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Financial Times

UK finally showing signs of productivity growth, say economists

John Van Reenen, a London School of Economics professor and former chair of Reeves’ council of economic advisers, estimates that annualised productivity growth is running at 1.6 per cent from the third quarter of 2... Read more...

The Guardian

A positive new report raises the question: was Reeves undermined by dodgy data?

New measures of productivity published by John Van Reenen, Anna Valero and Niki Barbas show a "meaningful pickup" in productivity, as highlighted by Heather Stewart in her column. ... Read more...

Project Syndicate

Why is Europe's economy falling short?

MIT's Simon Johnson sits down with fellow Nobel laureate economist Philippe Aghion to examine what ails Europe and how to revive its dynamism. ... Read more...

Financial Times

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

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

Project Syndicate

The mismeasurement of Europe's productivity

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud and Luis Garicano argue that using purchasing power parity to compare US and European economies is misleading, saying that Europe does have a real productivity problem.  ... Read more...

Aeon

Make immigration boring

Alan Manning writes about the polarised debate on migration and points a way towards setting out a clearer way of thinking about the issue. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Brian Bell appointed as chief economic adviser to the Treasury and head of the Government Economic Service

Congratulations to Brian Bell, professor of economics at King's Business School, King's College London, and research associate in CEP's labour programme, who has been appointed as chief economic adviser to the Treasury. ... Read more...

Project Syndicate

Only creative destruction will boost European competitiveness

Philippe Aghion writes about how major geopolitical developments have forced Europeans to rethink how they will ensure their own prosperity, security and sovereignty. Arguing that policymakers must not take innovation fo... Read more...

The Observer

Young people need a clear path to apprenticeships

Richard Layard writes for The Observer on the necessity for the Labour government to make youth apprenticeships a priority. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Anna Valero appointed as Industrial Strategy adviser

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

CEP Announcement

Philippe Aghion wins Nobel Prize in economic sciences

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

Observer

Britain's high borrowing costs and low fertility rate could trap us in a debt doom loop

Richard Davies writes for The Observer on Britain's debt problem and Rachel Reeves's biggest challenge this autumn. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Dennis Novy begins role as chief economist at the Foreign Office

Congratulations to Dennis Novy, professor of economics at the University of Warwick and research associate in CEP's trade programme, who has been appointed as chief economist and director of analysis at the Foreign, Comm... Read more...

The Observer

A 45-year view of bond markets can insure us against tomorrow's shocks

Richard Davies writes for The Observer about usefulness, and perils, of bond markets. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Antonin Bergeaud named Best Young Economist of France, 2025

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

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...

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 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...

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...

CEP announcement

Stephen Machin appointed to Labour Market Advisory Board

Stephen Machin, professor of economics at LSE and CEP director, has been appointed to the newly-created Labour Market Advisory Board, it was announced today. Professor Machin is one of eight board members appointed by w... Read more...

Independent

School absences doubled as 'knock-on' effect of pandemic lockdowns - report

The average rate of school absences not caused by Covid-19 self-isolation doubled after the pandemic, research by Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno has found. ... Read more...

TES Magazine

Higher absence 'will remain until Covid generation leaves school'

The 'shock' caused by restrictions introduced during the pandemic in 2020 could take 'seven years to erode', warn Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno. ... 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...

TES

School mental health teams? impact outweighs costs, say experts

Spending money on mental health support teams in schools saves more money than it costs within two years, researchers from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance have said. Lord Layard, who led t... 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...

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...

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

It?s not the economy, stupid: wellbeing is the real vote-winner

Richard Layard discusses why happiness should be the fundamental goal of government and how policy can be shaped to prioritise people's wellbeing.  ... 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...

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...

The Guardian

Labour should make UK leader in wellbeing-informed policy, says peer

A Labour government should make the UK the world's first country to make policy based on its impact on wellbeing as well as the economy, says Richard Layard.  ... Read more...

New Statesman

Why don?t politicians care about happiness? With Richard Layard and Armando Iannucci

In this episode of Westminster Reimagined, Richard Layard discusses how it is possible to measure individual wellbeing and why it is so important for the government to place happiness at the heart of its policymaking.&nb... Read more...

Financial Times

Labour leaves open prospect of cuts to public sector after UK election

Keir Starmer says the party ‘always invests in public services’ but declines to rule out real-terms reductions in spending ... Read more...

Financial Times

UK urged to use 'superpower' strength in services sectors to boost living standards

Radical shift in policy is needed to close gap with peer countries, says research by two think-tanks. ... Read more...

The Telegraph

Britain's stagnant economy is costing workers #10k a year, says think tank

Britain’s stagnant economy has cost workers more than £10,000 a year in lost wages, according to a think tank that warned the UK will remain stuck in a low growth trap without radical reform. The Resolution F... Read more...

The Times

Britain's productivity a living standards 'disaster'

Poor productivity growth has resulted in the UK becoming the most unequal country among rich European societies, according to a report produced by the Resolution Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation and the Centre for Eco... Read more...

The Guardian

UK has lacked coherent economic strategy for years, thinktank finds

Trade has been hit by Brexit, while the number in poverty has risen sharply in a country ill-prepared for the future. A new report, "Ending Stagnation", pieced together from original research by the Resolution Foundation... Read more...

Economy 2030

The Economy 2030 Inquiry: the final six months

The Economy 2030 Inquiry has been examining the scale and impact of recent economic change in the UK, and will set out a new economy strategy to tackle the twin challenges of low growth and high inequality in its final r... 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 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 Observer

Struggling self-employed in UK would prefer salaried job security, report claims

The authors of The Self-employment Trap, published by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), show how stagnant incomes and rising costs are having an impact on the wellbeing of the self-employed and increasing their ... 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...

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...

Financial Times

Economist Daniel Chandler: 'Shareholders have all the power. It doesn't have to be that way.'

Daniel Chandler, the author of 'Free and Equal', makes the case for workplace democracy - drawing on Rawlsian principles to disentangle modern-day political debates. Interviewed by Henry Mance.  ... Read more...

Economy 2030

The Economy 2030 Inquiry: two years in

The Economy 2030 Inquiry examines the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and will set out a plan for successfully navigating this change.  For the past two years, resear... 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...

Financial Times

Make wellbeing central to public policy

Richard Layard explains the benefits of making wellbeing a core public policy. ... 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...

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...

Economy 2030

The Economy 2030 Inquiry: 18 months in

The Economy 2030 Inquiry is examining the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and will set out a plan for successfully navigating it. For the past 18 months, researchers from ... 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...

Schools Week

Profile: Lee Elliot Major

Donna Ferguson interviews Lee Elliot Major to find out why he made the move to academia - and his latest plans to improve the life chances for our poorest pupils. ... 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...

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 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...

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...

CEP Announcement

Swati Dhingra to join Bank of England's monetary policy committee

Swati Dhingra has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to... Read more...

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...

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...

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 Times

It?s time we stopped treating the self-employed as an afterthought

A report published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics shows, the self-employed have not fared well over the past couple of years. Even by the end of this summer they were ... 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...

Financial Times

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

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

Centre for Economic Performance

UK facing a `decisive decade? of change

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

The Times

Pandemic turns up pace of workplace innovation

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

BBC

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

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

The Independent

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

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

The Guardian

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

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

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...

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 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...

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

Disadvantaged pupils face six-month 'learning loss'

School closures during the coronavirus lockdown could leave disadvantaged children six months behind their peers, researchers find. ... 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...

CentrePiece

Does school spending matter?

Steve Gibbons and Sandra McNally review research on the causal effects of school resources on secondary education. ... 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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enmibarrio-parquelisboa (blog)

Los robots ya estan aqui / 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...

World Finance

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

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

Forbes Mexico

Bored?, let's look for job happiness

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Manufactura

Inteligencia artificial y automatizacion, ?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...

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...

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...

American Economic Review

What drives differences in management?

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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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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...

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...

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...

Le Monde

Quand une star scientifique meurt, d'autres idees 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...

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...

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...

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...

Conversable Economist

What Did Gutenberg's Printing Press Actually Change?

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

LSE Business Review (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...

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...

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...

BBC Radio 5 Live

Broadcast

Carmen Villa comments on the economics of crime in relation to police numbers and knife crime. ... Read more...

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...

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 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...

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

Mention of LSE study re banning mobile phones in schools

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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...

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...

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...

