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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
International outsourcing has had a strongly negative impact on the demand for unskilled labour in the UK. At the same time, skilled workers are more... More
Almost half of all UK gas consumers – 10 million households – have switched supplier, according to the energy regulator Ofgem. New research by... More
US financial markets have started to react significantly to market developments in the euro area since the new currency was launched in 1999. At the... More
Inequitable outcomes that people would otherwise reject are acceptable when they come about through ‘fair procedures’, according to new research.... More
New research explains people’s apparently irrational attachment to things that they own – why, for example, elderly homeowners don’t release capital... More
It is relatively common in sub-Saharan Africa and other poor countries for fishermen to refuse to use a new net technology that is offered to them for... More
It is relatively common in sub-Saharan Africa and other poor countries for fishermen to refuse to use a new net technology that is offered to them for... More
The predictive power of the yield curve has been at the forefront of recent economic discussions in both the United States and Europe. New research by... More
Differences in incentives in the American and British (and continental European) legal systems explain why Americans spend so much more on civil... More
A new study of British and German manufacturing in the early post-war decades shows how weak competition and restrictions on international trade and... More
Research published in the July 2005 Economic Journal proposes a new stock market trading rule that uses analysis of speculative bubbles to generate... More
New research on companies’ bidding strategies in the UK’s 2000 auction of third generation (3G) mobile spectrum licences suggests that motives other... More
A new study of the behaviour of the German Bundesbank over 40 years shows that central banks with ‘conservative’ majorities – those tightly focused on... More
New research shows that globalisation and technological progress both lead to greater wage inequality. But while globalisation increases the... More
THE JOBS IMPACT OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS Local officials may be greatly overestimating the benefits of economic development efforts to... More
Because markets work to protect the value of their assets, not only do market-based sovereign debt swaps not avert macroeconomic crises (like those in... More
The impact on output of interest rate changes in the eurozone is significantly greater in recessions than in booms. But there are also considerable... More
People tend to be slightly overconfident when doing easy tasks when no money is involved. But this overconfidence vanishes when the task is unfamiliar... More
Many international financial crises of the 1980s and 1990s included both a massive devaluation and a collapse of the banking system – a phenomenon... More
Health policy should give more priority to health programmes that benefit the elderly and save lives now. It should give less priority to preventive... More