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The Pending Review: Fiscal Policy and Covid-19
Publication date: 25 Nov 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): Chadha, J S, Lenoel, C, MacQueen, R
Abstract The Chancellor’s One Year Spending Review provides welcome and much-needed support for many sectors of the economy suffering their largest contraction in modern times.  The furlough and business bounce back loan schemes are good examples of how support has been provided but on a time-...
Policy Note: An update to our Review forecast for the November lockdown
Publication date: 4 Nov 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): KucukH, Lenoel, C, MacQueen, R
  Summary   We estimate that the November lockdown will contribute to a fourth quarter contraction in GDP in the region of 3 per cent and reduce year-on-year growth from our November Review main case forecast of -10.5% to between -11.5 and -12%.  
Reconstructing Macroeconomics after COVID-19: Notes for a First Draft
Publication date: 20 Oct 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): DoyleP
Abstract  As a discipline, we have contributed much in response to the global challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But we also have much to learn about what it implies for our profession. And there are key actions—particularly on fiscal, monetary, global forecasting, prudential, sovereign...
Projection of demand for Trussell Trust food banks due to the Covid-19 crisis: Quarterly at the UK (national) level
Publication date: 14 Sep 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | External Author(s): National Institute of Economic and Social Research, in association with Heriot-Watt University
National Institute of Economic and Social Research, in association with Heriot-Watt University   Abstract The COVID-19 crisis is continuing to have devastating consequences for the UK population, particularly the poorest segments of society. Based on quarterly macroeconomic scenarios of economic...
Vulnerability from Debt in the Coronavirus Crisis
Publication date: 26 May 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): Naisbitt, B
Abstract After a period of deleveraging following the financial crisis a decade ago, the past five years have seen private sector debt rising again in both advanced and emerging economies.  Public sector indebtedness, too, is generally higher than five years ago.  The increase in debt was, before...
The Economics of the UK University System in the Time of Covid-19
Publication date: 22 May 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): Dolton, P
Abstract The UK University system faces its biggest challenge in 40 years as a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic. What is the scale of the uncertainty facing universities and to what extent have the problems been exacerbated by the over-reliance on overseas student fee income to facilitate a...
Moving Back Towards Market-Based Government Finance
Publication date: 12 May 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): Allen, B | JEL Classification: E52, E58
The Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have been pursuing yield curve control in their respective government securities markets since market liquidity collapsed in the middle of March. The paper discusses the issues that arose during and after previous episodes of yield curve control,...
COVID-19: Debt Relief and the Global Poorest
Publication date: 23 Apr 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): DoyleP
Abstract Pandemic is not the time to “do something”: more than ever, it is the time to “do something coherent.” Aid for the poorest countries conditioned on debt service, just announced by the IMF and G-20, utterly fails that imperative. Instead, grants equivalent to the full IMF estimate of the...
The measurement of inflation during the lockdown: a trial calculation
Publication date: 22 Apr 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | External Author(s): Dixon, H
Abstract The big changes in consumption patterns during the Lockdown need not of themselves have a big effect on measured inflation.  Using a guesstimate of lockdown weights for different types of consumption and applying them retrospectively to the 2019 inflation data as an experiment led to a...
A Program of Guaranteed Loans to Compensate SME Covid-19 Revenue Losses: Rapid Dispersal and Large Net Economic Benefits
Publication date: 14 Apr 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | External Author(s): Milne, A
Abstract This paper explores the costs and benefits of compensating those UK SMEs who have experienced substantial revenue loss as a result of the current closure of their business activities. It finds that the benefits very substantially exceed the costs, by a ratio of 5:1 (every £1 of government...
Central Bank Operations in Government Securities During the Pandemic
Publication date: 9 Apr 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): Allen, B
With economic activity severely disrupted by the coronavirus crisis, many governments have been supporting peoples’ incomes and keeping businesses alive by means of income support programmes financed by borrowing. This paper describes how the borrowing is being done in the United States and the...
The Economy on Ice - Meeting the economic challenges during and after the COVID-19 crisis
Publication date: 1 Apr 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): Bougheas | JEL Classification: E58, E64, H51
The purpose of this article is twofold. Firstly, it argues that it is doubtful that the currently announced policies will achieve their targets while they create substantial obstacles to the recovery of the post-crisis economy. Secondly, it proposes an alternative plan that its aim is (a) to ensure...
A Switch to Active Fiscal Policy: NIESR Response to Budget 2020
Publication date: 11 Mar 2020 | Publication type: Policy Paper | NIESR Author(s): Chadha, J S, Dolton, P, Manzoni, C, Mao, X, Nguyen, D, Runge, J, Whyte, K, Young, G
On Wednesday 11th March 2020, Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered his first Budget only 27 days after being appointed. The Chancellor delivered this first, post-Brexit Budget for this Government, which has a strong mandate after its comprehensive election victory in December that should be strong...