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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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 8:05:03 AM)

Discussion of LSE research (Healthy Minds Project) urging the government to incorporate life skills into the national curriculum. Reported widely on local BBC radio stations. ... Read more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LSE Business Review blog

When a large company enters a local market, it stimulates local innovation

Proximity to a large plant plays an important role in the diffusion of knowledge and patent production, write Vincenzo Scrutinio, Christian Fons-Rosen and Katalin Szemeredi.    ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

How the Blitz enhanced London's economy

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

LSE Brexit blog

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

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

LSE Business Review blog

What Twitter reveals about a company's reputation and productivity

Article by Maria Molina-Domene: Reputation plays an important signalling role in an imperfect information world and companies endeavour to preserve it. In this study, I evaluate empirically the role of reputat... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Call time on this unfair union

By sticking with the UK, the London School of Economics estimated Scotland will be £30bn worse off after Brexit, and the Bank of England reckoned incomes will be 900 a year less  . ... Read more...

Rambler.ru

The impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the labor market

In addition, a number of works conclude that robotization, unlike computerization, leads to a decrease in demand for low and increased demand for highly skilled labor, but not to a drop in demand for medium-sk... Read more...

Rambler.ru (Russia)

The impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the labor market

It should also be taken into account that different types of new technologies have different influences on routine occupations: computerization causes the death of routine intellectual activities (for example,... Read more...

Austin American Statesman (USA)

Eanes gets new school board president, record donation

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

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

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

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

Science Times ? blog (China)

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

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

Bilan

Businesses are widening income inequalities

We must go back in time to grasp this issue, both economic and societal. According to researcher Nicholas Bloom, the profound technological and structural change that has transformed business operations in rec... Read more...

Policy network

Mastering the digital transformation

It is important also to see digitalisation and robotisation as a distribution problem. There is evidence that digitalisation and its applications have had a different impact on the various segments of the labo... Read more...

The Telegraph

Our housing crisis demands fresh ideas

The rate of UK house-building has fallen well behind our demographic requirements, driven by natural population growth and net immigration. “We’ve not built nearly enough homes since the Sixties &n... Read more...

FarmingUK

US-UK FTA could 'destroy large parts of British farming', report warns

Swati Dhingra, Lecturer at the London School of Economics, adds that the UK might be more likely to lower agricultural tariffs than the EU was during TTIP. “Historically Europe has been more concerned wi... Read more...

Forsal.pl (Poland

Finland is not one of the happiest countries in the world at all

Economists Jeffrey Sachs, John Helliwell and Richard Layard pointed out several factors that affect the well-being of citizens, including GDP per capita, life expectancy, corruption and social support. However... Read more...

Harvard Kennedy School

On the Rebound: Prospects for a US-UK Free Trade Agreement

M-RCBG Associate Working Paper No. 89, Peter Sands, Ed Balls, Mehek Sethi, Eleanor Hallam, Sebastian Leape, Nyasha Weinberg, 2018. Paper interviewed and quotes Nikhil Datta, Swati Dhingra and Dennis Novy ... Read more...

Yahoo! Finance

Finland?s rank as the world?s happiest country is very upsetting in Finland

Finland, a perennial chart-topper on global rankings of well-being and prosperity, has just been named the world’s happiest country in the World Happiness Report. Finns are not happy about the news. &hel... Read more...

SMEweb.com

Why robots are not taking our jobs

In 2015, a study by Guy Michaels and George Graetz (https://voxeu.org/article/robots-productivity-and-jobs) looked at the impact of robots in manufacturing, agriculture and utilities across 17 countries. They ... Read more...

SME

Why robots are not taking our jobs

In 2015, a study by Guy Michaels and George Graetz (https://voxeu.org/article/robots-productivity-and-jobs) looked at the impact of robots in manufacturing, agriculture and utilities across 17 countries. They ... Read more...

Asharq Al-Awsat

Maybe this is as Good as Innovation Gets

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

Scottish Daily Mail

Daily grind? Work makes us happy!

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wyborcza.pl

Eksperci Pawel Bukowski / Experts Pawel Bukowski

He studies and lectures at the Center for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was a doctorate in economics at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. He ... Read more...

ESRC blog ? Shaping Society

Becoming a Research Institute: the Centre for Economic Performance

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

Entrepreneur

Your team wants to work from home. All you have to do is keep them connected

Although telecommuting is not yet universal, its adoption by technology giants and startups is very telling. Accordingly, many perks account for the meteoric rise of this nascent shift. On the employees’... Read more...

The Times

Perfectly timed heatwave stops economy from cooling down

The record-breaking bank holiday heatwave was perfectly timed to boost Britain’s economy after a decidedly cool start to the year, experts said yesterday.  Economists suggested that the hot spell wa... Read more...

New Statesman

Tiny flats won?t solve the housing crisis, but they can help

This is hardly a fringe view. Economists Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen point out that house prices would be 35 per cent lower if the most restrictive parts of the country (the South-East) were merely a... Read more...

IZA Newsroom

The costly consequences of just failing a high-stakes exam

A new study by IZA fellows Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally with Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (all researchers at the London School of Economics) analyzes the benefits (or costs) for students who just pass (or fai... Read more...

Video Vox

The UK productivity puzzle

What is the UK productivity puzzle? Ten years on from the Global Crisis, productivity growth in the UK lags behind that in economies such as France and Germany. Giordano Mion shares his work on why this &lsquo... Read more...

Les Echos.fr

Etendons la negociation collective aux seuils sociaux/ Let's extend collective bargaining to social thresholds

Economic publications show that these effects would have a strong impact on the level of macroeconomic equilibrium and consequently on that of structural unemployment. A recent article by Luis Garicano, Claire... Read more...

Vision Systems

Report: Robots are creating more jobs in Germany

"Whilst automation appears to be increasing the demand for high-skilled, high-income employees, its impact on low-skilled, low income employment is less clear," wrote the IFR. "Wage stagnation a... Read more...

Vietnambiz

If you keep the habit of arbitrary, business people themselves 'take the foot kicking'

Pointing out the weaknesses of the small business, Professor Nicholas Bloom and his colleagues developed a survey instrument for measuring business quality. According to the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Ind... Read more...

Elite Daily

Here?s how to get a free flight from NYC to Hawaii through Hawaii?s tourism contest

More industries have embraced remote positions in response to the desires of an evolving workforce, with a study by Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom finding that working remotely was directly tied to increase... Read more...

Bloomberg.com

Maybe this is as good as innovation gets

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

Plastics Technology

Can manufacturing simultaneously add robots and people?

Further bolstering its case, the IFR release called out a recently published London School of Economics (LSE) study entitled Robots at Work. Examining the use of industrial robots in 17 developed economies bet... Read more...

CMI ? Chartered Management Institute

Why promotion breeds incompetence in managers

One study suggests incompetent managers are at the root of poor performance issues in UK offices, with 96% of the 800 HR professionals surveyed citing performance management as a problem at their organisation.... Read more...

RT.com

Rich and powerful distract us with imagined threats to cling onto their gains

In the UK, real wages are still below their pre-2008 recession levels. The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance revealed that during 2007-2015 British workers saw their wages fall by an average of five pe... Read more...

TechNews (Taiwan)

Low turnover at home, high efficiency, research indicates no loss to the company

As urban traffic gets more and more jammed, housing prices in urban centers are getting higher and higher, commuting distances are getting longer and longer, and professional women have family burns in their h... Read more...

Deseret News

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

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

Business and Marketing Today News (Spain)

Inteligencia Artificial: etica que revoluciona/Artificial Intelligence: ethics that revolutionizes

Robots’ capacity for autonomous movement and their ability to perform an expanding set of tasks have captured writers imaginations for almost a century. Recently, robots have emerged from the pages of sc... Read more...

Forbes

A growing number of Indian Americans are leading America?s best business schools

But beyond just the numbers, the onset of globalization and its impact on international finance and global commerce has forced American business schools to seek new ways to burnish their “international&r... Read more...

Ad.nl

According to this study, everyone could work better at home/ Volgens dit onderzoek zou iedereen beter thuis kunnen werken

"The management of the company was a bit pessimistic," says  researcher Nicholas Bloom  in a Ted Talk about the research. "They expected the homeworkers to go to bed.&nb... Read more...

The Week

The hidden dangers of flexible work hours

One notable study was conducted in 2015 by Stanford University researcher Nicholas Bloom, who wanted to test whether the belief that workers slack off more when working from home was valid. Bloom and his crew ... Read more...

