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Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson study the impact of Brexit on UK trade, revealing puzzling differences in the effects on imports and exports. Read more...
A two day conference discussing recent work on the economics of crime and the criminal justice system. Read more...
CEP researcher Swati Dhingra has been appointed the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. Read more...
Swati Dhingra has been appointed the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to ke... Read more...
12 May 2022
Mental illness accounts for over 40 per cent of all sickness absence - reducing productivity at work. Richard Layard explains how this highlights the need for wellbeing provision in management practice. ... Read more...
11 May 2022
Researchers from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance find that a “clear and robust impact of Brexit-induced trade frictions” had led to an increase in prices. ... Read more...
27 April 2022
Findings from the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance chime with warnings from business groups: that smaller firms have struggled to absorb customs controls, VAT and regulatory red tape, with many quitting exporting al... Read more...
26 April 2022
Researchers find Brexit’s impacts on trade were only felt once the Trade and Cooperation Agreement kicked in, rather than steadily since the referendum. ... Read more...
LSE finds one-third decline in trading relationships under Boris Johnson’s deal – which has hit small firms hardest. ... Read more...
To understand what is happening to inequality between people we need to understand the behaviour of, and inequality between, firms. Papers published last month as part of the IFS Deaton Review of inequality in work, led ... Read more...
25 April 2022
Xavier Jaravel explains some of the basic concepts around inflation. ... Read more...
12 April 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’. ... Read more...
11 April 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stain Westlake explain why the UK government's focus on funding overlooks many levers for innovation policy. ... Read more...
30 March 2022
All humans want a little of the good life, but Paul Dolan asks whether the sole pursuit of happiness is actually making us a society of sad, selfish and solitary creatures? ... Read more...
24 March 2022
Experts say social support, honesty and generosity key to wellbeing, as Afghanistan and Lebanon struggle in global ranking. ... Read more...
19 March 2022
Interview with Swati Dhingra - is this the end of globalisation? In a series of special programmes, Newsnight looks at the impact of the war in Ukraine on the world. ... Read more...
18 March 2022
The written part of university applications could be changed to provide more support to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the universities minister has said. The proposal comes after Lee Elliot Major criticise... Read more...
16 February 2022
Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, associate of CEP and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), on being awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea. The award is given to a European scholar who has ... Read more...
15 February 2022
With only a quarter of pupils having access to counsellors, Richard Layard suggests that a well-being unit be set up within the Department for Education, to provide guidance to schools and help with interventions. ... Read more...
10 February 2022
John Van Reenen shows that well-managed firms make better forecasts - and the traits of those well-managed companies might come as a surprise. ... Read more...
02 February 2022
Moving to a new employer offers a greater salary increase than staying put - and workers who resign to take up work in booming sectors stand to gain even more, according to research from the Resolution Foundation think t... Read more...
06 January 2022
The pace of change in the UK jobs market has slowed to its lowest level in decades and, even the disruption of the pandemic, has been a far cry from the upheaval of the 1980s, according to research by the Resolution Foun... Read more...
The Power of Creative Destruction has been chosen by The Economist as one of its best books of 2021.The book, by Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin and Simon Bunel, is described by the magazine as "sweeping, aut... Read more...
17 December 2021
About half of all firms are struggling to recruit new workers and business confidence is dipping, according to new research from the CEP. Researchers also found that one in five are having issues retaining exi... Read more...
15 December 2021
Richard Layard and Ken Clarke write about the need to improve opportunities for young people who don’t go to university. ... Read more...
04 December 2021
A report published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics shows, the self-employed have not fared well over the past couple of years. Even by the end of this summer they were ... Read more...
22 November 2021
Congratulations to Amanda Dahlstrand and Nikhil Datta who have won UniCredit Foundation Econ Job Market Best Paper Awards. Dahlstrand, a PhD candidate in economics at LSE, has won an Econ Job Market Bes... Read more...
Joint research from the Centre for Economic Performance and the Resolution Foundation suggests that financial officers expect the amount of workers moving from shrinking to growing companies will spe... Read more...
