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Inside Housing

A 'default yes' near stations is welcome, but let's take it further

A presumption is favour of development is a good thing, but the government should be more targeted in where it encourages growth, write Nikhil Datta and Amrita Kulka. ... Read more...

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...

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...

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...

CEP Announcement

David Metcalf (1942-2026)

With great sadness we have learnt that our good friend and colleague David Metcalf has passed away. Together with Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell, David set up the Centre for Labour Economics, which became the Centre ... 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...

BBC One

Panorama: The race to build 1.5 million homes

Paul Cheshire features in this investigation into the UK's housing crisis and whether the government's promise to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029 can be met. ... 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...

BBC Radio 4

File on 4 Investigates - Domestic Abuse: Beyond the Checklist

Ria Ivandic, CEP associate, shares research showing that 88% of repeat cases of domestic abuse violence had previously been categorised as  standard or medium risk under the DASH risk assessment, rather than high ri... 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...

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 Economist

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

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

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...

Time

To fight inequality, America needs to rethink its economic model

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

CEP Announcement

Anna Valero joins the chancellor's economic advisory council

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

The Guardian

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

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

Financial Times

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

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

Financial Times

Make wellbeing central to public policy

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

Financial Times

How London's property market became an inheritocracy

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

The Economist

A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution

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

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...

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 Guardian

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

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

The Times

Brexit hitting production and wages, warns Resolution Foundation

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

Financial Times

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

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

Economy 2030

The Economy 2030 Inquiry: the first year

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 year, researchers from the R... 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...

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...

Financial Times

Stable job market is `mixed blessing? for UK workers

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

The Times

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

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

ITV News

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

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

The Economist

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

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

Economy 2030

Economy 2030 Inquiry: six months on

It is six months since the launch of The Economy 2030 inquiry – a two-year project that will examine the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and set out a plan... 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...

BBC

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

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

The Observer

A million jobs in peril as one in 16 UK firms say they are at risk of closure

A million workers are still employed by businesses at risk of closure over the next three months, as the government is poised to withdraw critical Covid support schemes, according to new analysis by Peter Lamb... Read more...

The Economist

Domestic violence surges after a football match ends

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

The Independent

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

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

The Guardian

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

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

Financial Times

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

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

The Telegraph

Replace stamp duty with tax raid on southern property wealth, Sunak told

An new annual property tax on the value of each home, proposed by economists Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber, would be fairer than current system, according to a new report by think tank Bright Bl... Read more...

The Independent

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

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

The Guardian

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

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

Centre for Economic Performance

UK facing a `decisive decade? of change

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

The Telegraph

London risks house price crunch as Covid boom ends

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

Financial Times

Detached homes close to central London enjoy biggest price rises

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

The Guardian

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

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

Economics Observatory

Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus?

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

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...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Building back better: policies for a strong and sustainable recovery

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

Blogs: LSE British Politics and Policy

COVID-19 and housing: while prices may fall, homes will remain unaffordable

Discussing the potential effects of COVID-19 on housing, Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber write that real house prices and rents may initially fall. Yet housing will remain unaffordable f... Read more...

Blogs: CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog

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

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

Relevant research: Communities

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

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

The Economist

How an obsession with home ownership can ruin the economy

Special report: includes research findings from CEP researchers Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber [paywall] INREV THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF HELP TO BUY* Felipe Carozzi London School of Economics & Centre for Economic Pe... Read more...

Office for National Statistics

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

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

Press Release

The gig economy; management; inequality; later life outcomes

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

The Times (London)

Second-home ban 'has priced out locals'

The study by the London School of Economics argued that the ban had damaged the local construction and tourism industries. It was claimed that it had caused the pool of available homes to shrink as housebuilders walked a... Read more...

Metro (UK)

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

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

Falmouth Packet

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

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Cornwall Live

St Ives second homes ban backfired new study claims

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The Telegraph

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

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

The Sunday Telegraph (London)

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

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

BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service

BBC Radio 4

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

WeForum

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

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

VOXEU

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

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

The Conversation

A no-deal Brexit won?t end the uncertainty for business

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

The Guardian

From pecan pralines to `dots? as currency: how the prison economy works

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La Republica

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

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

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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What Works Well (blog)

Will that Lamborghini make me happy?

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

LSE Business Review

Most trade in services happens between cities rather than countries

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

FTAdvisor.com

Govt dismisses calls for stamp duty reform

Both Christian Hilber, professor of economic geography at LSE, and Rory Meakin, research fellow at the TaxPayers' Alliance, thought stamp duty hindered some from downsizing and meant larger family homes were generally un... Read more...

The Times

Ban on second homes backfires in Cornwall

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

BBC Online

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

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

BBC Radio

Today in Parliament (18:10 ? 22:00)

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

The Times

Homeowners find that size isn't necessarily everything

The author of a new paper examining satisfaction with home ownership said the pleasure many buyers take in their increasingly big houses is often undermined by envy. "If I bought a house to feel like 'I'm the king of th... Read more...

MailOnline

Neighbors hate the large, mass-produced suburban 'McMansions' popping up across America because they make their own houses look small

Although the median size for a newly-built single-family house has increased from 1,500 square feet in 1973 to more than 2,400 square feet in 2017 according to Census Bureau data, Americans aren't happier with their big ... Read more...

Atlantic Online

Are McMansions Making People Any Happier?

But according to a recent paper, Americans aren't getting any happier with their ever bigger homes. "Despite a major upscaling of single-family houses since 1980," writes Clement Bellet, a postdoctoral fellow at the Euro... Read more...

Raconteur

Can and should manufacturing be brought home?

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

BBC Radio Kent

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

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

CITY AM

Small businesses to be given artificial intelligence boost

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

The Times

Pay no council tax until you sell; Property Peers are calling for radical reforms to property taxation to help older homeowners, reports Carol Lewis

... in property. Professor Christian Hilber, professor of economic geography ...... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog

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

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

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...

LSE Business Review

The value of having a view to a canal

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

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)

Valuing the environmental benefits of canals using house prices

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

El Diario de Madryn

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

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

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...

iNews

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

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

USNews.com

A Boom in High-Rises Alters London's Skyline

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

Economic and Political Weekly

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

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

ITPro

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

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

The Financial Times

Three strategies for left-behind places

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

Le Monde

Paul Seabright : < La politique industrielle a la capacite de soutenir l?emploi et l?investissement > / Paul Seabright: "Industrial policy has the capacity to support jobs and investment"

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

The Economist

Letters to the editor

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

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...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

Universities and industrial strategy in the UK

Evidence on how the positive economic effects of universities on individuals and the economy can be maximised - by Ghazala Azmat, Richard Murphy, Anna Valero and Gill Wyness.... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Developing an effective local industrial strategy for the UK

Evidence-based principles for local policymakers seeking to design an effective industrial strategy - by Henry Overman and Naomi Clayton. ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

When globalisation gets local: winners and losers

Left-behind places are lending themselves increasingly to the forces of populism and political disintegration, writes Riccardo Crescenzi. A complex flow of investment is spreading across the globe, connecting more a... Read more...

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...

Financial Express (India)

Why India needs better management

One problem in assessing the impact of management is that it is an amorphous and multifaceted category, including a variety of possible activities. This problem has been addressed by the work of economists lik... 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...

The New York Times

Airbus tells Britain it wants details of a Brexit deal, or else

Many businesses “are going to think very hard before choosing the U.K. if they don’t know whether it will be part of the integrated market” of the European Union, said Thomas Sampson, a lectu... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Should we be spending money on holidays and restaurants rather than homes?

The £15bn Crossrail will serve the Buckinghamshire village of Taplow, in the green belt, next year, yet no homes can be added there, noted Professor Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics ... 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...

Al Jazeera

Dennis Novy

Dennis Novy gave a live TV interview o n Al Jazeera on the latest US/China/EU trade disputes. Dennis discussed the economic effects of tariffs on consumers, as well as the potential consequences for the i... 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...

Express online

`Like a house of cards FALLING DOWN? ? Think tank RIP APART PM?s customs partnership plan

  THE LUDICROUS customs partnership arrangement preferred by Remainers as a solution to the Ireland border post-Brexit has been torn apart by a London based think thank who have argued the plan is almo... Read more...

i ? Independent

The Home Office is offering a golden visa service to Russian oligarchs that includes information on tax havens

Evidence was submitted to show that nearly all rich foreign investors and their families who came to the UK under the Tier 1 scheme lived in expensive houses, sent their children to public schools and used pri... Read more...

Bloomberg Quint

London Home Price Declines Seen Continuing for Next Three Years

Bloomberg News asked six market commentators to predict what they see happening next in London’s 1.8 trillion-pound ($2.4 trillion) housing market:… Rippling Out:  Paul Cheshire, professor... 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...

Liberation (France)

Annabelle Allouch: "This is the moment when individual value can be recognized"

Examination is therefore a democratic tool of social climbing? Examination is the tool that makes it possible to establish the symbolic value of the graduate from the certification of his apprenticeships. This... 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...

Spatial Economics Research Centre (blog)

The `Bedroom Tax?: How did families react? Did the policy achieve its objectives?

By Steve Gibbons The ‘Bedroom Tax’ – or ‘under occupancy penalty’ or ‘removal of the spare room subsidy’ as it has been called officially – is a highly contro... 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...

BBC Radio 4

You & Yours Radio 4?s Consumer Affairs Programme

Interview with Stephen Gibbons. “Did the bedroom tax or 'under-occupancy charge' actually work?” ... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Trump?s trade threats are hurting growth

Economists Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis —authors of the study that measured Depression-era uncertainty—have found that economic uncertainty related to trade this March was more than... Read more...

Project Syndicate

Macron's reform train will not be derailed

Article by Philippe Aghion and Beneficte Berner:  French President Emmanuel Macron was elected with a clear mandate to reform the French economy, and he has not hesitated to target politically sensit... 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...

CEP awards

CEP?s Professor Barbara Petrongolo and her co-author, Dr L. Rachel Ngai, have been awarded the American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Macroeconomics Paper prize

The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Award highlights the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics... Read more...

Foreign Affairs

Trump?s trade rhetoric is already hurting America

Since Trump was elected president, many measures of policy uncertainty have jumped. Take the widely used monthly U.S. Policy Uncertainty Index created by the economists Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven ... Read more...

LSE Blog - British Politics & Policy

Kwasi Kwarteng: Does the UK need its own infrastructure bank?

Several commentators have suggested that a domestic infrastructure bank could fill the void if the UK was unable to access EIB support. The LSE Growth Commission have promoted the creation of such an... Read more...

Greater Good Magazine

Can government policies make us happier?

  The World Happiness Report has been published every year since 2012, giving countries important data about the well-being of their people and how it compares to other nations’. One of the prima... 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...

Journal Review

Letters: April 17, 2018 - Home an dland owners deserve protection

According to research in 2014 by the London School of Economics, wind farms can cut as much as 12 percent off the value of homes within a 2 kilometer radius, reducing property values as far as 14 kilometers aw... 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...

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

Win silver, or lose gold? Why second is the worst place

A team of researchers at London's Centre for Economic Performance employed 800 volunteers to analyse athletes' faces as they stood on the medal podiums during the London Games, in order to assess their... 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...

Financial Times

Businesses back unrestricted access to EU workers after Brexit

British businesses want unrestricted access to European workers to continue after Brexit, describing them as better qualified and more motivated than their UK counterparts. The findings came in an interim repo... 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...

