CEP Discussion Paper
Retail Shocks and City Structure
Maria Sanchez-Vidal
July 2019
Paper No' CEPDP1636:
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Tags: retail shocks; city structure; small stores; commercial activity

CEP Discussion Paper
Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities
Felipe Carozzi and Sefi Roth
July 2019
Paper No' CEPDP1635:
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Tags: air pollution; urban congestion; density; health

CEP Discussion Paper
A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation
Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and Heidi Williams
July 2019
Paper No' CEPDP1634:
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Tags: innovation; r&d; intellectual property; tax; competition

CEP Discussion Paper
Economic Geography Aspects of the Panama Canal
Stephan E. Maurer and Ferdinand Rauch
July 2019
Paper No' CEPDP1633:
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Tags: market access; panama canal; trade shock; gravity

CEP Discussion Paper
Willing to Pay for Security: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Analyse Labour Supply Preferences
Nikhil Datta
July 2019
Paper No' CEPDP1632:
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Tags: atypical work; self-employment; willingness-to-pay; experiment; labour supply preferences

CentrePiece Article
Jihadi attacks, the media and anti-Muslim hate crime
Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin
July 2019
Paper No' CEPCP559:
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Tags: islamophobic hate crime; jihadi terror attacks; media

CentrePiece Article
Healthy Minds: the positive impact of a new school curriculum
Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire
July 2019
Paper No' CEPCP558:
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Tags: healthy minds; hm; health education; uk secondary schools; social and emotional learning; relationships; healthy living

CentrePiece Article
Workers' falling share of firms' profits
Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin
July 2019
Paper No' CEPCP557:
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Tags: rent sharing; inclusive growth

CentrePiece Article
Employee wellbeing: the impact on productivity and firm performance
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Christian Krekel and George Ward
July 2019
Paper No' CEPCP556:
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Tags: employee satisfaction; engagement; employee productivity; firm performance; wellbeing; meta-analysis

CentrePiece Article
Firm size, productivity and pay in today's service economy
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo
July 2019
Paper No' CEPCP555:
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Tags: productivity; size-premium; wages

New research findings from the CEP.

• Trade and deskilling: how the post-referendum sterling depreciation hurt workers
  Swati Dhingra and colleagues show that the big drop in the value of the pound after the Brexit vote led to a fall in both wages and training.
  
  
• In brief...Brexit and outward investment by UK firms
  Thomas Sampson and colleagues confirm that UK firms in the services sector are moving production into EU countries in anticipation of Brexit.
  
  
• The impact of the 2018 trade war on US prices and welfare
  Stephen Redding and colleagues estimate the effects of Trump's tariffs on domestic consumers and the firms that import foreign goods.
  
  
• In brief...Globalisation and its discontents
  Josh De Lyon and Elsa Leromain report on CEP’s Trade Week, which brought together researchers and policy-makers to discuss the recent trend towards protectionism, its causes and directions for future policy.
  
  
• Firm size, productivity and pay in today’s service economy
  Giuseppe Berlingieri and colleagues reveal that in the new service economy, it is productivity not firm size that matters for wages.
  
  
• Employee wellbeing: the impact on productivity and firm performance
  Christian Krekel and colleagues ask whether companies with happier staff see improvements in the bottom line.
  
  
• Workers’ falling share of firms’ profits
  Pawel Bukowski and colleagues demonstrate that UK companies share profits with employees far less today than in the 1980s and 1990s.
  
  
• Healthy Minds: the positive impact of a new school curriculum
  Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire evaluate a new secondary school curriculum on physical health, emotional health and behaviour.
  
  
• Jihadi attacks, the media and anti-Muslim hate crime
  Ria Ivandic and colleagues find that real-time media coverage underpins the surge in local hate crimes after an international terror attack.