This briefing argues that a Scottish-style tourist tax would be more appropriate for England than a Welsh-style tourist tax

The year 2025 was unprecedented in the frequency, complexity, and volatility of US trade policy interventions. This column uses a new database tracking US tariff announcements during the year to show ...

Economic activity is inherently uneven, so ‘growth in every postcode’ is better understood as access to growth opportunities in every postcode.

Entry-level hiring has fallen sharply across white-collar work. One explanation is that generative AI is to blame. But where we work may be equally important.

Welcome to Why This Matters, a newsletter from the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance which takes a topical question and draws from CEP’s policy-focused research to show how economists talk about i...

Use the database to find the amount of land around commuter stations that could support residential development in five UK cities.

This briefing explains what powers mayors in England have and how they vary across the country.

Governments keep promising more houses, and keep failing to build them. If Burnham is to keep his promise, there needs to be a radical reform to planning rules.

Join us in-person at King’s or online on 23 June for a special King’s Experts Series event, Brexit: Ten Years On.

While Brexit has meant the end of free movement from the EU, immigration to the UK has since risen to record levels. Alan Manning explains what happened.

Exploring the “Manchester Model”, this paper examines how inward investment, devolution and a strong university–industry interface have driven Manchester’s productivity growth, and considers how this ...

An event from the POID Public Event series organised by POID

For local government officers navigating complex economic challenges, logic models offer a practical tool to help design, communicate and evaluate interventions. To date, we’ve run training to…

6.30pm 15 Jun | Ed Conway, Peter Hill, Catherine Thomas, Linda Yueh | Free event at the LSE Festival: How to save the planet | Ticket required

We study productivity disparities across metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in Great Britain. Spatial disparities in productivity are large and persistent. Using a development accounting framework, we show that differences in area size and in the spatial distribution of human and business capital are key explanatory factors. A combination of area size and human capital explains 30 percent of the productivity variance, increasing to 43 to 57 percent once we add measures of business capital stocks. Applying our framework to a case study of Greater Manchester, we show that large increases in both types of capital are needed to narrow productivity disparities with London, illustrating the scale of the challenge for policies aimed at reducing spatial inequality.

6.30pm Thurs 4 June | Dr Chad P Bown, Soumaya Keynes, Stepganie J. Rickard, Swati Dhingra | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

This blog is co-authored by Megan Streb, What Works Growth Deputy Director Outreach, and Rich Pickford, Co-Chair of the Areas of Research Interest (ARI) Sub-Committee at Universities Policy…

In this guest blog, Aadya Bahl talks about the analysis done for the CEP report Hive of talent: what would it take to raise skills and productivity in Greater Manchester? published last week. For…