Analysis and reports

Maitreesh Ghatak | Is poverty self-perpetuating? | VoxDev | 7 August 2019

Maitreesh Ghatak and Karthik Muralidharan | An Inclusive Growth Dividend: Reframing the Role of Income Transfers in India’s Anti-Poverty Strategy | Centre for Effective Global Action | 5 August 2019

Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager | What are the Price Effects of Trade? Evidence from the U.S. and Implications for Quantitative Trade Models | Centre for Economic Policy Research | August 2019

Rachael Meager | Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit | Microeconomic Insights | 17 July 2019

Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra and Stephen Machin | Trade and deskilling: how the post-referendum sterling depreciation hurt workers | CentrePiece Summer 2019 | July 2019

Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson | In brief…Brexit and outward investment by UK firms | CentrePiece Summer 2019 | July 2019

Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin | Workers’ falling share of firms’ profits | CentrePiece Summer 2019 | July 2019

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin | Jihadi attacks, the media and anti-Muslim hate crime | CentrePiece Summer 2019 | July 2019

Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner and Joshua Tasoff | Who is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment? | The National Bureau of Economic Research | July 2019

Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais | Subsidising labour hoarding in recessions: New evidence from Italy’s Cassa Integrazione | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 25 January 2019

Will Abel, Silvana Tenreyro and Gregory Thwaites | Monopsony in the UK | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 23 January 2019

Wouter den Haan, Thomas Drechsel | All empirical macroeconomic models are wrong: How problematic is that and what can we do about it? | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 16 January 2019

Rachael Meager | Understanding the average effect of microcredit | VoxDev | 7 January 2019

Christopher Pissarides and Jacques Bughin | Testing the resilience of Europe’s inclusive growth model | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 2 January 2019

Erlend Berg, Maitreesh Ghatak, R Manjula, D Rajasekhar, Sanchari Roy | Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance? | The Economic Journal | 1 January 2019

Daniel Sturm, Stephan Heblich and Stephen J.Redding’s research referenced | How the steam engine spurred modern cities | Chicago Booth Review | 3 December 2018

Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Robin Burgess, Markus P Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman|  DP13386 Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa | Centre for Economic Policy Research | December 2018

Swati Dhingra, Thomas Sampson & colleagues | The economic consequences of the Brexit deal | Centre for Economic Performance & The UK in a Changing Europe | 27 November 2018

Alwyn Young | Channelling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Significance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 21 November 2018

Brian Bell, Rui Costa and Stephen Machin | Why education reduces crime | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 14 October 2018

Stephan Heblich, Stephen Redding and Daniel Sturm | The making of the modern metropolis: Evidence from London | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 13 October 2018

Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy, Thomas Sampson, Ahmed Usman | The economic effects of Brexit: Evidence from the stock market | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 10 October 2018

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin | Social Mobility and Its Enemies | Penguin | 27 September 2018

Keyu Jin | What China Can Gain from Trump’s Trade War | Project Syndicate | 26 September 2018

Saleem Bahaj and Ricardo Reis | Central bank swap lines | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 25 September 2018

Arindrajit Dube, Alan Manning and Suresh Naidu | Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers | NBER | September 2018

James Cloyne, Kilian Huber, Ethan Ilzetzki, Henrik Kleven | The effect of house prices on household borrowing: A new approach | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 31 August 2018

Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin | Changing the structure of minimum wages: Firm adjustment and wage spillovers | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 11 August 2018

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Stephen Redding, Daniel Sturm, and Nikolaus Wolf | The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin Wall | Microeconomic Insights | 9 August 2018

Wouter Den Haan and Thomas Drechsel | DP13145 Agnostic Structural Disturbances (ASDs): Detecting and Reducing Misspecification in Empirical Macroeconomic Models | Centre for Economic Policy Research | August 2018

Michael Carlos Best, James Cloyne, Ethan Ilzetzki and Henrik Kleven | Estimating the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution Using Mortgage Notches | NBER | August 2018

Tim Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak | Prosocial Motivation and Incentives | Annual Review of Economics | August 2018

Saleem Bahaj and Ricardo Reis | Central bank swap lines | Bank of England | 27 July 2018

Gianmarco Ottaviano | Offshoring and the migration of jobs | IZA World of Labor | 18 July 2018

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Jakob Egholt Søgaard | Children and gender inequality: Evidence from Denmark | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 12 July 2018 

Francesco Caselli and Antonio Ciccone | Imperfect substitution and development accounting | VoxDev | 12 July 2018

Timothy Besley, Isabelle Roland and John Van Reenen| The Aggregate Effects of Credit Market Frictions: Evidence from Firm-level Default Assessments | NBER | 9 July 2018

Robin Burgess, Francisco J.M. Costa and Benjamin A. Olken | Wilderness Conservation and the Reach of the State: Evidence from National Borders in the Amazon | NBER | July 2018

Jan David Bakker, Stephan Maurer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Ferdinand Rauch | Of Mice and Merchants: Trade and Growth in the Iron Age | NBER | July 2018

