Productivity
How can economic growth be created? What impact do productivity-enhancing policies have on people and the planet?
How to improve productivity has long been a puzzle for the UK, which has lower levels of output per hour worked than main comparator countries.
CEP research aims to understand the UK's historic productivity performance. It also looks at the productivity at the level of workers and firms. The role of education in productivity and the rise of superstar firms are research areas in which CEP is particularly active.
Productivity growth is ultimately due to two elements, innovation, and the spread of these new ideas. CEP research shows how important innovation is for economic growth, what can be done to increase management quality and productivity, and how and why governments should support research and development.
Featured Work
Productivity Publications
Carlo Altomonte, Domenico Favoino, Monica Morlacco and Tommaso Sonno
8 January 2021
Anna Valero and John Van Reenen
7 January 2021
Ralf Martin, Sam Unsworth, Anna Valero and Dennis Verhoeven
18 December 2020
Nick Jacob and Giordano Mion
15 December 2020
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel
10 December 2020
Capucine Riom and Anna Valero
1 October 2020
Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu and Stephen J. Redding
15 September 2020
Thierry Mayer, Marc J. Melitz and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
1 August 2020
Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu and Stephen J. Redding
20 July 2020
Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Gianmarco Ottaviano
5 July 2020
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Cal B. Muckley and Parvati Neelakantan
2 July 2020
Nick Robins, James Rydge, Nicholas Stern, Sam Unsworth, Anna Valero and Dimitri Zenghelis
2 July 2020
Federico Cingano and Fadi Hassan
8 June 2020
Maximilian v. Ehrlich and Henry Overman
1 June 2020
Andy Feng and Anna Valero
1 May 2020
Nick Jacob and Giordano Mion
22 April 2020
Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura
1 April 2020
Daniel Mead and Isabelle Roland
6 February 2020
David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen
1 February 2020
Cheng Chen and Claudia Steinwender
31 January 2020
Timothy Besley, Isabelle Roland and John Van Reenen
21 January 2020
Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender and John Van Reenen
17 January 2020
Antoine Berthou, John Jong-Hyun Chung, Kalina Manova and Charlotte Sandoz Dit Bragard
7 January 2020
Fabrice Defever, Michele Imbruno and Richard Kneller
10 December 2019
Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking and John Van Reenen
1 December 2019
Anna Valero and John Van Reenen
25 November 2019
Rui Costa and Stephen Machin
21 November 2019
Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender and John Van Reenen
14 November 2019
Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
12 November 2019
Christopher Cornwell, Ian M. Schmutte and Daniela Scur
1 November 2019
Clément S. Bellet, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward
18 October 2019
Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Matteo Salto
1 September 2019
Dan Andrews, Chiara Criscuolo and Peter N. Gal
14 August 2019
Christopher Cornwell, Ian M. Schmutte and Daniela Scur
13 August 2019
Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and Heidi Williams
1 August 2019
Oriana Bandiera, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
3 July 2019
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Christian Krekel and George Ward
1 July 2019
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo
1 July 2019
Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra and Stephen Machin
1 July 2019
Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra
21 March 2019
Max Nathan and Anna Rosso
20 March 2019
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Christian Krekel and George Ward
15 March 2019
Juliano Assuncao, Joao Paulo Pessoa and Leonardo Rezende
1 March 2019
Andrew B. Bernard, Emily Blanchard, Ilke Van Beveren and Hylke Vandenbussche
1 March 2019
Ralf Martin, James Rydge and Anna Valero
1 March 2019
Andrew B. Bernard, Emmanuel Dhyne, Glenn Magerman, Kalina Manova and Andreas Moxnes
4 January 2019
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman and John Van Reenen
1 January 2019
James Rydge, Ralf Martin and Anna Valero
3 December 2018
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
1 December 2018
Sara Calligaris, Massimo Del Gatto, Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Fabiano Schivardi
1 October 2018
Nikhil Datta and Swati Dhingra
1 October 2018
Johannes Boehm and Ezra Oberfield
12 September 2018
Filipe Lage de Sousa and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
1 August 2018
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo
12 July 2018
Filippo Di Mauro, Fadi Hassan and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
3 July 2018
Nicholas Bloom, Kalina Manova, Stephen Teng Sun, John Van Reenen and Zhihong Yu
20 June 2018
Nick Bloom, Brian Lucking and John Van Reenen
14 May 2018
Andrew B. Bernard and Andreas Moxnes
24 April 2018
Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg C. Wright
6 March 2018
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Arne Feddersen
