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Comment, analysis, and debate by CEP researchers on today's economic and social policy issues.
Post-16 educational investment can significantly improve young people’s career prospects at a time when NEET rates are rising.
The renters’ rights bill offers clear gains for tenants, but some measures may make being a landlord harder.
This blog is by ADR UK Research Fellow Guglielmo Ventura, who reflects on a recent workshop hosted at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance. The event brought together leading academic and policy voices to explore how ...Read more...
Guglielmo Ventura
12 January 2026
Even the best start ups cannot thrive sustainably in an environment where each country protects its national champions, and where administrative barriers prevent the emergence of truly European ones. If Europe wants to b...Read more...
Antonin Bergeaud, Andre Loesekrug-Pietri and Jean Tirole
6 January 2026
History provides many examples of large changes in the relative economic size of nations. This column examines the impact of rapid economic growth in emerging economies on the income and welfare of other nations and the ...Read more...
Zhuokai Huang, Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu and Stephen J. Redding
4 January 2026
Globalisation has deepened economic inequalities between large cities and the rest. This column examines foreign trade integration in larger cities versus other regions across Brazil, China, France, and the US. Larger ci...Read more...
Jan David Bakker, Alvaro Garcia Marin, Andrei Potlogea and Nico Voigtlander
3 January 2026
The recent high-inflation episode generated renewed interest about the slope of the Phillips curve and non-linearities in price-setting behaviour. This column uses survey data from US and UK firms to show that prices res...Read more...
Lena Anayi, Emily Barnes, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Gregory Thwaites and Ivan Yotzov
23 December 2025
The consensus that Britain's housing crisis stems from the lack of enough houses being built has received intense criticism lately. Christian Hilber and Andreas Mense analyse the price-to-rent ratio of UK homes and argue...Read more...
Christian A. L. Hilber and Andreas Mense
15 December 2025
Women make up only 35 per cent of STEM graduates globally. Andres Barrios Fernandez and Aspasia Bizopoulou show that while there is huge variety between countries in the educational attainment of men and women, young wom...Read more...
Andrés Barrios Fernández and Aspasia Bizopoulou
10 December 2025
The Budget introduced a new property tax in the form of higher Council taxes for houses that are valued over £2 million. Even though this seems like a good start in addressing the regressive nature of the UK's property ...Read more...
Paul Cheshire
5 December 2025
The UK is once again debating why its economy has grown slowly since the mid-2010s. This column examines the impact of the decision to leave the European Union in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum,...Read more...
Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka and Gregory Thwaites
Alan Manning reflects on the government's proposal to change the rules for migrants to obtain Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) and its impact, using the example of migrants working in the care sector. ...Read more...
Alan Manning
3 December 2025
The Government's new policy proposals on asylum claimants and refugees have come under a lot of criticism. But Alan Manning argues that Labour's minister Shabana Mahmood has correctly identified that the current status q...Read more...
When well designed and transparent, industrial policy can drive inclusive growth and resilience. When poorly governed, it risks inefficiency, capture and stagnation, writes Chiara Criscuolo....Read more...
Chiara Criscuolo
2 December 2025
Rules preventing the purchase of soy grown on land cleared after 2008 slowed deforestation in the Amazon and reduced greenhouse-gas emissions. But now pressure is mounting in Brazil for the rules to be loosened. Rhamon T...Read more...
Joao Paulo Pessoa
28 November 2025
Productivity powers economic growth and shapes living standards. Yet the UK continues to falter on both counts. Low productivity and weak investment have become defining features of the economy, and this year's Budget wi...Read more...
Aadya Bahl
25 November 2025
Swati Dhingra of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee argues that UK inflation is more similar to Europe than it seems, and therefore rate cuts are possible without threatening the return of inflation to targe...Read more...
Swati Dhingra
24 November 2025
Productivity powers economic growth and raises living standards. But the UK has witnessed a prolonged period of stagnation, marked by weak economic productivity growth. While the reasons behind this slowdown are often de...Read more...
The new Renters' Rights Act introduces provisions to protect tenants in England against rent increases. While the UK government says it "does not support the introduction of rent controls", the act does allow tenants to ...Read more...
Jan David Bakker and Nikhil Datta
21 November 2025
The business school professor shares insights on the human cost of change, making progress without a playbook, and how leaders can turn AI experiments into a competitive advantage. ...Read more...
Raffaella Sadun
19 November 2025
The relationship between economic growth and happiness is not as straightforward as it first appears. While higher income is associated with greater wellbeing, other factors like healthcare and friendship are important t...Read more...
Andrew E. Clark, Richard Layard and Ekaterina Oparina
17 November 2025
In 2025 the proportion of young British people aged 16 to 24 who were not in education, employment or training was at its highest since 2014. How much impact do educational choices made at that age have on future careers...Read more...
Chiara Cavaglia and Sandra McNally
13 November 2025
