John Van Reenen@johnvanreenen

Ronald Coase School Professor LSE & MIT Digital Fellow IDE. POID Director. OBE & FBA.Jansson Award winner. ex-Chair of UK CEA

 London
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Joined August 2009
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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!

The Economics of Creative Destruction: New Research on Themes from Aghion and Howitt

The Economics of Creative Destruction: New Research on Themes from Aghion and Howitt

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🗓️ #LSEEnvironmentWeek: Join the discussion on how innovation can accelerate the transition to a cleaner, secure and sustainable energy future w/@asvalero @sinha_praveer @johnvanreenen Thu 24 Sept, 18:30, Old Theatre #LSEEvents Register 👉: ow.ly/XTl050ZPEiu

Innovation for a sustainable future | Achieving environmental sustainability

6:30pm Thu 24 Sept | Praveer Sinha, Anna Valero | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Innovation is changing how we generate, store and use energy. Clean energy needs more than new technology. What will it take to scale innovation and deliver a sustainable energy system? Join Anna Valero, Praveer Sinha (@TataPower) and @johnvanreenen lse.ac.uk/events/innovation-…

Innovation for a sustainable future | Achieving environmental sustainability

6:30pm Thu 24 Sept | Praveer Sinha, Anna Valero | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Example of a ‘Lost Marie Curie’? She Popularized Economics. Then She Was Erased From History. Why? nytimes.com/2026/08/29/busin… mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-…

She Popularized Economics. Then She Was Erased From History. Why?

Maria Edgeworth sneaked economic theory into her best-selling novels. Two centuries later, a new book finally gives her the credit she deserves.

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Steven N. Durlauf
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Aug 28
An important paper by Agnes Norris Keiller, Aureo de Palma @PaulaAureo, and John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen. The use of firm beliefs about future inputs and outputs represents a new route to identification under weaker assumptions than have been required in previous research. The excellent associated thread gives details.
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If this seems interesting to you, check the paper(s)! 👇 9/9 LINK TO PAPER: arxiv.org/abs/2407.07988 LINK TO COMPANION NOTE: shorturl.at/IY3km LINK TO NOTEBOOKLM PODCAST: shorturl.at/GL5PN
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Labour share continues to fall in US ft.com/content/6f3ada65-c56c… Goes alongside rise of superstar firms academic.oup.com/qje/article… This is not happening everywhere, though: in UK productivity & wages continue to move together johnvanreenen.com/_files/ugd…
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Good @resfoundation report on UK productivity rebound (spoiler: it's not due to tax rises ) theguardian.com/business/202… Consistent with our @POID_LSE analysis - update here cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…

UK productivity growing faster than official figures suggest, thinktank finds

Resolution Foundation suggests economy may finally be emerging from shadow of 2008 financial crisis

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Institut Ostrom
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Interesting new initative led by Mario Draghi, @patrickc (CEO of @stripe) and @lugaricano. With an excellent group of names including Nobel Price @Ph_Aghion, Andreu Mas-Colell @_alice_evans, @alexandraroulet, @bastinominacher, @bweder, @BCoeure, @BrunoLeMaire, @johnvanreenen, @matthewclifford, etc rhinegroup.eu/

Rhine Group — A stronger, more competitive Europe

The Rhine Group convenes European leaders from business, government, and academia to turn evidence into action for Europe's growth, competitiveness, and innovation.

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The Equilibrium Impact of Credit Frictions: Evidence from Default Risk Using Firm-Level Data l Tim Besley, @pj_lambert , Isabelle Michalski-Roland & @johnvanreenen write for @nberpubs nber.org/papers/w35552

The Equilibrium Impact of Credit Frictions: Evidence from Default Risk Using Firm-Level Data

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This is strong planning reform from Labour government to give default ‘yes’ to housing around commuter rail stations. Builds on our planning reforms in Dec 2024 that OBR scored to raise GDP by >£100bn. economist.com/britain/2026/0…

Two toots for England’s planning overhaul

A bold supply-side reform from this Labour government? Yes, really

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By popular demand, here's the updated UK productivity numbers incorporating @ONS data through 2026Q2 released this week. Very similar to our last report cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/… @asvalero @Sam1Fleming ft.com/content/6c358cee-d7ec…
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How can the UK get back to stronger #productivity growth? In his #RES2026 keynote, Prof. @johnvanreenen OBE explored how innovation policy can support growth, from industrial strategy and defence R&D to inequality and AI. Read more: bit.ly/4xNVeZH #EconTwitter
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People finally accepting that UK showing productivity improvement - me in @FT ft.com/content/6c358cee-d7ec… @poid_lse Underlying research poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS/… Our policies of stable fiscal framework, investment boost, planning reform helping blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp…

UK finally showing signs of productivity growth, say economists

Better output figures are a fillip to chancellor John Healey and come after years of underperformance

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At least partially AI-driven, says my colleague @johnvanreenen . And @andrewishart (who used to be my student ages ago) suggest that it's tech-driven. We are so back. UK finally showing signs of productivity boost, say economists giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic… via @financialtimes

UK finally showing signs of productivity growth, say economists

Better output figures are a fillip to chancellor John Healey and come after years of underperformance

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New @ONS numbers confirms that UK productivity growth recovery continues (need to use reliable admin RTI data not LFS): ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabo… Consistent with our findings on data through 2026Q1 theguardian.com/business/202… @poid_lse Details: cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…
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Aureo de Paula
@PaulaAureo
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📢 Agnes Norris Keiller, @johnvanreenen and I have recently issued a revision for our on "Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data”! Here comes a (very) short 🧵 on what we do in the paper… 1/9
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Andrea Presbitero@a_presbitero
Aug 18
The @cepr_org Vox Talks have 3 interesting episodes in which @timsvengali discusses the macroeconomic effects of scaling up #defense spending with @Ch_Trebesch @MSchularick and @johnvanreenen, covering the risk that higher military spending crowds out social spending, how to make defense spending more pro-growth, and R&D spillovers to the civilian sectors. Links in the next tweet
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This is an important structural reform to planning rules to help unlock more housing. theguardian.com/politics/202…

Loosening of planning rules in England to allow more new homes near stations

Angela Rayner to launch guidance for ‘default yes’ on developments near transport hubs, including on green belt sites

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Some more optimistic UK Productivity trends theguardian.com/business/202…

A positive new report raises the question: was Reeves undermined by dodgy data? | Heather Stewart

Assessment’s finding of a jump in UK productivity emphasises urgent need to appoint a national statistician

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UK economy grows 0.4% in second quarter Totally agree with abolishing monthly gdp and letting ONS focus its scarce resources on useful things- like LFS giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…

UK economy grows 0.4% in second quarter

Expansion comes as businesses weather surge in energy prices 

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Solid UK GDP performance despite headwinds ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdome… Means that productivity revival likely continuing. See latest @POID_LSE blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp… Blog version: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp…
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Additional post -- here is right link to the updated working paper on UK productivity numbers poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS/…
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