1 March 2018
Renata Lemos and Daniela Scur
1 March 2018
Sara Calligaris, Massimo Del Gatto, Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Fabiano Schivardi
1 March 2018
Sara Calligaris, Massimo Del Gatto, Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Fabiano Schivardi
11 December 2017
Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies and Anna Valero
1 November 2017
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo
1 November 2017
Swati Dhingra and John Morrow
12 October 2017
Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies and Anna Valero
22 September 2017
Nicholas Bloom, Charles I Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb
6 September 2017
Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
1 September 2017
Stephen Gibbons, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Henry Overman and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner
3 July 2017
Stephen Gibbons and Wenjie Wu
3 July 2017
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo
22 June 2017
Stephen Gibbons, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Henry Overman and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner
19 May 2017
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
1 May 2017
Christian Gillitzer, Henrik Kleven and Joel Slemrod
1 April 2017
Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen
27 March 2017
Stephen Gibbons and Wenjie Wu
6 February 2017
Christian Fons-Rosen, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Katalin Szemeredi
Revised March 2017
Thierry Mayer, Marc J. Melitz and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
28 July 2016
Holger Breinlich, Swati Dhingra, Saul Estrin, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth
21 June 2016
Andrew B. Bernard, Andreas Moxnes and Yukiko U. Saito
14 June 2016
Nicholas Bloom, Ali Choudhary, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen
9 June 2016
Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen
9 June 2016
Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
1 June 2016
Stefan Bender, Nicholas Bloom, David Card, John Van Reenen and Stefanie Wolter
14 March 2016
Emanuele Forlani, Ralf Martin, Giordano Mion and Mirabelle Muûls
19 January 2016
Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen
1 January 2016
Lorenzo Caliendo, Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
17 December 2015
Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen
6 November 2015
Anna Valero and John Van Reenen
10 September 2015
Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
30 July 2015
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
30 July 2015
Rudiger Ahrend, Emily Farchy, Ioannis Kaplanis and Alexander C. Lembcke
13 July 2015
Abigail Cooke and Thomas Kemeny
15 June 2015
Alex Bryson and John Forth
29 May 2015
Nick Bloom, Fatih Guvenen, David J. Price and Jae Song
27 May 2015
Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy
7 May 2015
Ghazala Azmat, Brian Bell, Jonathan Colmer, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Swati Dhingra, Christian Hilber, Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, Ralf Martin, Alistair McGuire, Sandra McNally, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Henry Overman, Isabelle Roland, Thomas Sampson, Anna Valero, John Van Reenen, Jonathan Wadsworth, Gill Wyness and Gabriel Zucman
30 April 2015
Isabelle Roland and Anna Valero
18 March 2015
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
3 March 2015
Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Tingting Zhang
10 February 2015
Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
19 December 2014
Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher T. Stanton
10 December 2014
Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James C. Davis and Richard Freeman
3 November 2014
Filipe Lage de Sousa and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
20 October 2014
Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
6 August 2014
Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen
8 May 2014
Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen
28 April 2014
Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen
17 February 2014
Marc J. Melitz and Stephen J. Redding
14 January 2014
Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
12 December 2013
Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen
10 December 2013
Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen
31 October 2013
Paul Cheshire, Christian A. L. Hilber and Ioannis Kaplanis
20 August 2013
Renata Lemos and Daniela Scur
27 June 2013
Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen
5 June 2013
Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom and William R. Kerr
14 May 2013
Clément Bosquet and Pierre-Philippe Combes
23 April 2013
Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying
1 March 2013
Dietmar Harhoff, Elisabeth Mueller and John Van Reenen
1 March 2013
Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts
1 February 2013
Nicholas Oulton and María Sebastiá-Barriel
31 January 2013
Marc J. Melitz and Stephen J. Redding
20 December 2012
Björn Erikssoon, Tobias Karlsson, Tim Leunig and Maria Stanfors
19 December 2012
Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying
19 December 2012
Wenya Cheng, John Morrow and Kitjawat Tacharoen
