SERC Discussion Papers

From Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

2018: Cohesion Policy Incentives for Collaborative Industrial Research. The Evaluation of a Smart Specialisation Forerunner Programme

Riccardo Crescenzi, Mara Giua and Guido de Blasio

2018: One or Many Cohesion Policies of the European Union? On the Diverging Impacts of Cohesion Policy across Member States

Riccardo Crescenzi and Mara Giua

2018: Interaction of Public and Private Employment: Evidence from a German Government Move

Giulia Faggio, Teresa Schlüter and Philipp vom Berge

2018: The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Sascha Becker, Stephan Heblich and Daniel M. Sturm

2017: Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting

Stephan Fretz, Raphaël Parchet and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

2017: Colonial Legacies: Shaping African Cities

Neeraj Baruah, J. Vernon Henderson and Cong Peng

2017: Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn and Forhad Shilpi

2017: Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City

Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin and Simon Quinn

2017: Decomposing the Impact of Immigration on House Prices

Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

2017: Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin, Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch and Tanner Regan

2017: Do Speed Cameras Save Lives?

Cheng Tang

2017: Housing Allowance and Rents: Evidence from a Stepwise Subsidy Scheme

Essi Eerola and Teemu Lyytikäinen

2017: Social Tenants' Health: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Landlord Interventions

Paul Cheshire, Stephen Gibbons and Jemma Mouland

2017: The Local Economic Impacts of Regeneration Projects: Evidence from UK's Single Regeneration Budget

Stephen Gibbons, Henry Overman and Matti Sarvimäki

2017: The Energy Costs of Historic Preservation

Christian Hilber, Charles Palmer and Edward Pinchbeck

2017: Transfer Taxes and Household Mobility: Distortion on the Housing or Labor Market?

Christian Hilber and Teemu Lyytikäinen

2017: The Compact City in Empirical Research: A Quantitative Literature Review

Gabriel M. Ahfeldt and Elisabetta Pietrostefani

2017: New Road Infrastructure: The Effects on Firms

Stephen Gibbons, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Henry Overman and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

2017: Using Micro-Geography Data to Identify Town-Centre Space in Great Britain

Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber, Piero Montebruno and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

2017: Distributive Politics Inside the City? The Political Economy of Spain's Plan E

Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto

2017: Airports, Market Access and Local Economic Performance: Evidence from China

Stephen Gibbons and Wenjie Wu

2017: The Economic Effects of Density: A Synthesis

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Elisabetta Pietrostefani

2016: The Stimulative Effect of an Unconditional Block Grant on the Decentralized Provision of Care

Mark Kattenberg and Wouter Vermeulen

2016: East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting

Stephan Heblich, Alex Trew and Yanos Zylberberg

2016: Fear of Fracking? The Impact of the Shale Gas Exploration on House Prices in Britain

Stephen Gibbons, Stephan Heblich, Esther Lho and Christopher Timmins

2016: Austerity States, Institutional Dismantling and the Governance of Sub-National Economic Development: The Demise of the Regional Development Agencies in England

Mike Coombes, Peter O'Brien, Andy Pike and John Tomaney

2016: Traffic Externalities and Housing Prices: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Cheng Tang

2016: The Housing Market Impacts of Constraining Second Home Investments

Christian Hilber and Olivier Schöni

2016: Impact of Structural Reforms on Regional Growth: Distance to the Frontier Matters

Sabine D'Costa, José Enrique Garcilazo and Joaquim Oliveira Martins

2016: The Preservation of Historic Districts - Is it Worth it?

Sevrin Waights

2016: The Geography of City Liveliness and Land Use Configurations: Evidence from Location-Based Big Data in Beijing

Chengyu Li, Mark Wang, Jianghao Wang and Wenjie Wu

2016: Highways, Market Access and Urban Growth in China

Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Loren Brandt, J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew Turner and Qinghua Zhang

2016: Location, Search Costs and Youth Unemployment: Experimental Evidence from Transport Subsidies in Addis Ababa

Simon Franklin

2016: The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History and the Role of Trade

J. Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard and David Weil

2016: Enabled to Work: The Impact of Government Housing on Slum Dwellers in South Africa

Simon Franklin

2016: Subways and Urban Growth: Evidence from Earth

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Matthew Turner

2016: Building the City: Urban Transition and Institutional Frictions

J. Vernon Henderson, Tanner Regan and Anthony Venables

2016: Take What You Can: Property Rights, Contestability and Conflict

Thiemo Fetzer and Samuel Marden

2016: Taking Care of the Budget? Practice-level Outcomes during Commissioning Reforms in England

Edward Pinchbeck

2016: The (Displacement) Effects of Spatially Targeted Enterprise Initiatives: Evidence from UK LEGI

Elias Einiö and Henry Overman

2016: Why Does Birthplace Matter So Much? Sorting, Learning and Geography

Clement Bosquet and Henry Overman

2015: Trade and Frictional Unemployment in the Global Economy

Celine Carrere, Anja Grujovic-Vischer and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

2015: The Spatial Decay in Commuting Probabilities: Employment Potential vs. Commuting Gravity

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Nicolai Wendland

2015: Offshoring and the Geography of Jobs in Great Britain

Luisa Gagliardi, Simona Iammarino and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

2015: Transfer Taxes and Household Mobility: Distortion on the Housing or Labor Market?

Christian Hilber and Teemu Lyytikäinen

2015: ICT and Education: Evidence from Student Home Addresses

Benjamin Faber, Rosa Sanchis-Guarner and Felix Weinhardt

2015: Quantitative Easing of an International Financial Centre: How Central London Came So Well Out of the Post-2007 Crisis

Ian Gordon

2015: The Role of Education for Amenity Based Sorting in British Cities

Luisa Gagliardi and Teresa Schlüter

2015: Credit Constraints and the Composition of Housing Sales. Farewell to First-Time Buyers?

Felipe Carozzi

2015: Business as Unusual. An Explanation of the Increase of Private Economic Activity in High-Conflict Areas in Afghanistan

Tommaso Ciarli, Chiara Kofol and Carlo Menon

2015: Regulating Housing Vacancies Away? The Paradoxical Effects of Mismatch

Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber and Hans Koster

2015: The Vertical City: The Price of Land and the Height of Buildings in Chicago 1870-2010

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Daniel McMillen

2015: Big Plant Closures and Agglomeration Economies

Jordi Jofri-Monseny, Maria Sánchez-Vidal and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2015: What Makes Cities More Productive? Agglomeration Economies and the Role of Urban Governance: Evidence from 5 OECD Countries

Rudiger Ahrend, Emily Farchy, Ioannis Kaplanis and Alexander Lembcke

2015: Are People Moving Home Less? An Analysis of Address Changing in England and Wales, 1971-2011, Using the ONS Longitudinal Study

Tony Champion and Ian Shuttleworth

2015: Is Internal Migration Slowing? An Analysis of Four Decades of NHSCR Records for England and Wales

Tony Champion and Ian Shuttleworth

2015: Spillovers from Immigrant Diversity in Cities

Abigail Cooke and Tom Kemeny

2015: Moving People with Ideas - Innovation, Inter-regional Mobility and Firm Heterogeneity

Riccardo Crescenzi and Luisa Gagliardi

2015: Exploring the Geography of China's Airport Networks: A Hybrid Complex-Network Approach

Zhengbin Dong and Wenjie Wu

2015: From Periphery to Core: Measuring Agglomeration Effects Using High-Speed Rail

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Arne Feddersen

2015: Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Nancy Holman

2015: The Economic Value of Local Social Networks

Frank Ethridge, Maryann Feldman, Tom Kemeny and Ted Zoller