Ronald Coase School Professor LSE & MIT Digital Fellow IDE. OBE. POID Director. Jansson Award winner. Fellow of British Academy & Econometric Society
Joined August 2009
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17 Sep 2023
My new book with @ufukakcigit on innovation available at My new book with @ufukakcigit on innovation available at amazon.co.uk/Economics-Creat… and all good bookshops near you! and all good bookshops near you!
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Trump’s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse nytimes.com/2026/06/09/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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Technological progress can be fostered through long-run investments in R&D, education & national security, @voxeu evidence from two centuries of patent data & leverages filings in multiple patent offices, @johnvanreenen & colleagues
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A good FT piece from Martin Wolf arguing, rightly imv, that at root of UK's political woes is a 20 yr long slowdown in productivity growth
"a good economy — one with widely shared economic growth — is a necessary condition for political stability in a liberal democracy"...
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13 Jul 2023
Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Luc Paluskiewicz, David Stromberg @xueping_sun Raphael Wargon & Karoline Westin examine how US restrictions under the China Initiative affected the volume, quality and direction of Chinese research.
Read: ow.ly/cakU50P2yn0
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Measuring national technological trajectories using 200 years of international patent data
By @a_bergeaud @ruveyda_gozen & @johnvanreenen
via @voxeu
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Enough negativity! Underlying UK productivity is stronger than thought and policy has helped blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp…
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Philippe Aghion: explaining sustained growth through creative destruction - @johnvanreenen @CEP_LSE
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Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China
Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen & Yifan Wang outlined their research on China's green industrial policy (@LSEEcon @LSEnews @STICERD_LSE @The_IGC): voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…
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✨ March-special episode is out! ✨Our guest is @landais_camille (LSE) and we talked about his academic journey, family economics, gender inequality, child penalty, gender roles and more. Enjoy! 🥳 @CEP_LSE @POID_LSE @johnvanreenen @ruveyda_gozen #econtwitter
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Measuring national technological trajectories using 200 years of international patent data
Antonin Bergeaud @a_bergeaud @HECParis @CEP_LSE, Ruveyda Nur Gozen @ruveyda_gozen @LSEEcon, John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen @LSEEcon @MIT
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Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China
Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen & Yifan Wang outlined their research on China's green industrial policy (@LSEEcon @LSEnews @STICERD_LSE @The_IGC): voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…
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Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China
Ignacio Banares Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen, Yifan Wang @LSEnews @LSEEcon
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🆕 Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China
Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen & Yifan Wang outline their research on China's green industrial policy (@LSEEcon @LSEnews @STICERD_LSE @The_IGC): voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…
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Chinese local industrial policy subsidies were responsible for 40 to 50 percent of the fall in prices, and the growth in innovation and output since 2006 in the Chinese solar industry, from Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, @johnvanreenen, and Yifan Wang nber.org/papers/w34893
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🌟Our new episode is out! Our guest is @BaslandzeSalome from @AtlantaFed and we talked about her academic journey, product vs process innovations, firm strategy and growth, political connections, and more! Enjoy🥳 @POID_LSE @CEP_LSE @johnvanreenen @ruveyda_gozen
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Using 200 years of patent data to describe the rise of the US innovation machine. Innovation drivers are R&D, education, and defense spending, from @a_bergeaud, @ruveyda_gozen, and @johnvanreenen nber.org/papers/w34760
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New #POIDWorkingPaper "When Trade Drives Markup Divergence: An application to auto markets" by Agnes Norris Keiller, @timoberm, @AndreasTeichgr, and @johnvanreenen poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS/…
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🌟The new episode is out! Our guest is @ThomasPHI2 and we talked about his academic journey from physics to economics, his book "The Great Reversal", superstar firms, competition, Europe vs US, and more. Enjoy!🥳@POID_LSE @CEP_LSE @johnvanreenen @ruveyda_gozen #econtwitter
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"Management matters. But only when the market rewards it."
Read the latest @vox_dev article by @I_Am_NickBloom, @leoiacovone, @mariana_ppl11, and @johnvanreenen
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