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...

BBC 2 on BBC iPlayer

The Mash Report (Series 1 - Winter: Episode 5)

Jonathan Wadsworth CEP research on immigration mentioned in the weeks news via BBC's 'The Mash Report'. ... Read more...

El Pais

Direct: The economic dimension of the Catalan crisis

The London School of Economics hosts a new debate of the series that is celebrating, in collaboration with Politikon, about the future of Spain and Catalonia. On this occasion, with the moderation of Jenifer R... 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...

El Mercurio de Tamaulipas (Mexico)

La salud mental como estrategia para la sostenibilidad economica/Mental health as a strategy for economic sustainability

We no longer speak only of the individual situation of the people affected, we speak of the economic situation of a whole country. Referring to the research done by one of the most illustrious economists of th... 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...

The Times

Children of positive mothers get better GCSE grades

Findings suggest that a mother’s personality has a big impact on the academic performance of teenagers, regardless of other factors. Academics assessed women’s “internal locus of control&rdqu... Read more...

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

Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation (pages 298-329)

Related publications Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation (pages 298-329) The Economic Journal Volume 128, Issue 608, February 2018 Warn N. Lekf... Read more...

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...

ESRC news, events and publications

Stamp duty impact on the housing market

Researchers at the ESRC Centre for Economic Performance have explored the impact of stamp duty on different types of mobility, by comparing mobility rates of otherwise similar homeowners with self-assessed hou... 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...

Wired Video

Documentary: how migrant entrepreneurs help power growth in the London economy

"Migrants are more likely, on average, to be self-employed and to start up companies." Max Nathan of CEP's Urban Programme interviewed for the documentary made by Wired in partnership with the Mu... 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...

Epoch Times (China)

Bonus spending to reduce the era of high pay for large companies gone

Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and his cohort analyzed the federal revenue data from the late 1970s to 2013 and found that the gap has shrunk to 20%. Professor Bloom said: "The big pay has existed for ... Read more...

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...

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...

Mortgage Introducer

Stamp duty changes won?t loosen market

The cut in stamp duty for first-time buyers was good news but more needs to be done to help overcome the housing crisis, according to the chief executive of the Family Building Society, Mark Bogard. It foll... Read more...

CEP mentions in Parliament

LSE Growth Commission work was mentioned by Viscount Chandos

LSE Growth Commission work was mentioned by Viscount Chandos in a House of Lords debate on Industrial Strategy on evening of 8 January 2018: In a debate on Industrial Strategy in the House of Lords Viscount... 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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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...

El Salto (Spain)

Las paradojas de la felicidad y de la economia global/ The paradoxes of happiness and the global economy

It is paradoxical that despite being richer every day we can not use that wealth in a way that makes us happier, because working more for less makes us unhappy, and what would make us happier would be to work ... Read more...

Vox

Lost Einsteins: How exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor

Article by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and  John Van Reenen: Relatively little is known about the factors that induce people to become inventors. Using data on the lives of over... Read more...

Ekklesia

Poorer students 'losing out' in university admissions process

An overhaul of university admissions processes – including an end to making offers based on predicted A level grades and a review of personal statements – is being urged in a new Sutton Trust resea... 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...

Foreign Affairs ? Essay January/February 2018 Issue

The truth about the minimum wage

Article by Alan Manningi It has been more than eight years since many of the United States’ cashiers, dishwashers, janitors, lifeguards, baggage handlers, baristas, manicurists, retail employees, hous... Read more...

Foreign Affairs

The Truth About the Minimum Wage

Article by Alan Manning.  It has been more than eight years since many of the United States’ cashiers, dishwashers, janitors, lifeguards, baggage handlers, baristas, manicurists, retail employees, h... 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...

Forbes (Middle East)

How social infrastructure can add value to mixed use developments

In 2008, the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics published research for England showing high performing (academically) schools can have an impact between 3% and 12% on prope... Read more...

Eurasia Review

House prices and the UK economy ? analysis

CFM-CEPR expert survey explores two aspects of recent developments in UK house prices Question 2: Do you agree that a more widespread weakening of the UK housing market will slow UK GDP growth significantly... 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...

Bibb.de (Germany)

News: Building apprentices? skills in the workplace: Car service in Germany, the UK and Spain

The paper published at the London School of Economics is the result of an international collaboration between Hilary Steedman (former member of BIBB's scientific advisory board) and researchers f... 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...

VoxDev

Piggyback exporting, intermediation, and the distribution of the gains from trade in agricultural markets

Article by Swati Dhingra and Silvana Tenreyro How much of the world price of export crops trickles down to small farmers, who sell through agribusinesses and traders with market power? ... 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...

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...

Twitter

Peston on Sunday&#8207; : @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...

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...

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 (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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LBC Radio

[8:25:22 am]

...Chancellor Philip Hammond is looking to reform the planning system by allowing building on the green belt to help more people possibly young people get on the housing ladder this attempt result the housing ... 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...

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...

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...

Fast Company

How the most (and least) successful CEOs spend their workdays

A group of professors from Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics, Columbia University, and the University of Oxford pondered the same question and conducted a survey of more than 1,000 CEOs i... Read more...

Mail online

Axe stamp duty in the Budget, Hammond is told: Scrap `worst tax? to boost the economy, says think-tank

Earlier this year, a report by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research said the rate of home moving would be 27 per cent higher without stamp duty. Related publications ... 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...

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 Telegraph

`Premium minimum wage? for workers would be too confusing, MPs told

Paying gig economy workers a premium level of the national minimum wage would risk confusing an already “too complicated” system by “over-egging the pudding”, MPs were told today. ... 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...

UK Parliament

Sir David Metcalf questioned on protecting workers' rights in the gig economy

09:49 AM BST Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee question Director of Labour Market Enforcement The following link will allow you to view a copy of the updated inform... Read more...

The Economic Journal Volume 127, Feature Issue: 24 OCT 2017

Game of Zones: The Political Economy of Conservation Areas (pages F421?F445)

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Kristoffer Moeller, Sevrin Waights and Nicolai Wendland DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12454 Related publications Game of Zones: The Economics of Conservation Areas Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Kristo... 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 Blogger?s EU and Brexit blog

#LSEBrexitvote/Swati Dhingra/Is leaving the Customs Union the right move?

Will the UK be able to strike better trade deals than the European Union once it leaves the EU? Dr Swati Dhingra interview. Related interview #LSEBrexitvote/Swati Dhingra/Is leaving the Customs Union the... 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...

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...

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...

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...

Freakonomics Radio

Podcast - What are the secrets of the German economy - and should we steal them?

Podcast - What are the secrets of the German economy - and should we steal them? Daniel Sturm interviewed alongside four other economists about the German economy. Related publications 'History an... 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...

Henley Standard

Prices hit a high, but is crash coming?

It seems things are slowing down. And two distinct camps are emerging: the “priced out” generation, who are hoping a crash will lead to house prices they can afford, and the “propertied&rdquo... Read more...

Henley Standard

Prices hit a high, but is crash coming?

It seems things are slowing down. And two distinct camps are emerging: the “priced out” generation, who are hoping a crash will lead to house prices they can afford, and the “propertied&rdquo... 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...

The Times

A broken housing market ? and how to fix it

…a shortfall of more than 109,000 new homes across England alone. Of that figure, 86 per cent were needed in parts ofthe country with the highest housing demand. Paul Cheshire, a professor of economic g... 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...

American Economic Association

How the growing service sector shrank the gender gap

Women’s role in the US economy has exploded since WWII. In fact, the employment rate for women of prime working age more than doubled in the second half of the 20th century. There are a lot of reaso... Read more...

Bloomberg News Online

U.K.'s Help to Buy seen stoking London property values: chart

The U.K. government’s decision to expand its Help to Buy program is drawing criticism because it may stimulate London’s property market again. Unless supply improves, the effect of the program... 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...

Bloomberg News online

More Manna From Heaven for Britain's Lucky Builders

The cure for the U.K. housing market is more supply, not more demand. It's true that Help to Buy's introduction in 2013 and a market rebound gave developers the incentive to build more, with new starts... Read more...

BBC Brasil

Why injustice upsets inequality, according to research

A society in which poverty does not exist sounds utopian - this society is equal but unfair, so it risks collapse, argues Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford University. "People do not wo... Read more...

LBC online

Maajid Nawaz: Maajid explains to leaver why immigration does not reduce wages

"Wheat and bread isn't analogous to workers coming to the country and that being the cause of the depreciation of wages. "The Economic Centre at LSE's Centre of Policy and Research [sic], hav... Read more...

Daily Mail

Trump goes to war with World Trade Organisation

Dennis Novy, professor of economics at the University of Warwick, said the tariff slapped on Bombardier was ‘designed to completely kill’ the C-Series programme. ‘Trump is telling the rest of... 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...

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...

Financial Times

Business fears Brexit will hit sales, study finds

British companies are increasingly concerned that Brexit will hit sales and raise costs, according to a survey backed by the Bank of England. Tracking the views of chief executives and chief financial officers... 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...

LSE News

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...

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 la... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Towards a modern UK industrial strategy

There's an opportunity to build a new system based on transparency, independence and a long-term outlook, write Anna Valero and Richard Davies Every government has an industrial strategy however it is a... Read more...

City A.M.

Is a UK house price crash coming? The majority of people think so, survey finds

Some economists have warned that the UK is heading for a house price collapse London School of Economics professor Paul Cheshire has said we are due "a significant correction". ... Read more...

Portfolio (Hungary)

Sok munka, sok ado: igy elnek a londoni magyarok/There is a lot of work and a lot of taxes: so do the Hungarians living in London

Last year before the Brexit referendum, the Center for Economic Performance (CEP) produced a study on the economic impacts of Eastern European immigrants. The London School of Economics, a research institute f... Read more...

Financial Times

The great trade reset

Snippet: ...means goods will be subject to proof-of-origin checks as they cross borders. Research suggests this process adds extra cost on average to the underlying value of the goods, according to Nikhil Datt... 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...

BBC World Service

(11:40:07 PM)

Snippet: ... for the first time compared to previous decades they would not receive anything so they are receiving somethings in relative terms to the top they're closing the relative gap but in absolute t... Read more...

LBC (Radio)

(1:00:01 pm)

Snippet: down and down and then the NHS within a matter of the housing crisis for napping and all that get blamed on immigrants. Mention of a study done at the London School of Economics looking at the relatio... Read more...

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...

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...

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...

Mail online

How one in 79 Britons is now a MILLIONAIRE: Surging house prices increase number by 142,500 in just seven years

Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography and the London School of Economics, said: ‘The term “millionaire” has long been reserved for those considered to have extreme wealth. A distant ... Read more...

NZHerald

How one in 79 Britons over the age of 21 are millionaires

Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography and the London School of Economics, said: "The term "millionaire" has long been reserved for those considered to have extreme wealth. A distant asp... 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...

Le Figaro

Philippe Aghion: <Reformer l'Etat est la cle de la reussite du quinquennat> / "Reforming the State is the key to the success of the Five-Year Plan"

Can Emmanuel Macron succeed in "transforming" the country he promised? Philippe Aghion, one of the great names in French economic research, hopes and wants to believe in it. ... Read more...

