Peter John Lambert

Peter John Lambert

PhD Candidate in Economics

Department of Economics

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Languages
English
Key Expertise
Macroeconomics, IO, Innovation, Climate Change

About me

I am an economist studying organisations, industries, jobs, and economic growth. My research leverages large unstructured datasets (e.g. text, transactions, images) to analyse behaviour within and across organisations.

I am currently completing a PhD in Economics at the LSE. Previously, I have worked at the CEPGrantham Research Institute on Climate Change , and POID. My studies are generously supported by the 2018 Commonwealth Scholarship.

Working Papers

Aggregate Consequences of Default Risk: Evidence from Firm-level data (with Tim Besley, Isabelle Roland, John Van Reenen)

The Impact of Social Distancing on Labour Productivity (with Tim Besley, Thiemo Fetzer, Stephen Hansen)

Remote Work across Jobs, Organisations and Countries (with Stephen Hansen, Nick Bloom, Steven Davis, Raffaella Sadun & Bledi Taska)

Anatomy of a Business Shock: What can we learn from high-frequency business surveys during COVID-19? (with John Van Reenen)

Firm Performance and COVID Shocks: A DiD Study using Global Micro-data (solo-project)

Policy Reports and Media Coverage

A major wave of UK business closures by April 2021? The scale of the problem and what can be done [link] (co-authored with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and John Van Reenen).
[selected news coverage from the BBCThe Guardian]

Risk of Business Failure – POID Tracker [link] (co-authored with Apolline Marion and John Van Reenen)
[my interviews with The TimesThe Guardian]

Presentations

26th Annual ISNIE / SIOE Conference (June, 2022). Presented Remote Work across Jobs, Organisations and Countries.

CESifo Venice Venice Summer Institute (July, 2022). Presented Remote Work across Jobs, Organisations and Countries.

The Future of Work (From Home) – A Centre for Market Design Workshop, University of Melbourne (May, 2022). An open discussion (joint with Nick Bloom) about the causes and consequences of remote work adoption.

Research Interests

Labour Economics, Macroeconomics, Organisational Economics, Industrial Organisation, Novel Unstructured Data

Supervisors
John Van Reenen and Tim Besley

Research Centres
CEP, POID, Grantham Research Institute

Teaching
EC427 Economics of Industry

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