Monday, 30 March 2026

Our AI work

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 This page, which I will update, aims to give some links to some of our AI work 1. AI and productivity . 2. Tweet  thread describing  our re...

Planning and energy costs again

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 An extraordinary blog on the costs of the planning system via conservative assessments of ecological damage. My italics.  1. " The fi...
Friday, 20 March 2026

Are Manufacturing Jobs Still Good Jobs? An Exploration of the Manufacturing Wage Premium

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 From Baynard, et al, 2022 .  This paper explores the factors behind differences in wages between manufacturing and other sectors. Using dat...
Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Scanner data (and some other changes) are coming to the UK CPI

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 I'm writing this a week before scanner data is introduced into the UK CPI, which will be for the February 2026 inflation figures.  Here...
Sunday, 8 March 2026

Energy prices and inflation

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 Marvellous from the Resolution Foundation  publishing just after the March Iran conflict It feels like only yesterday that we experienced ...

Market concentration and intangibles

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  M. Bajgar ,  C. Criscuolo , and  J. Timmis , “  Intangibles and Industry Concentration: A Cross-Country Analysis ,”  Oxford Bulletin of Ec...
Monday, 2 March 2026

Minimum wages

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 1. For what it's worth, my model of the effects of minimum wages is this. 2.  The labour market consists of a covered and uncovered sec...
Tuesday, 24 February 2026

Error and fraud in R&D tax credits

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 To look at this, this HMRC report, from 2023, looked at claims in 2020-21.  They say that there has been reforms since then.  Here are the...
Monday, 16 February 2026

The end of rent sharing in the UK

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 Bell, Brian, Bukowski, Pawel & Machin, Stephen (2024) The decline in rent sharing. Labor Economics, 42(3), 683 - 716. https://doi.org/1...
Friday, 13 February 2026

CPI, RPI and CPIH, summary of differences

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  The final table in Consumer Price Indices, Technical Manual, 2019 https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/methodologies/co...