Josh Deylon and Swati Dhingra write a chapter| The Brexit White Paper: what it must address | The UK in a Changing Europe | July 2018

Swati Dhingra, Karl Whelan and Luc Frieden | The economics of Brexit | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 29 June 2018

Nicholas Stern | The best of centuries or the worst of centuries: Leadership, governance and cohesion in an interdependent world | Fulbright Legacy Lecture | 21 June 2018

Francesco Caselli and Antonio Ciccone | Imperfect substitution and development accounting | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 9 June 2018

Silvana Tenreyro’s speech | Models in macroeconomics | Bank of England | 4 June 2018

Timothy Besley and Hannes Mueller | Institutions, Volatility, and Investment | Journal of the European Economic Association | June 2018

David Rezza Baqaee and Emmanuel Farhi | Unbundling Macroeconomics via Heterogeneous Agents and Input-Output Networks | The National Bureau of Economic Research | June 2018

Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn | DP12939 Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment | Centre for Economic Policy Research | May 2018

Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch | Why towns could be stuck in the wrong place | World Economic Forum in collaboration with VoxEU | 24 May 2018

Guy Michaels and George Graetz’s research referenced | Mastering the digital transformation | Policy Network | 21 May 2018

Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo referenced | CEPR Research Fellows L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo win the AEJ Macroeconomics Best Paper award | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 8 May 2018

Jonathan de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer and Maitresse Ghatak | Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance | The Economic Journal | 7 May 2018

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo | Changing how Literacy is Taught: Evidence on Synthetic Phonics | American Economic Association | 2 May 2018

Camille Landais, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez | A Macroeconomic Approach to Optimal Unemployment Insurance: Applications | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | 2 May 2018

Xavier Jaravel | What Is the Impact of Food Stamps on Prices and Products Variety? The Importance of the Supply Response | American Economic Association | May 2018

Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Ari Hyytinen and Otto Toivanen | On the Returns to Invention within Firms: Evidence from Finland | American Economic Association | May 2018

Jacob Goldin and Daniel Reck | Rationalizations and Mistakes: Optimal Policy with Normative Ambiguity | American Economic Association | May 2018

Swati Dhingra among those interviewed | On the Rebound: Prospects for a US-UK Free Trade Agreement | Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and King’s College London | May 2018

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Matthieu Lequien, Marc J. Melitz | The Impact of Exports on Innovation: Theory and Evidence | The National Bureau of Economic Research | May 2018

Jonathan de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer and Maitreesh Ghatak | Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance | The Economic Journal | May 2018

Jonathan de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer and Maitreesh Ghatak | Commercialization and the decline of joint liability microcredit | Journal of Development Economics | May 2018

Thomas Drechsel (PhD student) and Silvana Tenreyro | Commodity booms and busts in emerging economies | Journal of International Economics | May 2018

Thomas Sampson | Article 50 one year on: the UK economy – initial evidence | The UK in a Changing Europe | 27 April 2018

Andrew B. Bernard, Esther A. Bøler, Swati Dhingra | Firm-to-firm Connections in Columbian Imports | The National Bureau of Economic Research | April 2018

Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and Alex Bell | Team-Specific Capital and Innovation| American Economic Review | April 2018

Ernesto Dal Bo, Pedro Dal Bo, and Erik Eyster | The Demand for Bad Policy when Voters Underappreciate Equilibrium Effects | The Review of Economic Studies | April 2018

Timothy Besley and Hannes Mueller | Predation, Protection, and Productivity: A Firm-Level Perspective | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | April 2018

Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Eleonora Mavroeidi | Beyond tariff reductions: The effect of deep provisions on gross and value-added trade | VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal | 30 March 2018

Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson’s articles included | Article 50 one year on | The UK in a Changing Europe | 29 March 2018

Alan Manning and The Migration Advisory Committee | EEA workers in the UK labour market: interim update | The Migration Advisory Committee | 27 March 2018

Philippe Aghion’s research featured | How and why to search for young Einsteins | The Economist | 22 March 2018

Gianluca Benigno and Luca Fornaro | Weak productivity growth and monetary policy: A Keynesian growth perspective | VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal | 15 March 2018

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Holger Breinlich and Swati Dhingra | The consumer benefits of trade agreements: Evidence from the EU trade policy | VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal | 12 March 2018

Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Thomas Sampson | A hitch-hiker’s guide to post-Brexit trade negotiations: options and principles | Oxford Review of Economic Policy | 10 March 2017

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott S Lee | Losing Prosociality in the Quest for Talent? Sorting, Selection, and Productivity in the Delivery of Public Services | Working paper | 3 March 2018

Claudia Steinwender (LSE Department of Economics PhD student 2014) | Real Effects of Information Frictions: When the States and the Kingdom Became United | American Economic Review | March 2018

Kilian Huber (PhD and Job Market Candidate) | Disentangling the Effects of a Banking Crisis: Evidence from German Firms and Counties | American Economic Review | March 2018

