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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
Two of the most successful Southeast Asian economies, Taiwan and South Korea, contrast dramatically in their capacity to withstand economic... More
Recent advances in economic analysis have helped to clarify why corruption is so detrimental to economic development and to the efficient functioning... More
With interest rates not far from the zero floor in many parts of the industrial world, can central banks do anything more to stimulate demand? Writing... More
Unionised workers stands to lose from globalisation, according to research by Kjell Erik Lommerud, Frode Meland and Lars Sørgard. But their... More
A surprisingly high proportion of British employees experience pay cuts, according to new research by President of the Royal Economic... More
Companies enjoying high earnings are right to have relatively less debt despite the tax benefits of greater leverage, according to new research... More
A reduction in the minimum wage significantly increases wage inequality, according to a study of US data for the 1970s and 1980s by Professor... More
Do regional integration agreements (RIAs) promote convergence or divergence of per capita income levels among their members? It all depends on whether... More
Experience is a teacher. Economists sometimes defend their assumptions about rational human behaviour by resorting to just this folk wisdom. But some... More
What is the ideal share-trading platform for institutional investors? According to research by Dr Andy Snell and Professor Ian Tonks, published in the... More
Productivity growth in UK manufacturing is driven less by efficiency improvements within individual plants than by ‘survival of the fittest’ – the... More
Fluency in English has a significant impact on the pay and job prospects of UK immigrants from ethnic minorities. According to new research by... More
Efforts to reduce child poverty have been more effective in Britain than in the United States, according to new research by Richard Dickens and David... More
The world is not facing imminent environmental catastrophe, but everything is far from rosy in terms of the world's social and environmental... More
The number of poor children has fallen and the living standards of the vast majority of children have risen since the Labour government took office,... More
The bulk of European Union (EU) population growth now comes from immigration – and in the face of increasing competition from immigrant workers and... More
New research by University of California economists Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor reveals that capital markets viewed governments'... More
Are we headed for a cashless society, where all payments are made by cards via the technology of EFTPOS (electronic fund transfers at point of sale)?... More
Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Leicester have developed a new small macroeconomic model of the UK economy, which... More
Research by Rasmus Fatum and Michael Hutchison, published in the latest issue of the Economic Journal, provides strong new evidence that... More