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The Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) carries out cutting-edge research into how to improve productivity through nurturing innovation – ideas that are new to the world – and then diffusing these ideas across the economy
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📢Job vacancy: POID is hiring a Research Assistant to with John Van Reenen on cutting-edge research on innovation, difussion and productivity, contributing to co-authored, top-journal-quality outputs.
Apply 👉: ow.ly/vRLL50XZz98
📅 Deadline: Monday 16 February
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"Management matters. But only when the market rewards it."
Read the latest VoxDev article by Nick Bloom, Leo Iacovone, Mariana Pereira-López, and John Van Reenen
Management matters. But only when the market rewards it.
In Mexico, better management improves firm efficiency, but a range of factors limit well-managed firms from expanding and gaining market share.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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📢Job vacancy: POID is hiring a Research Assistant to with John Van Reenen on cutting-edge research on innovation, difussion and productivity, contributing to co-authored, top-journal-quality outputs.
Apply 👉: ow.ly/vRLL50XZz98
📅 Deadline: Monday 16 February
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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"State and Time-Dependent Pricing"
New @nber.org working paper by Philip Bunn, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Craig Menzies, Paul Mizen, Gregory Thwaites, and Ivan Yotzov
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State and Time-Dependent Pricing
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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January 19, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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#POIDjob We are hiring a Research Assistant to work on a project lead by @johnvanreenen.bsky.social researching how to boost productivity through nurturing innovation and how to diffuse these ideas across the economy.
Apply by 16 February.
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January 19, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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#POIDBlog
@nickbloom.bsky.social, Gregory Thwaites and co-authors are discussing the effects of Brexit in the UK economy
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Brexit's slow-burn hit to the UK economy
The UK is once again debating why its economy has grown slowly since the mid-2010s. This column examines the impact of the decision to leave the European Union in 2016. Using almost a decade of data s...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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#POIDBlog @raffasadun.bsky.social shares insights on the human cost of change, making progress without a playbook, and how leaders can turn AI experiments into a competitive advantage
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Harvard's Raffaella Sadun on why it's so hard to become a Frontier Firm
The business school professor shares insights on the human cost of change, making progress without a playbook, and how leaders can turn AI experiments into a competitive advantage.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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#POIDin2024 Read our #POIDWorkingPapers on job displacement, technology adoption, Brexit, auto industry & markets, productivity & wages, Gen AI impact on productivity & inequality, disaster management, women investors, labour market power, and more topics
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December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#POIDin2024 Read our #POIDWorkingPapers on job displacement, technology adoption, Brexit, auto industry & markets, productivity & wages, Gen AI impact on productivity & inequality, disaster management, women investors, labour market power, and more topics
POID | Publications | POID Blogs and Articles
POID Blogs and Articles
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December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The new episode of @poidcast.bsky.social is on!
Fiona Murray talked to the poidcast hosts about her academic journey, the recent Nobel Prize in Economics, women inventors, and security-driven innovations. open.spotify.com/episode/31H1...
S3 E1: Nobel Prize Winners and Economics of Innovation with Fiona Murray from MIT
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November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Read the latest @cepr.org blog by @cgenakos.bsky.social @tkretschmer.bsky.social @ambrenicolle.bsky.social who write about on how firms use coplexity to raise prices #confusopoly
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Confusopoly unveiled: How firms use complexity to raise prices
Can entire markets strategically confuse consumers to raise prices? This column tracks the prices of nearly all mobile phone tariffs and handsets in the UK from 2010 to 2012, and finds that quality-ad...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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"What AI Means for Growth and Jobs"
By Philippe Aghion @simonbunel.bsky.social & Xavier Jaravel www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
What AI Means for Growth and Jobs
Philippe Aghion, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel think the technology has great potential to boost productivity without harming employment.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Congratulations to @asvalero.bsky.social, distinguished policy fellow at LSE and director of @cep-lse.bsky.social's growth programme, who has been appointed as industrial strategy adviser to the chancellor.
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CEP Announcement: Anna Valero appointed as Industrial Strategy adviser
Her research focuses on industrial strategy, innovation and its diffusion, sustainable growth and the economic impact of universities.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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2025 Nobel Laureate: Philippe Aghion
@johnvanreenen.bsky.social writes about the profound influence of Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion's work
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2025 Nobel Laureate: Philippe Aghion
John Van Reenen writes about the profound influence of Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion's work not only on growth and industrial organisation, but also on fields as diverse as trade, labour, taxation, t...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Read the latest #POIDWorkingPaper
"Strategic Confusopoly: Evidence from the UK mobile telecommunications market"
By @cgenakos.bsky.social @tkretschmer.bsky.social @ambrenicolle.bsky.social
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October 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Read the latest #POIDWorkingPaper
Resetting the innovation clock: Endogenous growth through technological turnover
By Philippe Aghion @abergeaud.bsky.social Timo Boppart @jfbrou.bsky.social
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October 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The recordings of the 2025 #LSEEnvironmentWeek presentations and public lectures are now available online
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LSE Environment Week 2025 - YouTube
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October 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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🌍 Only 3 days to go until #LSEEnvironmentWeek!

📆22–25 Sept

Join us online via Zoom to explore innovation, climate solutions & sustainable growth with leading economists & experts.

Registration & programme: lse-environment-week.com/environment-...
September 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This year's #LSEEnvironmentWeek will take place next week on 22-25 September! There's still time to register and explore the fantastic conference programme: www.lse-environment-week.com/environment-...

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September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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New #POIDWorkingPaper "Investing in Human Capital During Wartime: Experimental evidence from Ukraine"
By Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, James Gresham, @renatalemos.bsky.social, @hpatrinos.bsky.social, @rrmaximiliano.bsky.social
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Investing in Human Capital During Wartime: Experimental evidence from Ukraine
This paper provides insights into human capital investments during wartime by presenting evidence from three experiments of an online tutoring program for Ukrainian students amid Russia's invasion of ...
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September 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🌱Valuing nature in a changing climate

Tue 23 Sept📍LSE campus + online

Leading experts incl. Larry Kramer, Juliano Assunção, Jim Leape, Rohini Pande & Robin Burgess.

🔗Register: lse.ac.uk/events/valui...
More of the programme: lse-environment-week.com/environment-...

#LSEevents #LSEEnvironmentWeek
September 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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🎬Watch these highlights from #LSEEnvironmentWeek 2024, where research met policy to tackle climate change.

Registration for 2025 opens soon!

Join us 22–25 Sept for global & local conversations on sustainability.

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Using economics to address the climate crisis: LSE Environment Week 2024
YouTube video by International Growth Centre
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August 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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🌍 As the world gears up for COP30, join us at our #LSEEnvironmentWeek Public lecture "COP30 & the sustainable growth agenda"

22 Sept

Ticket will be available from 8 Sept: lse.ac.uk/events/cop30...

Explore the programme: lse-environment-week.com/environment-...

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September 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Read the latest #POIDWorkingPaper on R&D misallocation and growth by Philippe Aghion, @abergeaud.bsky.social, Timo Boppart, Peter J Klenow and Huiyu Li
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September 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Escaping Labor Scarcity: Innovation and human capital after WW1 in France
New #POIDWorkingPaper by @abergeaud.bsky.social, Jean-Baptiste Chaniot, and Clement Malgouyres
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August 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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How firms spread good management | Read the latest Liberty Street Economics blog post by @nickbloom.bsky.social Jonathan Hartley @raffasadun.bsky.social Rachel Schuh & @johnvanreenen.bsky.social
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How Firms Spread Good Management
What is good management, and how is it transmitted across firms and plants? In a recent paper, we use survey and administrative data, coupled with a structural model of management, to explore these qu...
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August 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM