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Biography

Agnes Norris Keiller is an Economics PhD student at the LSE and an Occasional Research Assistant for the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion at the London School of Economics. Before joining POID she worked for several years at the Institute for Fiscal Studies conducting empirical research on a range of topics related to employment and welfare policy. She is interested in interactions between firm and worker decisions and in the transition to a decarbonised 'green' economy.

Publications

Blog

Managing to cope with natural disasters

Human-induced climate change is making disasters more frequent and more intense. Policy could help reduce the economic costs of climate change by helping firms withstand extreme weather events. This column explores how m... Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller and John Van Reenen

08 August 2024

CEP discussion papers

Brexit and investment

In 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union and growth in UK manufacturing investment ground to a halt. This paper uses administrative trade data to investigate the causal relationship between these events. We expl... Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller

05 August 2024

CEP discussion papers

When trade drives markup divergence: An application to auto markets

When firms sell in multiple markets, estimates of markups from the demand-side will generally diverge from estimates based on the supply-side (e.g. via production functions). The empirical examination of the importance o... Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

26 July 2024

CEP discussion papers

Production function estimation using subjective expectations data

Standard methods for estimating production functions in the Olley and Pakes (1996) tradition require assumptions on input choices. We introduce a new method that exploits (increasingly available) data on a firm's expecta... Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller, John Van Reenen and Aureo de Paula

11 July 2024

CEP discussion papers

An engine of (pay) growth? Productivity and wages in the UK auto industry

When labour market competition is imperfect, positive industry (and firm) productivity shocks can be passed through to workers in the form of higher wages. We document how the UK auto industry, following a period of decl... Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

03 July 2024

CEP discussion papers

Disaster management

Climate change is making natural disasters more frequent, yet little is known about the capacity of firms to withstand such disasters and adapt to their increased frequency. We examine this issue using the latest wave of... Read more...

Agnes Norris Keiller and John Van Reenen

13 June 2024