13 December 2012
Stephen Gibbons, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Henry Overman and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner
7 September 2012
Richard Harris and John Moffat
21 June 2012
Philippe Aghion, John Van Reenen and Luigi Zingales
21 May 2012
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman and John Van Reenen
21 May 2012
Dan Corry, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen
21 May 2012
Michael Boehm and Martin Watzinger
6 May 2012
Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun and Julie Wulf
25 April 2012
Alex Bryson, Giambattista Rossi and Rob Simmons
20 March 2012
Swati Dhingra and John Morrow
29 February 2012
Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge and John Van Reenen
Revised June 2016
John Van Reenen and Linda Yueh
7 February 2012
Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
1 February 2012
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman and John Van Reenen
Revised January 2016
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman and John Van Reenen
10 January 2012
Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
3 January 2012
Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Südekum
20 December 2011
Dan Corry, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen
6 December 2011
Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding and Peter K. Schott
27 October 2011
Francesca Cornaglia and Naomi E. Feldman
26 September 2011
Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber and Ioannis Kaplanis
June 2011
Björn Eriksson, Tobias Karlsson, Tim Leunig and Maria Stanfors
June 2011
Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts
January 2011
Paul Cheshire, Christian A. L. Hilber and Ioannis Kaplanis
Revised September 2011
Richard Harris and John Moffat
January 2011
Guy Michaels, Ashwini Natraj and John Van Reenen
November 2010
Alex Bryson, Babatunde Buraimo and Rob Simmons
October 2010
Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen
Revised October 2011
Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen
May 2010
Carol Propper and John Van Reenen
1 April 2010
Zack Cooper and Alistair McGuire
April 2010
Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
February 2010
Daniel J. Graham and David C. Maré
February 2010
Gregory Corocs, Massimo Del Gatto, Giordano Mion and G.I.P. Ottaviano
October 2009
PierrePhilippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Diego Puga and Sébastien Roux
October 2009
Nicholas Oulton
Revised February 2012
Bernard Fingleton and Miguel Gómez-Antonio
June 2009
Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Tobias Kretschmer and P Willman
April 2009
Paul-Antoine Chevalier, Rémy Lecat and Nicholas Oulton
March 2009
L. Rachel Ngai and Roberto M. Samaniego
March 2009
Philippe Aghion, John Van Reenen and Luigi Zingales
February 2009
Tomer Blumkin, Yossi Hadar and Eran Yashiv
February 2009
Nick Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun
October 2008
Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman
August 2008
Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman
August 2008
Emma Hall, Carol Propper and John Van Reenen
January 2008
Fabrice Defever and Farid Toubal
December 2007
Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen
1 November 2007
Luis Garicano and Paul Heaton
October 2007
Giulia Faggio, Kjell Salvanes and John Van Reenen
August 2007
YoungGak Kim and Tsutomu Miyagawa
August 2007
Alex Bryson and John Forth
July 2007
Mirabelle Muûls and Mauro Pisu
June 2007
Nick Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
Revised August 2011
Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Haskel and Matthew Slaughter
April 2007
Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Haskel
March 2007
Anthony J. Venables
December 2006
L. Rachel Ngai and Roberto M. Samaniego
December 2006
Christopher A. Pissarides
October 2006
Mirko Draca, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
August 2006
Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Haskel
May 2006
Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen
March 2006
Nick Bloom, Tobias Kretschmer and John Van Reenen
January 2006
Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter K. Schott
July 2005
Jo Blanden, Stephen Machin and John Van Reenen
May 2005
Nicholas Oulton and Sylaja Srinivasan
March 2005
Nicholas Bloom, Mark Schankerman and John Van Reenen
Revised December 2012
Lorraine Dearden, Howard Reed and John Van Reenen
February 2005
Chiara Criscuolo and Ralf Martin
January 2005
Francesco Caselli and Silvana Tenreyro
January 2005
Rachel Griffith, Rupert Harrison and John Van Reenen
November 2004
Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and Helen Simpson
September 2004
Fredrik Andersson, Simon Burgess and Julia Lane
September 2004
Patricia Rice and Anthony J. Venables
July 2004
L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher A. Pissarides
April 2004
M Patterson, P Warr and M West
April 2004
Andrew Neal, M Patterson and M West
March 2004
Stephen Bond, Dietmar Harhoff and John Van Reenen
December 2003
Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John Van Reenen
September 2001
Stephen Nickell and John Van Reenen
January 2001
Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John Van Reenen
May 2000