Finfacts

Hectare of agricultural land costs ?24,000 in Ireland, ?6,000 in France

Over the last full economic cycle, from 1993 to 2008, the cost of a hectare of residential land in London rose by over 300% in real terms, to more than £8m ($15m) and enough green-belt land is available ... 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...

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...

The Record.com

One U.S. factory goes global, while Trump shrinks the world

Trump's efforts to bring work back to the U.S. could eliminate some jobs that are already here. "Altering NAFTA could fundamentally change the production of the economy — for the U.S., as well a... Read more...

This is Money.co.uk

Stamp duty is making the housing crisis worse as older homeowners stay put to avoid it - and families can't move up the property ladder

Stamp duty is making the housing crisis worse because it is deterring older homeowners from downsizing, it has been claimed. A report by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Resea... Read more...

CNN

CNN Live

Dennis Novy gave a live TV interview to CNN (host: Rosemary Church). The topic was the economic impact of Brexit, in particular a potential brain drain from the UK jobs market and the proposed post-Brexit cust... 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...

BBC TV

Victoria Derbyshire

Dr Swati Dhingra talks about the customs union plan. Related links Swati Dhingra CEP publications webpage:  http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/author.asp?author=dhingra ... Read more...

Fox Business

U.K. proposes broad customs deal with EU after Brexit ? 2nd update

Also, the U.K. paper isn't a negotiating document and presented technical ideas that weren't fully developed and lacked significant detail. The two long-term approaches "are worth exploring fu... Read more...

4-traders

U.K. proposes broad customs deal with EU after Brexit ? 2nd update

LONDON -- The U.K. government proposed a far-reaching customs arrangement with the European Union that it said would eliminate the need for border checks on imports and exports after Brexit. The "new cust... Read more...

Mortgage Introducer online

Our great housing problem

A recent paper by Christian Hilber of the London School of Economics suggests that stamp duty reduces the rate of home moving by about a fifth. Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes and Household Mo... Read more...

Today?s Conveyancer

Stamp duty under new scrutiny

Academics have claimed that the housing market is being adversely affected by stamp duty. According to research from the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research, the duty is det... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review

A global measure of uncertain economic times

Uncertainty about a nation’s economic policies can influence both politics and financial markets, and the effects often spread beyond the country’s borders. Building on his research with Northweste... Read more...

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...

Simple Landlords Insurance

Stamp Duty increase fuels housing crisis ? new report claims

Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: "Stamp duty discourages young expanding families from moving to more adequate, larger housing and it discourages the elderly from downsizing. ... Read more...

Property Investor Today

Cut stamp duty to free up mobility, says report

Current stamp duty rates are deterring older buyers from downsizing and therefore freeing up homes for those further down the housing ladder, but the research from the London School of Economics and the VATT I... Read more...

Landlord News

More calls for Stamp Duty to be amended

Present rates of Stamp Duty are putting older buyers off downsizing and stopping more homes coming onto the market for those at the bottom of the housing ladder. Research from the London School of Economics an... Read more...

Financial Times

Time to sound the horn for council tax reform

By raising the costs of moving home, stamp duty is likely to have “very substantial detrimental effects” on the property market, according to research released this week by academics from the Londo... Read more...

Investor Today

Cut stamp duty to free up mobility, says report

Current stamp duty rates are deterring older buyers from downsizing and therefore freeing up homes for those further down the housing ladder, but the research from the London School of Economics and the VATT I... 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...

Daily Mail

Is this the way to beat stamp duty? Savvy widower, 82, with a 10 room property 'downsizes' by splitting his home in HALF to live in one side and let the other

Snippet: ... A report by the London School of Economics also claimed that stamp duty is making the housing crisis worse because it is deterring older homeowners from downsizing.  Related publications ... Read more...

Taizhou (China)

British latest research: stamp duty into the real estate market stumbling block

Snippet: ... "The important message for our paper is that the taxation has significantly hurt the liquidity," said Professor Christian Hilber, co-author of the report. Related publications &lsq... Read more...

Derby Telegraph

Stamp duty should be abolished to boost housing market, new report says

Co-author of the report, Professor Christian Hilber, said: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly’… Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes ... 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...

SKY News

Stamp duty causing bottleneck in housing market, report says

The tax is stopping young families from moving to a larger home, a report says, and deterring older people from downsizing. Snippet: ...Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: "Th... Read more...

China Taizhou network

British latest research: stamp duty into the real estate market stumbling block

"The important message of our paper is that the taxation is significantly damaging to liquidity," said Professor Christian Hilber, co-author of the report. "" If a young family adds a filia... Read more...

Telegraph

Opinion: Stamp duty is a tax on mobility and aspiration. It should be cut substantially or abolished

A cabinet minister, who apparently wishes to remain anonymous, has told the Daily Telegraph that stamp duty must be reformed as it is exacerbating the housing crisis, stopping older homeowners from downsizing.... Read more...

Property Industry Eye

LSE academics become the latest to call for Stamp Duty to be scrapped

A study by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research found Stamp Duty, or property transfer taxes, were making households less likely to move, particularly over shorter distan... Read more...

BBC News (blog/TV)

Newspaper headlines: The Papers

Snippet: ... Prof Christian Hilber, of the London School of Economics, tells the paper the key message from the research is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications ‘Tra... Read more...

The Sun

STAMP IT OUT Steep stamp duty is making the housing crisis WORSE because older homeowners are put off downsizing, new report claims

Snippet: ... Prof Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes and... Read more...

London Loves Business

Stamp duty exacerbating housing crisis and impacting economic growth

Snippet: ... Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report told the Daily Telegraph: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications &... Read more...

Property118

LSE call on Chancellor to reform Stamp duty

Snippet: ... Co-author of the report, Professor Christian Hilber, said: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes a... Read more...

Express

`Draconian? Stamp Duty will trigger HUGE house price CRASH by stopping elderly downsizing

Snippet: ... LSE Professor Christian Hilber said: "If you are a young family and you have an additional child, you'll need an additional room, but the stamp duty is discouraging this kind of move beca... Read more...

CityAM

Stamp duty "hampers mobility" as pensioners cling onto family homes

The academic paper, published jointly by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research, estimates the level of home moving would increase by 27 per cent if the levy was abolished ... 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...

Telegraph

Opinion: Stamp duty is a tax on mobility and aspiration. It should be cut substantially or abolished

However, research from the LSE and the VATT Institute for Economic Research suggests the human cost of stamp duty is even higher. It artificially reduces the rate at which people move by nearly one-third, it s... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Stamp duty exacerbating housing crisis by stopping elderly from moving, warns Cabinet minister

Snippet: ... A report from academics said stamp duty reduces the rate of home moving by nearly a third and meant that large homes were not being freed up for young, growing families. Related publications ... 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...

Economist

A little-noticed change in Britain?s housing market spells trouble for everybody

in the last decade, the average amount of stamp duty charged per residential transaction has risen by 30% in real terms (though recent changes have lightened the load slightly for some). The need to pay thousa... Read more...

Economist

A little-noticed change in Britain's housing market spells trouble for everybody

A little-noticed change in Britain’s housing market spells trouble for everybody Snippet: ...n has risen by 30% in real terms (though recent changes have lightened the load slightly). The need to pay ... 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mortgage Strategy

Fill the information void for FTBs, writes Bamford

To the outsider (that is, the consumer), the property market is issuing mixed messages. In fact these are simply differences of opinion. Take, for instance, Professor Paul Cheshire at the London School of E... 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...

i News

Brexit 'will hit cities and towns in southern England hardest'

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Economia

How businesses can seek sustainable growth

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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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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...

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...

Daily Mail

Those Brexit scare stories debunked ? House prices could crash

Paul Cheshire, Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE, says house prices could crash by 40 percent. His colleague Christian Hilber explains: ‘If Brexit leads to a recession and/or sluggish growth for... Read more...

Harvard Business Review

Making sense of our very competitive super monopolistic economy

These two narratives needn’t be completely at odds. As I concluded in a piece last year on the debate over too much versus too little competition: There’s a pessimistic synthesis between the com... Read more...

The Financial

Report outlines costs of no Brexit deal

The consequences of the UK failing to reach a deal with the EU will be “widespread, damaging and pervasive”, according to a new report featuring LSE experts. Related publications ‘The C... Read more...

LSE News

`People may be overpaying for lease extensions says LSE research'

Dr Ted Pinchbeck, a Fellow in Real Estate Economics and Finance at LSE and one of the authors of the research, said: “Prices of leaseholds of different lengths provide direct new evidence on how peop... Read more...

El Watan ( Algeria)

Il ne faut pas rester au niveau securitaire pour trouver des solutions / We must not stay at the security level to find solutions

The topics covered this year are varied: "The social foundations of world happiness"; "Growth and happiness in China"; "Waiting for happiness in Africa"; "The key determinant... Read more...

Independent

Leasehold homeowners are `overpaying to extend' leases

Homeowners living in leasehold properties are being asked to pay extortionate prices to extend the leases on their homes. That’s the conclusion of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LS... Read more...

LSE News

Report outlines costs of no Brexit deal

The consequences of the UK failing to reach a deal with the EU will be “widespread, damaging and pervasive”, according to a new report featuring LSE experts.           ... Read more...

The Economist

The six flavours of Brexit

Brexiteers rejected the Treasury’s projections for the cost of Brexit last year as “project fear”. But the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has remodelled the... 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...

Share Radio

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Business Live (South Africa)

Is London's housing bull run coming to an end?

Bloomberg News asked seven market commentators to predict what they expected next in London’s £1.6-trillion housing market. Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography at the London School of... Read more...

Neue Rheinische Zeitung

Dauer-Strohfeuer

Trump and Brexit are rapidly becoming the main threat to the upturn. Once the downturn begins, all fingers will point to them. But the real causes lie somewhere else: Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom points t... Read more...

Share Radio

[19:05]

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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...

ItalyEurope24

A new course for economic liberalism

A recent study by Erling Bath, Alex Bryson, James Davis, and Richard Freeman showed that the diffusion of individual pay since the 1970s is associated with pay differences between, not within, companies. The S... Read more...

Estate Agent Today

London's prime housing market is no longer roaring

Brexit and higher tax has had a particularly negative impact on the market in well-heeled inner London areas, some of which have seen prices fall sharply over the past 18 months or so, as they absorb the stamp... Read more...

The Times

Why the housing market is on a go-slow What about the forecast of a 40 per cent decline in prices?

Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, says that a house price correction, or significant fall in prices, is likely within the next two or three years. This is partly... Read more...

MarketPlace

Now we can measure economic policy uncertainty

In the world of business and economics, there’s a bit of a fixation on uncertainty. To start, there's the VIX, a measure of investor fear, that tracks expected volatility in the markets. But the... Read more...

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...

LSE News

People may be overpaying for lease extensions says LSE research

People may be paying too high a price to extend the leases on their homes according to new research from the LSE. The research, forthcoming in The Economic Journal(1), suggests that current leasehold extension... Read more...

dS De Standaard (The Netherlands)

Zwitserland is hset beste land ter wereld

In particular, Switzerland takes the first place on the list that the World Economic Forum (a Swiss setting) on the global competitiveness, and also on the list of most innovative countries by the French busin... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

(21:17:57)

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...

This is Money.co.uk

Homes on the brink: In the wake of dire warning on house market, fresh data shows prices slipping

Professor Paul Cheshire, who has advised the Government on housing policy, said: 'We are due a significant correction in house prices. I think we are beginning to see signs that correction may be star... Read more...

