Jonathan Haskel's Blog

 Nerdy. Often when doing growth in Economics, we use change in natural logs.   For a change to y from x, the log point change = 100*ln(y/x)....

 1. If we have to spend more on defence, what is the scale of those numbers? 2. The ever brilliant IFS have a " what does the governmen...

 In class we have spent a lot of time saying how informative log scales are. Here's a perfect illustration from Martin Wolf in the FT.  ...

If you'd like a beautiful visual summary of some of our work on intangibles, do look at this amazing graphic storyboard from The Beautif...

We have spent time in class reviewing how firms can adjust to prices by changing no only quantities, but other margins as well.  Here's ...

Everybody knows the answer to this. Economics is about economic forecasting. Since much of economic forecasting is wrong, economics must b...

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We spend a lot of time in class looking at prices as a discovery mechanism and as an information indicator of unknown consumer attributes.  ...

With COVID modelling in the news the relation between the two is interesting.  in this pos t, Peter Klein, argues     " To understand ...

Ben Bernanke has a very interesting review paper on QE .  Here are some excerpts. 1.        He focusses on large-scale asset purchases...

Imperial college student webinar, Current economic prospects, 12 May 2020 Some of our Imperial College students organised a webinar l...

We discussed the role of the state in the last section of class on Wednesday. Here is a typically insightful essay by Tim Taylor on what th...

1. Broadband raises productivity and demand for the skilled, lowers for the unskilled (Quarterly Journal of Economics (2015), 1781–1824). ...