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The chances of a company being found guilty of abuse of a monopoly position by the UK’s Competition Commission increase enormously if the chair of the... More
The stock market and the unemployment rate are like two drunks walking down the street tied together with a rope, according to Professor Roger Farmer,... More
Governments and central banks should think twice before designing policies aimed at the housing market in an effort to stimulate household demand and... More
Raising the compulsory school leaving age in the UK is likely to reduce the rate of teenage pregnancy, currently among the highest in Europe. That is... More
A temporary policy of removing penalties for possessing cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth increased the number of admissions to hospital for... More
Any visa policies that restrict entry by highly productive foreign students are a significant barrier to science and ultimately to innovation and... More
The most innovative and productive firms send their exports to the world’s richest countries. That is the central finding of research by Rosario Crinò... More
Immigration lowers the wages of relatively low-skilled native employees in sectors of the service economy that hire bigger shares of foreign workers.... More
Fierce competition among banks in the mortgage market may not always be desirable, according to research by Javier Andres and Oscar Arce, published in... More
Reducing the income tax rate and increasing the inheritance tax rate could induce a huge increase in UK GDP, according to research by Professors... More
UNEMPLOYMENT IN RECESSION: Nobel prize-winning economist explains why active labour market policies are essential to help our jobless youth Youth... More
Central banks’ asset purchase programmes introduced in the wake of the financial crisis seem to have been effective in lowering government bond yields... More
The large-scale asset purchase programmes (LSAPs) that several central banks have implemented to deal with the aftermath of the financial crisis are... More
Without the asset purchases undertaken between March 2009 and January 2010 in the first phase of the Bank of England’s ‘quantitative easing’ (QE)... More
The asset purchases undertaken between March 2009 and January 2010 in the first phase of the Bank of England’s ‘quantitative easing’ (QE) policy had a... More
The length of central banks’ ‘quantitative easing’ (QE) programmes and how they are communicated to the markets could be at least as important for... More
The beneficial impact of the Federal Reserve’s programmes of purchasing longer-term assets on longer-term US Treasury yields has largely happened... More
Unconventional monetary policies – such as large-scale asset purchases and signalling that the central bank will keep its policy interest rates low –... More
By arresting the potential collapse of transactions between banks and thus of financial intermediation more generally, the ‘non-standard’ monetary... More
RETURNING TO GROWTH Economic policy lessons from the 1930s and 1980s Now available: Slides of Nick Crafts’ RES Policy Lecture. If fiscal... More
It is in their profit-maximising nature that firms seek out low-tax locations, but this natural urge is not equally strong for all firms. According to... More
In seeking to resolve a conflict between two parties – say, the ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ countries in the eurozone – it would be useful to have a... More
Social and business dilemmas of how to cooperate are everywhere. Experimental research by Professors Todd Kaplan and Bradley Ruffle, published in the... More
Stock exchanges and symphony orchestras are found only in the biggest cities of the world while petrol stations and convenience stores are found... More
Despite the ease with which TV viewers can change channels, their choice of programme is heavily influenced by whether they watched the previous... More