The Metro

House prices slipping in wake of warning about market on verge of collapse

Speaking last week, Paul Cheshire, a former government housing adviser, also warned that the property market could tumble. ‘We are due a significant correction in house prices. I think we are beginning t... Read more...

The Sun

Fresh fears of housing market collapse as new data suggests property prices are falling

Paul Cheshire, professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, said: “We are due a significant correction in house prices. “I think we are beginning to see signs that correcti... Read more...

The Sunday Times

For interest rates the only way is up. Act now to put your house in order

Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, made headlines last weekend by warning that house prices could be heading for “a significant correction” — of... Read more...

Mail online

Homes on the brink: in the wake of dire warning on house market, fresh data shows prices slipping

House price data has so far suggested a softening in the market rather than a crash. However, The Mail on Sunday last weekend reported that Britain could be on the brink of a major 1990s-style house price coll... 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...

Building.co.uk

House prices rise 2.6% in past 12 months

Paul Cheshire, emeritus professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, told Building: “There’s likely to be a downward correction of house prices, primarily because of decl... 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...

Property Investor Today

London house prices are `vulnerable to an exceptionally painful correction'

Simon French of Panmure Gordon told the newspaper: “These prices are only sustainable in a world of permanently low interest rates and low unemployment. Any sharp correction in either the credit or the l... 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...

Newsweek (Online)

Big houses in the U.S. are back (and there's a growing housing bubble)

Construction of McMansions has also increased but people who have smaller homes near where McMansions are built are much, much unhappier with their homes, according to a paper published in the spring by r... Read more...

The Express

Britain on brink of WORST house price collapse since the 1990s, expert warns

HOUSE prices in Britain are close to a crash that could be as bad as the bust of the early 1990s, according to warnings from a leading economics expert Paul Cheshire, Professor of Economic Geography at the ... Read more...

LBC

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9 o'clock if you have a health read then you can call us now and takes more calls as well on this issue of people fleeing the NHS but before that Sir rumours are continuing to circulate of the cra... Read more...

Market Oracle

UK House Prices `On Brink' Of Massive 40% Collapse

Two leading economics professors have warned that the UK housing market is on the brink of a 40% collapse, echoing the early 1990s property crisis. “We are due a significant correction in house pric... Read more...

Ham and High

Comment: Could London property be about to blow?

Professor Paul Cheshire predicts London property is long overdue a price correction. But could values really fall 40 per cent and bring about the return of 1990s scale negative equity? ... Read more...

Bullfax.com

UK house prices `on brink' of massive 40% collapse

Two leading economics professors have warned that the UK housing market is on the brink of a 40% collapse, echoing the early 1990s property crisis. "We are due a significant correction in house price... Read more...

Yahoo! News

Big Houses in the U.S. Are Back (And There's a Growing Housing Bubble)

Construction of McMansions has also increased but people who have smaller homes near where McMansions are built are much, much unhappier with their homes, according to a paper published in the spring by resear... Read more...

Cambridge News

Brexit: Lower wages could cause drastic drop in house prices, experts say

Homeowners could see a sharp drop in the value of their houses because of Brexit paired with the wage drop, a London School of Economics professor predicts. Prices could fall almost 40 per cent and even put ho... Read more...

Metro

House prices are on the brink of massive collapse

Prof Christian Hilber from the LSE said: ‘If Brexit leads to a recession and/or sluggish growth for extended periods, then an extended and severe downturn is more likely than a short-lived and mild one.&... Read more...

The Observer

The Observer view on a crisis in mental health

The human condition today is ever more complex in an era of the internet, social media and the focus on status, appearance and material success. However, more is required as an antidote than early intervention... Read more...

LBC

News (16:05:01)

Snippet: there are already warning signs that prices are heading toward a near 40% plunge Paul Cheshire Professor of economic geography at the London school of economics while here to debunk... Click to open ... Read more...

City A.M.

UK house prices: Is a crash coming? These economists thinks so, raising spectre of negative equity

Leading economists have warned that the UK is heading for a collapse in house prices not seen since the early 90s which risks plunging homeowners into negative equity. "We are due a significant correction... Read more...

The Mirror

Experts predict house prices could plummet by up to 40 PER CENT due to Brexit and wage drop

House prices could plummet by almost 40 per cent as Britain faces a crash similar to that in the 1990s, a leading professor at the London School of Economics has warned. A possible Brexit -sparked recession co... Read more...

Mail online

Britain on the brink of the worst house price collapse since 1990s': experts predict property costs could plunge by forty per cent

House prices are teetering on the brink of a crash that could be as bad as the bust of the early 1990s, a leading expert has warned. There are already warning signs that prices are heading towards a near 40 pe... Read more...

BBC Parliament

Live House of Commons

…but analyses, London School of Economics, growth commission report pointed out the lack of a comprehensive and coherent, long-term industrial strategy from the UK Government had actually contributed to... 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...

Business Insider UK

The Bank of England is preparing for the absolute worst case Brexit scenario

Under May's argument, Britain would drop out of the EU, immediately reverting to unfavourable WTO trade terms, if the country's negotiators failed to get an agreement seen as having favourable terms fo... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Post-Brexit work visa quotas on EU nationals will likely favour graduates

Businesses that rely on low-skilled EU labour may face hiring difficulties, writes Jonathan Wadsworth Had things gone as most commentators expected, the UK would now be entering hard Brexit talks with the n... Read more...

4-traders

MORGAN STANLEY : Britain's financial power already on the wane

Among the matters at stake in those talks, which began in Brussels last Monday, is whether London can maintain its status as a global hub for finance after Brexit or be forced to watch as business flows to the... 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...

UOL Economia

Empresas enfrentam Brexit com `espirito de buldogue'/Companies face Brexit with `bulldog spirit'

"It's not a catastrophic madness, but the pound fell, investments decreased and inflation reached the highest rate in four years," said Swati Dhingra, economist at the Center for Economic Perform... Read more...

Bloomberg news

Brexit one year on: keep calm and hedge the pound

‘It’s not crazy catastrophic stuff, but the pound has fallen, investment is down, and inflation is up to a four-year high,” said Swati Dhingra, an economist at the Center for Economic Perform... 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...

24 heures

La question des Europeens au Royaume-Uni/ The question of Europeans in the United Kingdom

BrexitAlors que les négociations sur le Brexit s'ouvrent lundi, quel sort attend les plus de 3,6 millions d'Européens au Royaume-Uni?/ BrexitAlors that the negotiations on the Brexit open... Read more...

Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper

European citizens living in the UK: a priority, many worry

Some also accuse European immigrants of having contributed to lowering wages. But according to Jonathan Wadsworth, author of a report on the subject for the London School of Economics, "All studies show t... Read more...

Diario Gestion (Spain)

Los Europeos en el Reino Unido: una prioridad, muchas inquietudes/Europeans in the UK: a priority, many concerns

Another recurring argument is that immigrants lower wages, a thesis that resists analyses. "All studies show that immigration has no impact on the wage level, or has it in a very marginal way," insis... Read more...

Le Quotidien (Luxembourg)

Brexit : quel avenir pour les expatries europeens au Royaume-Uni?/What future for the European expatriates in the United Kingdom?

Some also accuse the European immigrants have contributed to depress wages. But according to Jonathan Wadsworth, author of a report on the subject for the London School of Economics, "all the studies show... Read more...

Journal Dunet (France)

Les Europeens au Royaume-Uni: une priorite, beaucoup d'inquietudes/Europeans in the United Kingdom: a priority, a lot of concern

Some also accuse European immigrants of having contributed to lowering wages. But according to Jonathan Wadsworth, author of a report on the subject for the London School of Economics, "All studies show t... Read more...

QJE Highly Cited Articles

The Quarterly Journal of Economics received an Impact Factor of 6.662 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 9.681, according to the most recent Journal Citation Reports? (Thomson Reuters).

The Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations i... Read more...

UniteWorks ? Unite the Union

Unite warns of deepening Tory `wage pain' as average wages continue to fall

Theresa May and the Tories’ ‘wage pain’ is leaving millions of people struggling to make ends meet warned Britain’s largest union, Unite as official figures out today (Wednesday 14 June... Read more...

El Universal (Spain)

Europeos en Reino Unido tienen una prioridad y muchas inquietudes

Brexit supporters replicate that immigrants ' additional pressure on housing, schools and hospitals is not considered. Another recurring argument is that immigrants lower wages, a thesis that resists analy... Read more...

Geschichte der Gegenwart (Germany)

May will Regierung bilden ? Brexit-Verhandlungen ab 19. Juni

In total, the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) calculates, it would be best for the British economy to remain part of the EU’s common market. Related publications ‘#GE2017Economists: The... Read more...

Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany)

Die schlechteste Variante

A year ago, in June 2016, the British voted on their country's EU membership. Economists and financial markets were in bright turmoil and warned of the consequences of a Brexit. Today, twelve months later,... Read more...

Professional Adviser

The evidence for Brexit and other key election issues - LSE

The London School of Economics (LSE) has published a report assessing all of the party manifestos and how respective policies will affect key voter issues. Intended to be "objective, brief and non-tech... Read more...

Market Inspector (online)

Would TTIP be a good deal for European citizens?

According to Dennis Novy, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick: “TTIP has the potential to benefit millions of consumers. It goes far beyond an economic project. Its current time... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review

Why top-down companies can underperform their peers

“Just as the US military has become more decentralized, letting soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq make more decisions than they would have in Korea or in Vietnam, so are the best firms decen... Read more...

The National (Scotland)

Letters: BBC debates reveal how little they've progressed

SOME time ago Paxman's questions to Mrs May exposed effectively how ineffective she had been at the Home Office in dealing with immigration. She could not explain how Conservative policy has completely fai... Read more...

Financial Times

Manifesto economics

For the first time in years, UK voters have a real choice between economic models The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has published a series of election analyses, looking a... Read more...

The UK in a changing Europe

The manifestos uncovered: trade

Article by Swati Dhingra Unlike some other countries – the US and France spring to mind – trade has not been a major issue in recent UK elections. This reflected both EU membership and a broad p... Read more...

Economic Policy Digest ? June 2017

Education and deprivation explain the Brexit vote better than immigration

Demography and education are a much better explanation of the ‘Leave’ vote in the June 2016 Brexit referendum than the decline in public services or recent immigration. These are the conclusions of... Read more...

Vox

Economics and policy in the age of Trump

This collection of 18 essays by leading economists highlights many of the most pressing domestic and international economic policy issues on the Trump docket.  Many chapters are sharply critical of the Tr... Read more...

RT (Russia)

British wages in free fall, only crisis-hit Greece is worse in OECD

According to a London School of Economics (LSE) paper, Brits were the worst off when it came to their real wages, with pay falling by more than five percent between 2007 and 2015. Researchers for the presti... Read more...

Business Insider UK

Sovereign wealth funds are shunning British investments after Brexit

The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance said that returning to World Trade Organization rules would reduce the UK's trade with the EU by 40% over 10 years. Related publications CEP Election Ana... Read more...

Cinquantamila.it

Londra vota Brexit. Morbida o estrema saremo comunque piu poveri

Brexit In fact is a trauma that breaks the vertical chain of production of the value that ties the United Kingdom to the EU, with consequences not apparent immediately. Quantifying these costs is therefore a d... Read more...