Red Pepper

Chartism for the 21st Century: Why trade unions are backing an overhaul of Westminster

And academics at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE looked at the relationship between marginal seats and hospital closures between 1997 and 2005. They found “Marginality…has a significant... Read more...

Business Wire

IFR: Robots create jobs ? new research

The London School of Economics (LSE) recently published a study entitled Robots at Work on the use of industrial robots in 17 developed economies between 1993 and 2007. LSE head of research, Guy Michaels, summ... Read more...

Parliamentlive.tv

Home Affairs Committee: Post-Brexit migration policy

Professor Alan Manning (CEP/LSE) gave evidence to the Home Affairs Parliamentary Committee regarding the post-Brexit migration policy. ... Read more...

Business Wire

Harvard Business Review announces 59th Annual HBR McKinsey Award winners

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Organizations need competent management just as much as they need analytical brilliance, argue the winners of this year’s HBR McKinsey Award, which honors the best Harvard Busine... Read more...

China Daily

App to reward non-use of phone

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

Lifehacker

Research shows working from home is better, as long as you can handle the isolation

Mautz cites a two-year study conducted by Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom, where 250 of 500 employees from China-based travel agency Ctrip volunteered to work from home. Then, over the 24 months, t... Read more...

Harvard Business School

Press Release: Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun Wins Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award for Best Article

Harvard Business School associate professor Raffaella Sadun and coauthors Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of MIT have been named the first-place winners of the 59th Annual HBR McKinse... Read more...

Star Connect

ESRC rolls out #2m to support industrial strategy research

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

ESRC press release

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

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

IBS Instytut Badań Strukturalnych (YouTube)

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

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

Lavoce.info (Italy)

Productivity size weighs on productivity

Article by Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Stefano Costa e Chiara Criscuolo.  In Italy, medium-large and large companies are productive and competitive. The problem is that they are few compared to... Read more...

ESRC press release

ESRC Research Institutes launched

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

Scientific American

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

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

LSE Brexit blog

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

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

The Daily Mail

Set your OWN salary: Firm allows employees to decide how much they are paid (and no it?s not an April Fool)

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, a professor at the London School of Economics, said such a system would work best in areas such as sales where there are clear markers of performance.  He said: 'But in s... Read more...

VoxDev

Do management interventions last? Evidence from India

  Article by Nicholas Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts. In our recent research, we examine the persistence of an intensive management intervention carried out in India (Bloom et ... Read more...

Daily Mirror

Rees-Mogg?s threat to oust May over Brexit

  …Ex-Tory Cabinet Minister Chris Patten said he was a “caricature” with no idea about trade deals. Brexit may cost us £1,700 a year each, says the London School of Economics. ... Read more...

Times of Malta

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

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

Sputnika

Wann bringt Homeoffice eigentlich etwas?/when does home office bring something?

The creators of NEUARBEITEN explain why working from home in this country is still a niche topic and how it can still benefit employees and employers. … Home office offers employees one thing above all:... Read more...

Cope.es

Will a robot finish with your work?

"There is no consensus on how robotics will affect the creation or destruction of employment, some studies are optimistic and others are not," Professor Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics... Read more...

Daily Star

Robots moving into law

Robots are set to steal lawyers’ jobs. Experts predict artificial intelligence breakthroughs mean machines will soon sift through legal paperwork and other complex documents at ultra high speed. Prof Guy... Read more...

El Nuevo Diario (Spain)

64% of workers believe that robotics will destroy employment

"There is no consensus on how robotics will affect the creation or destruction of employment, some studies are optimistic and others are not," Professor Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

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

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

The Irish News

DUP openly supporting further division in our divided land

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

Campus Review (Australia)

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

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

Chronicle Live (Northumberland)

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

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

Campden FB

FB roundup: Rothschild, Berkshire, and family firm management Family firms have worse management practices, says study: New research has shown that second-generation family chief executives tend to exhibit poorer management practices, and that their firms suffer as a result.

All in the Family? CEO Choice and Firm Organization, by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, is the first study showing a causal link between dynastic family firms and poorer ... Read more...

Telegraph

App tackles digital addiction by rewarding users for avoiding their phone

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

BBC Essex

Breakfast show

Guy Michaels interviewed live during a conversation about the impact of robots and technology on productivity in the UK. ... Read more...

LSE Thinks - video

Dr Thomas Sampson - Why are the Conservatives so divided over Brexit?

Theresa May and her senior ministers try to come to an agreement over the government's approach to Brexit, in the latest of a series of meetings on the UK’s future relationship with the EU. As part o... Read more...

Slates Star Codex

Technological unemployment: much more than you wanted to know

This is potentially consistent with a story where the jobs that have been easiest to automate are middle-class-ish. Some jobs require extremely basic human talents that machines can’t yet match – l... Read more...

Herald Scotland

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

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

LSE Business Review blog

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

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

Forsal (Poland)

"Optimal" would be to tax happiness in life [FELIETON]

The approach to happiness and bad luck translates into expectations regarding the social security system, including taxes and benefits. If we assume that nobody is fully responsible for their achievements, soc... Read more...

Financial Times

The old normal - Your weekly briefing on the UK economy

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

The Times

Phone home

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

Jeremy Hadall

Automation for the people

Within the manufacturing industry, high levels of productivity would not be possible without the introduction of automation. A typical automotive manufacturer simply could not keep up with the demand for volum... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

PM

Anna Valero gave a live interview on UK productivity. ... Read more...

Centre for Cities ? blog

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

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

Manufacturing Techonology Centre - MTC

Grasping the opportunities of robotics and automation

Within the manufacturing industry, high levels of productivity would not be possible without the introduction of automation. A typical automotive manufacturer simply could not keep up with the demand for volum... Read more...

Guardian

Research every teacher should know: self-control and learning

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

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

Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities (pages 1-33)

DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12429   Related publications Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Nancy Holman, SERC Discussion Paper No.171, Febru... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

PM [5:21:51]

   Anna Valero interviewed, speaking about the big picture of UK productivity:  low investment, bad training, bad management and lack of infrastructure. BBC business correspondent Jonty Bloom... Read more...

Financial Times

Like great coffee, good ideas take time to percolate

A decade ago, economists at Berkeley, Stanford and the World Bank conducted a randomised trial in which the bank paid for some textile factories in Mumbai to receive consulting advice from a global company. Th... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review

Economy-boosting ideas are increasingly hard to find

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

The Times

Housing crisis: Green belt brand is `hiding ugly truth?

The green belt is associated in most people’s minds with England’s “green and pleasant land” immortalised by William Blake in his poem Jerusalem. But according to Paul Cheshire, profess... Read more...

McKinsey & Company ? McKinsey Global Institute

Rebuilding trust in Europe: Three pathways

Briefing note prepared for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland Concerns about automation’s impact add to the climate of mistrust. In the European public debate over automatio... Read more...

Irish Daily Mail

Teachers: get phones out of our schools

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

The Economic Times (India)

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

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

Gloucestershire Echo

Letters:Brexit aftermath is not rosy

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

Law Professors ? Antitrust & Competition Policy blog

Efficiency in large markets with firm heterogeneity

Swati Dhingra and John Morrow discuss Efficiency in Large markets with Firm Heterogeneity. ABSTRACT: Empirical work has drawn attention to the high degree of productivity differences within industries, an... Read more...

VoxDev

Management and the wealth of nations

Article by John Van Reenen A 15-year survey of 12,000 firms across 34 countries shows that management practices explain a large share of productivity gaps. Income differences between rich and poor countries... Read more...

Freakonomics Radio

What does a CEO actually do?

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

Macleans (Canada)

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

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

Universommma.it (Italy)

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

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

Original 106 FM

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

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

Kaplan Herald (USA)

Rockland: cellphones at school? The principles differ

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

Original 106 FM

Original 106 FM (7:00:48 AM)

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

The Gleaner (Jamaica)

In-school productivity campaign/millennials & telecommuting ? productivity myths busted by recent research

A study conducted in 2013 by Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at Stanford University, and graduate student James Liang, who is a co-founder of Chinese travel website Ctrip, proved that working at home in... Read more...

Financial Times

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

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

BBC Radio Kent

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

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

BBC Radio Kent

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BBC Radio Kent

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Guardian

Does London mayor Sadiq Khan's Brexit report stack up?

A no-deal Brexit would leave Britain’s economy diminished and its people poorer. That is the conclusion of the economic forecast commissioned by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan from Cambridge Econometric... Read more...

