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Peter Lambert.

Peter Lambert

PhD Student

Expertise: economics of innovation, climate change economics, machine learning, natural language processing

Email:
p.j.lambert@lse.ac.uk
Room:
SAL 2.35 B
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Biography

Peter Lambert is completing his PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), funded by the 2018 Commonwealth Scholarship Award. He also works in the Centre for Economic Performance - Growth Research Programme - as an Occasional Research Assistant for Professor John Van Reenen.

Current areas of research include:

  • CEP work focuses on using large firm-level datasets to investigate the causes of the so called 'productivity slowdown' during the 21st century. This includes looking at the effects of trade, financial constraints, and produce market competition
  • PhD research sits at the intersection of IO and macroeconomics, specifically focusing on new trends in industry and firm dynamics
  • Most recent work uses novel unstructured datasets (e.g. text, transaction data) to test theoretical predictions about firms' behaviour

Publications

CEP discussion papers
Remote work across jobs, companies and space

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a st... Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Stephen Hansen, Peter Lambert, Raffaella Sadun and Bledi Taska

14 July 2023

Blog
Using job postings to quantify remote work

The COVID pandemic initiated an enduring shift to remote work. But there is little evidence to explain where this shift is taking place at a micro level because the sample sizes are too small. Stephen Hansen, Peter Lambe... Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Stephen Hansen, Peter Lambert, Raffaella Sadun and Bledi Taska

18 April 2023

Blog
Risk of Business Failure - POID Tracker - Stalled Covid Recovery

Research shows that small firms are more likely to report they are at risk of failing in recent months, amid growing concerns about challenges such as Brexit controls, the Ukraine crisis and energy price hikes.... Read more...

Peter Lambert, Apolline Marion and John Van Reenen

24 May 2022

Blog
Risk of Business Failure - POID Tracker

Research by Peter Lambert, Apolline Marion and John Van Reenen find that the number of firms at risk of failing has fallen from that earlier in the pandemic, but that one million jobs are still at risk and advancements c... Read more...

Peter Lambert, Apolline Marion and John Van Reenen

15 August 2021

Blog
Risk of Business Failure: POID Tracker

Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen track how UK businesses view their risks of bankruptcy over the next three months, finding extensions to COVID support schemes have helped avert a wave of bankruptcies, but risks remain.... Read more...

Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen

27 April 2021

CEP Covid-19 analyses
A major wave of UK business closures by April 2021? The scale of the problem and what can be done

This report presents an analysis of the financial health of UK businesses, which shows that immediate action is needed to prevent a wave of corporate failure in early April. We cannot delay action. Now is also the moment... Read more...

Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen

27 January 2021

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