Independent

The chart that shows UK workers have had the worst wage performance in the OECD except Greece

The UK has suffered the biggest drop in average real wages of any OECD country except depression-wracked Greece, according to a pre-general election analysis published by the London School of Economi... Read more...

Sunday Herald (Scotland)

Anton Muscatelli: Immigrationisn't making us poorer ? but scaremongering about it might

Firstly, there is simply no evidence that EU immigration has impacted negatively on the living standards of UK workers. A new study by the London School of Economics (LSE) has shown that there is no apparent l... Read more...

The Times

Election uncertainties to be followed by many more

The election uncertainty will give way to new uncertainties. Two new reports from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics highlight some of the dangers. On immigration, the ... Read more...

The Economist

Britain's election offers little respite for its woes

Most independent experts predict long-term harm as well. According to the most recent estimates from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, a hard Brexit would reduce GDP per he... Read more...

The Economic Voice

Green Party: We will stand up for free movement

A recent study by the London School of Economics has blown apart a number of key myths around migration, saying: “Immigrants pay more in taxes than they take out in welfare and use of public services. UK... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

Brexit has already started to make UK citizens poorer

Leaving the European Union with no deal in place for future trading arrangements would be the worst-case Brexit scenario for the UK economy. What’s more, just because GDP growth has not declined since la... Read more...

ITV News

Theresa May reveals risky migration target timescale

So the prime minister may have to choose between risking the economy (immigrants keep living standards up and the deficit down according to the London School of Economics) or missing her target. ... Read more...

True Viral News

Brexit makes people poorer with more pain on the way, warns study

BREXIT has already started to make UK citizens poorer and more pain is likely in the months and years to come, a new study has warned. Although last year’s vote to quit the European Union has had “... Read more...

Herald Scotland

Brexit makes people poorer with more pain on the way, warns study

Although last year’s vote to quit the European Union has had “no obvious effect” on GDP growth, the collapse in the value of the pound – down 13 per cent against the US dollar and nine ... Read more...

Business Insider UK

LSE: Failure to get a Brexit trade deal will cost every household at least #1,890 a year

A report by the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance said that returning to World Trade Organization rules would reduce the UK's trade with the EU by 40% over 10 years…Report authors Swati Ding... Read more...

AOL.UK

UK citizens already poorer as a result of Brexit, study finds

Although last year's vote to quit the EU has had "no obvious effect" on GDP growth, the collapse in the value of the pound - down 13% against the US dollar and 9% against the euro by the end of l... Read more...

Mirror

Theresa May's 'no deal' Brexit would cost each family #1,890, experts warn

Although last year's vote to quit the EU has had "no obvious effect" on GDP growth, the collapse in the value of the pound - down 13% against the US dollar and 9% against the euro by the end of l... Read more...

Financial Times

Germany's declining respect for the UK

Further reading Brexit and the UK Economy There are many ways to leave and the referendum did not allow voters to choose between them — Brexit does not simply mean Brexit. (LSE Centre for Economic Per... Read more...

Bloomberg News online

Brexit Bulletin: The Ghost at the Debate

May’s insistence that “no deal is better than a bad deal” is wrong, according to a report by the Centre for Economic Performance…. “In practice the no-deal outcome, where the ... Read more...

Bloomberg News

No Brexit Deal `Worst-Case Scenario' for U.K. Economy, CEP Says

According to the Centre for Economic Performance, leaving the European Union with no pact in place would have twice the negative economic impact as remaining in the single market. That’s at odds with Pri... Read more...

Evening Express

UK citizens already poorer as a result of Brexit, study finds

Although last year’s vote to quit the EU has had “no obvious effect” on GDP growth, the collapse in the value of the pound – down 13% against the US dollar and 9% against the euro by th... Read more...

ccrmagazine.com

Centre for Economic Performance report on the UK's new industrial strategy

All of the UK’s main political parties now highlight the importance of an ‘industrial strategy’ with the aim of improving economic growth and achieving more balance in how its gains are distr... Read more...

Market News

UK reality check: BOE wage growth forecasts implausible: CEP

Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee claims that nominal wage growth will return close to 4% by 2019 are "rather implausible and over-optimistic", according to two respected academics at the Cen... Read more...

iNews

Political pledges to cut immigration `will mean a drop in living standards'

The LSE study also states that immigration is not to blame for lower pay and prospects of low skilled workers. Academics behind the research said lower pay and prospects for UK workers was the result of the 20... Read more...

Il Sole 24 Ore

Le bugie di Donald Trump sul commercio / Donald Trump's lies on business

Article by Gianmarco Ottaviano …at the G7 in Taormina, an extraordinary thesis was presented to the international community. According to the new US presidency, from the liberalization of internation... Read more...

The Conversation UK

Cut immigration and the UK's economic prospects will just get worse ? here's why

Jonathan Wadsworth and colleagues at the London School of Economics showed convincingly that across UK local authorities from 2008-15, EU immigrants had no statistically significant impact on the rea... Read more...

Investopedia

Trump economic uncertainty worse than 2008 crisis

Increases in policy uncertainty "foreshadow declines in investment, output and employment in the United States," according to the developers of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, professors Scott... Read more...

Harpers

LWF Day One: The big Brexit debate

Breaking down the cloud of uncertainty brought about by Brexit into manageable bite-sized pieces was the objective of panelists at this afternoon’s London Wine Fair industry briefing. A panel of industry... Read more...

CNBC online

Trump economic `uncertainty' worse than '08 financial crisis levels, index shows

Increases "in policy uncertainty foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States," the three professors who created the index wrote in a 2016 paper. The index was creat... Read more...

Time

The jobs that weren't saved

Nevertheless, manufacturers see cause for optimism. The U.S. economy has added some 41,000 manufacturing jobs since February, and large firms such as GM and Hyundai have announced new investments in U.S. facto... Read more...

LA Times

Strong economic outlook may help cushion Trump through Washington turmoil

Strong economic outlook may help cushion Trump through Washington turmoil Economists such as Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University Professor who’s been tracking the rising degree of uncertainty in rec... Read more...

Veren of Lood (Holland)

Econmoische aanraders/Economic recommendations

Recommends: Jobless recoveries: Exploring technology’s role – Georg Graetz, Guy Michaels - 13 mei Recoveries from recessions in the US used to involve rapid job generation, but job growth has... Read more...

Independent

Only economic study showing benefits of Brexit debunked as 'doubly misleading'

The assumptions of the Economists for Brexit group – now rebranded as Economists for Free Trade - were previously criticised as grossly unrealistic on other grounds, including ignoring the fact that coun... Read more...

MIT Sloan Management Review

The importance of structured management practices

Article by Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen Our analysis of the Census data, conducted with Lucia Foster and Ron Jarmin of the U.S. Census Bureau and... Read more...

Financial Times

Economists point finger of blame over Brexit forecasts

On Monday, Swati Dhingra of the London School of Economics told the Royal Economic Society annual conference that most academic economists had predicted a 1-3 per cent fall in economic output by five years aft... Read more...

YouTube

Game of Mates ? Interview with Paul Frijters

Game of Mates: How favours bleed the nation, is a new book by Dr Cameron K. Murray and Professor Paul Frijters that exposes the inner workings of Australia's economic elite. In this video, Paul Frijters i... Read more...

The New York Times

`Superstar firms' may have shrunk workers' share of income

From manufacturing to retailing, giant companies have managed to gobble up a larger and larger share of the market. While such concentration has resulted in enormous profits for investors and owners of behemot... Read more...

Daily Republic Online

Specter of no Brexit deal haunts Britain's automakers

Swati Dhingra, an economics lecturer at the London School of Economics, estimated in a study prior to last year’s referendum that Brexit could reduce total U.K. car production by as much as 12 percent. ... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Three ways to value gold. Three conclusions

Then three economics and finance professors—Scott Baker of Northwestern University, Nick Bloom of Stanford University and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago—created a series of Economic Poli... Read more...

The Telegraph

How a rise in Britons being their own boss risks a borrowing crisis

Getting the balance right A recent report by the LSE Growth Commission also warned that a world where everyone is their own boss could lead to less training, with consequences for UK living standards. ... Read more...

FE Week

Government silent on adult skills behavioural research centre funding

The government is refusing to say whether more funding will be given to two “pioneering” FE research centres after their start-up grants end shortly. Meanwhile, the Centre for Vocational Educati... Read more...

LSE Business Review

LSE Growth Commission: invest more in people, not only buildings and machines

The LSE Growth Commission sets out a new blueprint for inclusive and sustainable growth that deals with the challenges facing the UK, old and new. Based on the latest research, analysis and evidence from leadi... Read more...

BBC III ? video

What would the UK look like without immigrants?

On #OneDayWithoutUs people are encouraged to show how much immigrants contribute to the country. So how much of a difference do immigrants make to the UK economy? At1:12 mins CEP (LSE) research flashes u... Read more...

Public Finance

LSE growth commission sets out economic reform proposals

Britain’s tax laws are biased in favour of the self-employed and should be reformed to enable greater investment in people instead of buildings and machines, the LSE Growth Commission has said. This was ... Read more...

Bloomberg News online

Brexit Bulletin: What Can By-Elections Tell Us About Brexit?

Snippet: ... Due today: latest migration figures from the ONS, and a report on the economy from the LSE Growth Commission. ... Read more...

Huffington Post Deutschland

US-Top-and#336;konom erwartet unter Trump 'wirtschaftliche Blute ungekannten Ausma?es'/US top economist expected to trump 'economic boom of unprecedented proportions

Von anderen Star-Ökonomen waren eher pessimistische Stimmen zur Wirtschaftsentwicklung unter Trump zu hören. So sagt Stanford-Ökonom Nicholas Bloom, ... Related publications 'Meas... Read more...

Blasting News

Brexit could swiftly become a steep exit

The economic cost of Britain's exit from Europe could be quadruple original estimates according to MIT Economist, Professor John Van Reenen. Given all of the political flailing of arms and rhetorical sn... Read more...

Independent

Brexit four times worse for UK economy than previously believed, say MIT economists

New research claims leaving the EU will have bigger impact on UK productivity than had been thought Britain’s departure from the European Union could cause output losses of as much as 9.5 per cent, ac... Read more...

Rochdale Observer

Is it time for a dedicated tax to fund the NHS?

A dedicated tax is the only way that we can be sure the government is reflecting public wishes, argues Richard Layard, emeritus professor at the London School of Economics. He points out that Britain currently... Read more...

CNBC

Brexit will leave Britons more than $4,000 poorer, says MIT professor

Britons' incomes could be slashed by as much as 9.5 percent once the U.K. formally leaves the European Union, a new study released today by MIT economics professor John Van Reenen has claimed. The repor... Read more...

Finansgundem.com (Turkey)

Brexit, national income per capita in the UK to drop

Brexit, national income per capita in the UK to drop On June 23, a referendum MIT faculty member, Professor John Van Reenen advocated keeping Britain in the EU. ... Read more...

Newsin English.no (Norway)

Immigration tests the welfare state

Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Economics, told newspaper Aftenposten in January that the Migration Advisory Committee he ... ... Read more...

CNBC

Trump's trade war may have already begun

"The idea of trade wars these days, what politicians have in mind is really a 19th-century or early 20th-century conception of trade," said Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, a trade economist at the London S... Read more...

