Jonathan Haskel's Blog

An occasional blog on economics. Designed for students and those interested in Economics topics.

Saturday, 5 December 2015

What is the Impact of Universities on the UK Economy?

Universities UK alert me to a report, The impact of universities on the UK economy , PDF here , from April 2014. What does it say? Her...

Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Various teaching links

1. Professors on Corporate Boards Increase Profits. of course. 2. the FT on the UK productivity puzzle: Osborne's unorthodox solution...

Friday, 23 October 2015

Various teaching links: broadband and innovation

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

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Various teaching links

Spencer Dale, Chief Economist at BP on the New Economics of Oil . Very interesting: paper here . Thanks to my past student Sav for the link...

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Have ONS data revisions solved the productivity puzzle?

(This is a corrected post following my earlier post, for readers of the earlier post, please see Update note below) The ONS yesterday revi...

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About Me

Jonathan Haskel: Our new book is "Restarting the Future: how to fix the intangible economy" with Stian Westlake, Princeton University Press, https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211589/restarting-the-future. I am Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, England. My research is on growth, innovation and the knowledge economy. Since September 2018 I have been an external member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. Views on this blog are my own. My website is http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.haskel

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