Posted by: Phil Summerton
Publish date: 21st September, 2021 | 5:00pm21/9/2021
CEO Phil Summerton warns that rising energy prices will affect the poorest households in Britain this winter, as they face the challenge of increasing energy and food prices as well as the spread of Covid-19 and seasonal influenza. Phil highlights three options for the Government…
Posted by: Zsófi Kőműves
Publish date: 24th August, 2021 | 10:12am24/8/2021
The IPCC report has issued a code red, calling for immediate climate policy action. But what are the macroeconomic consequences of climate policy inaction, or action? Economist Zsófi Kőműves unpacks this question, using analysis from Cambridge Econometric’s Sustainable Investm…
Posted by: Jon Stenning
Publish date: 18th August, 2021 | 8:40am18/8/2021
In the latest article in partnership with ECONorthwest and Hodge Economic Consulting, Head of Environment Jon Stenning addresses the current lack of a detailed roadmap for the US to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Policymakers are faced with various challenges, including e…
Floods, earthquakes, droughts and windstorms – recent weeks have demonstrated that these disasters are likely to become more frequent and more severe across Europe. Our recent research, commissioned by the ESPON (the European Spatial Planning Observation Network) and delivered …
Posted by: Eve Xinru Lin
Publish date: 23rd June, 2021 | 4:14pm23/6/2021
This is the third blog in a case study series that explores the merits of microdata in policy analysis.
Using Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Census 2011 data, Senior Economist Eve Xinru Lin looks at the transformation of the UK labour market between 2011 and 2019 and provides i…
Senior Adviser Andrew Sentance comments on the latest UK inflation and labour market figures, arguing that the Monetary Policy Committee must step up to the challenge of preventing any damages of a possible inflationary surge.
The latest UK inflation and labour market figures …
Posted by: János Hidi
Publish date: 11th June, 2021 | 11:58am11/6/2021
Sustainable Investment Manager János Hidi explores how central banks will be affected by climate change and why our global macroeconomic model E3ME is key to preparing for the economic transition that lies ahead.
Central banks find themselves at the centre of a climate-induce…
Posted by: János Hidi
Publish date: 11th June, 2021 | 11:44am11/6/2021
János Hidi argues that investors must act now if they are to be prepared for the climate transition, taking climate scenario analysis to the next level. János introduces the key elements of Cambridge Econometric’s global macroeconomic model E3ME that supports the Climate MAPS S…
Posted by: Anthony Barker
Publish date: 10th June, 2021 | 4:26pm10/6/2021
“Build back better” has become a mantra of our time. In the US, the Biden administration is trying to secure a multi-trillion-dollar package of infrastructure spending to drive change.
Together Cambridge Econometrics, ECONorthWest and Hodge Economic Consulting have been consid…
In this interview Professor Didier Fouarge, Director of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University, and Cornelia Suta, Principal Consultant at Cambridge Econometrics, are asked about the Technequality Horizon 2020 project they are working on …