance

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

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Vanity Fair

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

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NPR (Radio)

Market Place

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EurekAlert!

Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries

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Phys Org

Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries

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The New York Times

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

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VideoVox

Technological Revolutions Must be Matched by Policies

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

Radio 4

@BBCPM

Economists believe "firms are more productive if they're in larger cities" says Henry Overman, a Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth ... Read more...

The New York Times

How Goes the Trade War?

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CEPR Discussion Paper

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

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Washington Post

Working parents are an endangered species. That’s why Democrats are talking child care.

Research indicates that universal child care might encourage people to have children. Spending on Research indicates that universal child care might encourage people to have children. Spending on early-childhood programs... Read more...

Washington Post Blogs

Working parents are an endangered species. That's why Democrats are talking child care.

Research indicates that universal child care might encourage people to have children. Spending on early-childhood programs tends to be related to an increase in fertility and a decrease in the gender wage gap, economists... Read more...

The New Statesman

We need a political party that is tough on the causes of Brexit. The Independent Group isn’t

Economists like David Blanchflower, John Van Reenen and I set out just how bad UK economic performance had been over the previous five years, but once again expertise was ignored. As far as the media were concerned, redu... Read more...

Economic and Political Weekly

Robot Apocalypse: How Will Automation Affect India’s Manufacturing Industry

Graetz, Georg and Guy Michaels (2017): "Robots at Work," Discussion Paper 1335, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science. ... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Despite Tight Job Market, Labor Force's Income Is Squeezed

"One of the features of these very big firms is that they've got high profits but they have low labor shares," said John Van Reenen, an economics ... [paywall] ... Read more...

VOXEU

The economic effects of density: A synthesis

Most countries pursue policies that implicitly or explicitly aim at promoting 'compact urban form', but so far these policies have not been well-grounded in evidence. This column summarises the state of knowledge on the ... Read more...

Fortune

In Brexit, Could Ireland Wear the Crown?

"Moving companies to Dublin does not turn Dublin into London," says Swati Dhingra, an economist at the London School of Economics. "The dispersal—to Paris, Munich, wherever—means that nobody will inherit the conglome... Read more...

fDiIntelligence

UK inward FDI lowest since 2010

UK companies have increased their investments into the EU by $10.73bn due to Brexit uncertainty diverting investment from the domestic market, says a recent study from the London School of Economics' (LSE) Centre for Eco... Read more...

The Economist

What would a no-deal Brexit mean for trade?

According to the Centre for Economic Performance, a research institute, a no-deal Brexit would lower Britain's trade with the EU by two-fifths over ten years. BREXIT Papers & Analyses from the CEP.... Read more...

The Australian

What-if-facebook-never-saw-the-sun

Such things occur outside idle thought experiments. Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford studied ... [paywall] ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Brexit: New UK investments in the EU are growing, while new EU investments here fall

The increase in outward investments is entirely driven by the services sector, as Brexit negotiations have prioritised manufacturing - by Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson. ... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Why politicians should think more deeply about the dignity of work

But recent research by economists Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin suggests that undesired zero-hours contracts may have become more prevalent because of minimum wage hikes. [paywall] ... Read more...

The Mancunian

Universities advised to ignore migration targets

UK Universities should ignore migration targets set by Westminster, says Alan Manning, the government's lead adviser on migration. Manning, chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), is also a professor of econo... Read more...

The Economist

What would happen if Facebook were turned off?

Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford, studied the fortunes of Roman-era towns in Britain and ... [paywall] ... Read more...

Times Higher Education (Online)

The week in higher education

The UK government's lead adviser on migration has claimed that the Home Office's net migration target no longer drives policy. Alan Manning, professor of economics at the London School of Economics and chair of the Migra... Read more...

In Parliament

Professor Alan Manning a Witness on the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination Bill

In the first sitting of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill, Professor Alan Manning joined a witness panel in his role as chair of the Migration Advisory Committee. He took a large numb... Read more...

The Daily Star

Brexit referendum spurs British firms into investing in EU

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

Vox

Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

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

Express (online)

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

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

Continental Telegraph

Brexit Is Reducing UK Domestic Investment And Foreign

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Sky News

Brexit is clearly taking its toll on UK economic growth

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

LSE Business Review

Income inequality: firms have been reducing profit-sharing with workers

The fall is more pronounced among companies that enjoy high market power, write Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin. ... Read more...

LSE Brexit Blog

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

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

CNBC

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

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

CNBC Europe

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Mention of CEP report showing British firms investing outside of the UK because of Brexit. ... Read more...

Reuters

Brexit referendum spurs British companies into investing in EU - research

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

Sky News (2/10/2019 8:39:03 PM) Broadcast

Mention of LSE study re banning mobile phones in schools

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Pro Market (Blog)

Rents and Inclusive Growth: A Decline in Rent Sharing Implies Growing Income Inequalities

A new study looks at the long-run evolution of rent sharing between companies and workers in the UK and finds that rent sharing has significantly decreased between 2001 and 2016, particularly among companies that enjoy m... Read more...

The Independent

Brexit already hitting UK household finances due to higher prices, study shows

The average worker has had to spend more than £404, equivalent to more than a week's wages, in the first year after the Brexit vote, according to a report by the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (C... Read more...

The Atlantic

How Globalization Saved the World and Damned the West

MGI was putting its finishing touches on the report in early 2016, but held its publication for the Brexit vote in March. "We weren't surprised by the outcome," Manyika told me. "We had been sitting on this research show... Read more...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

The challenge of dealing with ‘double disruption’: Brexit and technology

The UK needs a new era of policy activism with a 'future of good work' focus, write Christopher Pissarides, Anna Thomas and Josh De Lyon.... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Portal

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

Klaus Desmet, David Krisztian Nagy, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Nathaniel Young The economic geography of transition economies has changed dramatically over the last quarter century, with large urban areas growing fast and ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Brexit: A Guide for the Perplexed

Snippet: ...ther revolutionary thing called Brexit the EU has always been a unique experiment and shared sovereignty and no-one has ever tried to leave before well apart from Greenland sort of in 1985 Professor Swati Dhi... Read more...

The Australian

Ball back in Brussels' court on Irish border sticking point

The Centre for Economic Performance estimates that the long-term impact of no deal on Ireland is almost as bad as for the UK. But, locked inside the EU, it cannot subsidise industries or change tariff schedules and its c... Read more...

Health Affairs

Hospital Prices Grew Substantially Faster than physician prices from 2007 to 2014

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Health Affairs

Variation in Health Spending Growth For The Privately Insured From 2007 To 2014

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The Times

Brexit will go to the brink, because everyone has something to lose

Ireland has a more intractable problem, however. The Centre for Economic Performance estimates that the long-term impact of no deal on Ireland is almost as bad as for the UK. But, locked inside the EU, it cannot subsidis... Read more...

The Times

Ban mobile phone use in schools

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...

Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured

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Global Business Outlook

Robots and jobs: Evidence from the US

These machines are defined by The International Federation of Robotics as "an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, and multipurpose [machine]" (IFR 2014; see also Graetz and Michaels, 2015). ... Read more...

Economics of Education Review (Journal)

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

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

New York Times

The ‘Rotten Equilibrium’ of Republican Politics

There are significant parallels between voting patterns for and against Brexit and the patterns in the 2016 and 2018 elections in this country. In a separate 2017 paper, "Who Voted For Brexit", Fetzer and two fellow ... Read more...

Huff Post

The Real Problem Isn't Executive Pay, It's That Everyone Else Is Underpaid

One little-known study could, however, help shed light on where the problem really lies. According to Professors Bell and Van Reenen of the LSE, the real issue is not that CEO pay has been inflated, but that worker pay h... Read more...

ITPro

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

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

VOX

Subsidising labour hoarding in recessions: New evidence from Italy’s Cassa Integrazione

By Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais Labour hoarding - the practice of retaining excess employees during a negative shock - could potentially help firms avoid re-hiring and training costs when economic conditions imp... Read more...

New York Times

Why Six Months Seems to Be the Sweet Spot for Paid Parental Leave

Claudia Olivetti at Boston College and Barbara Petrongolo at Queen Mary University of London found little evidence that extended leaves had a positive effect on women's employment or earnings - but found that subsidized ... Read more...

The State of Working Britain Blog

Measure for Measure: Has the Government Already Met its Net Immigration Target Without Noticing?

The State of Working Britain blog is edited by Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth It may well be that we no longer care about estimating the number of immigrants in the UK (though this is doubtful). Government policy (at... Read more...

Lancashire Telegraph

Burnley MP doubts the case for second Euro-referendum

A special report on Brexit and Pendle published by the London School of Economics this week reveals: "There is a clear consensus that if there was a second referendum held today, Pendle's vote would be the same or even m... Read more...

The Financial Times

Three strategies for left-behind places

The first is a strategy of reversal. This consists of interventions that aim to offset or compensate for the technological and market dynamics that cause cost disadvantages for value creation in left-behind places - plac... Read more...

iPolitics.ca

Brexit chaos belies Quebec sovereigntist promise of painless breakup

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

The Times

The force of gravity on Britain's trade

But economists at the LSE argue that Mr Minford made no allowance for differences in quality among the manufactured goods being considered (Economists for Brexit: A Critique, Thomas Sampson, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Otta... Read more...

The Times Higher Education Supplement

French university admissions: the crème de la crème?

One irony is that just as France has scrapped admissions lotteries, some in the UK and US are beginning to wonder whether they might be a good idea - albeit in a much more limited form than the pre- system. In a book pub... Read more...

The Times

The force of gravity on Britain's trade

Claiming that manufacturing is protected in the EU is far more contentious. Mr Minford makes his case by taking an OECD databank of the prices of manufactured products around the world. He adjusts them for transport and ... Read more...

Irish Daily Mail

Studies show range of detrimental effects

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...

Bloomberg

Plenty of Uber drivers are loving their jobs too

A survey by Stephen Machin and Giulia Giupponi, two researchers at the London School of Economics, involved more than 20,000 self-employed, gig economy and zero-hours respondents. On average, workers on zero-hour contrac... Read more...

Le Monde

Paul Seabright : « La politique industrielle a la capacité de soutenir l’emploi et l’investissement » / Paul Seabright: "Industrial policy has the capacity to support jobs and investment"

A British study estimated the impact of public subsidies in regions in difficulty. If a gain for the job was found but the big companies, first beneficiaries, do not change their behavior, notes the professor of economy ... Read more...

The Conversation

Brexit, xenophobia and international students: how to combat 'public paranoia' over immigration

Research by London School of Economics professor Stephen Machin and Richard Murphy at The University of Texas at Austin revealed that by paying higher fees, international students in effect subsidise certain domestic stu... Read more...

Financial Times

Should the world care about Brexit?

Thomas Sampson, a London School of Economics scholar, detects a wider global meaning in Brexit. "The period since world war II has been marked by growing economic and cultural globalisation and, in Europe, increasing pol... Read more...

ActuAI (video)

Conférence « Intelligence artificielle et croissance » par Philippe Aghion/ Conference "Artificial Intelligence and Growth" by Philippe Aghion

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Financial Times

The FT polled 81 economists about prospects for 2019

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

The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 100, No. 5

Robots at Work

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Financial Times

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

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

The Economist

Letters to the editor

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

The Times Educational Supplement

At the top, there's a long way to fall

If you are in any doubt about the influence that the person leading a college has on its performance, look no further than a 2017 research paper by Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Camille Terrier and Clementine Van Effenterre (... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog

Do foreign migrants ‘grease the wheels’ of the labour market? [by Michael Amior]

Recent political developments in the US and Europe have led to renewed interest in the large and persistent regional disparities which plague our societies. These disparities have been partly driven by a secular decline ... Read more...