Les Echos

Les nouveaux mysteres de la productivite/The new mysteries of productivity

But these explanations are not enough. Economists therefore questioned the measure. And if productivity gains were too new to be detected by traditional statistical tools? In the United States, for example, th... Read more...

Vox Video

Brexit and living standards

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

Sputnik News ? Education (Russia)

Thousands of EU professors left Britain because of Brexit

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

The Western Mail

Blair think-tank expert?s bleak Brexit predictions

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

Institute for Global Change

Tony Blair: Brexit ? what we now know ? briefing

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

States News Service

Brexit ? what we now know

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

Forbes

Six ways to succeed at remote work

IBM recently made headlines for dismantling its policy that allowed remote work. The technology giant was following in the footsteps of Yahoo Inc., which in 2013 also called its employees back to the office, s... Read more...

LBC (Radio) - 11:30:00 pm

Snippet: Mention of LSE study on problems with planning permission in the UK

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Portfolio (Hungary)

Pesszimistak a britek a Brexit kellős kozepen/Pessimists are the British in the middle of Brexit

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

Financial Times

Gloomy growth projections cloud hopes for UK economy

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

The Scotsman

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

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

Nap.hu (Hungary)

Will big pay rise come next year in Hungary?

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

Napi.hu (Hungary)

That?s half of every fifth British employee

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

Arah (Indonesia)

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

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

International Business Times

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

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

SMOPO ? Schweizer Morgenpost (Germany)

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

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

Adevarul.ro (Romania)

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

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

Adevarul (Rumania)

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

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

doc-research.org

Technological innovation: the challenges for labour

In accordance with the theory of skill-biased technological change, many researchers are convinced that automation predominantly threatens low-skilled workers, who are at risk of being substituted for intellig... Read more...

TES

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

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

Iz.ru (Russia)

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

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

Watson.ch

Europa ist wieder sexy/Europe is sexy again

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

Watson.ch

Europa ist wieder sexy/Europe is sexy again

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

MSN

The real price of Brexit begins to emerge

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

Left Foot Forward

This is how much Brexit has cost already

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

Financial Times

The real price of Brexit begins to emerge

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

Russia Today (TV)

The big country

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

CICC Online (China)

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

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

NyTeknik.se

"Roboten at dod, leve roboten"/"The robot is dead, live the robot"

A recently published study, "Robots at Work" (Graetz, Michaels, 2017) highlights the actual economic impact of a major robot integration in industry. One conclusion is that the average increase in GD... Read more...

Londynek.net (Poland

France to impose total ban on mobile phones in schools

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

Guardian

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

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

Fortune

The desperate search for the next great American idea

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

New Republic

The muddle of the middle

Last month, a study   by the London School of Economics found that the average household will already be paying at least an extra £400 in shopping annually, due to Brexit-induced infl... Read more...

Economy.bg (Bulgaria)

France completely forbids mobile phones in schools

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

Feminis Romania

See which country forbids the use of mobile phones in schools

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

KSYL.com Radio online

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

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

Wirtualnemedia.pl

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

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

Giga.de (Germany)

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

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

GOV'T SLAVES

France is banning mobile phones in schools

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

Inc.com

A Stanford professor says working from home makes you happier and more efficient. There?s just 1 catch

Work from home or go to an office: which kind of workers are happier and more efficient? For the first time – surprisingly – there’s some solid academic research on the subject, led by a Stan... Read more...

KLAMM.DE (Germany)

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

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

Kroneen Zeitung (Austria)

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

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

French Tribune

Mobile phones banned in French schools

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

Proto Thema.gr (Greece)

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

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

ABC News

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

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

Newsweek

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

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

Treehugger

France will ban cell phones in elementary schools

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

The Times

Ban children from bringing mobile phones to school

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

Szaopressa.com (Russia)

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

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

Quartz

France is banning mobile phones in schools

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

Future of Work Commission report

(page 34) cites Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, ?Robots at Work,? IDEAS Working Paper Series, 2015.

... Read more...

Circular (Russia)

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

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

The New European

Deluded President Trump failing the stress test

There is another B word that keeps popping up whenever the shortcomings of B for Brexit are highlighted. B for Bandwidth. We heard it from Alan Milburn as he explained why he was stepping down from his work he... Read more...

Daily Mail online

Liam Fox faces embarrassment after book he endorsed warns how hard Brexit could be damaging

Pro-Brexit Cabinet Minister Liam Fox faced embarrassment last night after it was revealed that he commissioned and endorsed a new book which warns of the damaging effects of a 'hard' Brexit. The Intern... Read more...

Rambler.ru (Russia)

Jean-Claude Juncker summed up the first phase of negotiations between the UK and the EU

The decision to leave the UK from the EU negatively affected the quality of life of citizens. This conclusion was reached by the specialists of the Center for Economic Performance research center, having found... Read more...

BBC Radio Surrey (6:30:41 AM)

CEP on Radio

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

Gulf Times online

Premier faces growth Tory civil war over soft Brexit deal

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

Evening Standard (London)

Now Tory civil war deepens over soft Brexit

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

Derstandard (Austria)

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

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

WMOT Roots Radio

Should you work from home?

Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom said in a TED talk earlier this year that requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated tradition that doesn’t take into a... Read more...

Tvzvezda.ru (Russia)

по Brexit/May and Junker could not agree on Brexit

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

Polit.ru (Russia)

Technological progress is a devourer of jobs?

An important study on panel data for 14 branches of seventeen countries for the period 1993-2007. was recently carried out by G. Graetz and G. Michaels (Graetz, Michaels, 2015). They demonstrated that at the s... Read more...

ITV television

Peston on Sunday

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

Business Daily

Open door policy could raise Nairobi?s status as African economic hub

In a paper title Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK by Jonathan Wadsworth, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen, the writers reveal that European Union (EU) immigration has triple... Read more...

PBOil&Gas

HRIQ: Oil and gas technology and labor

A study by Graetz and Michaels found that the impact of industrial robots should boost pay for highly skilled workers while reducing pay for workers with low to medium skills. ... Read more...

The Street

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

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

LSE Business Review blog

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

New job openings attract not only local workers, but also those living relatively near, write Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo..... Related publications "How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence fro... Read more...

Twitter

Peston on Sunday‏ : @pestononsunday

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

Freakonomics Podcast

Are we running out of ideas? - Freakonomics

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

Independent

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

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

Get Surrey

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

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

The Property Chronicle

Stamp duty, mobility and the housing crisis

Article by Christian Hilber and Teemu Lyytikainen How replacing stamp duty with better-designed local taxes could alleviate the crisis of housing availability.  The SDLT (commonly labelled ‘stamp... Read more...

CEP mentioned in the Budget Resolutions Debate

CEPresearch was used in the post budget debate by MPs.

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

CAPX

Brexit is already costing Britain

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

NIESR Blog

The local economic impacts of Brexit

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

De Welt

Britische Regionen fordern Brexit-Extrawurste

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

Sydsvenskan (Sweden)

Debate Post: "Why is mental ill health and not poverty the main reason for a bad life?"

Richard Layard and his co-workers wanted to know how much money the British government has to allocate to reduce mental illness, physical ill health, unemployment and poverty. They concluded that the cheapest ... Read more...

Pakistan Today

Change course or risk Brexit chaos, Ireland warns Theresa May

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

Birmingham Evening Mail

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

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

Guardian

Irish warn Theresa May: change course or risk Brexit chaos

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

Sputnik News (Russia)

Revenues of the British fell after Brexit and shrink still

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

De Welt (Germany)

Britische Regionen fordern Brexit-Extrawurste

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

The Denver Post

The moral urgency of mental health

If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the gre... Read more...

ZDF.de (Germany)

Stellenabbau: Viele Sorgen, wenig Optimismus/Job cuts: many worries, little optimism

How many jobs are being lost in the UK due to the relocation of businesses is still unclear. Estimates range from 30,000 to 200,000. The Bank of England's most recent forecast, according to the BBC, is the... Read more...

Sputnik News (Russia)

Revenues of the British fell after Brexit and shrink still

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

NewsR.in (India)

UK economy: moderate growth but inflation remains high

Right now, the British people are already paying money. Every time they go shopping, because prices have gone up, they actually can buy less with their money said Dennis Novy, research fellow at the Center for... Read more...

Gloucester Live

Move over London ? Gloucester ranked in the UK?s top 10 most productive and entrepreneurial business areas

Post Budget analysis has focused on the UK's productivity woes - but a UK-wide report singles out Gloucester as a hotbed of entrepreneurial business growth and talent way ahead of the Capital. … The... Read more...

