The £98,000 grant has been awarded to study the dynamics of the labour share of income. Mathan Satchi, Lecturer in Economics and Miguel León-Ledesma, Professor … Read more
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The missing link: monetary policy and the labor share
Paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the European Economic Association, co-authored by the School’s Professor Miguel Leon Ledesma. Professor Miguel León-Ledesma along with … Read more
32% decrease in Companies House data during the Covid-19 Lockdown
Report download: Missing Firm Creation in the UK during the Covid-19 Lockdown Further technical details can be found here. MaGHiC release report ‘Missing Firm Creation … Read more
The Rise of Services and Balanced Growth in Theory and Data
A paper by Professor Miguel leon-Ledesma (University of Kent) with Alessio Moro (University of Cagliari) entitled ‘The Rise of Services and Balanced Growth in Theory … Read more
What are the implications of China’s economic slowdown on post-Brexit Britain?
Dr Jan-Philipp Dueber, Lecturer in Economics here at the School explains how we can better understand the slowdown in China’s economic growth and its implications … Read more
The Rise and Fall of US Manufacturing: Re-Examination of Long-Run Spatial Trends
Discussion paper KDPE 1910 by Nicholas Crafts (University of Sussex) and Alexander Klein (University of Kent), December 2019. Non-technical summary It is well-known that patterns … Read more
Firm Dynamics, Market Power and Productivity Puzzles
Anthony Savagar, Lecturer in Macroeconomics (Principal Investigator) and Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Professor of Economics, were granted an ESRC Research Award in September 2018 for £200,000 to … Read more
Macroeconomic simulation comparison with a multivariate extension of the Markov Information Criterion
by Sylvain Barde, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1908, June 2019. Non-technical summary: The paper develops and tests a multivariate extension of the Markov Information Criterion (MIC) … Read more
Expert comment: UK economy grows but labour productivity continues to stagnate
Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma from the School of Economics notes that despite a small rise in UK GDP there are areas of concern, not least stagnating … Read more
Make Yourselves Scarce: The Effect of Demographic Change on the Relative Wages and Employment Rates of Experienced Workers
by Prof Michael J. Böhm, University of Bonn and Dr Christian Siegel, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1902, March 2019. Non-technical summary: Many developed economies have … Read more