Publications

CEP shares its research findings with as wide an audience as possible. Our research is published in our discussion paper series and in peer-reviewed academic journals. We also produce blogs, occasional papers, policy analyses and reports. The CEP magazine, CentrePiece, is published three times a year.

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CentrePiece magazine

In CentrePiece Autumn 2025: Christopher Pissarides and Mary O'Mahony discuss how to help employees to thrive in the age of AI.

Research

Discover CEP's academic research, published as open-access discussion papers and in peer-reviewed journals.

Policy

Our research-informed policy recommendations and evaluations, including analysis of current economic trends

Blogs

Quick-read comments and explainers by CEP researchers, written for a general audience.

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CEP discussion paper

Cleaner energy, higher risk? Firm-level exposure to critical minerals

To what extent has the rise of clean energy technologies created new vulnerabilities in global supply chains? In this paper, I study the role of a new type of 'input uncertainty' associated with critical minerals that un...Read more...

Viet Nguyen-Tien

3 November 2025

CEP discussion paper

A familiar offence: how households shape juvenile reoffending

In this paper we focus on how the criminal history of a household affects juvenile reoffending. Using detailed administrative data from Greater Manchester Police for 2007-2018, we construct a matched sample of 15,548 juv...Read more...

Tobias Auer and Tom Kirchmaier

3 November 2025

Blog

LSE USAPP:

The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence

The accelerating shift to clean energy and advanced technologies is redrawing the map of global economic power. As nations and firms race to secure critical minerals, rare earths - small in trade value but high in strate...Read more...

Gavin Harper and Viet Nguyen-Tien

31 October 2025

Blog

LSE Inequalities:

Bred to rule: What a £180,000 private tutor job reveals about the education arms race

What does a Â£180,000 job ad for a private tutor *for a baby* reveal about the global education arms race? It's tempting to put it down to the eccentric indulgence of a tiny global elite. But it in fact points to an expl...Read more...

Lee Elliot Major

29 October 2025

Blog

The Conversation:

How new renters' rights could drive landlords out of the market

Many elements of the renters' rights bill are likely to improve the lives of renters without harming landlords. But some of the improvements for tenants will make being a landlord more difficult or even, for some, undesi...Read more...

Jan David Bakker and Nikhil Datta

24 October 2025

CEP discussion paper

Anatomy of automation: CNC machines and industrial robots in UK manufacturing, 2005-2023

Using a novel proprietary survey of UK manufacturing sites, we study the impact on employment of arguably the two most important industrial automation technologies of the past fifty years: computer numerical control (CNC...Read more...

Aniket Baksy, Daniel Chandler and Peter Lambert

24 October 2025

CEP discussion paper

Better stealing than dealing: how do felony theft thresholds impact crime?

From 2005 to 2019, forty US states raised the dollar value threshold delineating misdemeanor and felony theft, reducing the expected punishment for a subset of property crimes. Using an event study framework, we observe ...Read more...

Stephen B. Billings, Michael D. Makowsky, Kevin Schnepel and Adam Soliman

24 October 2025

Blog

Vox EU:

Confusopoly unveiled: How firms use complexity to raise prices

Can entire markets strategically confuse consumers to raise prices? This column tracks the prices of nearly all mobile phone tariffs and handsets in the UK from 2010 to 2012, and finds that quality-adjusted prices rise i...Read more...

Christos Genakos, Tobias Kretschmer and Ambre Nicolle

23 October 2025

CEP discussion paper

Personnel policy in public sector organizations: evidence from England's academy schools

Many governments are increasingly decentralizing the governance of public sector organizations, by granting more autonomy to their managers. At the same time, public sector managers often cannot use key personnel practic...Read more...

2025 Nobel Laureate: Philippe Aghion

John Van Reenen writes about the profound influence of Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion's work not only on growth and industrial organisation, but also on fields as diverse as trade, labour, taxation, the environment, poli...Read more...

John Van Reenen

20 October 2025

CEP occasional paper

Structured wellbeing curriculum in schools

Some argue that school is a means to an end, and time spent in lessons may be unpleasant, but it helps these children in the future. The question is 'to what end'. Are school years something which have to be tolerated i...Read more...

Sara MacLennan

13 October 2025

CEP discussion paper

Nice work if you can get it? The distribution of employment and earnings during the early years of the clean energy transition

The transition to clean energy represents a fundamental and important shift in economic activity. We present new facts about workers in clean and legacy energy sectors between 2005 and 2019 using linked, administrative e...Read more...

Jonathan Colmer, Eva Lyubich and John Voorheis

9 October 2025