UK Economy
What institutions are needed to sustain UK economic growth?
The CEP has produced a number of in-depth reports addressing questions specific to the UK economy. These include the findings from two Growth Commissions (2013 and 2017) which considered why there is a wide variation in productivity across firms within the same industry, why UK productivity lags behind comparator countries and why productivity growth has slowed. The 2017 Growth Commission also addressed new questions arising from Brexit.
The Industrial Strategy series of papers brings together CEP research to inform the UK Industrial Strategy.
The CEP has also published an Atlas of Industry in Britain, setting out maps and charts on firms' locations, together with geographic measures of employment, productivity and innovation. This revealed facts about the pattern of UK economy, which challenged the prevailing wisdom.
Featured Work
UK Economy Publications
Swati Dhingra, Emily Fry, Sophie Hale and Ningyuan Jia
24 June 2022
Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Nikhil Datta and Felicia Odamtten
22 June 2022
Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon, Luisa Opitz and Dilan Yang
21 June 2022
Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson
21 June 2022
Molly Broome, Stefano Cellini, Kathleen Henehan, Charlie McCurdy, Capucine Riom, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura
20 June 2022
Christian A. L. Hilber and Olivier Schöni
9 June 2022
Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles
1 June 2022
Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin
1 June 2022
Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Nikhil Datta and Felicia Odamtten
25 May 2022
Peter Lambert, Apolline Marion and John Van Reenen
24 May 2022
Brendan Curran, Ralf Martin, Sabrina Muller, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Esin Serin, Arjun Shah, Anna Valero and Dennis Verhoeven
23 May 2022
Josh De Lyon, Ralf Martin, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Arjun Shah, Krishan Shah, Gregory Thwaites and Anna Valero
28 April 2022
Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson
26 April 2022
Timothy Besley and Chris Dann
28 January 2022
Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson
25 January 2022
Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra
15 December 2021
Christos Genakos, Tobias Kretschmer and Ambre Nicolle
8 December 2021
Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero
22 November 2021
Jesse Kozler, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Pablo Shah, Gregory Thwaites and Anna Valero
15 November 2021
Esin Serin and Anna Valero
29 October 2021
Torsten Bell, Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin, Charlie McCurdy, Henry G. Overman, Gregory Thwaites, Daniel Tomlinson and Anna Valero
18 May 2021
Torsten Bell, Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin, Charlie McCurdy, Henry G. Overman, Gregory Thwaites, Daniel Tomlinson and Anna Valero
18 May 2021
Josh De Lyon and Joao Paulo Pessoa
11 January 2021
Ralf Martin, Sam Unsworth, Anna Valero and Dennis Verhoeven
18 December 2020
Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon and Elitsa Garnizova
1 September 2020
Nick Robins, James Rydge, Nicholas Stern, Sam Unsworth, Anna Valero and Dimitri Zenghelis
2 July 2020
Elias Einiö and Henry G. Overman
1 July 2020
James Cloyne, Kilian Huber, Ethan Ilzetzki and Henrik Kleven
1 June 2019
James Rydge, Ralf Martin and Anna Valero
3 December 2018
Rui Costa, Nikhil Datta, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally
13 March 2018
Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg C. Wright
6 March 2018
Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies and Anna Valero
1 November 2017
Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies and Anna Valero
22 September 2017
Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin and Henry G. Overman
26 July 2017
Richard Davies and Anna Valero
3 July 2017
Rui Costa and Stephen Machin
19 May 2017
Philippe Aghion, Terra Allas, Timothy Besley, John Browne, Francesco Caselli, Richard Davies, Richard Lambert, Rachel Lomax, Stephen Machin, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Christopher A. Pissarides, Isabelle Roland, Xavier Rolet, Nicholas Stern and Anna Valero
2 February 2017
Monica Langella and Alan Manning
4 October 2016
Barbara Petrongolo
4 October 2016
Holger Breinlich, Swati Dhingra, Saul Estrin, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth
21 June 2016
Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth
9 June 2016
Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen
9 June 2016
Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen
9 June 2016
Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth
11 May 2016
Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen
21 April 2016
Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen
22 May 2014
Edited by Tim Besley and John Van Reenen
1 September 2013
Philippe Aghion, Timothy Besley, John Browne, Francesco Caselli, Richard Lambert, Rachel Lomax, Christopher A. Pissarides, Nicholas Stern and John Van Reenen
31 January 2013
Edited by Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
1 January 2011
Adair Turner, Richard Layard, Peter Boone, Charles Goodhart, Andrew Haldane, Simon Johnson, John Kay, Andrew Large, Andrew Smithers, Sushil Wadhwani, Martin Wolf and Paul Woolley
1 September 2010
Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin and Alan Manning
1 June 2004
Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and John Van Reenen
1 June 2004