Thursday, 9 July 2026

Government support for business R&D: New OECD data

›
 OECD data just released shows the large scale of UK government support via the tax system for R&D.  Data are from the   newly updated ...
Monday, 15 June 2026

Brexit and business investment: an update

›
1. In 2023, Josh Martin and I published a brief analysis of how Brexit affected UK business investment.  We looked at what happened to UK bu...
Thursday, 16 April 2026

UK GDP, some handy numbers.

›
  For the UK, annual GDP (2025) is around £3,040bn.   Government and real estate are around 31% of GDP (19% and 12%), making current market ...
Monday, 30 March 2026

Our AI work

›
 This page, which I will update, aims to give some links to some of our AI work 1.  May 2026.   Measuring AI and some first results on AI an...

Planning and energy costs again

›
 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

›
 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

›
 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

Market concentration and intangibles

›
  M. Bajgar ,  C. Criscuolo , and  J. Timmis , “  Intangibles and Industry Concentration: A Cross-Country Analysis ,”  Oxford Bulletin of Ec...
Tuesday, 24 February 2026

Error and fraud in R&D tax credits

›
 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

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