CEP research highlights the potential role of improving the quality of hospital management for raising productivity in the UK healthcare sector

Henry Overman sketches the evolution of CEP research on why prosperity is so unevenly distributed across cities, regions and nations

Giordano Mion and colleagues investigate whether the trade collapse of 2008-09 reflected a crisis of international trade itself

Barbara Petrongolo outlines how his analysis of markets with search frictions has enhanced our understanding of how labour markets work and how policy-makers should respond

John Van Reenen and colleagues assess the impact on growth of 'knowledge spillovers' between corporate research labs located close to each other

Improving the way firms are managed could have a big impact on the UK's national productivity, says Rebecca Homkes

An experiment with Indian textile firms, conducted by Nicholas Bloom and colleagues, finds that better management has a huge impact on corporate performance

Despite dire predictions, the UK capital has experienced a relatively mild recession, at least so far - Henry Overman asks what went right

It is conventional wisdom that richer countries have a higher price level than poorer countries. This paper provides evidence that the price-income relationship is non-linear and that it turns negative, or at best flat, in low income countries. The result is robust along both cross-section and...

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on policies to foster competition.