Brexit
Investing in the future of the UK: LSE relaunches its Growth Commission
Labour markets, industrial policy, the financial sector and openness are key areas of the upcoming report, writes Anna Valero
Brexit can have profound implications for firms on both sides of the Atlantic
Since 2010, 9% of foreign US affiliates’ profit has come from the UK, write Douglas Cumming and Shaker […]
What neuroscience can(not) bring to the world of business
It cannot make better leaders nor deliver on other misleading promises, argues Dirk Lindebaum
Healing the rifts between mental health workers and psychiatric survivors
There needs to be a process where survivors and workers can work together, listen and learn from each other, writes Helen Spandler
The interval training principle could help us deal […]
Flexible working:
Working in the cloud means working all the time
Technological advancements, such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation or Big Data are often considered major drivers for the future of work. Current debate on this topic mostly focuses on which tasks and jobs will be delegated to machines and how employees can deal with the uncertainty of career choice. […]
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The transnational wealth elite are a group of people who individually come from one place, but invest their wealth transnationally since they entertain transnational jobs, assets and social networks. Although these elites appear to have a geographically diverse investment portfolio, they do not invest everywhere. Indeed, their real estate investment takes place primarily in first-tier global […]
Holidays, by Jim Lukach, under a CC-BY-2.0 licence
On average, people are happier during festive seasons like Christmas and New Year celebrations. What’s more, increasing the number of mandatory public holidays would improve a country’s overall wellbeing. These are the consensus findings of a new survey from leading researchers on wellbeing from around the world. The wellbeing research group at LSE’s […]
JPMorgan London, by Håkan Dahlström, under a CC-BY-2.0 licence
The past months have been characterised by what can be called a “backlash against globalisation”. This development became most visible in the outcome of the Brexit referendum in the UK and the election of Donald Trump as the future president of the US. In both cases, the preceding campaigns massively referred to […]
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Over the past decades the UK economy has become a party to global production chains in a number of sectors. Benefiting from tremendous investment by many of the world’s major multinational corporations, the UK has become an export leader, especially for automobiles and pharmaceutical products. We ask whether the UK’s engagement in European […]
The New York Times building, by Haxorjoe, under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence
Firms that are more visible in the press are better governed and more profitable. But investors underestimate the value of visibility and could profit from investing into high-visibility firms.
In our study, ‘The Value of Visibility’, we analyse 90 years of The New York Times’ coverage of more than 22,000 publicly listed US […]
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Brexit is a monumental event that is likely to have serious consequences, raising challenges while creating international business and entrepreneurship opportunities for companies around the globe. This effect is likely to be felt acutely by North America, which has historically maintained strong political, cultural and economic relationships with the UK. The June 23, […]
Canary Wharf Skyline, by David Iliff, under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence
In the aftermath of the financial crisis and other large scale corporate scandals, a large number of public inquires and documents written by regulators, consulting firms and professional associations drew attention to something that needs fixing: the risk culture of financial sector organisations (see, for example, publications by the International institute of Finance, the Financial […]
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy. Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz. MIT Press. 2016.
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There can be little doubt that the way we consume a range of information goods has been transformed by digital content delivery. However, as the authors of The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy argue, this transformation […]
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Christopher Hood and Rozana Himaz’s retrospective on UK austerity argues that the current ‘period of public spending restraint’ fits into a pattern of longer but less deep government actions. But their account contains a logical error that leads to underestimating both the severity of the present action and the damaging effects on the economy as a […]
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The UK government has recently given its approval for exploratory drilling and hydraulic fracturing – ‘fracking’ – for shale gas at two sites in Lancashire. This follows a similar decision for North Yorkshire earlier in the year.
Some will see these approvals as landmark planning decisions marking the way to a low-cost energy future for the UK. For others, […]
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In the United States, exploitation of shale gas resources through a technology called hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) started an energy revolution from the early 2000s onwards.
Fracking is now widely used across several major shale gas ‘plays’ (formations): most importantly, the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia (see Figure 1). The surge in shale gas production has made […]
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It is a busy day at work. Suddenly a colleague jumps into your office asking you to quickly review some slides for an upcoming presentation. “Could you please do me this favour by tomorrow?” she asks. Well, this task is not really related to your work, but you promise her to do the […]
FOMC meeting in Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Public Domain
In the wake of the great recession, the Federal Reserve gained new prominence as it kept interest rates low in an effort to prop up an ailing economy. Changes to the Fed’s interest rate are decided by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which is made up of Fed […]
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Have the reports about the death of the Eurozone been greatly exaggerated? How concerned should one be about the stability of the Eurozone? This column summarises a report we prepared for the European Parliament addressing this issue.
A good way to think about the Eurozone’s stability and cohesion (or asymmetry and imbalances, if […]
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For many private banks, increased complexity and compliance has encouraged exits from some markets. The US is a good example. A number of private banks no longer provide services to Americans because of the aggressive enforcement of US tax, securities and other laws by the authorities — in part as a reaction […]
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Over the past three decades, countries and trading blocks around the world have undertaken substantial efforts to reduce barriers to trade. In recent years, these efforts have mainly taken the form of regional free trade agreements (RTA) in which countries liberalize trade outside the multilateral framework of the World Trade Organization.
The hope […]
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Despite women working in higher education still being paid 12 per cent less than men and half of all teaching staff on precarious contracts, last month 57 per cent of my union’s members voted against taking industrial action over decent pay in education. You don’t need to be an […]
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