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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 third Environment Camp at the LSE on 14-15 May 2025 to provide PhD students from all fields of economics the opportunity present new research on environmental issues.Read more....
This biweekly podcast aims to generate easily accessible and engaging academic discussions on cutting edge research on innovation and diffusion. Read more....
According to preliminary assessments, the war in Iran could lead to slower global growth, but it is unlikely to trigger a global economic crisis on the scale of 2008. This perspective was expressed by Nobel Prize in Econ... Read more...
9 March 2026
Its main effect, if it continues on its present trajectory, will be to destroy jobs by replacing humans. Philippe Aghion, by contrast, reckons any downside in terms of job losses could be dwarfed by a huge productivity i... Read more...
6 March 2026
You might think that would drive senior executives to use AI tools extensively, but new research from Stanford University economist Nick Bloom finds the opposite: 69% of CEOs, CFOs and senior executives are using AI at w... Read more...
3 March 2026
Sun noted that visiting the Middle East was not the only way to attract talent and that potential candidates could learn more about Hong Kong through online live streams of various events during Global Talent Summit Week... Read more...
2 March 2026
Indeed, a 2024 study led by remote work expert and Stanford economist Nick Bloom found that of 1,614 employees working for a Chinese technology company between 2021 and 2022, hybrid work increased job satisfaction and de... Read more...
26 February 2026
"It seems like just such an obvious thing to do," remote work expert Nick Bloom said. "As an economist, I don't think I've ever seen the more obvious win, win, win policy...." Read more at Fortune. ... Read more...
14 February 2026
Pissarides, a Nobel Laurette who is also the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, was speaking in an interview with the China Global Television Network (CGTN) on the sidelines of the recent Wo... Read more...
30 January 2026
The French academic participated in the International Economic Forum organized by CAF in Panama and argued that eliminating corruption, competition policies and the elimination of some regulations are key to economic gro... Read more...
29 January 2026
"Our innovation ecosystem in Europe is inferior to that in the US, and Europe is in technological decline compared to the US and China…we have to do something about it," warned Philippe Aghion, who is a professor ... Read more...
20 January 2026
"If you ask workers in a company [about their use of generative AI] they are in general very happy with it - it does the boring part of their work," says Sir Christopher Pissarides, a professor at the London School of Ec... Read more...
19 January 2026
"Why would it be different for AI?" asks Nobel Prize - winning economist Christopher Pissarides. Sir Christopher - who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013 and has asked that we not call him by his formal name, but... Read more...
15 January 2026
"It is in nobody’s interests for there to be worries and instability in the U.S.," said Jonathan Haskel, an economics professor at Imperial College Business School and former member of the rate-setting committee at... Read more...
13 January 2026
Philippe Aghion, a French economist, professor at the Collège de France and 2025 Nobel Prize winner, argues that innovation is the driving force behind the development of countries. Watch the interview at E... Read more...
10 January 2026
Nick Bloom, a Stanford economist who studies work culture, said the shoes-off trend was partly “the pajama economy in action”. That is, now that people who worked from home during the pandemic are back in the... Read more...
4 January 2026
Research by economists Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager shows that a 1.0 percent increase in U.S. imports from China leads to a 1.9 percent drop in American consumer prices. Read more at CGTN. ... Read more...
13 December 2025
On December 10, the Nobel Foundation will host its prize-giving ceremony in Stockholm. The three recipients of the 2025 prize in economics have each tackled a question first set down by Adam Smith 249 years ago: what are... Read more...
5 December 2025
At the core of Philippe Aghion's work and his theory of growth through "creative destruction" is a single key concept: innovation. Watch the documentary at ARTE.tv. ... Read more...
“And for companies, quits are hugely expensive,” said Nick Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University. The sweet spot for companies, he said, is hybrid work. “That seems to be ab... Read more...
2 December 2025
John Van Reenen, growth adviser to chancellor Rachel Reeves, is among economists whose research found use of the clauses to be more widespread in the UK than the US or Europe, with about one worker in four subject to the... Read more...
28 November 2025
“Winning the Nobel Prize is very good,” says Philippe Aghion, as the recently crowned economics laureate eyes up the dim sum options at a quiet pan-Asian restaurant on Paris’s left bank. “But the ... Read more...
21 November 2025
The current Nobel Prize in Economics has been given to three economists — Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt — who have studied the role of technological change and creative destruction in economic... Read more...
11 November 2025
French Nobel economics laureate Philippe Aghion reflects on the creative roots that shaped his award-winning ideas about innovation and growth. Click to open. ... Read more...
13 October 2025
These too seem open to disruption. But in the interim AI may be the middle manager's friend. Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School notes that effective middle managers can boost the uptake of corporate t... Read more...
5 October 2025
Eleven of the world's leading economists, including two Nobel laureates, urge governments to recognize and defend the economic value of public interest media in the age of AI. Philippe Aghion is one of the signatories. E... Read more...
28 September 2025
In an interview with Les Echos, Xavier Jaravel, deputy president of the Council of Economic Analysis (CAE) and professor at the London School of Economics, develops similar arguments. The economist proposes in particular... Read more...
24 September 2025