Press & events
London Economics at the ICO’s Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference 2018
The ICO’s Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference 2018 took place on Monday 9 April at the Manchester Central Conference Centre. Moritz Godel presented LE research carried out last year for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the benefits of personal data rights under the GDPR. The work on produced two important insights: the existence, rather than the exercise, […]
The Business Benefits of Improved Trust Via the GDPR – UK Insurer GDPR and PCI Working Group, 29 November 2017
How does GDPR interact with other dimensions of trust to enable consumer participation in the digital economy? LE presented new insights on consumer valuation of GDPR rights and discussed the implications for the UK insurance industry in a meeting of the UK Insurer GDPR and PCI Working Group in London on 29 November 2017. Download […]
AmCham EU – The Action Scorecard
AmCham EU’s launches the 2016 Agenda for Action Scorecard at high-level policy discussion “Europe at a crossroads: Where do we go from here?” held on 9th November 2016. The Action Scorecard prepared by London Economics measures the progress the EU is making against AmCham EU’s action areas for growth, as well as offering an outlook […]
Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)
London Economics’ Charlotte Duke, Moritz Godel and Laura on a tour of the State Control Centre at Emergency Management Victoria. London Economics have recently been commissioned to undertake a study of the economic value of services provided by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology to support a Function and Efficiency Review.
The Impact of Literacy, Numeracy and Computer Skills on Earnings and Employment Outcomes – March 2016
Marguerita Lane, Senior Economic Consultant asks ‘Why do we bother with skills?’ in the latest CVER blogpost, based upon our OECD Education working paper. The blogpost and the report can be found below. Blog: http://cver-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/why-do-we-bother-with-skills.html Working paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5jm2cv4t4gzs-en
Met Office, General Review – Press Release
MET Office publishes economic study by London Economics on the value to the UK of MET office services. Press Release MET Office General Review
London Economics at the 2015 OER Finance Summit
LE partners Dr Charlotte Duke and Dr Paula Ramada delivered keynote speeches at the 2015 OER Finance Summit in Muscat on 20 October. Khalifa Mukheini (CEO SIMPA Marketing Research), Sandeep Sehgal (CEO UMS Group), Moritz Godel, Dr Charlotte Duke & Dr Paula Ramada Charlotte’s keynote presentation “Behavioural Economics – customer insights for an uncertain business […]
BBC News: Skylon ‘spaceplane Economics Stack Up’ – 29 May 2014
The BBC Science correspondent, Jonathan Amos, reports on the findings of a study of the economic feasibility of SKYLON (a conceptual reusable single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane) and a SKYLON–based European Launch Service Operator (S-ELSO), validated by the London Economics Aerospace team. “It appears a feasible proposition, economically. That is the conclusion of a study that considered a […]
Two 1-week Work Experience Positions in August 2014
London Economics is also offering two 1-week work experience positions in August 2014 for students having completed by June 2014 the first year of A level or IB and planning to study economics at university. The application deadline for these two work experience positions is 30 April 2014. Interested students should send their CV and […]
General Insurance Add-ons Market Study
The Financial Conduct Authority published its General Insurance Add-ons Market Study today. One of the key tools used in the study was a behavioural experiment by London Economics testing consumer reactions to the add-on mechanism http://www.fca.org.uk/news/general-insurance-add-ons-market-study