Premium Official News

New study reveals hit to living standards from Brexit

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

The UK in a Changing Europe Newsletter

Brexit squeeze

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

LSE Business Review blog

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

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

Eldiario.es (Spain)

The moral urgency of mental health

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

Zarojel.hu (Hungary)

British workers have already paid weekly for Brexit

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

Financial Mail

DINNER PARTY INTEL: Tencent takes on the world

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

EuroNews (Hungary)

Price of brexit: shrinking growth, rising inflation

The British already pay the price of brexit - explains Dennis Novy, an economics researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. - Every single shopping gets less and less money for their m... Read more...

Zarojel.hu (Hungary)

British workers have already paid weekly for Brexit

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

Financial Mail

DINNER PARTY INTEL: Tencent takes on the world

3. Britons begin to feel the Brexit pinch - EU and Union flags fly above Parliament Square in central London, Britain. UK households are more than £400/year worse off as a result of Brexit-induced inflat... Read more...

CCTV Mandarin News

News

Dennis Novy interviewed by Chinese television on CEP Brexit analysis research into how much Brexit is already costing UK households. ... Read more...

The Conversation (blog)

No, we aren?t running out of new ideas

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

Iran Daily

Statistics report shows Brexit?s influence on inflation in UK

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

EuroNews

UK economy: moderate growth but inflation remains high

UK economy: Britain is on course for its longest fall in living standards since records began, with wages not returning to their pre-financial crisis levels until at least 2025. … “Right now, the ... Read more...

FE Week

Hammond, take care where you sprinkle the skills cash

Article by Sandra McNally With the UK’s poor economic forecast doing few favours to the skills budget, government must ensure it’s putting money into policies that will actually raise overall pr... Read more...

Rosbalt.ru (Russia)

British authorities have reserved another 3 billion pounds for planning Brexit

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

Rosbalt.ru (Russia)

British authorities have reserved another 3 billion pounds for planning Brexit

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

GQ

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

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

The Herald (Scotland)

Beware: Spreadsheet Phil will be flying blind in this Budget

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

LSE Brexit blog

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

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

LSE News

New study reveals hit to living standards from Brexit

Brexit is already costing the average UK household £7.74 per week or £404 per year, according to new analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and Po... Read more...

Wales online

Wales and Northern Ireland see 'the worst inflation spikes in the UK'

Wales and Northern Ireland have suffered the worst spikes in inflation in the UK as a result of last year’s vote for Brexit, according to new research from the London School of Economics. The analysis by... Read more...

Channel 103

Brexit vote 'has made households #400-a-year worse off', say researchers

A report from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) says the average household is paying £404-a-year extra on food and household items due to rising prices. After the EU referendum vote, the falling ... Read more...

Bailiwick Express

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

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

Fars News Agency (Tehran)

Research: Brexit costs UK househilds over $500 per year

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

Vox

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

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

The UK in a Changing Europe blog

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

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

The Korea Herald

[Michael Plant, Peter Singer] The moral urgency of mental health

If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the great misery caused by mental illness, even though the net cost... Read more...

Financial Times

One to watch: four economies in focus

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

Prospect Magazine

The reality of No Deal, part three: chaos at Calais

Article by Thomas Sampson: Why will Brexit cause problems at the border? Let’s start with the basics. The central issue is that currently, goods move freely between the UK and other EU countries. That&rs... Read more...

LBC Radio

5:45:12 pm

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

The NBER Digest

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

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

EuroNews

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

Is it possible, as Trump’s statement suggests, to compare two countries’ economies and which indicators would we use to do so? GDP per capita is considered a baseline when comparing two economies. ... Read more...

Scottish Energy News

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

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

BBC Parliament

Live House of Commons

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

RIETI

The rise of robots in the German labour market

For our analysis, we exploit the same dataset from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) that was used by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2016, 2017) and in the pioneering study by Graetz and Michaels (2017). ... Read more...

MyJoyOnline

Are the robots coming for our jobs?

Some recent studies, however, such as a 2015 paper by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, found that at least in the area they studied – the impact of industrial robots – innovation is boosting pay for ... Read more...

Business & Financial Times online

Is the future jobless with technology: the robots are coming for our jobs

Some recent studies however, such as a 2015 paper by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, found that at least in the area they studied – the impact of industrial robots – innovation is boosting pay for h... Read more...

UK in a Changing EU

Brexit and Trade: Which trade barriers matter for the UK?

With Swati Dhingra, Martin Donnelly and Sam Lowe - Chaired by Soumaya Keynes Trading places:  #BrexitTrade conference video: What types of trade barriers are most important for UK firms with an eye ... Read more...

The Conversation

Weightlifters and divers offer a lesson for business in risk and reward

In practice, competitors often do not only choose their level of effort; they also have to decide between more or less risky strategies. For example, a pharmaceutical firm that is lagging behind in a patent ra... Read more...

The Money Pages

One in four Brits can?t afford to save

Rising inflation combined with flatlining wage growth means that households have seen incomes drop in real terms and are therefore beginning to feel the squeeze of higher prices. Worryingly, UK wages have drop... Read more...

Welt

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

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

Daily Telegraph

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

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

CEP citations

`The State of Small Business: Putting UK Entrepreneurs on the Map?, NESTA & SAGE Report, November 2017

Berlingieri, G., Blanchenay, P. and Criscuolo, C. The Great Divergence(s): CEP Discussion Paper No 1488. (Centre for Economic Performance, 2017) cited in ‘The State of Small Business: Putting UK Entrepre... Read more...

Tech.co

Why working remote can improve employee productivity

One of the most remarkable studies done to measure telecommuters’ performance was conducted by Stanford University. Led by Professor Nicholas Bloom, a team of scholars performed a Work From Home (WFH) ex... Read more...

News Shopper

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

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

Helensburgh Advertiser

New figures reveal likely Brexit impact on Argyll and Bute

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

Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

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

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

LiveMint

Innovation problem

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

BBC TV Midlands

Sunday Politics

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

The Straits Times

Messy divorce looms as Brexit talks go nowhere

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

Chicago Booth Review blog

The market power of `superstar? companies is growing

The standard metric of monopoly power is the concentration ratio, or the share of the market accruing to the top four (or 20) firms. In a 2017 paper, MIT’s David Autor, Christina Patterson, and John Van ... Read more...

BBC TV Scotland

Scottish Questions

Snippet: Mention of LSE study on cost of Brexit for Scotland ... Read more...

Design World

The cost of having a manager annoy you

…there have been numerous studies claiming that better management – sometimes equated with more management – is the key to productivity. One in particular – done by economists in Stanf... Read more...

City A.M.

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

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

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

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

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

Yorkshire Post

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

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

BBC News online

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

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

The Scotsman

Leader comment: Brexit figures must not be kept secret

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

BBC Radio (Shetland)

(10/24/2017 6:20:18 AM)

Snippet: Discussion of study on cost of Brexit for Scotland ... Read more...

The Times (Scotland)

Cities stand to lose billions from Brexit

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

Guardian

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

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

The Herald (Scotland)

New analysis suggests Scotland would lose billions of pounds with Brexit

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

Birmingham Mail

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

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

Evening Standard

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

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

ChronicleLive (Newcastle)

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

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

Mail online

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

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

The Times

Life without strife

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

Daily Mirror

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

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

Quartz

We?re running out of big ideas

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

The Street.com

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

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

MIT Sloan Experts

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

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

LSE Brexit blog

Why Brexit could hit productivity in the UK

UK economic performance has been poor since the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, but has not been the catastrophe that many predicted. Nicholas Bloom (Stanford) and Paul Mizen (Nottingham University) dr... Read more...

Spectator ? Coffee House blog

The embarrassing role of economists on Brexit

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

Asian Robotics Review

Looking to make a fortune investing in robotics?

Industrial robots are high-quality, productive workers; humans can’t match their output.  Because of these steel-collar workers and their peerless output—around the clock if necessary!—p... Read more...

Horticulture Week

Can UK fresh produce come out of Brexit ahead?

NFU Scotland’s Horticulture Committee chairman and Angus Soft Fruits (ASF) grower James Porter last month met UK Migration Advisory Committee chair Professor Alan Manning and Defra secretary Michael Gove... Read more...

LSE Research Briefing October 2017

New LSE report on uneven spread of UK industry

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

Hrmasia

The working blues

The UK Centre for Mental Health calculated that presenteeism from mental ill health alone costs the UK economy £15.1 billion (S$26.5 billion) per annum, while absenteeism costs £8.4 billion (S$14.4... Read more...

