Blogs: Economy

Economies are complex systems.  Businesses are interlinked through fragmented supply-chains that connect diverse countries, regions and cities across the world. We help you understand this complexity and the role of tax and finance, innovation and infrastructure on economic development.

What are the impacts of decarbonisation on inflation?

With the rise in fuel and food prices, a cost-of-living crisis and geopolitical unrest, will decarbonisation ease the pressure on inflation or make it worse? Economic Modeller Zsófi Kőműves shares top modelling insights.

Over recent months, the Russian invasion of Ukraine h…

Inflation – how worried should we be?

Senior Adviser Andrew Sentance argues that in terms of both monetary and fiscal policy, policy-makers in the UK and around the world need to take a gradualist approach to countering the current inflation surge.

Inflation is on the rise in the UK and in many other countries aro…

Jobs recovery brings inflation warnings

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 …

Build Back Better: smarter investment decision making

Portland Oregon

“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…

Counting the economic cost of the global pandemic

Senior Adviser Andrew Sentance explores the drivers behind the projected long-term cost of the global pandemic. Andrew argues that countering the long-term impact of Covid-19 needs to be high up on the economic policy agenda both nationally and internationally.

The Covid pande…

Does the UK’s levelling up agenda make sense?

Levelling up UK

Principal Consultant Adam Brown questions just how effective the UK’s levelling up agenda is, and suggests that the UK needs to take the time to diagnose regional inequality issues through a systems approach.

 ‘Levelling up’ is the current buzz-phrase within UK politics a…