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Peer-reviewed academic papers by CEP researchers. Where possible, open access to these articles is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

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The international empirics of management

Better management practices within firms drive business success and national economic growth, especially in competitive, open markets.
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Productive Robots and Industrial Employment: The Role of National Innovation Systems

Research finds that robot-labour substitution is higher in countries with poorer capability for innovation.

Latest Journal articles

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Economics of Education Review:
Forthcoming
Effect of secondary education on cognitive and non-cognitive skills

We examine the effects of secondary education on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using admission cutoffs to general secondary schools. We measure these skills using the Finnish Defence Forces Basic Skills Test, which,...Read more...

Jani-Petteri Ollikainen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Hanna Virtanen

1 December 2024

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Oxford Review of Economic Policy:
Ethnic minority and migrant pay gaps over the life-cycle

It is well-known that ethnic minority and migrant workers have lower average pay than the White UK-born workforce. However, we know much less about how these gaps vary over the life-cycle because of data limitations. We ...Read more...

Tessa Hall, Alan Manning and Rebecca Rose

22 November 2024

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International Economic Review:
Last but not least: Laggard Firms, Technology Diffusion, and its Structural and Policy Determinants

Using a unique microaggregated data set on firm-level productivity in 13 countries from 1995 to 2014, this article provides new evidence on technology- and knowledge-diffusion barriers for laggard firms. We show that, al...Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Rudy Verlhac

19 November 2024

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The Economic Journal:
Globalization and Conflicts: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Corporations in Africa

Using a novel georeferenced datataset on the affiliates and headquarters of multinational enterprises between 2007 and 2018 together with georeferenced conflict data for the African continent, this work establishes a cau...Read more...

Tommaso Sonno

14 November 2024

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Research Policy:
Forthcoming
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry

China’s rise in science has the potential to push forward the knowledge frontier, but mere production of knowledge does not guarantee that others are able to build on it. We ask whether chemistry research originating fro...Read more...

Pierre Azoulay, Shumin Qiu and Claudia Steinwender

12 November 2024

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The Economic Journal:
Forthcoming
Employer Screening and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Field experiments show that employers are less likely to consider long-term unemployed job-seekers for interviews. We study the implications for optimal unemployment insurance (UI). Based on a structural model of job sea...Read more...

Mario Meier and Tim Obermeier

5 November 2024

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America:
How working from home reshapes cities

In recent decades, economic activity has become increasingly concentrated in major global metropolises. Yet, the rise of working from home threatens this dominance of cities. Using multiple high-frequency datasets on spe...Read more...

Joel Alcedo, Nicholas Bloom and Arjun Ramani

5 November 2024

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PNAS:
The international empirics of management

A country's national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key determinant of a country's productivity and its...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen

1 November 2024

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World Development:
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania

In much of urban Africa, demand for statutory property rights remains low even when governments coordinate land titling programmes and reduce the costs of registration. This paper studies the Residential Licence programm...Read more...

Martina Manara

17 October 2024

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International Economic Review:
Forthcoming
Productive Robots and Industrial Employment: The Role of National Innovation Systems

In a model with robots, automatable and nonautomatable production, we study robot-labor substitutions and show how they are influenced by a country's “innovation system.” Substitution depends on demand and production ela...Read more...

Chrystalla Kapetaniou and Christopher A. Pissarides

17 October 2024

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Scottish Journal of Political Economy:
Parental time investments and instantaneous well-being in the United States

This study investigates the relationship between maternal education, child-care time, and well-being in the United States, with a particular focus on the role of societal norms. Highly educated mothers spend more time on...Read more...

Steven J Bosworth, Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Almudena Sevilla

10 October 2024

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American Economic Review: Insights:
Forthcoming
Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition

We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on “clean” electricity technologies. Using natural gas price variation, we estimate output and entry elasticities of inventors and measure the medium-term i...Read more...

Eugenie Dugoua and Todd D. Gerarden

1 October 2024

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Demography:
Population Growth, Immigration, and Labor Market Dynamics

This article provides a first synthesis of population flows and labor market dynamics across immigrant and native-born populations. We devise a novel dynamic accounting methodology that integrates population flows from t...Read more...

Michael W. L. Elsby, Jennifer C. Smith and Jonathan Wadsworth

1 October 2024

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The Economic Journal:
Forthcoming
Lobbying for Globalisation

Using detailed information from lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, we construct a unique dataset that allows us to identify which firms lobby on Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) negotiated by the Unite...Read more...

Michael Blanga-Gubbay, Paola Conconi and Mathieu Parenti

13 September 2024

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Review of Economics and Statistics:
Trade, gravity and aggregation.

Gravity equations are an important tool in empirical international trade research. We study to what extent sector-level parameters can be recovered from aggregate gravity equations estimated via Poisson pseudo maximum li...Read more...

Holger Breinlich, Joao MC Santos Silva and Dennis Novy

6 September 2024

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Journal of Economic Geography:
On the productivity advantage of cities

Agglomeration externalities are the key factor explaining the existence of cities and their size. However, while the various micro foundations of agglomeration externalities stress the importance of total factor producti...Read more...

Nick Jacob and Giordano Mion

1 September 2024

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Research in Transportation Economics:
Housing prices, buses and trams in Medellín (Colombia)

This paper aims to establish the impact of two medium-capacity transportation systems (MCTS) on housing prices in Medellín (Colombia): Metroplús, a bus rapid transit (BRT) system, and Tranvía, a tramway system. Using rep...Read more...

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López and Luz Yadira Gómez-Hernández

1 September 2024

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Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,:
Management Practices and Climate Policy in China

We investigate how management quality moderates the impact of carbon pricing on Chinese firms. Based on interviews with managers and lead engineers at manufacturing firms in Hubei and Beijing, we construct a novel index ...Read more...

Jing Cao, Soo Keong Yong, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Peiyao Shen, Ulrich J. Wagner and Laure B. de Preux

1 September 2024

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Journal of Regional Science:
Within-city roads and urban growth

In this paper we study the role of within-city roads layout in fostering city growth. Within-city roads networks have not been studied extensively in economics although they are essential to facilitate human interactions...Read more...

Paul Brandily and Ferdinand Rauch

1 September 2024

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Journal of Sports Economics:
Forthcoming
Was COVID-19 a Game Changer for the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics?

No, it was not. We do not find evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic affected the distribution of medals in a systematic way. Countries that suffered a higher share of deaths due to the pandemic, or that imposed stricter l...Read more...

Xuepeng Liu, Emanuel Ornelas and Huimin Shi

25 August 2024

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