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Programme on Innovation and Diffusion
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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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#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
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🎙️The last @poidcast.bsky.social episode of this season is out! ‪@nickbloom.bsky.social‬ talked about diffusion of innovation, politics, "Gollums (?!) in Academia", #RajChetty style, & many more!
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S2 E9: Diffusion of Innovation, Productivity, and Academia with Nick Bloom from Stanford University
YouTube video by Centre for Economic Performance
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July 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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#LSEEnvironmentCamp May 2025 The video and audio recordings are now available online via our #youtube channel and #soundcloud account
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LSE Environment Camp 2025 | Various speakers | Wednesday 14 May 2025 09:00 - Thursday 15 May 2025 17:00 | STICERD Event
An event from the STICERD Public Events and Lectures series organised by STICERD
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July 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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New #POIDWorkingPaper by @davidautor.bsky.social‬ and Neil Thompson on whether the automation of job tasks augments or diminishes the value of labour in the tasks that remain. poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
July 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Call for papers for LSE Environment Week: www.lse-environment-week.com/environment-... [submission deadline 14th July] @poid-lse.bsky.social
LSE Environment Week 2025 — LSE Environment Week
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June 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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📢 Call for Papers: #LSEEnvironmentWeek (22-25 Sept 2025)
Fourth conference co-hosted with
@lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social EEE Programme @theigc.bsky.social

All PhD students interested in environmental and energy economics are invited to submit papers.
📅 Deadline 14/07/25
Submit 👉 ow.ly/Wtob50Wcsw0
LSE Environment Week 2025 — LSE Environment Week
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June 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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New #POIDWorkingPaper on "Remote work, employee mix, and performance" by Cevat Giray Aksoy, @nickbloom.bsky.social‬, Steven J. Davis, Victoria Marino and Cem Ozguzel
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June 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM