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Jonathan Wadsworth awarded CBE in New Year's honours

Congratulations to Jonathan Wadsworth, who has been recognised in the New Year Honours List 2026.
Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures: Why immigration policy is hard: and how to make it better

2-16 February 2026 Alan Manning will present a three-part lecture series providing a picture of current migration policy, why this policy can be so difficult to get right, and the challenges and options we can apply in the future.
Women in Economics: progress, challenges and perspectives

Monday 08 December 2025 Watch this event exploring the gender disparities in economic careers and what they mean for economics and society.
Does getting richer make people happier?

Higher income boosts wellbeing, but in richer countries factors like health and social connection matter just as much.
Blog
ADR UK:
Understanding labour markets through administrative data: A workshop of collaborating minds

This blog is by ADR UK Research Fellow Guglielmo Ventura, who reflects on a recent workshop hosted at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance. The event brought together leading academic and policy voices to explore how ...Read more...

Guglielmo Ventura

12 January 2026
Blog
Project Syndicate:
Europe does not lack capital - it lacks scale

Even the best start ups cannot thrive sustainably in an environment where each country protects its national champions, and where administrative barriers prevent the emergence of truly European ones. If Europe wants to b...Read more...

Antonin Bergeaud, Andre Loesekrug-Pietri and Jean Tirole

6 January 2026
Blog
VoxEU:
Accommodating emerging giants in the global economy

History provides many examples of large changes in the relative economic size of nations. This column examines the impact of rapid economic growth in emerging economies on the income and welfare of other nations and the ...Read more...

Zhuokai Huang, Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu and Stephen J. Redding

4 January 2026
Blog
VoxEU:
Big cities and globalisation

Globalisation has deepened economic inequalities between large cities and the rest. This column examines foreign trade integration in larger cities versus other regions across Brazil, China, France, and the US. Larger ci...Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Alvaro Garcia Marin, Andrei Potlogea and Nico Voigtlander

3 January 2026
Blog
VoxEU:
A nonlinear Phillips curve helps explain the inflation overshoot

The recent high-inflation episode generated renewed interest about the slope of the Phillips curve and non-linearities in price-setting behaviour. This column uses survey data from US and UK firms to show that prices res...Read more...

Lena Anayi, Emily Barnes, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Gregory Thwaites and Ivan Yotzov

23 December 2025
Blog
LSE British Politics and Policy:
What the price-to-rent ratio reveals about Britain's housing crisis

The consensus that Britain's housing crisis stems from the lack of enough houses being built has received intense criticism lately. Christian Hilber and Andreas Mense analyse the price-to-rent ratio of UK homes and argue...Read more...

Christian A. L. Hilber and Andreas Mense

15 December 2025
CEP discussion paper
Adoption, incidence and welfare impacts of interest-free loans: evidence from solar PV

Steep declines in solar PV costs raises questions about whether, and how, to continue support. We leverage administrative microdata on the near-universe of UK domestic PV and a matched difference-in-differences design ex...Read more...

Leanne Cass, Misato Sato and Aurelien Saussay

12 December 2025
Blog
LSE Europp:
Ten countries, five continents, one pattern - women are less likely to pick STEM subjects

Women make up only 35 per cent of STEM graduates globally. Andres Barrios Fernandez and Aspasia Bizopoulou show that while there is huge variety between countries in the educational attainment of men and women, young wom...Read more...

Andrés Barrios Fernández and Aspasia Bizopoulou

10 December 2025
Government consultation
Commons' Treasury Committee

Swati Dhingra was one of the four members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to give evidence to the committee following the Bank's November report and a close vote which maintained interest rates at 4%....Read more...

Swati Dhingra

9 December 2025
Blog
VoxEU :
Brexit's slow-burn hit to the UK economy

The UK is once again debating why its economy has grown slowly since the mid-2010s. This column examines the impact of the decision to leave the European Union in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum,...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka and Gregory Thwaites

5 December 2025
Blog
LSE British Politics and Policy:
Has the Budget improved property taxes?

The Budget introduced a new property tax in the form of higher Council taxes for houses that are valued over £2 million. Even though this seems like a good start in addressing the regressive nature of the UK's property ...Read more...

Paul Cheshire

5 December 2025
Blog
LSE British Politics and Policy:
Is there merit in Labour's asylum policies?

The Government's new policy proposals on asylum claimants and refugees have come under a lot of criticism. But Alan Manning argues that Labour's minister Shabana Mahmood has correctly identified that the current status q...Read more...

Alan Manning

3 December 2025
Blog
UK in a Changing Europe:
Care workers and Indefinite Leave to Remain

Alan Manning reflects on the government's proposal to change the rules for migrants to obtain Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) and its impact, using the example of migrants working in the care sector. ...Read more...

Alan Manning

3 December 2025
CEP discussion paper
Minority bureaucrats' networks and career progression: evidence from the Chinese maritime customs service

Do minorities benefit from social networks? In this paper, we study this question using the historical example of China's first modern bureaucratic organization, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Drawing on newly dig...Read more...

Yan Hu and Stephan Maurer

3 December 2025
Blog
East Asia Forum:
Rethinking industrial policy for resilience, sustainability and growth

When well designed and transparent, industrial policy can drive inclusive growth and resilience. When poorly governed, it risks inefficiency, capture and stagnation, writes Chiara Criscuolo....Read more...

Chiara Criscuolo

2 December 2025
Blog
LSE Business Review:
The end of the Amazon soy moratorium will accelerate deforestation

Rules preventing the purchase of soy grown on land cleared after 2008 slowed deforestation in the Amazon and reduced greenhouse-gas emissions. But now pressure is mounting in Brazil for the rules to be loosened. Rhamon T...Read more...

Joao Paulo Pessoa

28 November 2025
Book
Why Immigration Policy Is Hard: And How to Make It Better

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Alan Manning

28 November 2025
CEP discussion paper
Mind the lag: Using assessed and list prices as proxies for housing market values

Property transaction prices are widely regarded as the best measure of property value, but are sometimes unavailable. Using data from the Netherlands and New York, we analyze whether list prices and assessed values are r...Read more...

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Hans R. A. Koster and Tu Giang Vu

27 November 2025
CEP discussion paper
Accommodating emerging giants in the global economy

How has aggregate income and welfare in the United States been affected by globalization and rapid productivity growth in emerging economies? We use the class of constant elasticity trade models to provide quantitative e...Read more...

Zhuokai Huang, Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu and Stephen J. Redding

27 November 2025
Government consultation
Lords' Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Alan Manning gave evidence to the Lords' Justice and Home Affairs Committee....Read more...

Alan Manning

25 November 2025
Blog
LSE British Politics and Policy:
Budget 2025 - how to cure the UK's low productivity

Productivity powers economic growth and shapes living standards. Yet the UK continues to falter on both counts. Low productivity and weak investment have become defining features of the economy, and this year's Budget wi...Read more...

Aadya Bahl

25 November 2025
Blog
Economics Observatory:
Can we explain why inflation in the UK is higher than in the Euro Area?

Swati Dhingra of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee argues that UK inflation is more similar to Europe than it seems, and therefore rate cuts are possible without threatening the return of inflation to targe...Read more...

Swati Dhingra

24 November 2025
Blog
LSE British Politics and Policy:
Explainer: What is economic productivity?

Productivity powers economic growth and raises living standards. But the UK has witnessed a prolonged period of stagnation, marked by weak economic productivity growth. While the reasons behind this slowdown are often de...Read more...

Aadya Bahl

24 November 2025
CEP discussion paper
The Economics of climate innovation: technology, climate policy, and the clean energy transition

We examine the economics of climate innovation and its role in the clean technology transition. It outlines the incentives, market failures, and policy levers that shape the development and diffusion of clean technologie...Read more...

Eugenie Dugoua and Jacob Moscona

24 November 2025
Blog
The Conversation:
Could new tenants' rights usher in rent controls? Here's why that wouldn't necessarily be a positive

The new Renters' Rights Act introduces provisions to protect tenants in England against rent increases. While the UK government says it "does not support the introduction of rent controls", the act does allow tenants to ...Read more...

Jan David Bakker and Nikhil Datta

21 November 2025

Thursday 22 January 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In Person
Violent Peers at School: Impacts and Mechanisms

This paper examines the impact of classroom exposure to peers with a history of violent behavior on academic achievement and the underlying mechanisms. This measure of peer violence departs significantly from earlier stu...Read more...

Victor Lavy (University of Warwick)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 29 January 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In Person
Mine, Theirs or Ours? A Multi-Country Experiment on Citizens' Motivations to Invest in Mental Health

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Marina Della Giusta (University of Turin)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 02 February 2026 18:30 - 20:00

CEP Public Events
Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures
Why immigration policy is hard

Join us for the 2025 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures which this year will be delivered by Alan Manning. This lecture is one of three based on the newly published book, Why Immigration Policy Is Hard. In this first le...Read more...

