CEP | People | Dr Piero Montebruno

Biography

Geographical Research Economist, Urban and Spatial Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science

Current areas of research include:

Road transport improvements and Land Use Change (jointly with Steve Gibbons)
Has residential area growth caught up with population growth in England and Wales from satellite imagery processing? (jointly with Steve Gibbons)
Economics of County Courts (jointly with Olmo Silva and Nikodem Szumilo)

Publications

CEP discussion papers

Judge Dread: court severity, repossession risk and demand in mortgage and housing markets

We study the impact of borrower protection on mortgage and housing demand. We focus on variation in the likelihood that a house is repossessed - conditional on the mortgage being in arrears and taken to court - coming fr... Read more...

Piero Montebruno, Olmo Silva and Nikodem Szumilo

11 May 2021

Journal article

The Population of Non-corporate Business Proprietors in England and Wales 1891–1911

This article uses population censuses to provide the first consistent counts of the population of business proprietors for 1891–1911. After appropriate adjustments for imperfect Census design the article confirms the per... Read more...

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno and Harry Smith

01 December 2020

Journal article - forthcoming

Households and entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851–1911

This article uses the British Business Census of Entrepreneurs (BBCE) to examine the relationship between the household and entrepreneurship in England and Wales between 1851 and 1911. The BBCE allows three kinds of entr... Read more...

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno, Harry Smith and Carry van Lieshout

18 August 2020

Journal article - forthcoming

Households and entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851-1911

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno, Harry Smith and Carry van Lieshout

01 August 2020

CEP discussion papers

Disrupted schooling: impacts on achievement from the Chilean school occupations

Disrupted schooling can heavily impact the amount of education pupils receive. Starting in early June of 2011 a huge social outburst of pupil protests, walk-outs, riots and school occupations called the Chilean Winter ca... Read more...

Piero Montebruno

01 June 2020

CEP Covid-19 analyses

Covid-19 school shutdowns: what will they do to our children's education?

Evidence from unexpected temporary school closures and reduced instruction time suggests school closures will reduce educational achievement, both in the short and long term. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are ... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Gibbons and Piero Montebruno

07 May 2020

Journal article

Take me to the Centre of your Town! Using micro-geographical data to identify Town Centres

© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Ifo Institute, Munich. All rights reserved. We often talk about 'Town Centres' (TCs), but defining their location and extent is surprisingly difficu... Read more...

Paul Cheshire, Christian A. L. Hilber, Piero Montebruno and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

01 June 2018

SERC Discussion Papers

Using Micro-Geography Data to Identify Town-Centre Space in Great Britain

We often talk about ‘Town Centres’, but defining their location and extent is surprisingly difficult. Their boundaries are hard to pin down and intrinsically fuzzy. Nevertheless, the British government introduced very sp... Read more...

Paul Cheshire, Christian A. L. Hilber, Piero Montebruno and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

10 May 2017