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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
Restrictions on taking interest on loans and other economically inhibitive laws persisted much longer in the Islamic world than in western... More
Repeated lending to weak sovereign borrowers – such as sixteenth century Spain or modern-day Greece – can make perfect sense, according to a... More
Favouritism – treating certain people better on the basis of friendship ties rather than merit – is not necessarily damaging to the success of a... More
Direct democracy – the direct involvement of citizens in political decisions – can be an effective tool for cutting public spending, according... More
High or rising inequality in villages in rural China during the reform years since the late 1980s cannot be blamed for slower economic ... More
Higher employment protection for older workers can have damaging effects on younger workers, according to research by Professor Jean-Olivier... More
Investment promotion agencies (IPAs) are a cost-effective way of increasing inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) for developing countries,... More
The increase in net immigration to the UK from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s was not driven primarily by the economic performance of the UK or... More
Search engines like Google can earn more revenue from paid-placement advertising when the keywords that people use are not very precise. That is... More
Nearly all work in economics is built on the theory that individual preferences are fixed, stable and the same for all people. But a new study... More
Public support for universal healthcare or greater protection against the risk of unemployment is far stronger among Swiss citizens who speak... More
Oppressed people at the bottom of an extreme social hierarchy are less likely to punish someone who hurts a member of their own community than... More
People who have not previously thought much about the value to society of donating blood are much more likely to make a donation when they have... More
Higher local authority taxes reduce employment in existing firms, according to research by Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Henry Overman. But... More
The US Federal Reserve did not cause the recessions of the 1970s and early 1980s by raising interest rates in response to unexpectedly higher oil... More
Liberalising Europe’s energy markets and reducing restrictions on price competition in professional activities, such as the law, accountancy... More
In Aceh, Indonesia, the Indian ocean region that suffered the most deaths in the 2004 tsunami, people in households with more adult males were less... More
Liberalising Europe’s energy markets and reducing restrictions on price competition in professional activities, such as the law, accountancy and... More
Countries with larger populations generally have higher levels of trust – a belief across their societies that other people will ‘do the right... More
Developing countries have more to gain from implementing stronger protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) than is commonly believed.... More