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The urgency of addressing climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation continues to rise, highlighting the need for research in this area.Read more....
EEE, IGC and POID convened the second Environment Camp at the LSE on 2-3 May 2024 to provide PhD students from all fields of economics the opportunity present new research on environmental issues.Read more....
Anna Valero, POID's deputy director and distinguished policy fellow at CEP is one of six new members appointed to the RES Council. Read more....
Philippe Aghion, a professor at College de France, INSEAD and the LSE, reckons a decline in creative destruction could explain some of the recent slowdown in productivity growth across the advanced world. If so, what exp... Read more...
6 January 2025
The FT's annual poll forecasts better performance than France or Germany. "Most chancellors get the pan over early in parliament," noted Jonathan Haskel, professor at Imperial College, London and a former member of ... Read more...
3 January 2025
Economist Prashant Garg from Imperial College flagged a fascinating piece of research he and Thiemo Fetzer, Peter Lambert and Bennet Feld had worked on, showing just how important gallium is to the entire semiconductor s... Read more...
23 December 2024
Predictions for AI, flexible work, meetings, and DEI from Nick Bloom, Edith Cooper, Brigid Schulte, Liz Shuler, and more. Read more at Time. ... Read more...
22 December 2024
This contradicts the contention – supported by 2017 research from Harvard’s David J. Deming, as well as by a 2021 paper from University College London’s Stephen Hansen, Cornell PhD student Tejas Ramdas,... Read more...
19 December 2024
To avoid falling back into the low growth and low rates of the 2010s, central banks would be well advised to include direct cash transfers to households in their box of "unconventional tools", argues economist Xavier Jar... Read more...
18 December 2024
"It seems that RTO resistance is growing", one of the study's authors, Stanford economist Nick Bloom wrote on LinkedIn. Read more at Fortune. ... Read more...
11 December 2024
"There are people like farmers who will lose several measures that would have been beneficial for them. There are people who will pay more taxes", said Xavier Jaravel, economist, member of the Council of Economic Analysi... Read more...
6 December 2024
Some workers, such as those in their 30s, with kids or with a university degree, value it even more — at the equivalent of 10 to 15 percent of their pay, says Nick Bloom, a Stanford economics professor and longtime... Read more...
Indeed, the latest data from the WFH Research group, co-founded by Stanford economist Nick Bloom, revealed that approximately 28 percent of paid days in the U.S. in September were work-from-home days. Read more at Inc. ... Read more...
5 December 2024
A discussion with Nick Bloom on the effects of working from home, and how a new configuration of work location choice could best serve the interests of companies and their employees. List to the Econofact podcast here. ... Read more...
1 December 2024
John Van Reenen, chairman of her Council of Economic Advisers, was co-chair with the former monetary policy committee member Tim Besley of the initial phase of the London School of Economics’ Growth Commission. Re... Read more...
30 November 2024
The energy transition or learning,” says Xavier Jaravel professor at the London School of Economics. There would also need to be a “Pisa shock” like Germany, Portugal. Read more at Les Echos. ... Read more...
26 November 2024
The chatbot interviewer is part of an experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics, who argue that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion in a variety of fields. Read more a... Read more...
22 November 2024
Its creators, Friedrich Geiecke, an assistant professor of computational social science, and Xavier Jaravel, a professor of economics, say the tool employs best practice from academic literature – for example, enco... Read more...
20 November 2024
Among them, Laurent Bach, professor at Essec and member of the Institute of Public Policy, François Ecalle, president of Fipeco, Olivier Garnier, director general in charge of statistics, economic studies and inte... Read more...
14 November 2024
If you’re one of those people, Nick Bloom, Stanford Professor of Economics and expert on the subject of working remotely, says there are ways to ensure you continue to impress your supervisors and get ahead. Here&r... Read more...
13 November 2024
On Tuesday, November 5, Nicolas Doze welcomed Augustin Landier, professor at HEC, Xavier Jaravel, professor at the London School of Economics, and Anna Souakri, professor at ESCP, researcher at Square Management Research... Read more...
5 November 2024
Scur is lead author of “The International Empirics of Management,” which publishes Nov. 1 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-authors included Scott Ohlmacher, senior economist at the U.S. ... Read more...
31 October 2024
"People tend to blame whoever is in charge for inflation. And they don’t seem to give credit to whoever’s in charge for wage increases," said Xavier Jaravel, professor of economics at the London School of Eco... Read more...
Nicholas Bloom is a professor of economics at Stanford University. . Read more at HBR. ... Read more...
29 October 2024
While AI has the potential to revolutionize industries and improve our lives, recognizing its potential downsides is crucial, said Christopher Pissarides, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in economics and a Professor at the L... Read more...
26 October 2024
The forum's opening ceremony featured enlightening keynote speeches by Nobel laureates David Gross, Carol Greider and Christopher Pissarides, alongside UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize laureate Qiao Jie and C... Read more...
To feed the discussions, a range of economists including Xavier Jaravel (London School of Economics), Alexandra Roulet (Insead), Thierry Philippon (New York University) and Denis Ferrand (Rexecode) have been solicited.&n... Read more...
24 October 2024
One of the most widely cited and relevant studies on EPU, by economists Scott Baker, Nick Bloom, and Steven Davis, develops an EPU index based on thousands of newspaper articles and reveals that EPU spiked during not jus... Read more...
23 October 2024