The Economist

Macron tries to buy off his critics

"Macron has acknowledged his past behavioural mistakes," said Philippe Aghion, an economist who advised him during his campaign but has judged him ... ... Read more...

The Observer

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

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

News Letter

Feeding the family... why costs bite as price of food keeps on rising

Snippet: ...poll. Everyday dairy products such as butter, yoghurt and cheese could become luxury items in Britain after Brexit, with price rises being caused by the slightest delay in the journey from farm to ... Read more...

New York Times

‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Shake France. Here’s the Lesson for Climate Change.

"We are in the transition period and the government has run into political economic problems," said Philippe Aghion, an economist at the prestigious College de France who advised Mr. Macron during his presidential campai... Read more...

LSE Brexit Blog

Resist, Rebel and Remain: the nation deserves and demands a second chance

Parliament should vote down Theresa May's Brexit deal on Tuesday. John Van Reenen (MIT/LSE) writes that while the argument for remaining in the EU is fundamentally moral and political, and not economic, it is important f... Read more...

The Gulf Time

Something about Brexit everyone can agree on

For any Brexiters holding out the hope the EU would come to the UK's rescue because it too has much to lose from not reaching a deal, an analysis this week from the Center for Economic Performance offers l... Read more...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

Capitalising on technological change and the low-carbon transition in the UK

As the UK has sought to redefine its relationship with the EU and the rest of the world, a renewed focus on sustainable growth becomes more urgent, write James Rydge, Ralf Martin and Anna Valero.... Read more...

The Telegraph (India) Online

Global economy: not alarming but worrying

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

International New York Times

Global Growth Cools, Leaving Scars of ’08 Unhealed

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

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 - Today (11/30/2018 7:10:10 AM)

Swati Dhingra discusses trade policy and Brexit. ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

The economic consequences of the Brexit deal: the case of trade

Both the deal on offer and trading on WTO terms would reduce UK living standards compared to staying in the EU, write Thomas Sampson and Swati Dhingra.... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

What are the economic consequences of May’s deal – and of no deal?

What will the economic impact of Theresa May's deal be? And how does it compare to the no-deal scenario?The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, in association with The UK in a Changing Europe, has modelled both scenar... Read more...

The Conversation

The economic cost of Brexit is unavoidable – but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth it

We at The UK in a Changing Europe, working with the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, have reached similar findings, modelling specifically for how the prime minister's Brex... Read more...

Guardian

There can be no doubt any more: Brexit will make us poorer

You wait for months for an analysis of the economic impacts of Brexit, and then three come along at once. But, in contrast to the public perception that economists can't agree on even the most basic questions, like wheth... Read more...

Financial Reporter

Brexit to spark 4% drop in GDP: NIESR

Experts at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, King's College London and the IFS also released research today on the economic and fiscal consequences of Brexit. They estimate that the Brexit deal negotiated by th... Read more...

The Insider

Brexit deal 'could reduce UK economy by 5.5% of GDP'

Research by the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, King's College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies added a no-deal Brexit could hit GDP by as much as 8.7%. ... Read more...

Financial Times

The hunt for Brexit Plan B

The economic consequences of the Brexit deal New research by experts at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, King's College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies has modelled the e... Read more...

Daily Business

May’s Brexit deal ‘could slash growth by 5.5% over decade’

The economic modelling in the report covers trade and migration. For trade, researchers at LSE's entre for Economic Performance used a state-of-the-art model of global trade. They assumed that the deal means that the UK ... Read more...

Financial Times

Theresa May’s Brexit deal to cost up to £2,000 a year per person

Undertaken by a consortium of academics and think-tanks, from King's College London, the Centre for Economic Performance and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the study was funded by the government's Economic and Social ... Read more...

