Programme on Innovation and Diffusion
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
- "Automation is not hollowing out British factory jobs" This LSE Blogs post by Aniket Baksy, @dan_chandler and Peter John Lambert presents research showing that rather than taking jobs away, automation in British factories is linked to higher employment.
- New #POIDWorkingPaper "The economic impact of Brexit" by Nick Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka and Gregory Thwaites poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper "Unrest, layoff and productivity at a Bangladeshi sweater factory" by Robert Akerlof, Anik Ashraf, Rocco Macchiavello and Atonu Rabbani poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper "Quality upgrading in global supply chains: Evidence from Colombian coffee" By Patrick Farrell, Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Eric Verhoogen and Nicolás de Roux poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper "Promoting women to managerial roles in the Bangladeshi garment sector" by Rocco Macchiavello, Andreas Menzel, Atonu Rabbani, and Christopher Woodruff poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper "Funding the Ivory Tower: The effects of NSF institutional grants on universities and local innovation" by @gabricristelli poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper "When Trade Drives Markup Divergence: An application to auto markets" by Agnes Norris Keiller, @timobermann.bsky.social, Andreas Teichgraeber, and @johnvanreenen.bsky.social poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- 📢Job vacancy: POID is hiring a Research Assistant to with John Van Reenen on cutting-edge research on innovation, difussion and productivity, contributing to co-authored, top-journal-quality outputs. Apply 👉: ow.ly/vRLL50XZz98 📅 Deadline: Monday 16 February
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- "Management matters. But only when the market rewards it." Read the latest VoxDev article by Nick Bloom, Leo Iacovone, Mariana Pereira-López, and John Van Reenen
- 📢Job vacancy: POID is hiring a Research Assistant to with John Van Reenen on cutting-edge research on innovation, difussion and productivity, contributing to co-authored, top-journal-quality outputs. Apply 👉: ow.ly/vRLL50XZz98 📅 Deadline: Monday 16 February
- "State and Time-Dependent Pricing" New @nber.org working paper by Philip Bunn, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Craig Menzies, Paul Mizen, Gregory Thwaites, and Ivan Yotzov www.nber.org/papers/w34666
- #POIDjob We are hiring a Research Assistant to work on a project lead by @johnvanreenen.bsky.social researching how to boost productivity through nurturing innovation and how to diffuse these ideas across the economy. Apply by 16 February. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- #POIDBlog @nickbloom.bsky.social, Gregory Thwaites and co-authors are discussing the effects of Brexit in the UK economy poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- #POIDBlog @raffasadun.bsky.social shares insights on the human cost of change, making progress without a playbook, and how leaders can turn AI experiments into a competitive advantage poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- #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
- #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
- 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...
- 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 poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- "What AI Means for Growth and Jobs" By Philippe Aghion @simonbunel.bsky.social & Xavier Jaravel www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
- 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. cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/news/ab...
- 2025 Nobel Laureate: Philippe Aghion @johnvanreenen.bsky.social writes about the profound influence of Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion's work poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- Read the latest #POIDWorkingPaper "Strategic Confusopoly: Evidence from the UK mobile telecommunications market" By @cgenakos.bsky.social @tkretschmer.bsky.social @ambrenicolle.bsky.social poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- Read the latest #POIDWorkingPaper Resetting the innovation clock: Endogenous growth through technological turnover By Philippe Aghion @abergeaud.bsky.social Timo Boppart @jfbrou.bsky.social poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
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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 poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
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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 poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- Escaping Labor Scarcity: Innovation and human capital after WW1 in France New #POIDWorkingPaper by @abergeaud.bsky.social, Jean-Baptiste Chaniot, and Clement Malgouyres poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- 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 poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- 🎙️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! @cep-lse.bsky.social @johnvanreenen.bsky.social #RuveydaGozen www.youtube.com/watch?si=me4...
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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...
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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
- New #POIDWorkingPaper on "Remote work, employee mix, and performance" by Cevat Giray Aksoy, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Steven J. Davis, Victoria Marino and Cem Ozguzel poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper on 'The new geography of labor markets' by @mertakan.bsky.social, Jose Maria Barrero, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Thomas Bowen, Shelby Buckman, Steven J. Davis and Hyoseul Kim poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper 'Rationalizing firm forecasts' by @nickbloom.bsky.social, @mihaicod.bsky.social and Robert S. Fletcher poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper on 'Distributional consumer price indices' by Xavoer Jaravel poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper 'Conversations at scale: robust AI-led interviews with simple open-source platform' by Friedrich Geiecke & Xavier Jaravel poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- New #POIDWorkingPaper on the new digitial divide by Rahul Dodhia, Tammy Glazer, Shane Greenstein, Allen Kim, Juan Lavista Ferres, Mayana Pereira, Lucia Ronchi Darre, @raffasadun.bsky.social & Prasanna Tambe poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- #POIDWorkingPaper on a field experiment on generative AI reshaping teamwork & expertise | Charles Ayoubi, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Jeff Goldman, Yi Han, Karim Lakhani, Hila Lifshitz, @emollick.bsky.social, Lilach Mollick, Hari Nair, @raffasadun.bsky.social & Stewart Taub poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- How Different Uses of AI Shape Labor Demand: Evidence from France | @AEAjournals #AEAPapersAndProceedings publication by Philippe Aghion, SimonBunel, Xavier Jaravel, Thomas Mikaelsen, Alexandra Roulet, and Jakob Søgaard www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
- Cultural exception? Why regulating the book market contradicts conventional wisdom about competition | Read the latest @lseblogs.bsky.social post by @cgenakos.bsky.social, Lorien Sabatino and Tommaso Valletti poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- Competition-Friendly Industrial Policy | Read the latest blog post by Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont and Patrick Legros poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- Research on the widening workplace gap shows a growing disconnect between workplace mandates and reality. poid.lse.ac.uk/news/abstrac...
- Hear from three LSE Nobel Laureates this June! ✨ Amartya Sen, Daron Acemoglu and Christopher Pissarides join our #LSEEvents line-up. Full event and ticket information: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/Nobel...
- Listen to @haskelecon discussing trade deals and trade agreements @BBCr4today [26:11] poid.lse.ac.uk/news/abstrac...
- "Management and firm dynamism" New #POIDWorkingPaper by @nickbloom.bsky.social Jonathan S. Hartley @raffasadun.bsky.social Rachel Schuh and @johnvanreenen.bsky.social poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
- Excited to share that #LSEEnvironmentCamp is back on 14–15 March! 🌱 PhD students in economics will present fresh research on environmental issues. Join us at LSE or tune in online. Details here: sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_n...
- "Polarised technologies" Read the latest #POIDWorkingPaper by @gaiadossi.bsky.social and @martamorando.bsky.social poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
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- #POID's Philippe Aghion has received a honorary doctorate from Stockholm University to hounour his engagement with research at the university and his support and help to doctoral students. www.su.se/english/ne...
- "Unlike everyone else, Americans and Brits still shun the office" Read the article on the Economist referencing research by @nickbloom.bsky.social that surveyed 16,000 university graduates in 40 countries www.economist.com/finance-and-...
- "Creative destruction through innovation bursts" Read the latest #POIDWorkingPaper by Giuseppe Berlingieri, @deriddermaarten.bsky.social, Danial Lashkari and Davide Rigo poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
- "How emigration shapes the diffusion of new technologies" New @lseblogs.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social by Davide M. Coluccia and Gaia Dossi poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...