20 November 2021
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Combatting the climate crisis is not just an issue of finding money for the right kinds of investment but also ensuring that it is spent effectively, says economist Tim Besley.... Read more...
Timothy Besley
Lack of affordable housing is a growing and often primary policy concern in cities around the world. The main underlying cause for the 'affordability crisis', which has been mounting for decades, is a combination of stro... Read more...
Christian A. L. Hilber and Olivier Schoni
Using German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) microdata this paper contributes new empirical evidence by examining the implications of motherhood and fatherhood for wages of a sample of women and men between 2005-2015. Makin... Read more...
Maria Petrillo
05 May 2022
Managers worked longer hours during the pandemic and changed how they used their time, find Thomaz Teodorovicz, Raffaella Sadun, Andrew L. Kun, and Orit Shaer. They suggest how better technology, including AI, could help... Read more...
Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun, Orit Shaer and Thomaz Teodorovicz
29 April 2022
Policy makers frequently use education as a welfare policy instrument. We examine one such case, where students from large and financially constrained families, were given the opportunity to be transferred to university ... Read more...
Christos Genakos and Eleni Kyrkopoulou
28 April 2022
Innovation is an important driver of potential growth but quantitative evidence on the dynamics of innovative activities in the long-run are hardly documented due to the lack of data, especially in Europe. In this paper,... Read more...
Antonin Bergeaud and Cyril Verluise
This paper provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic... Read more...
Jo Blanden, Matthias Doepke and Jan Stuhler
Information on willingness-to-pay is key for public pricing and allocation of services but not easily collected. Studying land titles in Dar-es-Salaam, we ask whether local leaders know and will reveal plot owners' willi... Read more...
Martina Manara and Tanner Regan
A decade of stagnant living standards, weak productivity and low investment combined with a coming decade of major change - driven by Covid-19, Brexit and Net Zero - mean that it is crucial for the UK to renew its econom... Read more...
Josh De Lyon, Ralf Martin, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Arjun Shah, Krishan Shah, Gregory Thwaites and Anna Valero
This report documents the decrease in imports and shows how the patterns of imports vary across sectors following the UK's departure from the Single Market and Customs Union at the end of 2020. The authors, Jan David Bak... Read more...
Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon, Luisa Opitz and Dilan Yang
The impact of Brexit on UK trade is a highly contested topic. Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer, and Thomas Sampson summarise the findings of new research on how Brexit has affected the UK's goods trade with ... Read more...
Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson
This paper studies the impact of Brexit on the UK's trade with the EU relative to its trade with the rest of the world. We find no evidence that uncertainty and anticipation effects led to a significant decline in relati... Read more...
Economists review the effects of the war in Ukraine, identifying where and to what extent measures of economic uncertainty have increased.... Read more...
Lena Anayi, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Gregory Thwaites and Ivan Yotzov
16 April 2022
Following the invasion of Ukraine, Western sanctions have targeted Russia's trade, companies, individuals and financial sector. The measures, which are far more wide-ranging than those following the annexation of Crimea ... Read more...
Adam Cygan, Richard Disney and Erika Szyszczak
13 April 2022
Andrew Eyles examines the UK's levelling up white paper, explaining how the plans for education may need to go further to be fully effective.... Read more...
Andrew Eyles
Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson look at US-China trade relations to examine how import liberalisation brings down import costs and increases competition, but can also lead to lower export ... Read more...
Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson
Between 30% and 50% of individuals sentenced to prison are re-incarcerated in the two years after their release. Andres Barrios-Fernandez and Jorge Garcia-Hombrados examine links between church openings in Chile and re-i... Read more...
Andrés Barrios Fernández and Jorge Garcia-Hombrados
09 April 2022
Using confidential Census matched employer-employee earnings data we find that employees at more productive firms, and firms with more structured management practices, have substantially higher pay, both on average and a... Read more...
Nicholas Bloom, Scott W. Ohlmacher, Cristina J. Tello-Trillo and Melanie Wallskog
07 April 2022
Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the "black box" of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two... Read more...
Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Raffaella Sadun, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
Supply disruptions caused by systemic shocks such as Brexit, Covid, and Russia-Ukraine tensions have catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains to the top of policy agendas. In some sectors, however, there is a... Read more...
Richard E. Baldwin and Rebecca Freeman
06 April 2022
We assess how the sudden and widespread shift to working from home during the pandemic impacted how managers allocate time throughout their working day. We analyze the results from an online time-use survey with data on ... Read more...
Exporting involves sunk and fixed costs in the form of service inputs, and whether such services are 'made' in-house or 'bought' from external agencies is a key organizational margin: it is not a core-competence of manuf... Read more...
Giuseppe Berlingieri and Frank Pisch
We construct the World Uncertainty Index (WUI) for an unbalanced panel of 143 individual countries on a quarterly basis from 1952. This is the frequency of the word "uncertainty" in the quarterly Economist Intelligence U... Read more...
Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom and Davide Furceri
05 April 2022
Commuting has enormous impact on individuals, families, organizations, and society. Advances in vehicle automation may help workers employ the time spent commuting in productive work-tasks or wellbeing activities. To ach... Read more...
Innovation drives economic growth, however data indicates innovative capability differs across economies. Simon Commander, Saul Estrin and Thamashi De Silva suggest democracy is associated with more innovation overall, t... Read more...
Simon Commander, Thamashi De Silva and Saul Estrin
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Ningyuan Jia (LSE)
Wednesday 18 May 2022 11:00 - 12:00
Stephen Redding (Princeton), joint with Benny Kleinman and Ernest Liu
Wednesday 18 May 2022 12:30 - 14:00
Peter Ward-Griffin (LSE)
Wednesday 18 May 2022 15:00 - 16:00
Jonathon D. Hall (University of Toronto)
Friday 20 May 2022 13:00 - 14:30
Arin Dube (UMass)
Monday 23 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30
Pawel Bukowski (CEP and LSE)
Tuesday 24 May 2022 12:55 - 14:00
Sidharth Moktan (LSE)
Wednesday 25 May 2022 11:00 - 12:00
Paola Conconi (ULB, ECARES, FNRS and CEP), joint with Glenn Magerman, Fabrizio Leone, and Catherine Thomas
Wednesday 25 May 2022 12:30 - 14:00
Gloria H.Y. Wong (The University of Hong Kong, UCL and KCL)
Thursday 26 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00
Robert Gibbons (MIT)
Thursday 26 May 2022 13:45 - 15:00
A two day conference discussing recent work on the economics of crime and the criminal justice system.... Read more...
Various Speakers
Friday 27 May 2022 - Saturday 28 May 2022
Clara Martinez-Toledano (Imperial)
Friday 27 May 2022 13:00 - 14:30
Henrik Kleven (London School of Economics)
Monday 30 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30
Joe Hazell (LSE and CEP), joint with John Grigsby and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Tuesday 31 May 2022 12:55 - 14:00
Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado)
Wednesday 01 June 2022 11:00 - 12:00
Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po), joint with Keith Head, and Marc Melitz
Wednesday 01 June 2022 12:30 - 14:00
Felipe Goncalves (UCLA)
Wednesday 01 June 2022 15:00 - 16:00
Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick), joint with Victoria Baranov (University of Melbourne), Pietro Biroli (University of Bologna)
Thursday 02 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00
Diana Van Patten (Yale)
Monday 06 June 2022 16:00 - 17:30
Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser University)
Tuesday 07 June 2022 12:55 - 14:00
Kohei Takeda (LSE and CEP)
Wednesday 08 June 2022 11:00 - 12:00
Andres Rodriguez-Clare (UC Berkeley)
Wednesday 08 June 2022 12:30 - 14:00
Carolina Arteaga (University of Toronto), joint with Victoria Barone
Wednesday 08 June 2022 15:00 - 16:00
various speakers, joint with CEPR
Thursday 09 June 2022 - Friday 10 June 2022
Melissa Dell (Harvard)
Monday 13 June 2022 16:00 - 17:30
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