Blog and updates
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11 Apr 2015
Teaching real-world economics to undergraduates
This Financial Times video looks at the emergence of a new undergraduate degree in economics being taught at UCL and elsewhere in which economics students are taught the subject as if it had...
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10 Apr 2015
The Relentless Organic Growth of Aldi
There has been yet more evidence of the relentless rise of discount retailer Aldi.
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10 Apr 2015
The Nepalese Infrastructure Deficit
This article from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is excellent background reading on the importance of infrastructure investment to support economic growth and development
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10 Apr 2015
LinkedIn buy Lynda
The professional social networking site LinkedIn has bought online e-learning company Lynda in a huge deal with in excess of £1bn.
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10 Apr 2015
Wine Industry Merger - Majestic Merges with Naked Wines
2015 has already been a vintage year for mega takeover and merger deals. This one is significantly smaller, but a good example of horizontal integration in a market.
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8 Apr 2015
Paul Ormerod: Capitalism is both stable and resilient
The financial crisis did succeed in creating at least one dynamic new industry. Since the late 2000s, there has been a massive upsurge in op-ed pieces, books and even artistic performances offering...
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8 Apr 2015
Shell to buy BG in a mega deal
Royal Dutch Shell is to buy BG Group in $69.7 billion takeover - the first mega merger in the oil and gas industry for over a decade.
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7 Apr 2015
FedEx agrees a merger with TNT Express
An agreed merger between FedEx and TNT Express announced in April 2015 is a good example of horizontal integration in the European Union parcel deliveries market.
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6 Apr 2015
How The Bank Of England Tries To Control House Prices
Ed Conway of Sky News looks at the tools available for the Bank of England should it want to control house prices as part of their overall monetary policy.
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6 Apr 2015
Writing a path back to target - Carney on Inflation
The Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney gives a speech on the importance of low positive inflation for the competitiveness of the UK economy. Ignore the first ten minutes of this video -...
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6 Apr 2015
Global economy: Secular stagnation debate continues apace!
I heartily recommend this article from Duncan Weldon, BBC Newsnight's Economics correspondent on the continuing debate over whether advanced countries risk becoming gripped in a period of secular...
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6 Apr 2015
Real wages and living standards in the UK - recent evidence
This article from Stephen Machin of the LSE looks at the decline in real wages in the UK during the last five to six years.
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6 Apr 2015
UK Government Top 40 Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure spending is absolutely pivotal to the current intense debate about the size and pattern of state spending in the UK. The Coalition Government does have a National Infrastructure Plan...
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6 Apr 2015
What impact will the change in pension rules have on the economy?
The Coalition's flagship pension reform has now come in to force, enabling hundreds of thousands of people of a pensionable age to start to take out a larger proportion or all of their accrued...
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6 Apr 2015
ASEAN's next decade
This article on growth and development prospects for ASEAN countries published in the Bangkok Post offers an excellent overview of many of the development challenges facing countries in the region
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6 Apr 2015
Natural hedging to reduce exposure to currency volatility
This article from Bloomberg looks at the growing use of "natural hedging" by businesses who are exposed to big swings in exchange rates.
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5 Apr 2015
Low productivity threatens UK recovery and living standards
There's a lot of discussion about low productivity in the UK. To some economists, productivity – typically measured by output per hour worked – is the single most important economic indicator.
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5 Apr 2015
OECD Overview of the UK Economy (2015)
The 2015 OECD survey of the state of health of the UK economy provides some important and useful pointers to the relative strengths and weaknesses of the British economy at a crucial stage of the...
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3 Apr 2015
Grade Boundaries for AS and A2 Economics (EdExcel)
Here are details of the grade boundaries from the June 2014 papers set and marked by EdExcel
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3 Apr 2015
Heathrow cuts passenger charges in bid to increase flight utilisation
How does an airport such as Heathrow make money? One key source of revenue is the charge on each and every passenger flying out of Heathrow to domestic and overseas destinations.
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