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Next week's @cep-lse.bsky.social Trade and Urban Seminar Koichiro Ito (University of Chicago) Global Policy Spillovers: How Environmental Policies Propagate through Product Attributes cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...

Housing supply and the future of our urban planet | Edward Glaeser 6pm Thurs 19 Mar | Edward Glaeser | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Looking forward to chairing Ed Glaeser's Coase Lecture on Thursday 19th March www.lse.ac.uk/events/housi...

Understanding income data - 9th March 2026, 13:00 - 13:45 - What Works Growth Join What Works Growth for this 2 hour practical training on developing good evaluation questions for local economic growth.

Two @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social events this month on income data whatworksgrowth.org/events/incom... and on logic models
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The Economics of Tariffs

By Ralph Ossa and Stephen J. Redding

Read at: https://ow.ly/CArY50YlLbv

‘How to’ guide: Analysing local economic data - What Works Growth Introduction Data and analysis help inform good policy. Local policymakers in the UK are able to access a range of data on the performance of their local economy. This briefing provides guidance on ho...

New @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social 'How to' guide on analysing local data: whatworksgrowth.org/resource-lib...

This week's @cep-lse.bsky.social Trade and Urban Seminar @jeffrlin.bsky.social "Spreading Out in Expanding Idea Space"
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What do (and don’t) Taylor Swift and Welsh Rugby tell us about local economic performance? - What Works Growth What effect do large events like Taylor Swift concerts and Welsh Rugby have on local economies?

What effect did Taylor Swift's concerts really have on local economies? 🎤

This blog looks at new ONS analysis of consumer spending around major concerts and sporting events👇
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What do (and don’t) Taylor Swift and Welsh Rugby tell us about local economic performance? - What Works Growth What effect do large events like Taylor Swift concerts and Welsh Rugby have on local economies?

New @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social blog post on the local economic impact of major events (featuring Taylor Swift and Welsh Rugby) whatworksgrowth.org/insights/wha...

Alan Manning explains how to make immigration policy better in the third Lionel Robbins lecture. Watch: www.lse.ac.uk/events/immig...

Out now! Pathways to productive and inclusive net zero
How tackling climate change, can improve productivity and living standards.
Read: https://ow.ly/QtCz50Yet19

Our @cep-lse.bsky.social trade and urban seminar starts again next Wednesday 18th Feb with Gabriel Kreindler (Harvard): The Effect of Exposure: Evidence from Spatial Choices in Nairobi cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...

Video of Alan Manning's immigration policy lecture (part 2) now online. www.lse.ac.uk/events/a-pic... Final lecture next Monday 16th Feb www.lse.ac.uk/events/immig...

It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of our friend and colleague Prof Sir David Metcalf. Together with Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell, David set up the Centre for Labour Economics which became CEP in 1990. Read more:
https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/news/abstract.asp?index=11063

Evaluation for the common good - What Works Growth What do the air you breathe, the Thames Barrier, and the Armed Forces have in common? It is impossible to exclude anyone in society from benefitting from them. We breathe the same air, flood protectio...

New @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social blog post from @ioramashvili.bsky.social on 'evaluation for the common good' whatworksgrowth.org/insights/eva...

Looking forward to hosting the @urbaneconomics.bsky.social summer school @cep-lse.bsky.social this year. Now open for applications: urbaneconomics.org/workshops/su...

Why immigration policy is hard | Alan Manning 6:30pm Mon 2 Feb | Alan Manning | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Video of Alan Manning's immigration policy lectures (part 1) now online. Second lecture next Monday 10th Feb. www.lse.ac.uk/events/why-i...

The working hours and happiness, of the self-employed are starting to recover – five years on from the downturn induced by the pandemic, CEP research reveals.

Read here: https://ow.ly/VcUC50Y4Xrr

Why immigration policy is hard | Alan Manning 6:30pm Mon 2 Feb | Alan Manning | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Join us today for the first Lionel Robbins lecture, where Alan Manning (CEP, LSE) looks at immigration policy and questions why governments struggle to deal with this issue.

🏢Old Theatre + online
⏲️6.30pm - 8pm
Register: https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/why-immigration-policy-is-hard

Why immigration policy is hard and how to make it better - UK in a changing Europe Alan Manning argues that the UK needs to move away from the current divisive debate on immigration that portrays immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad in order to create more effective immig...

"Disagreements about migration policy are some of the most divisive, heated parts of our current politics. Debate often seems to be between two tribes... And the claims from both are sometimes extreme"

✍️ Alan Manning on the debate around immigration in the UK

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Of potential interest to UEA members:

Call for Papers – IEB 8th Workshop on Urban Economics

Barcelona, June 17–18, 2026

Keynotes: Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Lu Han

Submission deadline: March 15, 2026

Details: ieb.ub.edu/wp-content/u...

🚀Cities Outlook 2026 is out now!

🏙️ Our annual report looks at how the UK’s cities are performing — and what that means for economic growth and living standards.

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Immigration policy is complex, full of trade-offs—but we can do better.

Join Alan Manning, former chair of the UK Migration Advisory Committee, for 3 free lectures using evidence to rethink how immigration affects jobs, services and communities.

https://ow.ly/Vpeg50Y0IlI

📌Join us in person or online for the first Wellbeing seminar of 2026!

📖 Victor Lavy (The Hebrew University and University of Warwick) – ‘Violent Peers at School: Impacts and Mechanisms’.
🕰️ Thu 22 January, 4 pm to 5 pm

For seminar reminders and zoom links, subscribe: https://ow.ly/LnYJ50XZGhb

Greg Thwaites, Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, said: “Twenty years ago, the UK economy was close to catching up with Germany. But decades of stagnation mean that we’ve now been caught by Italy and are miles behind our former peers. It’s time the UK started to catch up. “There’s lots to welcome in the Government’s economic growth strategy. But it has spent much of the past 18 months undermining that strategy with policy U-turns, kite-flying tax ideas and timidity in areas like trade where it needs to be bold. “With signs that productivity may be turning a corner, the Government must capitalise by ramping up its plans. It should redouble efforts to unblock housebuilding in major cities, focus job support for young and older workers, and decide whether to bite the bullet and reverse some of the damage from Brexit.”

🚨Major new report🚨

The UK economy has been falling further behind its former peers - but could it be on the brink of a turnaround?

Our latest report takes stock of the UK economy, examines how the Government’s economic strategy is faring, and what it should do to boost growth⤵️

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📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference
London | 15–16 June 2026

We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies.
Submit by 13 Feb 2026.
🔗 Details & submissions: https://ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK

@whatworksgrowth.bsky.social ONS local event on local economic performance. Feb 12. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ons-local-...

Big cities and globalisation Globalisation has deepened economic inequalities between large cities and the rest. This column examines foreign trade integration in larger cities versus other regions across Brazil, China, France, and the US. Larger cities have higher ‘export intensity’ – they export more because they host more exporters, especially superstar firms, and are less sensitive to trade cost changes. Large cities ‘win’ from international trade, and growing urbanisation fuels globalisation.

Big cities tend to host more exporters—especially superstar firms—and are less sensitive to trade costs, say Jan David Bakker (CEP), Alvaro Garcia Marin, Andrei Potlogea and Nico Voightlander

Read more: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/big-cities-and-globalisation

One year RA post at @poid-lse.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... working with @johnvanreenen.bsky.social

I've seen a number of organisations and politicians use the data seemingly showing a productivity miracle in large northern city regions, especially Greater Manchester.

Something didn't seem quite right. So I take a look in this piece:

Have the UK’s northern cities really experienced a productivity miracle? - Economics Observatory While official data points to a 'productivity miracle' in several large northern cities since 2019, a closer look suggests otherwise. This serves as a reminder to sense-check any data before using it,...

Great piece by @paulswinney.bsky.social raising serious concerns about the UK's sub-national productivity data and what it can tell us. I share his worry that misleading conclusions about a northern city miracle may already be skewing policy debates www.economicsobservatory.com/have-the-uks...