Dr Alfred Duncan and Professor Charles Nolan discuss Adam Smith’s vision for banking and try to deduce how Smith might have approached some current issues … Read more
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Call for Papers: Firm Dynamics, Market Structures and Productivity in the Macroeconomy III
We are hosting the third edition of our workshop, this time a collaboration with joint with the Banks of England and Bristol University and invite … Read more
Breaking the bank: why removing interest on reserves would ‘tie one hand behind the back of the Bank of England’
As the Chancellor finds himself under pressure because of his £43bn tax-cutting programme, it is understood that the Treasury is weighing up a number of … Read more
Blowing the budget: why the Conservative mini-budget is so toxic
How should we interpret the U-turn on the abolition of the 45p rate for high income earners? ‘This is more a political move than one … Read more
Quantitative Tightening, Mandates and Expectations
The annual Money Macro and Finance conference, was hosted here at Kent with top current and former policymakers and academics speaking about the current global … Read more
The One About Inflation
The Macroeconomics, Growth and History Centre (MaGHiC) are excited to welcome more than a hundred delegates on campus for the 53rd Annual MMF Conference on … Read more
Trade and volatility: Analysing the role of specialisation and diversification
Professor Miguel León-Ledesma has collaborated with Laura Puzzello and Adina Ardelean, in this VoxEU column on the complex interaction between sectoral shocks, sectoral specialisation, and geographic diversification … Read more
Early Human Capital Accumulation and Decentralization
Recent Guy Tchuente research shows the importance of local knowledge in the provision of publicly financed goods. Dr Guy Tchuente‘s research is included in a … Read more
Booming entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 pandemic
Dr Anthony Savagar has collaborated with Saleem Bahaj from the Bank of England’s Research Hub and Sophie Piton who works in the Bank of England’s … Read more
Volatility and Trade
A new CEPR working paper by Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma, collaborating with Adina Ardelean, and Laura Puzzello, studies how the structure of international trade affects macroeconomic … Read more