BBC News

Brexit deal 'could cut UK growth by 5.5%' by 2030

The PM's Brexit deal could leave the economy as much as 5.5% smaller in a decade's time than it would be if the UK stayed in the EU, a study has said. And the cost to the public finances could be as much as 1.8% of GDP,... Read more...

LSE (video)

Promoting Healthy Minds in Schools

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...

Metro Newspaper

Everyone is losing out and it's all your fault, Juncker tells Britain

The Brexit deal could leave the economy up to 5.5 per cent smaller in ten ... per cent, says the London School of Economics entre for Economic Performance, … ... Read more...

Bloomberg

May's Brexit Worse for Economy Than EU Membership, Research Says

Savings on the U.K.'s contributions to the EU budget would make up only a fraction of the potential damage to the economy, according to the joint paper by the Centre for Economic Performance and academic think tank The U... Read more...

Investment Week

Economists warn of GDP blow if May's Brexit deal goes ahead

The report, The economic consquences for the Brexit deal, was carried out by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, Kings College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). This co... Read more...

The Economic Times

A World Bank economist shows how to create the right jobs for a country

This report draws conclusions globally. For India, we understand there's been a lot of progress on improving allocative efficiencies. For many policy makers the next frontier is some of the capabilities which are interna... Read more...

Qrius

Brexit is a major and growing source of uncertainty for firms

The majority of businesses in the UK report that Brexit is a source of uncertainty. This column uses survey responses from around 3,000 businesses to evaluate the level and impact of this uncertainty. It finds that Brexi... Read more...

MoneyWeek Magazine

Relative returns: why you should seek out family-run firms

The danger of nepotism Professor John Van Reenen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology thinks nepotism is a key risk. A 2011 study authored by Reenen, with Nicholas Bloom and Raffaella Sadun, found that those fa... Read more...

YouthToday

Opinion: How Talented Kids From Low-income Families Become America’s ‘Lost Einsteins’

Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly wit... Read more...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

Universities and industrial strategy in the UK

Evidence on how the positive economic effects of universities on individuals and the economy can be maximised - by Ghazala Azmat, Richard Murphy, Anna Valero and Gill Wyness.... Read more...

The Economist

Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful

There is a rise of an innovative elite that is an engine of efficiency. Its members are companies that have mastered digital technologies and enjoy network effects that help them fend off slower competitors, says John Va... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Developing an effective local industrial strategy for the UK

Evidence-based principles for local policymakers seeking to design an effective industrial strategy - by Henry Overman and Naomi Clayton. ... Read more...

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

New Labour's Domestic Policies: Neoliberal, Social Democratic or A Unique Blend?

Labour's move towards greater competition between hospitals where it was allowed may well have helped. Mortality rates for some illnesses appear to have declined faster where patient choice was expanded. CEP work cite... Read more...

Financial Times

Brexit doubts weaken productivity growth

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

The Wall Street Journal

Humans Are Winning the Battle With Robots

John Van Reenen comments on whether executives in many industries are sold on the technical revolution. "There is a big debate on whether robots are really delivering on the productivity benefits they might promise." ... Read more...

Channel 5 (Broadcast)

Has feminism unwittingly given men a leg up?

Wellbeing Programme research by CEP Associate Grace Lordan is discussed, looking at the societal and childhood impacts on gendered sorting patterns.... Read more...

LSE Business Review

When globalisation gets local: winners and losers

Left-behind places are lending themselves increasingly to the forces of populism and political disintegration, writes Riccardo Crescenzi. A complex flow of investment is spreading across the globe, connecting more a... Read more...

London Review of Books

What would it be like?

Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon on the realities of a No Deal Brexit More than two years after the referendum, there is still a possibility that the UK will fail to reach a withdrawal agreement and an agreem... Read more...

