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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
Government ministers need to take a long hard look at the health, income and disability benefits available to potential entrepreneurs if they are... More
Six out of ten couples cannot agree on two simple facts about their relationship: one, how many years they had been together; and two, whether they... More
‘Just as early chess-playing programs were easily defeated, but later ones could beat grandmasters, so we anticipate computer-automated model... More
‘Despite the fact that, fundamentally, there can be no such thing as independence for the central bank, the institutional arrangements and... More
The monthly GDP estimates from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) are highly respected measures of the key broad-based... More
New research by David Blackaby, Alison Booth, and Jeff Frank reveals that a female academic economist in the UK – of the same ability and productivity... More
Stricter enforcement of credit contracts through the courts can actually have a damaging effect on the economy, according to research by Professor... More
A large part of the dramatic rise in unemployment in the big continental European countries since the 1960s can be explained by changes in the key... More
Helping a developing economy to escape from the poverty trap of high population growth and low education means increasing the relative cost of having... More
Teams clearly outperform individuals in economic decision-making. That is the key result of a laboratory study by Professors Martin Kocher and... More
The downturn of international stock markets in recent years has left many investors worried about their portfolio performance and confused about the... More
Expert advisers who are unbiased put the most effort into providing high quality information to policy-makers. Yet strongly biased policy-makers may... More
The International Labour Organisation’s efforts to fight the worst forms of child labour with an international ban would do more harm than good to... More
New research by Professor Michael Mandler argues that while consumers do not have a complete set of preferences about the goods they want to have or... More
Does education increase the productivity of workers – as in Gary Becker’s Nobel Prize-winning work on ‘human capital’ theory? Or is it simply that... More
Like any of us, people living below the poverty line are likely to adapt psychologically to their circumstances. According to new research by... More
Monetary policy is less effective in economies where transactions costs in financial markets are low – that is, where financial market participants... More
How social safety net programmes are financed is as important as how effectively they target the poorest households, according to new research by... More
The year ahead forecasts published in the Bank of England’s quarterly Inflation Report seem to be over-estimating the chances of relatively high rates... More
Since the 1997/8 Asian financial crises, the monetary authorities in East Asia’s emerging markets have more than doubled their stockpiles of... More