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SERC/Urban Programme Discussion Paper
Location, Search Costs and Youth Unemployment: Experimental Evidence from Transport Subsidies in Addis Ababa
Simon Franklin May 2016
Paper No' SERCDP0199:
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Tags: job search; spatial mismatch; unemployment; cash constraints; urban; transpor
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CEP Discussion Paper
Protectionism through Exporting: Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China
Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño
May 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1431:
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Tags: export share requirements; export subsidies; trade policy; heterogeneous firms; china
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CEP BREXIT Analysis
Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK
Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth
May 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT05:
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Tags: brexit; immigration; uk government policy; uk economy; wages; employment; eu referendum
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SERC/Urban Programme Discussion Paper
The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History and the Role of Trade
J. Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard and David Weil May 2016
Paper No' SERCDP0198:
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Tags: agriculture; physical geography; development
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SERC/Urban Programme Discussion Paper
Enabled to Work: The Impact of Government Housing on Slum Dwellers in South Africa
Simon Franklin
May 2016
Paper No' SERCDP0197:
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Tags: housing; labour supply; time allocation; home production
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CEP Discussion Paper
Exporter Dynamics and Partial-Year Effects
Andrew B. Bernard, Renzo Massari, Jose-Daniel Reyes and Daria Taglioni
May 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1430:
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Tags: export entry; export growth; margins of trade; heterogeneous firms
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CEP Discussion Paper
Estimating Border Effects: The Impact of Spatial Aggregation
Cletus C. Coughlin and Dennis Novy
May 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1429:
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Tags: gravity; geography; borders; trade costs; heterogeneity; home bias; spatial attenuation; modifiable areal unit problem (maup)
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CEP Discussion Paper
The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage
Alan Manning
May 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1428:
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Tags: minimum wage; employment
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SERC/Urban Programme Discussion Paper
Quantitative Easing of an International Financial Centre: How Central London Came So Well Out of the Post-2007 Crisis
Ian Gordon September 2015
Paper No' SERCDP0193:
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Tags: spatial imbalance; regional economic fluctuation; financial centre; monetary
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SERC/Urban Programme Discussion Paper
Building the City: Sunk Capital, Sequencing and Institutional Frictions
J. Vernon Henderson, Tanner Regan and Anthony J. Venables April 2016
Paper No' SERCDP0196:
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Tags: city; urban; urban growth; slum development; urban structure; urban form; housing investment; capital durability
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Thursday  26 May 2016  13:00 - 14:15

Costs and benefits of early intervention

Leon Feinstein (Early Intervention Foundation) , joint with Kirsten Asmussen and Haroon Chowdry (EIF)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH


Wellbeing Seminar Series
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Monday 23 May 2016

Daily Mail: Tories at war: Iain Duncan Smith accuses former Cabinet colleague of being two-faced over the EU as tensions escalate with a month to go before

Responding to Hilton�s article, Javid said: �Steve is entitled to his view � the central issue here is that economically, we are far better off being part of this single market � Now you have the Bank of England, the IMF [International Monetary Fund], the OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development], the London School of Economics, the OBR [Office for Budget Responsibility], the IFS [Institute for Fiscal Studies], every one of our allies, every one of our trading partners and that is not a conspiracy, that�s a consensus about what would happen if we left the EU.�

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See the complete set of CEP Brexit Analysis research papers here

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Thomas Sampson webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Trade Programme webpage
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