The New York Times

Trump's trade war may have already begun

“The idea of trade wars these days, what politicians have in mind is really a 19th-century or early 20th-century conception of trade,” said Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, a trade economist at the London... Read more...

Star Tribune Online

World awaits next move amid threat of trade war

Most experts have assumed the responsibilities of governance would temper Trump's trade posture. Given that nearly one-third of all U.S. trade is conducted with China and Mexico, a rupture risks severe eco... Read more...

Delo (Slovenia)

Trump(izem) - return to the future

Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) explores the political uncertainty in the world, and from 1900 on, he found out that after his election Trump increased uncertainty by at least twice and is comparable to t... Read more...

Cash (Germany)

Verunsicherte medien, zuversichtliche unternehmen ? wer behalt recht?

A study of three researchers Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven j. Davis has revealed that the current economic uncertainty is still higher than during times of 9 / 11 or the Lehman collapse. The expert... Read more...

NZZ.at (Germany)

Ignorant and irresponsible

Not surprisingly, when an index for global political uncertainty, compiled records so unsafe level, inter alia by the Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, on a high, (Stanford). And Austria's foreign trade m... Read more...

Bloomberg Quint

Blame monopolies for short-changing U.S. workers

There are several worrying trends in the global economy, such as rising inequality within countries and slowing productivity growth. But perhaps the most troubling of them is the fall in labor’s share of... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Does a firm hiring an experienced manager improve its performance?

Exporters to Angola that hired managers with specific types of experience were more likely to succeed, write Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Alessandro Sforza. The enormous variation in firm perform... Read more...

YLE (Finland)

Taloudellinen epavarmuus kalvaa brexit-Britanniaa

Britain's economy made a decision after the brexit-lock braking. One-third of the companies that froze investment plans as a result of a decision. The collapse of the value of the pound sterling told the c... Read more...

Bloomberg Businessweek

Trump's uncertainty principle

The cloud of uncertainty Trump has kicked up may be a big deal for the economy, or not. … For one thing, uncertainty isn’t necessarily bad. It simply means the distribution of possible outcomes&md... Read more...

Challenges.fr (France)

2016: 'in success formidable pour l'industrie automobile britannique'

Thomas Sampson, Professor at the London School of Economics, warns that in addition to tariffs, British producers may suffer the impact of foreign barriers. "They would have to reorganize all of their sup... Read more...

ABS/CBN News

Could Brexit put the brakes on Britain's car industry?

Thomas Sampson, a professor at the London School of Economics, said British carmakers could suffer further disruption beyond tariffs. "Inside the customs union cross-border supply networks can flourish, b... Read more...

Le Point.fr

En renouveau, l'industrie automobile britannique a la croisee des Chemins du Brexit

Thomas Sampson, Professor at the London School of Economics, warns that in addition to tariffs, British producers may suffer the impact of foreign barriers. "They would have to reorganize all of their sup... Read more...

France 24

Could Brexit put the brakes on Britain's car industry?

Last week Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed Brexit would see Britain leave the European single market, creating a stumbling block for the car industry which relies on trading vehicles and loose parts withou... Read more...

New Statesman

How the government's industrial strategy could steal your job

Britain’s manufacturing heritage is told through faded photos of workers on assembly lines, or operating basic tools. But that was the 1970s, and in the 21st century, a factory has a lot more robots. Usi... Read more...

Business World

Could 'Brexit' put the brakes on Britain's car industry?

Thomas Sampson, a professor at the London School of Economics, said British car makers could suffer further disruption beyond tariffs. “Inside the customs union cross-border supply networks can flourish,... Read more...

Deutsche Welle TV (DW-TV) online

Theresa May 'needs free trade deal' with Donald Trump to prove that Brexit works

DW spoke to economist Thomas Sampson from the London School of Economics ahead of British Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to the White House. She is the first world leader to meet the new US President D... Read more...

New Statesman

If you want to fix Britain's economy, there's one word you need to remember

And it isn't "infrastructure" Improving our management skills is part of this. John van Reenen at the London School of Economics has written about how the quality of management in different co... Read more...

Wall Street Journal Americas (Spanish)

Hechos alternativos para Trump y el Mercado de acciones

"It genuinely feels that the political uncertainty is very high," said Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Stanford and co-developer of the index of uncertainty. ... Read more...

BBC Radio Scotland

Good morning Scotland

Dennis Novy gave a live radio interview [8.35-8.40am] on Donald Trump and his withdrawal from the Transpacific Partnership (TPP, the trade deal previously negotiated by Barack Obama with Asian/Austra... Read more...

The Daily Star

Britain 'faces imminent GENERAL ELECTION' after Brexit blocked in bombshell ruling

Speaking to Daily Star Online, John Van Reenen, Professor of Economics at LSE, said Mrs May might be tempted to strengthen her hand in parliament. He said an election could boost her authority in both Houses, ... Read more...

El Periodico

Autora de in informe sobre el impacto de las grandes superficies

Maria Sanchez Vidal: "the coexistence between Commerce of proximity and large surfaces trade is possible" Is author of a study on the effect of the introduction of superstores in respect of a city... Read more...

Fortune

Why attacking free trade is great politics and bad economics

It has long been known that America’s Senate is less protectionist (i.e., more likely to favor trade deals) than the House. The usual explanation was that senators, representing larger territories, took ... Read more...

Bloomberg view

Why the U.S. has a monopoly on jobless recoveries

In a new paper called “Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?,” economists George Graetz and Guy Michaels looked at 17 different developed countries, from 1970 through 2011. The t... Read more...

T13.cl

Brexit: 5 obstaculos que enfrenta el plan de Reino Unido para salirse de la Union Europea

"Trade agreements are based on have something to give to receive something in return. "Nobody is doing charity here", explains Swati Dhingra, academic at the center of economic performance&... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

The Today Programme

0750 Swati Dhingra interviewed. After the UK gives up full membership of the EU's customs union exporters' goods could be facing checks and delays at Britain's border. ... Read more...

BBC 2

Newsnight

Swati Dhingra interviewed.  Speaking about Brexit and free trade. ... Read more...

The Canary

At PMQs, the 'Irony Lady' revealed exactly what she's been hiding from the British public

May’s speech suggests the UK is on course to aim for a bilateral agreement. Currently, countries like Switzerland pay around 40% as much as the UK’s contribution for EU membership for access on tho... Read more...

Guardian

Theresa May's Brexit speech leaves small firms in the dark

Article by Swati Dhingra No access to EU’s single market and replacement deals potentially decades away heightens uncertainty for UK businesses. Theresa May’s speech on Tuesday was the govern... Read more...

Sputnik News

Brexit: the 'economic cost' of Sterling's surge in value after UK PM's speech

"Currency markets are always volatile and can be affected by political and economic views," Dr. Thomas Sampson, associate professor at the Center for Economic Performance at the L... Read more...

Morning Star

Modern childhood a vital class issue for the left

A nasty mix of neoliberalism and the Tories’ austerity policies are having appalling effects on our children’s health and welfare And so we come to the present day, with a 10-year anniversary pr... Read more...

Aftenposten (Norway)

Professor: 'Det er rett og slett ikke tilfelle at innvandrere tar jobbene fra dem som allerede bor i landet'

"It is simply not the case that immigrants are taking jobs from those who already live in the country" Professor Alan Manning denied that immigrants take jobs.  If it were so, wouldn't Ca... Read more...

Independent

Brexit report promoted by right-wing press condemned by economic experts

“There’s absolutely no controversy about gravity models,” said Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at the London School of Economics, also pointing out that gravity models are the subject of t... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Social mobility in the United States depends heavily upon where you live

There is considerable geographical variation in the opportunities available to disadvantaged children in the United States, according to research by Raj Chetty, who delivered the 2016 Lionel Robbins Memorial L... Read more...

LSE United States Politics and Policy blog

Social mobility in the United States depends heavily on where you live

There is considerable geographical variation in the opportunities available to disadvantaged children in the United States, according to research by Raj Chetty, who delivered the 2016 Lionel Robbins Memorial L... Read more...

The Planner

Housing professionals recognised in New Year's Honours

Paul Cheshire, economist and emeritus professor of economic geography at the LSE, has been awarded a CBE for services to economics and housing. ... Read more...

Mail Online

Gloomy economists forecast Brexit trouble ahead for the UK?despite getting it wrong last year

Four in ten leading economists are more pessimistic about Britain's future after Brexit, despite the buoyant economy since the vote, according to a new FT poll. While many are looking to 2017 for a spot of... Read more...

BBC Mundo (Spain)

Trump, Brexit, eleccciones europeas y otros enigmas de la economia para 2017

El comercio mundial patas arriba Swati Dhingra, especialista de comercio de la London School of Economics, pone el acento en otro peligro. "Lo más grave sería una guerra comercial de E... Read more...

The Financial Times

Weaker pound expected to reduce immigration

Slower economic growth also predicted to deter new migrants Question:  ‘What do you think will happen to immigration?’ Stephen Machin, professor of economics, London School of Economics ... Read more...

The Financial Times

Chancellor likely to overshoot borrowing forecast, economists say

Contributing factors include weaker tax revenues and pressure to rein in cuts Question:  ‘Do you think the government will need to borrow more than it has forecast in 2017?’ Stephen Mach... Read more...

The Financial Times

Economists gloomy on UK prospects for 2017

Growth will slow, incomes will be squeezed and investment delayed, FT survey finds Question: ‘How much, if at all, do you expect UK economic growth to slow in 2017?’ Stephen Machin, professor... Read more...

Guardian

Housing leaders recognised in New Year Honours list

Five housing executives and a professor of economics and housing policy have been awarded medals in the New Year honours list. … Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography at the London School of... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Former PWC boss knighted in New Year's Honours

Professor John Van Reenen, who predicted ahead of the referendum that Brexit would cost up to £1,700 per household per year, has been given an OBE for services to economics and public policy making. Othe... Read more...

Guardian

Happiness study `lets austerity off the hook', psychologists claim

LSE study led by Labour peer found that failed relationships and physical and mental illness were bigger causes of misery than poverty Clinical psychologists have raised the alarm over a controversial piece... Read more...

The Walton Sun (Florida, USA)

Happiness may help fight poverty

Too often in our business we focus primarily on finances. Of course, that is what financial professionals do, but we could be neglecting an important, maybe more important, piece of the pie. The recent London ... Read more...

Bloomberg

Brexit and politics loom over UK after tumultuous 2016

“The more likely a hard Brexit becomes, the bigger I think the business response will be in terms of reducing investment and firms relocating activity out of the U.K.,” said Thomas Sampson, a profe... Read more...

Bloomberg - politics

Rajoy gives up control of Spain market regulator in Brexit push

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s decision to replace a party loyalist with an independent expert at the head of the markets regulator will help Spain lure companies seeking a new base after Britain le... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Fear of fracking affects house prices in the UK

Shale gas offers the prospect of a low-cost energy future, but invokes fears of environmental catastrophe, write Stephen Gibbons, Stephan Heblich, Esther Lho and Christopher Timmins ... Read more...

Sensafiltro

L'Industria 4.0 e il futuro del Made in Italy

In fact the industry 4.0 represents a great opportunity for our manufacturing and for once never catches us completely off-guard. According to a recent study carried out by economists George Graetz and Guy Mic... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Half measures won't solve the housing crisis

Paul Cheshire, Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics is a longstanding critic of Britain’s byzantine planning system. [No link] ... Read more...