CEP Journal Articles

'On Minimizing the Risk of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics?

Alex Eble, Peter Boone and Diana Elbourne, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, October 2017 DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhw034 Related links Peter Boone CEP Alumni webpage:  http://www.effi... Read more...

LinkedIn

One small town sock maker?s fight to keep jobs and make it in a different America

Fort Payne, Alabama was the former “Sock Capital of the World” until a trade deal triggered job losses. In this installment of #WorkInProgress, we show how one sock maker is pushing to keep “... Read more...

BBC News

Pembrokeshire council vote for Brexit working group

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

Forbes

Benefits of a lenient work-from-home policy

When it comes to debating a work-from-home policy, there are two schools of thought on the subject. While one group believes employees will abuse the system and productivity will be lost, the other believes th... Read more...

Western Telegraph

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

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

Foral.pl (Poland)

Gramy o więcej. Cała prawda o polskim rynku pracy / We play more. The whole truth about the Polish labor market

Speaking mainly about vending machines and industrial robots. A study by George, Graetz of Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics, which investigated the impact of roboticisation... Read more...

Times Higher Education - THE

Subject cost data add fuel to England's variable fees debate

Gill Wyness, a senior lecturer in the economics of education at the UCL Institute of Education, said there might be logic in this approach given that universities were arguably being incentivised at the moment... Read more...

Medium.com ? Third Way

Alexa, will automation destroy my job?

Finally, the jobs most susceptible to automation are routine jobs that are made up of few, repetitive tasks, which tend to be lower- or middle-skill jobs. Non-routine jobs, on the other hand, require interpers... Read more...

Exame (Brazil)

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

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

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

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

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

The Highlander (University of California, USA)

Banning cell phones at schools will only result in good

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

Huffington Post

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

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

Yeni Safak (Turkey)

Happier working at home

According to a survey conducted by Stanford University Professor of Economics Nicholas Bloom in Singapore, those who work from home are happier than those who work in the office. We asked the people who work a... Read more...

Telegram.com (Mass; USA)

Cellphones a tricky issue for school districts in Central Mass.

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

Trome (Spain)

Should companies let their employees work from home? This study states that it is the best option

This is stated in the unique study of Stanford University economics professor Nicholas Bloom. According to the study, the number of people working from home has tripled in the last 30 years. However, the numbe... Read more...

Economist

The cost of innovation has risen, and productivity has suffered

But the exploitation of currently available knowledge is far from complete A recent paper by Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones and Michael Webb of Stanford University, and John Van Reenen of the Massachusetts I... Read more...

The Beacon

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

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

Independent

Brexit: 'Zero chance' leaving EU will make Britons better off, Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman says

Exclusive: Krugman rejects the assertions of Brexiteers that leaving the single market and customs union will ultimately help the UK export more to the rest of the world. A study by economi... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe blog

Florence speech falls short on the details of a bespoke arrangement with the EU

Article by Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon. On trade, the PM reiterated that the UK would be outside the Single Market and the Customs Union after Brexit. The UK would not pursue off-the-shelf arrangements, lik... Read more...

Kurzy.cz (Czechoslovakia)

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

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

The Wire

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

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

Les Echos (France)

Productivity is cultivated

Over the last decade, economists have worked hard on the impact of management on productivity. The effectiveness of management, measured by a set of indicators (quality of internal monitoring, setting clear ob... Read more...

Howling Pixel

Technological unemployment

Some recent studies however, such as a 2015 paper by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, found that at least in the area they studied – the impact of industrial robots – innovation is boosting pay for h... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

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

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

NJ Today (New Jersey, USA)

Big ideas are getting harder to find

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

CounterFire

Robots and AI: utopia or dystopia? Part one

In recent work, Graetz and Michaels looked at 14 industries (mainly manufacturing industries, but also agriculture and utilities) in 17 developed countries (including European countries, Australia, S... Read more...

The Times

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

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

Ideas.Ted.com

Why working from home should be standard practice

And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her. Imagine a person working from home. If you pictured somebody in pajam... Read more...

Writer Beat blog

Why small isn?t always beautiful: labor regulations and firm growth

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

Vox

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

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

The Times

Rise of the accidental manager lies behind UK's low productivity

Research from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, which developed a management performance score based on employee ratings of supervisors, found that Britain ranked fifth out... Read more...

Managers.org.uk

How accidental managers are draining productivity

Research from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that the problem was particularly prevalent in Great Britain, with the country scoring just 3.03 out of five for manage... Read more...

MoneyWeek

The UK cities that will be most affected by Brexit

It’s important to realise that, while Brexit will have an effect on the whole of the UK, it will not be spread evenly around the country. In an attempt to look at the relative winners and losers, the thi... Read more...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

David Brooks: The economy isn?t broken

In a well-functioning economy, workers are rewarded for their productivity. As output, jobs and hours worked rise, so does income. Over the past two years, that seems to be exactly what’s happening. T... Read more...

The Indiana Gazette

In reality the economy isn?t broken

In a well-functioning economy, workers are rewarded for their productivity. As output, jobs and hours worked rise, so does income. Over the past two years, that seems to be exactly what’s happening. T... Read more...

Financial Times ? Gavyn Davies? blog

American growth pessimism may be overdone

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

American Enterprise Institute

Around the web: Correcting the economic narrative, Greg Mankiw?s reading list, and more The economy isn?t broken after all

In a well-functioning economy, workers are rewarded for their productivity. As output, jobs and hours worked rise, so does income. Over the past two years, that seems to be exactly what’s happening. The ... Read more...

Stanford News

Stanford scholars say big ideas are getting harder to find

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

IlSole24ore (Italy)

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

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

Financial Times ? Alphaville

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

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

Blasting News (Italy)

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

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

Fudzilla

Humanity is running out of ideas

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

LSE Business Review blog

The value of good management

To what extent does the quality of management matter for a business to be successful? ask Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen ... Read more...

Amplo Creative ? Business

Robots won?t take our jobs, but improve them

In the recent shift from outsourcing manufacturing, many pundits have argued that the addition of more robotic job automation the more manufacturing jobs would be lost. This correlation has recently been the s... Read more...

GetReading

See how MPs for Berkshire voted in the Brexit Repeal Bill

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

Evolve Politics

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

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

The A Register

Boffins fear we might be running out of ideas

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

Nelson Mail (New Zealand)

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

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

Business 2 Community

Automation: the future of your business?

In the academic paper ‘Robots at Work’, Georg Graetz of Uppsala University and the LSE’s Guy Michaels discovered that, between 1993 and 2007, automated systems encouraged the average GDP of c... Read more...

The Orange County Register

Taxing robots will hurt California innovation and opportunity

Economists Georg Graetz of Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics produced a 2015 study which found that between 1993 and 2007, Michaels said, there was “a negative effect ... Read more...

Spectator

Off days

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

Social Europe

How Bad Will Brexit Really Be For The UK?

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

EUnited ? Robotics: European Robotics Association

German robots ? the impact of industrial robots on workers

The third reason to focus on Germany is a practical one. Detailed German labor market data are merged with the same data on industrial robots, that is also used by Acemoglu and Restrepo (Robots and J... Read more...

Newsreview.com

Are robots going to steal our jobs?

In 2015, economists Georg Graetz of Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics analyzed the effects of industrial robots on employment in 17 different countries between 1993 and 2007... Read more...

What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth blog

The local economic impacts of Brexit

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

News Review

Are robots going to steal our jobs?

In 2015, economists Georg Graetz of Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics analyzed the effects of industrial robots on employment in 17 different countries between 1993 and 2007... Read more...

Oxford Times

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

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

Conatus News

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

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

Financial Times

Low skills and poor infrastructure blamed for UK productivity gap

Higher skill levels among London’s workforce explains about two-thirds of the productivity gap between the capital and the rest of the country, according to Henry Overman, director of the What Works Cent... Read more...

Education Week

Can Banning Phones in School Curb Cyberbullying?

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

Guardian

Do new roads boost the economy? The science is still finding its way

Steve Gibbons, a member of a London School of Economics team that has produced a series of reports on the subject, says any claims that infrastructure investment is a cost-effective way of generating growth sh... Read more...

