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Andreas Teichgraeber

Andreas Teichgraeber

PhD Student

Email:
a.o.teichgraeber@lse.ac.uk
Links:
Economics of Environment and Energy
Economics of Industry
Department of Economics

Biography

Andreas is a PhD candidate in Economics at LSE. His research interests lie in the areas of Industrial Organisation and Environmental Economics. He is particularly interested in changes in the market structure of different industries, including rising market power of big firms and its implications for innovation and productivity growth. Before starting the PhD at LSE, Andreas worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Economic Performance on topics around innovation and productivity growth with a focus on the EU and UK. He previously gained experience in economic consulting and banking. Andreas holds an MSc in Economics from LSE and a BSc in Economics from the University of Mannheim.

Latest

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Revving up wages: How rising productivity has benefited car industry workers

20 February 2025

Tim Obermeier and Andreas Teichgraeber

Fast productivity growth in the UK car industry led to staff in the sector earning about 37% more than the average manufacturing employee by the 2010s. But Andreas Teichgraeber and Tim Obermeier show that while wages wen... Read more...
Blog
The productivity boom in the British car industry benefited workers, with a caveat

05 November 2024

Tim Obermeier and Andreas Teichgraeber

Productivity growth can play an important role in raising wages. The UK car industry experienced fast productivity growth over the past 40 years, and by the 2010s car workers were earning about 37 per cent more than the ... Read more...
Blog
What share of the economic pie goes to workers?

28 October 2024

Andreas Teichgraeber

Over the last two decades, the proportion of national income going to employees and the self-employed - the labour share - has declined in many advanced economies. This has not happened in the UK, which might seem like g... Read more...
POID Working Papers
When trade drives markup divergence an application to auto markets

30 July 2024

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

When firms sell in multiple markets, estimates of markups from the demand-side will generally diverge from estimates based on the supply-side (e.g. via production functions). The empirical examination of the importance o... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
When trade drives markup divergence: An application to auto markets

26 July 2024

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

When firms sell in multiple markets, estimates of markups from the demand-side will generally diverge from estimates based on the supply-side (e.g. via production functions). The empirical examination of the importance o... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
An engine of (pay) growth? Productivity and wages in the UK auto industry

03 July 2024

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

When labour market competition is imperfect, positive industry (and firm) productivity shocks can be passed through to workers in the form of higher wages. We document how the UK auto industry, following a period of decl... Read more...
POID Working Papers
An Engine of (Pay) Growth?: Productivity and wages in the UK auto industry

01 July 2024

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

When labour market competition is imperfect, positive industry (and firm) productivity shocks can be passed through to workers in the form of higher wages. We document how the UK auto industry, following a period of decl... Read more...
POID Research Seminar
Markups trends and trade

09 January 2024

Agnes Norris Keiller (POID and CEP), Andreas Teichgraeber (LSE)

Markup estimation has gained attention in recent years following work by de Loecker et al documenting increases in markups across a range of countries and industries. Their findings contrast with a series of studies in t... Read more...
POID Working Papers
A policy toolkit to increase research and innovation in the European Union

25 February 2022

Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

What research and innovation (R&I) policies should Europe adopt? The world faces a challenge to rebuild after the pandemic, but also faces the same structural slowdown of productivity growth that occurred in the decades ... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
A policy toolkit to increase research and innovation in the European Union

25 February 2022

Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

What research and innovation (R&I) policies should Europe adopt? The world faces a challenge to rebuild after the pandemic, but also faces the same structural slowdown of productivity growth that occurred in the decades ... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
Have productivity and pay decoupled in the UK?

03 November 2021

Andreas Teichgraeber and John Van Reenen

In the long-run at the macro level, the real pay of workers tends to follow labour productivity. In recent years, however, there have been concerns that this relationship has broken down and that pay has become "decouple... Read more...
POID Research Seminar
Has aggregate productivity and pay decoupled the UK?

05 July 2021

Andreas Teichgraeber (LSE)

This presentation analysed the growth of productivity and pay in the UK over the last 40 years. We showed that mean employee compensation and labour productivity have both almost doubled. However, when extending the anal... Read more...

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