This event is both online and in person

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Thursday 05 February 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker Online
Measuring the Unmeasurable? Systematic Evidence on Scale Transformations in Subjective Survey Data

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Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxembourg)

ONLINE

Monday 09 February 2026 18:30 - 20:00

CEP Public Events
Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures
A picture of migration

In this second lecture Professor Manning examines the foundations of immigration policy and their implications....Read more...

Alan Manning (CEP, LSE)

This event is both online and in person

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Thursday 12 February 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
Crime Prevention Programs Improve Citizen's Mental Health: Evidence from Peru

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Silvia Mendolia (University of Turin)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 16 February 2026 18:30 - 20:00

CEP Public Events
Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures
Immigration policy: challenges and options

In this third and final lecture Alan Manning offers solutions to the challenges facing immigration policy, and how to navigate among the often-competing claims of the economy, culture, justice, and democracy....Read more...

Alan Manning (CEP, LSE)

This event is both online and in person

CBG, Centre Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Thursday 19 February 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
Gender Identity, Norms, and Happiness

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Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 24 February 2026 13:30 - 14:45

Labour and Education Seminars
TBA

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Sebastián Otero (Columbia University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 24 February 2026 18:30 - 20:00

CEP Public Events
Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics
Creative destruction, AI, and the European recovery

Join us for this special event with LSE's Philippe Aghion, joint recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....Read more...

Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; Harvard University and LSE)

This event is both online and in person

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

Monday 02 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
TBA

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Mar Reguant (The Institute for Economic Analysis)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 03 March 2026 13:30 - 14:45

Labour and Education Seminars
TBA

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Allison Green (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 March 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
The Impact of Overtime Limits on Firms and Workers: Evidence from Japan's Work Style Reform

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Gabriel Burdin (University of Siena)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 09 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
TBA

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This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 10 March 2026 13:30 - 14:45

Labour and Education Seminars
TBA

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Emilia Del Bono (University of Essex)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 March 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker Online
Malleable Minds: The Effects of STEM- vs. Humanities-Focused Curricula

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Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University)

ONLINE

Monday 16 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
TBA

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Anne Karing (University of Chicago)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 17 March 2026 13:30 - 14:45

Labour and Education Seminars
TBA

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Ellen Greaves (University of Exeter)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 19 March 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
Orchestrating Success: Music Proficiency, Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health in Young Adulthood

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Luca Piccoli (University of Trento )

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 23 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
TBA

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Samuel Bazzi (University of California San Diego)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 24 March 2026 13:30 - 14:45

Labour and Education Seminars
TBA

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Eric Maurin (Paris School of Economics)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 26 March 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker Online
Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace

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Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt)

ONLINE

Monday 30 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
TBA

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Emily Nix (USC Marshall School of Business)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 31 March 2026 13:30 - 14:45

Labour and Education Seminars
TBA

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Gabriele Cristelli (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 02 April 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
Is Video Watching Bad for Kids? The Effect of Video Watching on Children's Skills

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Gregorio Caetano (University of Georgia )

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

The Guardian
No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better

In an article for The Guardian, Lee Major Elliot writes how Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the ba... Read more...

10 January 2026

CEP Announcement
Jonathan Wadsworth awarded CBE in New Year's honours

Congratulations to Jonathan Wadsworth, professor of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London and associate of the Centre for Economic Performance who has been recognised in the New Year Honours List 2026. Profe... Read more...

5 January 2026

Financial Times
Why Immigration Policy is Hard - a guide to breaking out of the 'infernal circle'

Anyone who thinks they know how rich countries should frame their rules on immigration should read economist Alan Manning's carefully balanced guide to the complexities of the subject, writes Delphine Strauss. ... Read more...

28 December 2025

Project Syndicate
Only creative destruction will boost European competitiveness

Philippe Aghion writes about how major geopolitical developments have forced Europeans to rethink how they will ensure their own prosperity, security and sovereignty. Arguing that policymakers must not take innovation fo... Read more...

10 December 2025

Financial Times
Why the small boats won't stop

FT columnist Stephen Bush describes Alan Manning's new book as "fantastic, accessible and wittily written" in this column examining changes to the asylum and immigration system. ... Read more...

17 November 2025

The Observer
Young people need a clear path to apprenticeships

Richard Layard writes for The Observer on the necessity for the Labour government to make youth apprenticeships a priority. ... Read more...