Helensburgh Advertiser

Parents back idea of mobile phone classroom ban

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

The Gazette

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

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

Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter

Schools impose ban on taking mobile phones into the classroom

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

Yahoo! Finance

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

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

Vox

Smaller firms suffer far more from organised, mafia-style crime

Article by Roberto Ganau and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose Whether organised crime undermines productivity has been studied extensively in broad terms, but not at the firm level. This column uses exte... Read more...

What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth blog

Shedding new light on innovation policy

Article by Max Nathan:  ...Our latest case study summarises Innovate UK's programmes of support for microbusinesses and SMEs: mainly grants but also loans, awarded on a competitive basis, either to in... Read more...

Kingdom FM

Kingdom FM [14:00:01]

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

Vox

Missing growth: How imputation and creative destruction affect TFP measurement

Article by Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Timo Boppart, Peter Klenow, Huiyu Li  Slowing growth of total factor productivity has led some to suggest that the world is running out of ideas for innova... Read more...

City A.M.

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

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

BBC News

Call for mobile phone ban in Scottish primary schools

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

Times of Tunbridge Wells

Report claims Brexit will sting whatever guise it comes in?

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

Scottish Daily Mail

Heads 'need to be able to ban phones'

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

Bankier (Poland)

Expert: Britain wants to speed up trade talks with brexitas

Dr Thomas Sampson of the London School of Economics (LSE) said on Tuesday that the publication of UK government plans for a transition period and regulations after the breit suggests that London wants to speed... Read more...

Scotsman

MSP wants headteachers to be allowed to ban mobiles in school

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

HowlingPixel

Technological unemployment

Some recent studies however, such as a 2015 paper by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, found that at least in the area they studied – the impact of industrial robots – innovation is boosting pay for h... Read more...

Forsal.Pl (Poland)

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

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

The Times

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

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

KentLive

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

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

Bloomberg Politics

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

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

Prospect magazine

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

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

Huffington Post

Credit Crunch Anniversary: Why Pay Is A `Long Way? From Recovering And How Brexit Is Making It Worse

A London School of Economics report in June showed that Britain was one of just three out of 28 countries that saw wages fall in real terms between 2007 and 2015. The only country where wages fell more... Read more...

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

`The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Competitiveness?

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

Consultancy UK

Real pay growth to stagnate in 2017 and 2018

Private sector workers too have seen a significant drop in real term wages in recent years, with an LSE study estimating an effective 10% decrease since the financial crisis to 2015. ... Read more...

Wales online

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

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

Spirit FM

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

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

The Sunday Times

A spanner in the works for Britain's growth

Snippet: Philip Hammond has said that if every region of the UK could match the productivity of London and southeast England, there would not be a productivity problem. The London School of Economics, which re... Read more...

Mediapart

Marx, Piketty et Aghion sur la productivite, par Michel Husson / Marx, Piketty and Aghion on Productivity, by Michel Husson

A recent critical work on a study by Philippe Aghion [1] suggests a parallel (heroic) with Marx's considerations on innovation. This contribution, after having quickly pointed out the contradictions s... Read more...

Slough Express

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

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

Getreading

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

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

LSEIQ podcast

Episode 2 | What's the future of work?

Tackling the question, ‘What’s the future of work’, are: Professor David Graeber of LSE’s Department of Anthropology; Dr Aleks Krotoski, social psychologist, technology journalist and f... Read more...

The Pie News

UK Home Secretary calls for report on EU migration

The UK’s Home Secretary Amber Rudd has commissioned a report on the impact Brexit will have on the UK labour market. A key sector for enquiry will be higher education, where 17% of academic staff are EU ... Read more...

This is Wiltshire

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

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

Robotiq

5 shocking statistics from manufacturers who turned to robotics

Research done by Graetz and Michaels has shown that robots are contributing to historic production growth since their entrance into the manufacturing industries. Overall, it shows that between 1993 and 2007, r... Read more...

Swindon Advertiser

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

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

Guardian

Fox in the chicken house is a boon to the SNP

We are also now beginning to see why Scots voted 2:1 to remain in the EU. The thinktank Centre for Cities has predicted that Scotland’s major cities will suffer the worst consequences of Brexit, hard or ... Read more...

Clarin.com

Depression and anxiety, in the sights of an ambitious English project

In 2005, David Clark, a professor of psychology at the University of Oxford, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, came to the conclusion that it made economic sense to provide therapeu... Read more...

Gazette Live

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

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

The Sunday Mirror

Brexit will hit hardest across the South of England - but one place in Scotland gets the brunt

Brexit will hit hardest in the South of England, ­according to new research. But although the more prosperous cities of the South will lose the most, they will find it easiest to adapt. Aberdeen in the Nor... Read more...

Appsforpcdaily.com

Brexit transition deal will end by 2022, says Philip Hammond

In findings released by think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, the potential impact of either Brexit "type" on major cities in t... Read more...

MSN

Brexit to hit Aberdeen worst as London set for 2.6% output fall

Brexit will hit Scottish oil capital Aberdeen the hardest of all Britain’s cities, with London also ranking highly and facing a medium-term blow to economic output of as much as 2.6 percent, academics at... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

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

Article by Henry Overman: The LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (working with the Centre for Cities think tank) has carried out a study shedding light upon the local economic impact of Brexit. Henry ... Read more...

Get Surrey

How much of Surrey's land is taken up by fairways and putting greens

Woking has the highest density of golf courses of anywhere in the UK at more than 10% According to The Guardian , Surrey has more land for golf courses than homes thanks to planning policies that ensure the... Read more...

City AM

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

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

Click Lancashire

Aberdeen will be hit hardest by Brexit deals

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

Newburgh Gazette (Illinois, USA)

Aberdeen and Edinburgh `to be hit hardest by Brexit'

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

Energy Voice

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

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

The National (Scotland)

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

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

Aberdeen Evening Express

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

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

Shropshire Star

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

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

Chronicle Live

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

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

Business Insider UK

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

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

Blackpool Gazette

Resort named in Brexit hit list

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

Times Educational Supplement - TES

More autonomy turned out to be mere rhetoric

The rise of academies promised more power for schools - but, with government still clinging to the reins, heads haven't been able to raise standards as expected. However, this system may yet deliver - if m... Read more...

Guardian

Aberdeen to be worst hit by Brexit but all British cities will suffer

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Guardian

Aberdeen to be worst hit by Brexit but all British cities will suffer - report

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Sputnik News

UK Business Sectors That will suffer the most if EU migration is restricted

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Yorkshire Evening Post

'Leeds could be among hardest-hit by Brexit'

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Vox

New road infrastructure: The effects on firms

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Bez (Spain)

Sin impulsos publicos en I+D, este capitalismo nos condena a la barbarie /Without public impulses in R and D, this capitalism condemns us to barbarism

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Tyden.cz (Czechoslovakia)

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

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Public Sector Executive

Economy and infrastructure

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

Insider.co.uk

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

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

International Business Times

Revealed: the cities Brexit will hit hardest

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

Worthing Herald

Study reveals Worthing will suffer from Brexit

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

The Planner

Brexit will hit southern UK cities hardest ? report

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

Aberdeen Evening Express

Aberdeen will be hit hardest by Brexit deals

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

Commonspace

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

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

Bristol Post

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

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

Bloomberg Politics

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

Brexit will hit Scottish oil capital Aberdeen the hardest of all Britain’s cities, with London also ranking highly and facing a medium-term blow to economic output of as much as 2.6 percent, academics at... Read more...

LSE EUROPP (European Politics and Policy) blog

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

The LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (working with the Centre for Cities think tank) has carried out a study shedding light upon the local economic impact of Brexit. Henry G. Overman writes that it ... Read more...

The Times (Scotland)

Aberdeen and Edinburgh `to be hit hardest by Brexit'

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

SERC blog

The local economic impacts of Brexit

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

BBC News

Aberdeen `worst hit' by hard Brexit, experts predict

Aberdeen could be the city worst hit by falling economic output due to a "hard" Brexit, experts have predicted. A new report from the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at t... Read more...

JamesACox blog

Productivity and robots

In a new study from London’s Center for Economic Research [sic], the analysis offered by George Graetz and Guy Michaels of Uppsala University and the London School of Economics, respectively, offers some... Read more...

New York Times

England's mental health experiment: free talk therapy

In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and the economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense... Read more...

atd ? Association for Talent Development

Is working from home better than working in the office?

Although workforces are becoming more spread out and technologies such as videoconferencing are making workplaces more fluid, employees who work exclusively from home are still getting a bad rap. Their jobs ar... Read more...