The Scotsman

Brexit and trade: Why stakes for business are so high

The Centre for Economic Performance estimates that a "No-Deal WTO rules only" scenario would reduce the UK's trade with the EU by 40 per cent over ten years, bringing a fall in income per head of 2.6 per cent per... Read more...

apolitical

Do gig workers really value flexibility — or would they prefer guaranteed work?

Opinion: We asked 20,000 people their preferences on shifting employment patterns This piece was written by Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin at LSE’s Centre for Economic Perf... Read more...

Mondaq Business Briefing

UK: Zero-Hours Contracts: Flexibility Is Not A Draw For The Majority Of Workers

Research by CEP Economists Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin. "A report recently undertaken by three labour market economists has found that 44% of workers on zero-hours contracts would like more workin... Read more...

Times Educational Supplement

Why we should take a gamble on social mobility

We cling on to the hope that education can act as the great social leveller, enabling children from poorer backgrounds to overcome the circumstances they are born into. But in our book Social Mobility and Its Enemies, St... Read more...

Chicago Booth

Second Fama Prize Awarded to Mostly Harmless Econometrics

The second Fama Prize has been awarded to Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Jörn-Steffen (Steve) Pischke (London School of Economics) for their book Mostly Harmless Econometrics: ... Read more...

TES

Female apprentices 'get less money'

Men are more likely to earn more after starting an apprenticeship than women, new research by the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) shows.  The research, published by academics at th... Read more...

TES

Female apprentices 'get less money'

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NIESR (Blog)

Our housing crisis – not market failure: persistent policy failure

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

Warwick.ac.uk

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

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

Microeconomic Insights

The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin Wall

Authors: Gabriel Ahlfeldt (London School of Economics), Stephen Redding (Princeton University), Daniel Sturm (London School of Economics), Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin) The Berlin Wall provides... Read more...

The Telegraph

The Blitz added £4.5 billion to London’s annual economy, say experts

Yet a new study from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), at the London School of Economics (LSE), suggests that the capital is £4.5 billion a year better off because of the raids. Dr Hans Koste... Read more...

World Economic Forum (Online)

Why do large companies pay higher salaries?

By Maria Molina-Domene Why do small establishments pay employees less than large establishments? The final pieces of this puzzle have not been found yet. This paper suggests the joint role of the division o... Read more...

LSE Business and Consultancy news

The impact of Brexit on the UK dairy sector

Given that changes could come into force as soon as March 2019, businesses such as Arla Foods UK have been compelled to start contingency planning, analysing what effect these changes might have on its busines... Read more...

The Independent

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

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

Financial Times

Dairy products could become 'luxuries' after Brexit, industry warns

  Non-tariff barriers alone after Brexit could raise the price of dairy products in the UK, which may become “luxuries”, warned a report on Thursday. A study by the London School of Economi... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

The problem with innovation: the biggest companies are hogging all the gains

There is a “lack of self-awareness among lots of firms,” says John Van Reenen, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Some think they are awesome. But they are ... Read more...

BBC News

Trump in the UK

Dr Swati Dhingra interviewed, talking about CEOs' meeting with President Trump and the importance of the trading relationship between the US and the UK, particularly given the prospect of a post-Brexit tra... Read more...

New York Times

Wanted: ‘Lost Einsteins.' Please Apply.

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Vox

Currency unions mean more trade, but not for everyone

Article by Natalie Chen and Dennis Novy. Currency unions usually go hand in hand with deeper economic integration. But does that automatically mean more international trade? This column shows that since the en... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe press release

What the government's Brexit white paper must address

  A detailed assessment of what the government must address in its Brexit white paper has been carried out by academic think tank The UK in a Changing Europe.  The report – The Brexit w... Read more...

The Telegraph

Minimum wage hike hit quality of care homes, report finds

Hiking the minimum wage for low-paid care workers has a “rather worrying deterioration in the quality of care”, according to a new study. Care homes have responded to the introduction of the N... Read more...

Financial Express (India)

Why India needs better management