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Videos and podcasts about our research and events. Additional video can be found on the CEP YouTube channel.














Richard Layard (CEP, LSE), Gus O'Donnell (former Cabinet Secretary), Amanda Rowlatt (former chief economist at the Department for Transport, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Department for Work and Pensions)


































John Van Reenen (LSE), Anna Valero (CEP), Bart van Ark (The Productivity Institute and University of Manchester), Xuyi Yang (University of Cambridge and POID, LSE)













Brandyn Churchill (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Christopher Carpenter (Vanderbilt University)



Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Hannah Slaughter (Resolution Foundation), Melanie Simms (University of Glasgow)


Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Kate Barker (Universities Superannuation Scheme), Andrew Harrison (NatWest), Simon Nixon (Journalist), Krishan Shah (Resolution Foundation), Anna Valero (CEP)



Liam Beiser-McGrath (Department of Social Policy, LSE), Chris Skidmore (Member of Parliament for Kingswood), Elizabeth Robinson (LSE), Anna Valero (CEP), Rain Newton-Smith (Confederation of British Industry)





































Power, pay and profits: What do shifts in firm and worker power mean for wages?

Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Hannah Slaughter (Resolution Foundation), Antonia Bance (Trades Union Congress)


Mind the gap (part II): What drives productivity gaps across the UK?

Andy Haldane (Royal Society for Arts), Henry Overman (What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth and CEP, LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Deborah Cadman (Birmingham City Council)


Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick), joint with Victoria Baranov (University of Melbourne), Pietro Biroli (University of Bologna)





Day one keynote by Sule Alan (EUI)

Day two keynote by John Van Reenen (LSE)

Various speakers





Day one EMUEA 2022 Keynote lecture by Bryan Graham - Estimation of Many-Player Binary Action Games: Applications to Peer Effects and Technology Adoption

Day two EMUEA 2022 Keynote lecture by David Atkin: The returns to face-to-face interactions: knowledge spillovers in Silicon Valley

Various speakers






























































Alex Bryson (University College London), joint with David Blanchflower (Dartmouth)








An evaluation of 'Exploring What Matters' Jan-Emmanuel De Neve discusses some of the findings of the evaluation of the "Exploring What Matters" course which was developed by the UK charity Action for Happiness - and backed by the Dalai Lama.

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt, Christian Krekel and Richard Layard





























Treating mental illness is the right thing to do morally but also economically. Richard Layard of the Centre for Economic Performance explains why treating mental illness should be high on the public agenda. The costs of treatment for mental illness are far less than the costs of doing nothing.

Richard Layard


If politicians are promising more houses at the election, we need to ask them what they are going to do about the supply of housing. That is the main argument of Housing by Christian Hilber, part of the CEP #ElectionEconomics series.

Christian A. L. Hilber








Should we stay or should we go? If we stay there may be trouble, but if we leave, the economic trouble will be double. Thomas Sampson explains the main findings from Should We Stay or Should We Go? The economic consequences of leaving the EU, part of the CEP #ElectionEconomics series.

Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Thomas Sampson