LSE South Asia blog

Demonetisation is not the way to tackle corruption

Drawing on India’s previous experiences of demonetisation and contemporary data, Swati Dhingra and Amartya Menon argue the benefits seem few and far between. They write that if the government is serious ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Autumn Statement does little to dampen fears for the economic health of the UK

Brexit and the uncertainties surrounding it present an unprecedented challenge, writes Anna Valero In his first Autumn Statement (and last – since he has decided to abolish them in favour of an annua... Read more...

BBC Radio Scotland

Newsdrive

Dennis Novy was interviewed by BBC Radio Scotland on 22 November 2016 about Donald Trump's policy stance towards the Transpacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade deal between the United States and vari... Read more...

Financial Times

May seeks solution to productivity conundrum

Skills policies would ideally be co-ordinated with the government’s proposed new industrial strategy. “In the long-run, skills are really important for growth,” said Stephen Machin, co-chair ... Read more...

Watertown Daily Times

Displaced workers vow to hold Trump to his economic promises

“I’m pretty skeptical Trump’s policies will reverse this process,” said John Van Reenen, a professor of economics at MIT who studies how technology and innovation affect profits and wag... Read more...

SNP Helensburgh

HARD BREXIT: 'the elephant in the room' at autumn statement

HUGE THREAT TO ECONOMY TO OVERSHADOW TORY BUDGET The Scottish National Party has said that the threat of a hard Brexit will be the ‘elephant in the room’ at the Autumn Statement. “The T... Read more...

Sunday Herald (Scotland)

'Tory austerity crippled the economy, and Brexit is going to ruin it - yet Theresa May still has no plan'

The impact on productivity is as bad. The LSE (Centre for Economic Performance) suggests reduced trade will reduce productivity amounting to between 6.3 per cent and 9.5 per cent of GDP. This article was pu... Read more...

Robotics Business Review Magazine

British robotics must catch up with global competitors

Moreover, the recent “Robots at Work” study carried out by Uppsala University and the London School of Economics (LSE), found that, as of 1993, the U.K. ranked eighth out of 17 developed countries ... Read more...

Countercurrents.org

Can a President Trump follow his signature agenda?

The commonly held belief that immigrants hold down the wages of native workers is also doubtful. The economic literature is mixed although a paper by Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth of the... Read more...

Telesur TV

Will President Trump's hands be tied?

The commonly held belief that immigrants hold down the wages of native workers is also doubtful.  The economic literature is mixed although a paper by Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth ... Read more...

CKWX News (Vancouver, Canada)

News 1130

Dr Swati Dhingra interviewed, talking about the potential international implications of a Trump White House as well as initial reactions from (Brexit) UK. The interview was broadcast by CKWX News on the Ne... Read more...

Al Jazeera

Inside story

Dr Swati Dhingra joined the discussion programme.  The topic was the demonitization of the 500 and 1000 rupee notes in India. The interview was broadcast by Al Jazeera television on November 15, 2016 ... Read more...

Daily Journal (Illinois, USA)

Robert Samuelson: Trump's mission impossible?

… "Uncertainty is a real risk," said economist Michael Strain, of the American Enterprise, a right-of-center think tank. "I'd be reluctant to start a business now, and if I had one, I... Read more...

BBC News

Evening news

Dr Swati Dhingra on BBC News (19:35) commenting on PM Theresa May's speech on remaking globalization. [No link available.] ... Read more...

FXStreet

What will Brexit do to Britain's growth rate?

We have gone back to the post-Brexit growth forecasts made earlier this year by six organisations – the NIESR, the Treasury, the OECD, the London School of Economics, the Confederation for British Indust... Read more...

The National (Scotland)

Letters II: Trump's destruction of a priceless treasure is his Scottish legacy

Trump’s true legacy will be that of rural vandalism on a colossal scale. A unique wilderness at Menie destroyed for a golf course. This was a site of Special Scientific Interest, the highest environmenta... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Four principles for the UK's Brexit trade negotiations

The meaning of Brexit is yet to become clear. But if Brexit means leaving the customs union of the European Union, Thomas Sampson looks at what it might meant for the UK to pursue its own trade policy for the first time ... Read more...

Foreign Affairs Magazine

Salvaging Brexit

The right way to leave the EU Article by Swati Dhingra On June 30, a week after the British public voted to leave the EU, Theresa May gave a speech launching her candidacy for prime minister in which she declared, ''Br... Read more...

The Herald Scotland

Panic! We're led by a Dad's Army of Brexiter buffoons

It's beginning to dawn on Brexit voters that leaving the EU will be a disaster for working people. Inflation is back as a direct result of the 18 per cent devaluation of the pound since June 23. The forecast for price ri... Read more...

International Business Times

Latest twists as the Cabinet clashes over Brexit, Single Markets and customs unions

Prime Minister Theresa May is in Brussels for her first EU summit as UK leader, in the same week as cabinet ministers were presented with a paper warning that Britain pulling out of the EU customs union could lead to a 4... Read more...

RT UK

Cuts caused Brexit

Study says Brexit avoidable if Cameron had cut austerity. Interview with Dennis Novy The interview was broadcast by RT UK on October 19, 2016 Link to interview here [0:47 seconds] Related links Dennis Novy webpag... Read more...

City A.M.

Leaked government documents reveal #75bn cost of hard Brexit

The calculations, sent to May's close-knit team of Brexit advisers, which includes Hammond, David Davis, Liam Fox and Boris Johnson, claim the UK economy would be 4.5 percent smaller by 2030 if it leaves the Customs Unio... Read more...

Guardian

Philip Hammond to be pressed on risks of UK leaving EU customs union

Chancellor to appear before Treasury select committee after Whitehall estimates show economy could shrink by 4.5% Trade flows and foreign investment would also be hit hard by leaving the customs union, according to figu... Read more...

The Independent

Brexit: Theresa May warned Britain could lose 4.5% of its GDP if it leaves EU customs union

Cabinet ministers receive stark economic warnings against adopting a 'Norway-style' model The UK could suffer a fall in GDP of 4.5% by 2030 if it leaves the EU customs union. Cabinet ministers were given stark warni... Read more...

The Conversation

Why do wind farms drag down house prices in some places but not others?

Two years ago, the London School of Economics delivered bad news to the renewables industry. It published a research paper that showed that house price appreciation was significantly reduced by being near wind farms in E... Read more...

The Daily Mail

Ministers do battle over whether Britain should stay in the European customs union amid warnings quitting could mean a 4.5% hit to economy

Ministers are at loggerheads over whether to quit the European customs union amid warnings it could mean a 4.5 per cent hit to GDP. Papers circulated at a meeting of the Brexit Cabinet committee apparently suggested tha... Read more...

The Independent

Britain, these are the five realistic choices for Brexit - take your pick

The Economists for Brexit group claim Brexit 5 would deliver a UK growth boom by 2020. But economists at the London School of Economics say this is ideologically driven pseudoscience and that unilateral free trade would,... Read more...

The Conversation

A hard Brexit and reduced migration won't benefit UK workers

Article by Barbara Petrongolo In the wake of Britains vote to leave the EU, the big debate has switched to what relationship the two should have post-Brexit. Top of the agenda is access to the single market and freedom ... Read more...

RT TV

Russia Today

Dennis Novy interviewed live around 8.15pm. The topic analysing the Brexit referendum that was held in June 2016. The interview was about how the Brexit vote outcomes across voting areas in the UK were linked to immigrat... Read more...

The Guardian

Theresa May given stark warning about leaving customs union

The studies, by the Treasury, the thinktank NIESR and the Centre for Economic Performance and London School of Economics, predicted the effect on the British economy if the UK was to opt for a Norway-style model. That wo... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

New immigrants don't affect the job prospects of UK-born workers

New arrivals flock to the occupations and industries in which existing immigrants work, argues Barbara Petrongolo. Most economists would argue that there is not much of a trade-off involved in this choice. Th... Read more...

Migration Matters

Do migrants take away jobs?

Part 2/6 from six impossible ideas (after Brexit) Many people think that migrants take jobs away from citizens, reduce wages or both. But you may also have heard the argument that immigrants benefit the economy because ... Read more...

The Times

Playing it safe may mean giving Brexit Britain a very wide berth

Foreign direct investment is also much more economically potent than the domestic variety. It brings with it new technological and managerial knowhow that can dramatically boost productivity, according to London School o... Read more...

WallStreetcn.com (China)

'The news quiz' United Kingdom 'hard back in Europe,' you need to know

CEP research article previously published by Vox referenced in article published in PRC: [8]Swati Dhingra, Thomas Sampson: UK-EU relations after Brexit: What is best for the UK economy? This article was published onlin... Read more...

Yahoo! Canada Finance

Why income inequality among white collar workers is growing

This article was based on the research of Luis Garicano and Thomas N. Hubbard. Rising income inequality in the U.S. may seem like a 21st-century preoccupation, as workers agitate to ''occupy Wall Street'' from the left ... Read more...

The Independent

Brexit: UK faces #350m-a-week `divorce bill' as result of leaving the EU

Economist Thomas Sampson told The Independent: ''It's important to remember that the exit bill would be a one-off payment and in the longer run it is likely to be dwarfed by the broader economic costs resulting from redu... Read more...

iNews

The politics behind pound sterling's volatile week

The pound has lost nearly 18 per cent of its value against the dollar since Britain voted Brexit, two per cent more than during the 2008 financial crash. On Thursday it reached its lowest point for 168 years. ''Movements... Read more...

Al Jazeera TV

News

Dennis Novy interviewed. The topic was the leaked Brexit analysis from the Treasury and the economic implications of Brexit, in particular for international trade. This interview was broadcast by Al Jazeera Television ... Read more...

BBC Three Counties Radio

Jasmeen Khan

Caller mentions research by the Centre for Economic Performance at around 01:11:05 Caller: ... not in many cases a cynical attempt on the part of employers to simply cheat workers by paying them the lowest wages that th... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Does immigration harm the job prospects of the UK-born? Brexit and the UK labour market

Following the referendum vote to leave the European Union, the UK faces a trade-off between retaining access to the Single Market and restricting free movement of labour. Barbara Petrongolo considers the likely impact of... Read more...

Financial Times

Free Lunch: My country right or wrong

Many government ministers have suggested that immigration is an obstacle to natives getting jobs. Jonathan Wadsworth takes up the home secretary's challenge to talk about immigration and how it may affect young people's ... Read more...

The Independent

Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to what Theresa May said about immigration was the last thing Labour needed

[Jeremy] Corbyn too is proposing a solution ''which would reduce numbers'', despite the fact in its 2015 General Election briefing, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics observed: ''There ... Read more...

The Independent

`Return of the nasty party' claims over Tory crackdown on foreign workers

In a briefing sent afterwards, it was made clear that other measures to be considered would be, ''whether employers should have to set out the steps they have taken to foster a pool of local candidates, set out the impac... Read more...

Financial Times

Proposals on lines of foreign workers cause outcry

Academic studies also find little link between migration and unemployment. Economists from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics say that when they look at the areas with the largest incre... Read more...

The Telegraph (online)

On immigration and jobs, Theresa May employs the post-truth politics of Donald Trump

I am one of those people who, as she anticipated, have a bit of a problem with something Mrs May said about immigration: If you're one of those people who lost their job, who stayed in work but on reduced ... Read more...

