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Trump's tariffs will put post-Brexit trade policy to the test

Before Trump's inauguration there were questions over the potential consequences of his tariffs.
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Advice to young women economists: learn to say no and protect your time

To celebrate Women's History Month, Swati Dhingra shares her experiences, from India to British academia and the Bank of England.

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Vox EU:
Working from home boosted growth by expanding disability employment

Individuals with a disability have remarkably low employment rates compared to the rest of the population. This column examines whether the rapid rise in the ability to work from home post-pandemic has improved disabilit...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Gordon B. Dahl and Dan-Olof Rooth

10 May 2025

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LSE Business Review:
NHS talking therapies bring long-term economic returns to England

Mental health treatment improves workers' employability and increases their earnings. Klaudia Rzepnicka, Emma Sharland, Marta Rossa, Ted Dolby, Ekaterina Oparina, Rob Saunders, Daniel Ayoubkhani and Vahe Nafilyan conduct...Read more...

Daniel Ayoubkhani, Ted Dolby, Vahe Nifilyan, Ekaterina Oparina, Marta Rossa, Klaudia Rzepnicka, Rob Saunders and Emma Sharland

8 May 2025

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LSE IQ Podcast:
Is AI destroying the planet? (podcast)

Professor Nick Couldry, Dr Eugenie Dugoua, Ceara Carney | Artificial intelligence is transforming the world around us, offering increased productivity and promising to help tackle difficult problems like global warming. ...Read more...

Ceara Carney, Nick Couldry and Eugenie Dugoua

7 May 2025

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Vox EU:
How an oil price crash sparked clean innovation: Insights from Norway

The transition to clean energy will require a significant reallocation of technological investments away from fossil energy sources towards cleaner alternatives. This column investigates whether leveraging the technologi...Read more...

Esther Ann Boler, Katinka Holtsmark and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

1 May 2025

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LSE USA PP:
For US coal workers, earnings losses from the decline of their industry have been large and lasting

In the 2010s, coal mining employment in the US declined by over 50 percent. In new research, Jonathan Colmer and Eleanor Krause look at how costly this change has been for coal workers. The researchers find that these wo...Read more...

Jonathan Colmer and Eleanor Krause

28 April 2025

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LSE USA PP:
How emigration shapes the diffusion of new technologies

The diffusion of new technologies across countries is a key driver of productivity growth and economic progress. Yet surprisingly, little is known about how technology moves across borders. Our research provides new evid...Read more...

Davide M. Coluccia and Gaia Dossi

26 April 2025

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LSE Business Review:
US-China tensions could become the biggest trade war in history

The announced US tariffs and the retaliatory actions taken by China have intensified. If the threats are carried out, they will drive the average implied US tariff to exceed 20 per cent, a level not seen since the 1930s....Read more...

Jose P Vasquez

17 April 2025

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LSE Business Review:
How the Trump tariffs affect UK firms

How should UK exporters react to the tariffs imposed by President Trump? Some manufacturers may decide to increase production in the US, but those with loyal US consumers who are relatively insensitive to price changes m...Read more...

Catherine Thomas

16 April 2025

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LSE Politics and Policy:
AI for Good - impact through ethical technology

Artificial Intelligence is set to change our lives, but there are many doubts about whether this will be for the better. By looking at a case of non-surveillance application of AI used to help with crowd management, Tom ...Read more...

Tom Kirchmaier

15 April 2025

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LSE Politics and Policy:
Do Trump's tariffs signal the end of globalisation?

In this second instalment of his interview with Alexis Papazoglou, Thomas Sampson highlights the many uncertainties the future of global trade faces and argues that the biggest policy question for countries around the wo...Read more...

Alexis Papazoglou and Thomas Sampson

11 April 2025

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Imperial College Business School:
How protectionism risks undermining the US economy

Donald Trump's announcement of wide-ranging tariffs has threatened to upend the rules of global trade that have been in place for decades, impacting supply chains and businesses across the world. The US President's pla...Read more...

Jonathan Haskel

10 April 2025

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LSE Politics and Policy:
How will US tariffs affect the UK economy?

In this interview with Alexis Papazoglou, Thomas Sampson explains what the US tariffs mean for the UK economy and answers questions on the effects of Brexit on the UK's ability to negotiate the tariffs, as well as on wha...Read more...

Alexis Papazoglou and Thomas Sampson

10 April 2025

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What works centre for local economic growth:
Recommendations for the evaluation of local growth policies

Rigorous evaluation improves our understanding of the effectiveness of local economic policies. Robust evaluation can be challenging but can answer many questions and lead to a more nuanced understanding. By learning fro...Read more...

Luz Yadira Gómez-Hernández

9 April 2025

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LSE:
How crowd crush prevention technology could keep us safe at events (video)

In this film, we explore how cutting-edge artificial intelligence is being developed to assist event security and police forces in managing public safety at large-scale gatherings. We speak with Professor Tom Kirchmaier ...Read more...

Tom Kirchmaier

8 April 2025

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Vox EU:
Deep integration and trade: UK firms in the wake of Brexit

How does dismantling deep integration affect international trade? This column uses firm-level customs data to study the impact of Brexit on UK goods trade. The authors find that in the short term, exit from the Single Ma...Read more...

Rebecca Freeman, Marco Garofalo, Enrico Longoni, Kalina Manova, Rebecca Mari, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson

7 April 2025

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Economics Observatory:
Liberation day

Last week's announcement of sweeping US tariffs will have a big impact on global trade. The method used to calculate the tax rates to be charged on imports from individual countries has surprised economists. For the UK, ...Read more...

Richard Davies, Joshua Hellings and Finn McEvoy

7 April 2025

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LSE Politics and Policy:
How emigration shapes the diffusion of new technologies

A central driver of economic growth is new technology. Gaia Dossi and Davide Coluccia show how migrants from Britain to the US in the late 19th and early 20th century not only brought new ideas with them but helped US in...Read more...

Davide M. Coluccia and Gaia Dossi

4 April 2025

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Bank Underground:
Forbearance lending as a crisis management tool

The Bank of England Agenda for Research (BEAR) sets the key areas for new research at the Bank over the coming years. This post is an example of issues considered under the Prudential Architecture Theme which focuses on ...Read more...

Isabelle Roland, Yukiko U. Saito and Philip Schnattinger

3 April 2025

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Vox EU:
Inflation on Wall Street versus Main Street

Since 2021, developed countries have experienced a significant inflation episode. This column uses Decision Maker Panel data from UK CEOs and CFOs to study firms' inflation perceptions and expectations around monthly off...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Gregory Thwaites and Ivan Yotzov

2 April 2025

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Vox EU:
Living wages and government contracts

Living wages are an increasingly common policy tool for reducing poverty and improving the living standards of low-income workers. But until recently, there has been little evidence on how living wage clauses effect the ...Read more...

Nikhil Datta and Stephen Machin

31 March 2025

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