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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
Higher wages for public sector officials can reduce corruption and improve the enforcement of property rights in many developing and transition... More
Regulatory mechanisms known as output floors, which share the desirable properties of RPI-X price cap regulation but not its drawbacks, would be a... More
The twin phenomena of globalisation (as indicated by rapidly growing world trade) and new technology are to blame for the eroding relative wages and... More
Over the last two decades, over three million jobs have been lost in UK manufacturing with particularly severe losses among low skilled workers. The... More
Despite the turmoil in Asian financial markets, no one can question their superior economic performance over the past few decades. Were India, for... More
A common proposal to remedy rising inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is to endow less skilled workers with more skills through... More
There is little empirical basis for the comforting consensus among economists that globalisation did not cause the rise in wage inequality and... More
Output fluctuations over the business cycle can occur for two reasons, according to Allison Holland and Professor Andrew Scott, writing in the latest... More
European economic and monetary union (EMU) is about to happen. Should it? Many economists argue ‘No.’ But writing in the latest issue of the Economic... More
Will the spread of regionalism - groupings like the EU, NAFTA, ASEAN and Mercosur - undermine the progress of multilateralism in establishing a global... More
By rewarding hospitals that consistently attract more patients, even when capacity limitations mean that not all those patients can be treated, health... More
The collapse of fixed and managed exchange rate systems around the world and the resulting exchange rate instability has been one of the major events... More
World Bank and IMF analysts try to measure the height of a country’s trade barriers in order to determine how far they must be reduced before fresh... More
Many argue that getting the unemployed into work through hiring subsidies or ‘workfare’ inducements will make a permanent dent in unemployment even if... More
New Zealand’s bold reform of its central bank in 1989 has been widely influential, largely because the country successfully reduced its high inflation... More
Among economists nowadays, the dominant view of unemployment is that it consists of two separate, independent components: the ‘natural rate of... More
In 1989, the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) recommended the forced divestiture of 14,000 UK pubs ‘tied’ to national brewers, claiming that... More
Barely a day goes by without some expert telling us how the continental European economies are about to disintegrate unless their labour markets... More
Women are twice as generous as men, according to two American economists writing in the May 1998 issue of the Economic Journal. In an experiment... More
Restoring a golden age of low unemployment, rapid economic growth and a stable international competitive structure demands reform of the international... More