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Recession & recovery

Recession & recovery • 14 Jun 23

Can policy boost productivity in the UK’s services-based economy?
Recession & recovery • 06 Feb 23

Three centuries of UK business cycles: what lessons for today?
Recession & recovery • 30 May 22

How is the UK economy faring compared with other countries?
Recession & recovery • 16 May 22

Russia’s 1998 currency crisis: what lessons for today?
Recession & recovery • 08 Jul 21

Do we have to choose between health and the economy?
Recession & recovery • 15 Jun 21

Will inflation take off in the UK?
Recession & recovery • 06 May 21

Is higher productivity at odds with improved wellbeing in post-pandemic Wales?
Recession & recovery • 15 Apr 21

How has coronavirus affected social capital in the UK?
Recession & recovery • 15 Dec 20

What has happened to consumer spending during the Covid-19 crisis?
Recession & recovery • 25 Nov 20

#economicsfest: What has coronavirus taught us about radical uncertainty?
Recession & recovery • 06 Nov 20

How might the autumn lockdown affect different sectors of the economy?
Recession & recovery • 05 Nov 20

Why is it hard to compare the economic costs of lockdown across countries?
Recession & recovery • 08 Oct 20

How can authorities control coronavirus without killing the economy?
Recession & recovery • 30 Sep 20

Could a national investment bank support recovery from the Covid-19 crisis?
Recession & recovery • 24 Sep 20

What kind of economy do people want if we ‘build back better’ after Covid-19?
Recession & recovery • 10 Aug 20

What will the shape of the recovery tell us about the best policy response?
Recession & recovery • 20 Jul 20

Should Modern Monetary Theory inform economic policy in the crisis?
Recession & recovery • 07 Jul 20

Is the Covid-19 recession caused by supply or demand factors?
Recession & recovery • 24 Jun 20

How much will lifting lockdown start to reverse the UK’s economic slump?
Recession & recovery • 12 Jun 20

What are the key sources of data for measuring the economy in a crisis?
Recession & recovery • 02 Jun 20

How can we measure what is happening in the economy now?
Recession & recovery • 29 May 20

Coronavirus and the economy: what are the trade-offs?
Recession & recovery • 29 May 20

Why is uncertainty so damaging for the economy?
Recession & recovery • 27 May 20

Can textual analysis be used to track the economy during the pandemic?
Prices & interest rates • 25 Sep 23

What’s happening to UK inflation and interest rates?
Banks & financial markets • 07 Sep 23

Swiss banks now and in the global financial crisis: is this time different?
Lessons from history • 05 Sep 23

What can we learn from banking crises of the past?
Banks & financial markets • 17 Jul 23

Dark trading: what is it and how does it affect financial markets?
Health, physical & mental • 10 Jul 23

Will the NHS long-term workforce plan solve the current crisis?
Families & households • 28 Jun 23

What’s been happening in the UK’s housing market in the first half of 2023?
Lessons from history • 23 Jun 23

Why can economic forecasts go wrong?
Data stories • 21 Jun 23

UK GDP data: how is the economy expected to perform?
Inequality & poverty • 07 Jun 23

The flipside of American progress: economic failure or failed economics?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 26 May 23

Should the UK government get active about economic inactivity?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 19 Apr 23

How has the pandemic affected young people’s employment?
Banks & financial markets • 13 Apr 23

Why did Credit Suisse fail and what does it mean for banking regulation?
Data stories • 15 Mar 23

What do the latest UK GDP data tell us about the economy in 2023?
Aid & international development • 09 Mar 23

What is the likely impact of the earthquakes on economic growth in Türkiye?
Aid & international development • 07 Mar 23

Rebuilding Ukraine: how will policy-makers shape the country after the war?
Families & households • 02 Mar 23

How does the housing market affect financial and economic stability?
Families & households • 27 Feb 23

How does the housing market affect UK productivity?
Banks & financial markets • 23 Feb 23

What does the latest rise in interest rates tell us about the UK economy?
Communicating economics • 05 Jan 23

#studentviews: How is China’s lockdown policy affecting the world economy?
Communicating economics • 22 Dec 22

#studentviews: What can the UK learn about economic recovery from Greece?
Business, big & small • 14 Dec 22

Christmas and the cost of living crisis: how will retailers cope?
Banks & financial markets • 28 Nov 22

Fiscal and current account deficits: what threat to UK economic stability?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 24 Nov 22

How did Treasury policy-makers approach the economic response to Covid-19?
News • 22 Nov 22

#economicsfest: How might UK policy-makers overcome the polycrisis?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 31 Oct 22

How has employment of older workers changed since the pandemic?
Data stories • 26 Oct 22

What can the latest UK GDP data tell us about the economy?

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