Our Director Jagjit S. Chadha contribution touched on topics such as #QE, as part of the debate on debt and overall public sector liabilities: "Including reserves as part of the total, means that the cost of debt service issue is going to be something like 5% to 6%. 1/2 ⬇️

A lot has happened in the last 12 months at The Productivity Institute. Our Annual Review 23-24 is now available to read on our website. We are grateful for the work and support from all our affiliated researchers, partner institutions, and business leaders, Productivity Forum

There's an economic lesson here for non-economists: Higher tariffs will raise the prices you face. And there's a meta lesson for economists: Telling a story in more human terms can make the insights of our models more digestible.

Economists pour cold water on several high-profile presidential econ policies, via Clark Center for Global Markets expert panel. 🧵 Virtually all say giving president more direct influence over monetary policy would lead to substantially worse monetary policy decisions kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/electi…

Delighted to see my work over the past 2 years published online! It is based on a DP (currently under revision at a journal), research.reading.ac.uk/economics/wp-c…. It proposes a new indicator that visualises progress the world & all countries are making towards greener economic growth. 1/9

📣 Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - LIVE PODCAST on 2 October, 7pm, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol. Join us as Tim shares stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists & hilarious fiascos. buff.ly/3YwxWsR Bristol Uni Events Bristol Ideas

Action to mitigate climate change remains essential. Visualisations of progress towards greener economic growth can help to promote policies that mobilise efforts to achieve net-zero carbon emissions. buff.ly/4d6korI

If you are interested in what’s happening in the UK & around the world – whether issues of sustainability, inequality, geopolitics, fairness, trade or the new government's priorities – join us at the Festival of Economics. 📅1-3 Oct 📍Bristol. Tickets👇 buff.ly/4blYK2l

I wrote a piece for Economics Observatory earlier this year on our low productivity transport system, the cascading effect this has on our whole economy making it less productive, and what I think we should do about it. So,..... I do think we can fix this. economicsobservatory.com/what-transport…

The new Geneva Report is out Much Money, Little Capital, and Few Reforms: The 2023 banking turmoil By Ignazio Angeloni Stijn Claessens Amit Seru Sascha Steffen Beatrice Weder di Mauro CEPR

We recently polled our US Economic Experts Panel on Election Economic Policy Ideas. The confidence-weighted answer to the 1st question is as follows: kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/electi…

Martin Amis, fourteen rules for writers (2009)

*Personal News" Monday 16th Sep 10pm, listen to my new radio show - People Get Ready - on JFSR - Jazz Funk Soul Radio. Music with meaning. (Note I will still be doing the economics!) 🎩 Neil Webster william schomberg Gil Karpas Will Hutton Joel Hills Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club jfsr.co.uk/host_post/jagj…

German households are open to the idea of a digital euro - but such demand raises financial stability concerns as households seem more likely to withdraw funds from banks during times of stress if a digital euro is available, VoxEU survey evidence cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

"Over the past 14 years [we're] probably something like 15-20% below the level of #GDP we might have anticipated... Had we actually achieved that level of GDP growth, our #debt to GDP would only be 80%" 📊 Director Jagjit S. Chadha speaks to LBC's Andrew Marr 🎧 Take a listen 👇

Delighted to see #OBR analyse impact of health outcomes on economy/public finances in their latest Fiscal Risks. Better health isn't just good in its own right but has sizeable economic benefits. An ageing population makes health outcomes have bigger macroeconomic impacts

The first 100 days: Has the new government got its priorities right for kick-starting Britain? 1345-1500, Wednesday 2 October 2024 | Watershed, Bristol The first 100 days of the new UK government will serve as a barometer for Starmer’s economic and public policy aims. Join our

In this week's "On Global Markets", Duncan Weldon breaks down the world of private credit and it's growth and risk: kentclarkcenter.org/filterable-cat…

Like disruptive recessions, booms too may have hidden costs: a rise in wages increases the opportunity cost of schooling, potentially leading young people to abandon education prematurely, VoxEU evidence from #Iceland cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…