The Nobel Prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join the University of Zurich in July 2026. Using external funds provided by the Lemann Foundation, the two researchers will establish a new center for development economics, education and public policy.

A research team at Clausthal University of Technology has released the first Python-based life-cycle costing (LCC) tool that explicitly models the inherent uncertainty surrounding proton-exchange-membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE), a cornerstone technology for producing “green” hydrogen. The work is published today in Frontiers in Energy under the title “Working with uncertainty in life-cycle costing: New approach applied to the case study on proton-exchange-membrane water electrolysis” (Chen et al., 2025).

New research led by Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) has revealed the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW) in the UK in April 2016 significantly decreased labour mobility across firms by minimum wage workers. While this meant a pay boost for many low-paid workers, the rising wage floor could be affecting the fluidity of the job market if it is reducing workers’ incentives to search for new jobs and move between firms.

Professor Dai Chunyan from Chongqing Technology and Business University and Professor Michael Pollitt from the University of Cambridge have jointly published a study exploring the coordination mechanisms between China's national and local carbon markets in the context of global carbon pricing. They published their review in Energy and Climate Management on August 20, 2025.