What is econometrics?
Koen Jochmans of Sciences Po speaks to Mark Thoma about his research and winning the Sargan Prize for outstanding research in the Econometric Journal. This interview was conducted at the Royal...
Efficiency matters! It can make the economy better off. Understanding efficiency in manufacturing and retail markets can help guide policy, according to prize-winning research by Daniel Muller and...
Why you shouldn't copy your classmates!
Students beware: if you rely too much on your classmates, you all suffer. That is the central message of a new five-minute film about prizewinning research, which looks at the behaviour of...
Telecoms Contestability - OFCOM acts
According to this report from the Telegraph, British Telecom will be forced by the industry regulator OFCOM to open up their high speed network with the aim of making the market for super fast...
China to invest $50bn in Brazil infrastructure
This is one of those take-note economics news stories. The Chinese government is set to confirm plans for a multi-billion dollar infrastructure investment plan with Brazil as part of a long term...
Inclusive Growth Rankings for Asian Economies
Translating gains in real GDP into tangible and sustainable improvements in development outcomes is one of the major challenges facing all developing countries. In recent years there has been...
Industrialisation in Africa
Economics coverage of Africa can be a bit bleak, although perhaps they shouldn't be, with incomes rising rapidly in parts of Africa. There tends to be lots of focus on problems, such as primary...
Can poorer countries follow China's growth model?
Most development economists stress the crucial role typically played by industrialisation as a trigger to economic growth and development. Export led growth, built on rising manufacturing has...
Supply-side policy: stricter laws on strike action
The new Business Secretary Sajid Javid has talked openly about how he intends to push through new legislation on strike action in the UK. The plan will be to insist that a higher proportion of the...
Mark Carney on the Today programme
Following Wednesday's lower unemployment figures, and the Bank of England's lowering of growth expectations for 2015, Mark Carney was interviewed on the Today programme this morning, and gave a...
The Best Nudge of All?
The rise of 'libertarian paternalism' in the public domain has been one of the characteristics of recent thinking about how to resolve market failures. It has been applied to all sorts of...
Opinion Polls, Financial Crashes and Groupthink
The election is done and dusted, but many interesting questions remain. Was there a swing to the Conservatives at the very last minute, or was it indeed possible to foresee the victory in advance?...
Why China's economic slowdown matters
The Chinese economy is in a transition phase to a period of slower and (hopefully) more balanced growth. This matters for China, her trade and investment partners and pretty much the whole of the...
Whistl Suspends Deliveries
Whistl, the postal services company targeting the Royal Mail in delivering letters in city centre locations has announced that, due to the pulling of private equity funding, they are suspending...
Possible causes and effects of slow wage growth
There's some evidence that inequality may be rising, and in most places the recession that followed the financial crisis had dire effects on wages. According to the Economist, despite five years of...
Australia is very exposed to the risks associated with an export sector dominated by exports of commodity items. Economists know the price of commodities tend to be highly volatile. Rising...
Natural resources - what is the sea worth?
As the WWF releases a report on the economic value of the world's oceans, BBC News looks at their findings, and the value of auditing nature
Takehiko Nakao is president of the Asian Development Bank and in this blog he outlines his chosen eight factors behind rapid economic growth and development in the Asian continent. Asia is making...
China at the Lewis Turning Point
The demographic dividend that has supported rapid Chinese economic growth is coming to an end.
India's quest for reliable education continues
This FT video from the heart of rural India is revealing in many different ways. More parents are taking their students out of state schools and sending them to the mushrooming private system, but...