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Entry-level hiring has fallen sharply across white-collar work. An emerging explanation has been that generative AI is to blame. Drawing on their new study of hundreds of millions of hires and job adverts, Peter John Lam...Read more...
Peter Lambert and Yannick Schindler
17 August 2026
Productivity has been a problem for the past 15 years. In developed countries, weak demand, a lack of competition and a paucity of new ideas have all been blamed. Could AI finally reverse that trend? Soumaya speaks to St...Read more...
Nicholas Bloom and Soumaya Keynes
31 July 2026
The AI race is no longer just about building better models. As competition shifts from scientific discovery to deployment, success increasingly depends on computing power, advanced semiconductors, physical infrastructure...Read more...
Antonin Bergeaud and Robin Rivaton
Philippe Aghion writes for Polytechnique Insights on how Europe must prepare its own AI strategy if it wishes to make up ground lost to the U.S. in terms of GDP per capita, productivity and disruptive innovations....Read more...
Philippe Aghion
1 July 2026
Political views shape the creation and spread of technology...Read more...
Gaia Dossi and Marta Morando
19 June 2026
Do the determinants of technology adoption depend on technological architecture? Using administrative data on Turkish firms from 2021 to 2024, we compare the adoption of traditional and generative artificial intelligence...Read more...
Nuriye Melisa Bilgin and Gianmarco Ottaviano
21 May 2026
The UK is experiencing increasing impacts from climate change, including more frequent and severe floods, heatwaves and storms. It needs to prepare more for these impacts. It also needs to honour its pledge to support cl...Read more...
Raffaele Della Croce, Daisy Jameson, Maxwell Read, Esin Serin and Anna Valero
14 May 2026
Nicholas Bloom and his co-authors investigate AI adoption in firms to understand how much companies are spending on AI and what the impact will be on the composition of their workforces....Read more...
Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Kevin M. Foster, Brent H. Meyer, Emil Mihaylov and Michael A. Navarrete
6 May 2026
Raffaella's work sits at the intersection of economics, leadership, and the future of work. Drawing on large-scale data and real-world field experiments inside major companies, she explores how hybrid work is reshaping l...Read more...
Raffaella Sadun
27 April 2026
When the Strait of Hormuz first closed in March and oil hit US$120 a barrel, a very old question came back: is this finally the moment electric vehicles take off for good - or just another false start? EVs have been here...Read more...
Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin D. J. Harper and Viet Nguyen-Tien
16 April 2026
Quantifying spillovers from scientific knowledge to technology is important for understanding the social returns to science and for designing policy. A key challenge is how to credit scientific work with the value genera...Read more...
Ralf Martin, Arjun Shah, Anna Valero and Dennis Verhoeven
18 March 2026
New OECD research finds that some firms use 20 times more energy than their peers producing the same output. Reducing the gap could cut industrial energy use by more than half using technologies that already exist. This ...Read more...
Josh De Lyon and Antoine Dechezlepretre
17 March 2026
Electric vehicles (EVs) are central to decarbonising road transport, a sector responsible for 23% of global energy-related emissions, and their adoption carries both economic and societal implications. This paper provide...Read more...
How has remote work changed the way we live and work? And what's here to stay? In the first episode of Econ To Go, Neale Mahoney sits down with Stanford economist Nick Bloom, one of the world's leading experts on work-...Read more...
Nicholas Bloom
24 February 2026
The transition to net zero can bring economic benefits - improving productivity and living standards while tackling climate change and this collection of briefing papers shows how. Pathways to productive and inclusive ne...Read more...
Pia Andres, Chiara Cavaglia, Sam Fankhauser, Ilya Ilin, Francois Lafond, Fulvia Marotta, Ralf Martin, Sandra McNally, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Alice Owen, Emilien Ravigne, Maxwell Read, Xiyu Ren, Misato Sato, Aurelien Saussay, Arjun Shah, Trang Thu Tran, Anna Valero, Guglielmo Ventura, Dennis Verhoeven, Francesco Vona and Golvine de Rochambeau
13 February 2026
We introduce a methodology to measure cross-country trends in innovation capability - "technological trajectories" and implement this on a new rich dataset covering patents between 1836 and 2016 across multiple countries...Read more...
Antonin Bergeaud, Ruveyda Nur Gozen and John Van Reenen
22 January 2026
The business school professor shares insights on the human cost of change, making progress without a playbook, and how leaders can turn AI experiments into a competitive advantage. ...Read more...
19 November 2025
To what extent has the rise of clean energy technologies created new vulnerabilities in global supply chains? In this paper, I study the role of a new type of 'input uncertainty' associated with critical minerals that un...Read more...
Viet Nguyen-Tien
3 November 2025
Using a novel proprietary survey of UK manufacturing sites, we study the impact on employment of arguably the two most important industrial automation technologies of the past fifty years: computer numerical control (CNC...Read more...
Aniket Baksy, Daniel Chandler and Peter Lambert
24 October 2025
The Usti nad Labem and Karlovy Vary regions face persistent structural challenges as they transition away from coal-based industries. In response to these challenges, national and EU institutions have launched a coordina...Read more...
Stephen Anderson, Leonardo Iacovone, Andreas Menzel, Florian Munch, Mariana Pereira-Lopez and Rahul Suhag
18 June 2025
In this policy brief, we present new data from a survey of 373 UK firms conducted in May 2024 in partnership with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). This is a follow-up to our two earlier surveys which revealed...Read more...
Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Bruno Serra-Lorenzo and Anna Valero
2 April 2025
Large language models can conduct interviews at speed and at scale. Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel present a new open source platform to support this innovative form of qualitative research....Read more...
Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel
20 February 2025
Should policymakers protect European firms by restricting imports of solar technology from China? Pia Andres finds that Chinese competition has resulted in many European firms going out of business, but it has also promp...Read more...
Pia Andres
Quantifying technology adoption, spillovers, and diffusion across firms is crucial for understanding industry dynamics, and in turn countries' growth. This column combines firm-level input-output VAT data from Turkey wit...Read more...
Nuriye Melisa Bilgin, Ester Faia and Gianmarco Ottaviano
31 January 2025
Some artificial intelligence technologies are more data intensive than others. This column examines how data privacy regulation shaped the trajectory of AI innovation across countries, looking at patent applications from...Read more...
Pia Andres, Carl Benedikt Frey and Giorgio Presidente
5 January 2025