9 November 2025

CEP Announcement
Anna Valero appointed as Industrial Strategy adviser

Congratulations to Anna Valero, distinguished policy fellow at LSE and director of CEP's growth programme, who has been appointed as industrial strategy adviser to the chancellor. Dr Valero, a growth and productivity ex... Read more...

23 October 2025

BBC One
Panorama: The race to build 1.5 million homes

Paul Cheshire features in this investigation into the UK's housing crisis and whether the government's promise to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029 can be met. ... Read more...

20 October 2025

The Financial Times
Economics Nobel Prize awarded for explaining innovation-driven growth

The 2025 Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Agion and Peter Howitt for their efforts in explaining how innovation impacts economic growth. ... Read more...

13 October 2025

New York Times
Three Share Nobel in Economics for Work on How Technology Drives Growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said. ... Read more...

13 October 2025

The Guardian
Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on technology-driven growth

Joel Mokyr has warned of ‘dark clouds’ amid Trump tariffs, while Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have written about role of ‘creative destruction’. ... Read more...

13 October 2025

CEP Announcement
Philippe Aghion wins Nobel Prize in economic sciences

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, professor at the College de France and INSEAD, and at the London School of Economics, who has been awarded the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nob... Read more...

13 October 2025

Observer
Britain's high borrowing costs and low fertility rate could trap us in a debt doom loop

Richard Davies writes for The Observer on Britain's debt problem and Rachel Reeves's biggest challenge this autumn. ... Read more...

6 October 2025

CEP Announcement
Dennis Novy begins role as chief economist at the Foreign Office

Congratulations to Dennis Novy, professor of economics at the University of Warwick and research associate in CEP's trade programme, who has been appointed as chief economist and director of analysis at the Foreign, Comm... Read more...

3 October 2025

CEP Announcement
Isabela Manelici receives European Research Council Starting Grant

A European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant has been awarded to CEP assistant professor, Isabela Manelici. With a total funding of €761 million awarded to 478 early-career researchers across Europe, ERC Start... Read more...

4 September 2025

BBC Radio 4
File on 4 Investigates - Domestic Abuse: Beyond the Checklist

Ria Ivandic, CEP associate, shares research showing that 88% of repeat cases of domestic abuse violence had previously been categorised as standard or medium risk under the DASH risk assessment, rather than high risk. ... Read more...

26 August 2025

The Observer
A 45-year view of bond markets can insure us against tomorrow's shocks

Richard Davies writes for The Observer about usefulness, and perils, of bond markets. ... Read more...

13 July 2025

BBC Radio 4
Rethink ... summer holidays

Lee Elliot Major is a guest on this edition of Rethink, talking about research recommending that the summer holidays should be cut by a week and that break taken instead in the autumn term. ... Read more...

30 June 2025

CEP Announcement
Jo Blanden awarded OBE in King's birthday honours

Congratulations to Jo Blanden, professor of economics at the University of Surrey and an associate in CEP’s education and skills programme, who has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025. P... Read more...

16 June 2025

Foreign Affairs
America's Brexit Phase

Jonathan Haskell and Matthew J Slaughter write for Foreign Affairs about Trump's tariffs and the prices of economic uncertainty. ... Read more...

10 June 2025

CEP Announcement
In Memoriam: Ghazala Azmat (1979 - 2025)

We are deeply saddened to hear that CEP associate Ghazala Azmat, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, passed away on Saturday, 7 June. Ghazala was a leading applied microeconomist, known for her work on labour markets,... Read more...

10 June 2025

CEP Announcement
Antonin Bergeaud named Best Young Economist of France, 2025

Congratulations to Dr Antonin Bergeaud who has been named the Best Young French Economist, 2025 by Le Monde and Le Cercle des Économists. The prize is awarded to a French economist under the age of 41 in recognit... Read more...

19 May 2025

BBC
More or Less: Behind the Stats

Thomas Sampson speaks to presenter Tim Harford about the US tariffs on global trade that were announced by president Donald Trump on 2 April 2025 ... Read more...

4 April 2025

Financial Times
Apprenticeships can help fix the UK's growth problem

Richard Layard writing in the Financial Times, says that a clear commitment to train young people for work will help the government's economic agenda. ... Read more...

21 March 2025

CEP Announcement
Funding for Centre for Economic Performance to boost economic growth

The UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) £9.2mn for its five-year programme of work from 2025. This renewed funding will enable CEP to co... Read more...

18 March 2025

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