LSE EUROPP (European Politics and Policy) blog

Five important questions the UK government's Brexit customs plan fails to answer

Article by Thomas Sampson: The most welcome aspect of the government’s policy paper on future customs arrangements is its acknowledgement of the desirability of a transition agreement after the UK leaves... Read more...

Hatcher+ blog

How medieval accountants and AI created the jobless future

Graph credit: Graetz and Michaels, “Robots at Work" - taken from the Brookings Institute article located here- which manages to interpret data from the Graetz and Michaels study rathe... Read more...

Education Policy Institute

The impact of academies on educational outcomes

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

Suratkabar.id

Ternyata Bekerja Dari Rumah Membuat Anda Lebih Bahagia dan Luar Biasa Produktif, Riset Ini Mengungkapkannya/ Apparently Working From Home Makes You Happier and Extraordinarily Productive, This Research Revealed

But it seems that the assumption is just a false assumption-if it can not be wrong. In fact, reported Inc.com report on Tuesday (07/17/2017), Professor Nicholas Bloom as an economist from Stanford recently exp... Read more...

Mundiario

La productividad laboral mejora cuando se trabaja desde casa

But what many ignore or is difficult to accept, is that when working from home, productivity increases. The latest statement is reflected in a study by Nicholas Bloom, a researcher at Stanford University, who ... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Five important questions the government's Brexit customs plan fails to answer

The government’s recent paper on future customs arrangements sets out its objectives for how goods trade with the EU will be governed following Brexit. However, as Thomas Sampson outlines below... Read more...

Developpez.com (France)

Employees working from home would be happier and more efficient than those on the premises of the company. What about France?

Nicholas Bloom, a professor at Stanford University, was interested in the phenomenon of working from home, a particular mode of work that allows employees of a company to stay at home rather than going into sp... Read more...

oikonomia.gr (Greece)

A new road to economic liberalism

A similar trend can be observed at the organizational level. A recent study by Erling Bath, Alex Bryson, James Davis and Richard Freeman has shown that the spread of individual wages since the 1970s is linked ... Read more...

Roboteer-tokyo.com (Japan)

'Employment and wages increase rather than introducing robots' ... International Robot Federation Reports

IFR quoted OECD's research results. Companies that introduced innovative technology said they are more productive than 2-10 times more than companies that do not. Also cited a study by Graetz and Michaels ... Read more...

Harvard Business Review

A study of 16 countries shows that the most productive firms (and their employees) are pulling away from everyone else

Article by Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failin... Read more...

Bezprawnik.PL (Poland)

Working from home earns more, less often, and are happier than those working in offices

Nicholas Bloom, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, conducted a study on a large, multi-thousand research group: employees of a Chinese travel company Ctrip. Have not you heard of her? Not... Read more...

Project Syndicate

A new course for economic liberalism

Research by Cesar Hidalgo and his colleagues at MIT reveals that, in countries where sectoral concentration has declined in recent decades, such as South Korea, income inequality has fallen. In those where sec... Read more...

Quartz

Work from home people earn more, quit less, and are happier than their office-bound counterparts

Working from home gets a bad rap. Google the phrase and examine the results—you’ll see scams or low-level jobs, followed by links calling out “legitimate” virtual jobs. But Stanford Gra... Read more...

Financial Times

The secret of Singapore's development master plan

Letter from Edwin Loo, Singapore Singapore is one of only a few jurisdictions in the world to have successfully implemented a comprehensive system of land value capture through betterment taxes and revenues... Read more...

Emirates-Business.ae

Businesses cast doubt on UK-US post-Brexit trade deal

“There are bigger potential gains from doing a deal with Europe than with the UK on its own, just because Europe is a bigger market,” said Thomas Sampson, an economist at the Centre for Economic Pe... Read more...

Bloomberg (USA)

Post-Brexit UK trade deal with Trump in easier said than done

“There are bigger potential gains from doing a deal with Europe than with the U.K. on its own, just because Europe is a bigger market,” said Thomas Sampson, an economist at the Centre for Economic ... Read more...

The core of the REVOLUTION (Korea)

`Robots introduced', contributing to competitiveness and job creation

According to the report of "The Impact of Robots on Productivity, Employment and Jobs" published by the International Robot Federation (IFR) recently issued by the Korea Robot Industry Promotion Agen... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

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Snippet: ... signs of faltering market with a slight drop in house prices month on month quarter-on-quarter but they're still up on a year ago a man quoted in many areas house prices crash stories was Prof... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Money Box Programme

Newspaper headlines this week have been shouting about a crash in the housing market. Massive collapse! Property prices could plunge! We hear from the man quoted in many of those stories, Professor Paul Cheshi... Read more...

FD.nl (The Netherlands)

Ranglijsten: Nederland handhaaft zich als een na beste land ter wereld (en loopt in op Zwitserland)/ Leaderboards: Netherlands maintains itself as a second-best country in the world (and walks in on Switzerland)

On the fifth list that I use for the rankings of the Netherlands increased rankings again though. Dutch were something happier and are now a position higher, at place 6 of the Happiness index of economists Ric... Read more...

Blog-illusio.com

Comment la transmission de la politique monetaire americaine a change au cours du temps/How the transmission of U.S. monetary policy has changed over time

Several empirical studies have sought to determine whether recent technological advances have reduced the aggregate demand for work or hindered wage growth. For example, Terry Gregory, Anna Salomons and Ulrich... Read more...

BBC - capital

The many upsides of a happy workforce

There are many benefits to putting happiness at the centre of business and policy decisions, says economist Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, a professor at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School. He points... Read more...

La Nacion

?Riqueza o bienestar?/ Wealth or well-being?

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

Evening Standard

London house prices rise so fast they outstrip wages

Earlier this week Paul Cheshire, a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, gave a starker warning.  He said: “We are due a significant correction in house prices. I think ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

The growing inequality between firms

Globalisation, technological progress and a range of policies and institutions are driving ‘Great Divergences’ in wages and productivity, write Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara C... Read more...

Blog-illusio.com

La croissance de la productivite menace-t-elle l?emploi ? / Does productivity growth threaten employment?

Observing 17 European countries, Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels (2015) estimate that the diffusion of industrial robots has stimulated labor productivity, value added, wages and overall factor product... Read more...

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

'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

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

IBS intelligence

Technology downtime is a major problem for the UK's banking sector

The average employee in the finance industry loses more than 20 minutes per day of productive time to faulty IT. This is ironic in a sector which has always been proud of its trail-blazing attitude to be an ea... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe

EU referendum: one year on - UK economic policy

Article by Dr Swati Dhingra What form of relationship to have with the EU after Brexit is the key economic policy issue facing the UK. This election was meant to give the prime minister a strong mandate for... Read more...

The UK in a changing Europe (Kings College London)

EU referendum: one year on - trade and the single market

Article by Thomas Sampson One year ago, the UK voted to leave the EU. However, voters did not choose what would come after Brexit. Options for “life after Brexit”:  One option is to rema... Read more...

LSE The education blog

Judith Shapiro and Steve Pischke on recommended summer reads

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

Financial Times

Overworked staff still love their bosses

Encouraging better work-life balance does not lead to higher productivity, academics at London School of Economics found. Neither does forcing workers into miserable servitude. Related publications &lsqu... Read more...

Kashmir Observer

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

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

Bloomberg Business Week

Britain's financial power is already seeping away

“There will be a lot of political pressure to get as much of the finance industry moved to the EU as possible,” said Tom Kirchmaier, a fellow in the financial-markets group at the London School of ... Read more...

Time

The continuing urgency of the Grenfell Tower inferno

In the days since the fire, Grenfell Tower has been held up as a tragic symbol of the social ills facing Britain: a detached political class; nearly seven years of a government-led austerity program that has s... Read more...

Stanford Business Insights

Why working from home is a 'future-looking technology'

Nick Bloom – a Stanford GSB expert shows how companies and employees benefit from workplace flexibility. Related publications Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment, Nichol... Read more...

Stanford Business Insights

Why working from home is a 'future-looking technology'

Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom says requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated work tradition, set up during the Industrial Revolution. Such inflexibility ignores tod... Read more...

The Herald

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

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

South China Morning Post

On track: remote monitoring and artificial intelligence ensure more efficient railway systems along belt and road routes

High-speed rail has triggered a wave of innovation , according to a London School of Economics and Political Science discussion paper by Lin Yatang, Qin Yu and Xie Zhuan, which describes a 20 per cent increase... Read more...

Mdz

!Que vienen los robots!/The robots are coming!