The Financial Times

Proposals on lists of foreign workers cause outcry

Economists see little to link migration and unemployment There is little evidence that migrants have displaced British workers from jobs. Indeed, the employment rate for UK nationals is now 74.6 per cent, the highest si... Read more...

The Independent

What do immigrants do for the UK economy? Nine charts Conservative ministers seem to be ignoring

Article includes nine charts to help provide an answer to 'And what is the real impact of immigrants on the rest of the workforce and the wider economy?' including: Jonathan Wadsworth a researcher at the London School ... Read more...

The Economist

Migration: Needed but not wanted

Economic migrants are seen as a threat to jobs and the welfare state. The reality is more complex Until quite recently the academic literature treated migrants as substitutes for native workers. But what if they were co... Read more...

The Economist

Free Trade: Coming and going

Truth and myth about the effects of openness to trade In other rich countries, regions or industries with heavy exposure to Chinese imports also suffered material losses in factory jobs. A study of Spain's jobs market b... Read more...

Bloomberg

Britain's economy is flying blind 100 days after Brexit vote

“The government doesn’t have a plan, and until it decides, it’s really hard for anyone to prepare,” said Thomas Sampson, a professor at the London School of Economics. “In the sho... Read more...

Sputnik News

Soft Power: This is how Chinese companies conquer Britain

According to estimates by the London School of Economics, Brexit will result in a 22 percent drop in direct investment into the British economy and a 3.4 percent drop in revenues. This article was published online by ... Read more...

The Economist

Little Londons

However, land regulation may play a bigger role. According to a recent paper by Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen of the London School of Economics, alongside Greater London, scarcity of open, developable land is gre... Read more...

The Independent

Brexit: True cost of UK leaving EU without trade deal revealed

EXCLUSIVE: An analysis by The Independent of official data suggests British exporters would face a cost of at least £4.5bn - and in all likelihood they would take a hit many times larger A separate analysis by th... Read more...

Money Week online

How we can profit from winning the battle against ageing

Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia affect huge numbers of people - a third of all over-80s have some form of dementia, estimates the US CDC. This has two key effects. Firstly, Alzheimer's is a major killer in its o... Read more...

Handelsblatt

Taten mussen folgen

Even [Sadiq] Khan's predecessor Boris Johnson campaigned with several plans to build 55,000 new homes in London and to slow down the price increase caused by demand pressures. Up to the end of his tenure, he failed. Khan... Read more...

La Croix.com (France)

Brexit, l'economie britannique fait de la resistance

With a major question mark: foreign groups continue to invest in the country? The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics estimated that membership of the EU has indeed increased foreign direct ... Read more...

The Journal Gazette (Indiana, USA)

After Brexit, could be calm before storm

Fear of an economic meltdown was the biggest weapon in the campaign to stop Britain from leaving the European Union. Ten weeks after the vote, though, some say the fearmongering was overdone. Although the pound has fall... Read more...

1 Das Erste (German Public TV Channel) - Europamagazin Programme

Brexit: Chaos in der Regierung und zunehmende Gewalt gegen Polen

Dennis Novy interviewed on the state of the British economy after the EU Referendum, and on the prospects for UK international trade negotiation. The interview was recorded by 1 Das Erste (German Public TV Channel) on ... Read more...

The Daily Mail

Britain's economy is stable - and people are surprised

Swati Dhingra, one of those who forecast severe damage to the economy, says the danger hasn't past. Warnings about the impact of Brexit were focused on what might happen when Britain leaves the EU, and that won't happen ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

The World Tonight

Dennis Novy interviewed. The topic was the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the recent political backlash from France and Germany. The interview was broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 The World Ton... Read more...

Der Tagesspiegel (Germany)

Britische Beziehungskisten

Even after the Brexit, Britain will seek economic ties to the EU. But what options are there? What are the costs? And how likely they are? The economists Swati Dinghra and Thomas Sampson of the London School of Economic... Read more...

Financial Times

Scotland warns of #11bn cost of Brexit by 2030

Brexit will be deeply damanging to Scotland's economy, warns Nicola Sturgeon. ...by the Treasury, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performanc... Read more...

This is Money

Tax-free childcare is on the way - but will your family be any better off and how will it compare to childcare vouchers?

The average cost of full-time childcare across the UK for a child under the age of two is £217.57 a week. Part-time care (25 hours, as opposed to the full 50) costs £116.77 a week. Assuming both parents work ... Read more...

The Times

The migration system isn't broken, so there's no need for a brake

More jobs but lower living standards: that's been how most people have experienced Britain's economic performance since the financial crisis. ... The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance has referr... Read more...

PropertyWire

Researcher blames government not rich foreign buyers for UK housing crisis

Decades of planning policies that constrain the supply of houses and land and turn them into something like gold or artworks is to blame for the current housing crisis in the UK rather than foreign buyers, according to a... Read more...

Vox

Brexit and wage inequality

Article by Brian Bell and Stephen Machin Wage inequality was partly behind the vote for Brexit. This column shows how areas with relatively low median wages were substantially more likely to vote ‘Lea... Read more...

Viet Q.vn (Vietnam)

Tang nang suat lao dong len 800% voi robot naha kho cua My

The likely Locus of search robots and packaging of 25 thousand square meter warehouse helps to increase the productivity of the warehouse up to 800 percent. A previous study of Georg Graetz scientists and Guy Michaels (... Read more...

Money Marketing

Gregg McClymont: What does Brexit mean for UK pensions?

Beyond the territorial politics, Brexit has brought to the boil a long simmering tension between the UK's economic and political imperatives. The importance to the UK economy of the single European market in goods and se... Read more...

CIPD

Government urges employers to make breastfeeding at work easier

New initiatives planned to end 'unacceptable and unlawful' discrimination against working women Employers are being told to do more to help mothers breastfeed their babies at work, as part of the government's latest i... Read more...

Pop Off Quotidiano.it (Italy)

Il grande bluff della robotizzazione

Davvero i robot ci ruberanno il lavoro? A che cosa serve davvero l'automazione? Tutte queste predicazioni hanno in comune di invitare i popoli ad abbandonare qualsiasi progetto di poter in qualche modo essere protagonist... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Paul Cheshire interview

Paul Cheshire argues that golf courses capitalise on green belt planning laws which keep down land prices and contribute to a housing shortage. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on August 10, 2016 Link to th... Read more...

In Facts

Brexiteers try to wriggle out of blame for economic slowdown

Throughout the referendum campaign, experts raised serious, well-founded concerns about the potential for Brexit to cause serious economic harm. These went unanswered, because the Leave camp had no answers to offer. Inst... Read more...

Independent

Brexit: Economists put cost of UK losing European Union single market membership at #75bn

The IFS estimate that single market membership could be worth 4 per cent of GDP by 2030 - or £75bn in today's money But the IFS estimates that retaining single market membership could be potentially worth 4 per ce... Read more...

Naked Capitalism

How CEOs get paid for luck

By Brian Bell, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, and John Van Reenen Director of the Centre for Economic Performance and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Originally published at VoxEU... Read more...

Investor's Business Daily - Politics

Will a robot take your job?

In a 2015 study, ''Robots at Work'', economists at Sweden's Uppsala University and the London School of Economics looked at the economic impact of robots from 1993 to 2007. They found that the use of robots in advanced e... Read more...

Vox

CEO pay and the rise of relative performance contracts: the role of governance

Article by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen Lacklustre growth seems to be the new normal almost everywhere in the world except for one area - CEO pay. This column uses data on UK publicly listed firms to examine whether ... Read more...

Geopolitical Monitor

Flash: Brexit in more concrete economic terms

The reputed Centre for Economic Performance at LSE has long been studying the potential impact of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, and just this last week it published its latest report. This report focuses... Read more...

LSE Business Review

What kind of relationship with the EU is best for the UK economy post-Brexit?

Article by Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson The UK should join the EEA and remain part of the single market, write Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson The UK has voted to leave the EU, but not in favour of any specific a... Read more...

The Independent

Brexit: Top economist reveals what he thinks will happen next after the EU referendum vote

John Van Reenen of the London School of Econimics forecast costs of Brexit before vote was held One of the UK's top economists has issued a stark warning about the possible economic and social implications of Brexit for... Read more...

Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) blog

Reflections on the employer support for higher level skills report

Article by John Denham For the past 20 years and longer, Ministers of all parties have wanted to see more employers support employees and apprentices to gain higher levels skills and higher education. With strong bi-par... Read more...

LSE European Politics and Policy blog

The aftermath of the Brexit vote ? the verdict from a derided expert

John Van Reenen was disappointed but not surprised by the UK's vote to Leave the EU. Whilst his own research predicts serious economic and political damage in the case of Brexit, he thought a Leave vote was a real possib... Read more...

Voice of Islam

The Breakfast Show

We are joined by Swati Dhingra to give us an expert view on the migrant spike. The interview was broadcast by the Voice of Islam Radio on August 2, 2016 Link to the show podcast here Related publications Brexit and... Read more...

SchoolDash blog

Poverty of opportunity?

Education is not just a vital cornerstone of our culture and economy, it is also potentially one of the great social levellers. However rich or poor our parents, however supportive or dysfunctional our families, a high-q... Read more...

InDaily.com.au (Australia)

Unions should evolve to reflect enterprise

Professor Saul Estrin of the London School of Economics has shown, for example, that an increase in the level of employee participation in the running of an enterprise from zero to full participation increases output by ... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

The aftermath of the Brexit vote - the verdict from a derided expert

John Van Reenen was disappointed but not surprised by the UK's vote to Leave the EU. Whilst his own research predicts serious economic and political damage in the case of Brexit, he thought a Leave vote was a real possib... Read more...

Vox

Brexit Beckons: Thinking ahead by leading economists

The June 2016 Brexit referendum saw British voters reject membership of the European Union. Now that a decision has been made, it is time to look forward and find the best solutions for the future of both the UK and the ... Read more...

Vox

A new eBook: Brexit beckons

The 23 June 2016 Brexit vote saw British voters reject membership in the European Union. This column introduces a new VoxEU eBook containing 19 essays written by leading economists on a wide array of topics and from a br... Read more...

The Economist

The impact of free trade: Collateral damage

However, mounting evidence suggests that the gains from free trade are not shared equally. A body of research on the American economy shows that import competition from poor countries can depress the incomes of the low s... Read more...

La Tribune

Le poids des emotions dans l'economie

What is contraction that leads to uncertainty, or the opposite? Last year, as part of a working paper, the economists Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis built a rate of economic uncertainty (UPR, Economi... Read more...

BBC Asian Network

News

Swati Dhingra quoted on the impact of Brexit and likely effect on migration. This interview was broadcast on BBC Asian Network on July 27, 2016 Link to broadcast here Related publications Brexit and the Impact of... Read more...

Farming UK

Will Brexit hit Northern Ireland farmers hardest?

Professor Curran said said non-tariff barriers could raise costs for NI farmers by between 2% and 4% and a recent study by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) found that a 2% increase in non-tariff barriers could a... Read more...

BBC Radio 5

Radio 5 Live

Interview with Swati Dhingra on the economic impact of Brexit. The interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live on July 27, 2016 Link to the programme here Related publications See the complete CEP Brexit Analysis Ser... Read more...

The Irish Examiner

Northern farmers 'hardest hit' by Brexit fallout