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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....
A survey of 16,000 university graduates in 40 countries by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and colleagues, shared with The Economist, finds that the average respondent worked 1.3 days a week at home in late 2024 an... Read more...
21 April 2025
Jonathan Haskel, a former rate-setter, told City AM he would vote to hold interest rates in May due to persistently high inflation were he still on the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). MPC members Swati Dhingra and... Read more...
10 April 2025
The researchers – Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Charles Ayoubi, Hila Lifshitz, Raffaella Sadun, Ethan Mollick, Lilach Mollick, Yi Han, Jeff Goldman, Hari Nair, Stewart Taub, and Karim Lakhani – also found that generat... Read more...
8 April 2025
From Jonathan Haskel, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics & Public Policy, Imperial College Business School, London. Read more at Financial Times. ... Read more...
5 April 2025
Professor Jonathan Haskel, chair in economics at Imperial College Business School in London, said: “We should remember that the US is a relatively closed economy. Read more at The Times. ... Read more...
3 April 2025
Meanwhile, during the 25 seminars held, 30 international exhibitors participated. Among them, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, Esther Duflo, the economist Philippe Aghion, professor at the Collège de France and ... Read more...
31 March 2025
Economist Philippe Aghion even sees it as a transformation of historic proportions: "AI is not just automating the production of goods and services. It is also accelerating the production of ideas. Read more at De... Read more...
25 March 2025
Nick Bloom, Stanford University economist: Covid shifted working from home from a rare exception prompted by illness, bad weather or transport chaos to a common perk. Read more at Financial Times. ... Read more...
23 March 2025
A decade-long research program by Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen found that applying basic management disciplines like performance reviews, structured hiring practices, and effective team leadership – all the work ... Read more...
18 March 2025
As Stanford University remote work expert Nick Bloom pointed out on LinkedIn recently, working from home is, of course, significantly down from its 2020 peak. But more recently “big data from the U.S. Census Bureau... Read more...
26 February 2025
One of Reeves’s own advisers, the economist John Van Reenen, has suggested that a reliance on cheap labour is to blame for Britain’s economic crisis. Read more at The Telegraph. ... Read more...
15 February 2025
Christopher Pissarides, a Nobel Prize–winning economist, has different ideas: He believes that we should leverage this new free time to improve our well-being and even to move to a four-day workweek. Read mo... Read more...
14 February 2025
In that vein, a new paper by the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance makes interesting reading. Its authors have looked at the impact of the BBC’s move north to Salford nearly 15 years ago, and what economi... Read more...
13 February 2025
London School of Economics academics John Van Reenen and Anna Valero, authors of an influential paper on the links between universities and breakthrough innovations, have been loaned to the chancellor as economic adviser... Read more...
Philippe Aghion is a professor at the Collège de France, INSEAD and the London School of Economics. Xavier Jaravel is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Read more at El Economista. ... Read more...
12 February 2025
John Van Reenen believes he can help Labour solve the ‘peculiar British problem’ of chronically weak productivity. John Van Reenen is working alongside the Treasury, on leave from his role as the Ronald Coase... Read more...
17 January 2025
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...