Wine Industry Merger - Majestic Merges with Naked Wines
2015 has already been a vintage year for mega takeover and merger deals. This one is significantly smaller, but a good example of horizontal integration in a market.
Paul Ormerod: Capitalism is both stable and resilient
The financial crisis did succeed in creating at least one dynamic new industry. Since the late 2000s, there has been a massive upsurge in op-ed pieces, books and even artistic performances offering...
Shell to buy BG in a mega deal
Royal Dutch Shell is to buy BG Group in $69.7 billion takeover - the first mega merger in the oil and gas industry for over a decade.
FedEx agrees a merger with TNT Express
An agreed merger between FedEx and TNT Express announced in April 2015 is a good example of horizontal integration in the European Union parcel deliveries market.
How The Bank Of England Tries To Control House Prices
Ed Conway of Sky News looks at the tools available for the Bank of England should it want to control house prices as part of their overall monetary policy.
Writing a path back to target - Carney on Inflation
The Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney gives a speech on the importance of low positive inflation for the competitiveness of the UK economy. Ignore the first ten minutes of this video -...
Global economy: Secular stagnation debate continues apace!
I heartily recommend this article from Duncan Weldon, BBC Newsnight's Economics correspondent on the continuing debate over whether advanced countries risk becoming gripped in a period of secular...
Real wages and living standards in the UK - recent evidence
This article from Stephen Machin of the LSE looks at the decline in real wages in the UK during the last five to six years.
UK Government Top 40 Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure spending is absolutely pivotal to the current intense debate about the size and pattern of state spending in the UK. The Coalition Government does have a National Infrastructure Plan...
The Coalition's flagship pension reform has now come in to force, enabling hundreds of thousands of people of a pensionable age to start to take out a larger proportion or all of their accrued...
ASEAN's next decade
This article on growth and development prospects for ASEAN countries published in the Bangkok Post offers an excellent overview of many of the development challenges facing countries in the region
Natural hedging to reduce exposure to currency volatility
This article from Bloomberg looks at the growing use of "natural hedging" by businesses who are exposed to big swings in exchange rates.
Low productivity threatens UK recovery and living standards
There's a lot of discussion about low
productivity in the UK. To some economists, productivity – typically measured by output per hour worked – is the single most important economic indicator.
OECD Overview of the UK Economy (2015)
The 2015 OECD survey of the state of health of the UK economy provides some important and useful pointers to the relative strengths and weaknesses of the British economy at a crucial stage of the...
Grade Boundaries for AS and A2 Economics (EdExcel)
Here are details of the grade boundaries from the June 2014 papers set and marked by EdExcel
How does an airport such as Heathrow make money? One key source of revenue is the charge on each and every passenger flying out of Heathrow to domestic and overseas destinations.
Building the Entrepreneurial State
A brilliant new paper from economist Mariana Mazzucato explores a mission-based approach to building the entrepreneurial state.
Amazon's Dash Button - Dynamic Efficiency at Work?
This is not an April Fool's hoax! Amazon has launched the Dash button to help people automate their shopping using the internet of things. Prime customers are being encouraged to use the new button...
Why is room service so expensive?
Room service and taking items from the mini bar are just about the two more surefire ways of adding hugely to your hotel bill when accounts come to be settled.
The annual rate of consumer price inflation in the UK has dropped to zero per cent and many are forecasting that we will experience a bout of price deflation in the months ahead. But how likely is...