Dr Alex Klein’s paper exploring causes of labour coercion in 18th century Bohemia, has been accepted for presentation at the Econometric Society’s World Congress 2020 … Read more
Category: MaGHiC
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
Covid and Social Distancing with a Heterogenous Population
Discussion paper KDPE 2002 by Miltiadis Makris (University of Kent), April 2020. Abstract Motivated by the current coronavirus epidemic, we analyse a SIR model of … Read more
Kent Economists lend their expertise to parliament during the Covid crisis
Over the past few weeks, as the UK Parliament engages with the COVID-19 outbreak, they have experienced a surge in need for access to research … 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