Thomas Sampson | Brexit: the economics of international disintegration | CEP CentrePiece | March 2018

Niels Johannesen, Patrick Langetieg, Daniel Reck, Max Risch and Joel Slemrod | Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of U.S. Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts | The National Bureau of Economic Research | March 2018

Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali |  Tacking youth unemployment: Vocational training versus apprenticeships | VoxDev | 13 February 2018

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Carlo Altomonte | Why the Multinationals that Influence the World Are Born | Bocconi Knowledge | 9 February 2018

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion and David Hémous | The environment and directed technical change in a North–South model | Oxford Review of Economic Policy | 5 February 2018

Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr, Richard Holden, and Tom Wilkening | The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation—An Empirical Investigation| Journal of the European Economic Association | February 2018

Gharad T Bryan, James J Choi and Dean Karlan | Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes | The National Bureau of Economic Research | February 2018

Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff | Mechanisms Behind Retirement Saving Behavior: Evidence From Administrative and Survey Data | TIAA Institute | February 2018

Camille Landais and colleagues’ research referenced | The roots of the gender pay gap lie in childhood | The Economist | 26 January 2018

Ricardo Reis | Is something really wrong with macroeconomics? | Oxford Review of Economic Policy | 5 January 2018

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Jakob Egholt Søgaard | Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark | NBER Working Paper | January 2018

Research by Luis Garicano, Ricardo Reis and Dimitri Vayanos referenced in study by ESRB High-Level Task Force on Safe Assets | Sovereign bond-backed securities: a feasibility study | January 2018

Kilian Huber (PhD student) | Disentangling the Effects of a Banking Crisis: Evidence from German Firms and Counties | American Economic Review | December 2017

Thomas Drechsel and Silvana Tenreyro | Commodity booms and busts in emerging economies | Journal of International Economics | 30 December 2017

Silvana Tenreyro and Tiloka de Silva’s research included as ‘Chart of the Week’ | Slowing down the population boom | American Economic Association | 20 December 2017

Francesco Caselli | Trade openness and macroeconomic volatility | VOXDev | 14 December 2017

Thomas Sampson | Breaking down Brexit | American Economic Association ‘Chart of the Week’ | 11 December 2017

Swati Dhingra and Silvana Tenreyro | Piggyback exporting, intermediation, and the distribution of the gains from trade in agricultural markets | VOXDev | 4 December 2017

Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson | Brexit is already costing Britain | UK in a Changing Europe | 4 December 2017

David Baqaee and Emmanuel Farhi | Aggregate productivity and the rise of mark-ups | VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal | 4 December 2017

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen | Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation | The Equality of Opportunity Project | December 2017

Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy & Thomas Sampson | The consequences of the Brexit vote for UK inflation and living standards: First evidence | VOX CEPR's Policy Portal | 20 November 2017

Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy & Thomas Sampson | New evidence shows UK households paying high economic price for vote to leave EU | UK in a Changing Europe | 20 November 2017

Nikhil Datta & Swati Dhingra | Post-Brexit UK trade policy: still just a wish list | UK in a Changing Europe | 9 November 2017

Thomas Sampson | Brexit and the future of globalisation | UK in a Changing Europe | 1 November 2017

Fanny Blanc, Kath Scanlon & Christine Whitehead | A taxing question: Is Stamp Duty Land Tax suffocating the English housing market? | Report for Family Building Society | November 2017

Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Matthieu Lequien and Stefanie Stantcheva | Tax Simplicity and Heterogeneous Learning | National Bureau of Economic Research | November 2017

Davide Cantoni, Jeremiah Dittmar & Noam Yuchtman | The religious roots of the secular West: The Protestant Reformation and the allocation of resources in Europe | VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal | 31 October 2017

David Miles, Ugo Panizza, Ricardo Reis & Ángel Ubide | And Yet It Moves: Inflation and the Great Recession | Geneva Reports on the World Economy | VOX CEPR’S Policy Portal | 25 October 2017

Oriana Bandiera, Nava Ashraf, Julia Tobias | Hiring do-gooders or go-getters: Attracting talent to improve public service delivery in Zambia I VOXDev | 13 October 2017

Thomas Sampson I Brexit: The economics of international disintegration I VOX CEPR's Policy Portal | 19 October 2017

Swati Dhingra and Nikhil Datta I How Not to Do Trade Deals I London Review of Books | 21 September 2017

Swati Dhingra | Trade deals with third countries I The UK in a Changing EU | 19 September 2017

Philippe Aghion, Benedicte Berner I The Two Pillars of French Economic Reform I Project Syndicate | 1 September 2017

Nava Ashraf, Edward Glaeser, Abraham Holland, Bryce Millett Steinberg I Water, Health and Wealth I National Bureau of Economic Research | September 2017

Erik Eyster, Kristof Madarasz, Pascal Michaillat I Pricing when Customers Care about Fairness but Misinfer Markups I National Bureau of Economic Research | September 2017