Political Cacophony and the “Spring Statement”
Publication date: 6 Mar 2019 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Macroeconomics | NIESR Author(s): Chadha, J S, Hantzsche, A, Kara, A, Young, G | Report number: 11
  Political deadlock and constitutional crisis does not necessarily spell economic doom.  The UK economy is at full employment and in desperate need of investment to enhance productive capacity.  But waiting for the outcome of this tortuous EU Exit process has produced an economic delay.  Output is...
Regional Economic Disparities and Development in the UK
Publication date: 15 Jan 2019 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Trade, Investment & Productivity | NIESR Author(s): Nguyen, D | Report number: 10
This short paper explores the evolution of regional economic disparities in the UK from the 1960s until now. While there have always been economic disparities, more than two thirds of places now are less productive than the national average. Regional differences are discussed in terms of incomes...
Economic Impact of the Withdrawal Agreement: Written Evidence to Treasury Committee ahead of the Oral Evidence Session: “The UK's economic relationship with the European Union” held on 3rd December 2018
Publication date: 3 Dec 2018 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Macroeconomics, Exiting the EU & Britain after Brexit | NIESR Author(s): Chadha, J S | Report number: 9
You can also view the evidence as submitted to the Treasury Committee on the Treasury Committee website The UK is set to leave the European Union at the end of March 2019.  The process of leaving was triggered by the result of the Advisory Referendum held on 23 June 2016, which led to invocation of...
Evaluating economic policy ideas recently offered to the Labour party
Publication date: 21 Sep 2018 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Macroeconomics | NIESR Author(s): Allen, B | Report number: 8
This policy paper reviews the report ‘Financing Investment’, commissioned by the Shadow Chancellor from GFC Economics and Clearpoint Advisors, and published on 20th June 2018. The authors say that the report ‘should not be taken to represent the views of the Labour Party or the Shadow Chancellor...
Modelling the Economic Effects of Trade Policies - A Submission to the Treasury and International Trade Committees inquiry into implications of the UK's approach to international trade
Publication date: 11 Jul 2018 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Exiting the EU & Britain after Brexit | NIESR Author(s): Paczos, M | Report number: 7
Abstract Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) trade models are helpful and widely used laboratories to study the economic effects of changes in trade policy and in particular different Brexit scenarios. Both the calibration of the structural parameters of the model (e.g. trade elasticity) and the...
A statement for the rites of spring
Publication date: 14 Mar 2018 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Macroeconomics | NIESR Author(s): Kara, A | Report number: 6
Chancellor Phillip Hammond presented the first Spring Statement yesterday. This was not the occasion to expect new fiscal policies or for rabbits out of a hat – we were told that in advance – even the symbolic red budget box was missing. The Chancellor kept to his promise and made this a non-event...
The OBR'S Approach to Forecasting the Impact of Exiting the European Union - A Submission to the Treasury Committee of the UK Parliament
Publication date: 1 Feb 2018 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Macroeconomics | NIESR Author(s): Chadha, J S | Report number: 4
Professor Jagjit S Chadha's written evidence submitted to the Treasury Committee on 29th November 2017 (written evidence can also be found here)
Facing the future: tackling post-Brexit labour and skills shortages
Publication date: 19 Jun 2017 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Employment & Social policy, Exiting the EU & Britain after Brexit | NIESR Author(s): Rolfe, H | External Author(s): Davies, G | Report number: 4
Alongside access to the singlemarket, EU immigration policy is arguably the most important issue facing employers and policymakers resulting from the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. At the time of publication, shortly after the General Election result and with a hung parliament in place...
Treasury Select Committee Inquiry Into The Effectiveness And Impact Of Post-2008 UK Monetary Policy
Publication date: 31 Mar 2017 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Macroeconomics | NIESR Author(s): Armstrong, A | Report number: 3
This is the third in our our new Policy Paper series, written by members of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research to specifically address a public policy issue. These may be evidence submitted to a public or parliamentary enquiry or policy research commissioned by a third party...
Coordinating Monetary, Fiscal and Financial Policy - A Submission to the Treasury Committee of the UK Parliament
Publication date: 31 Mar 2017 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Macroeconomics | NIESR Author(s): Farmer, R | Report number: 2
UK monetary policy, following the 2008 recession, was effective at preventing the crisis from having a bigger effect than it otherwise might have done. As a result of experimenting with quantitative easing (an expansion in the Bank’s balance sheet) and qualitative easing (a change in the risk...
Quantitative easing and the independence of the Bank of England
Publication date: 31 Jan 2017 | Publication type: Policy Paper | Theme: Macroeconomics | NIESR Author(s): Allen, B | Report number: 1
This is the first in our our new Policy Paper series, written by members of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research to specifically address a public policy issue. These may be evidence submitted to a public or parliamentary enquiry or policy research commissioned by a third party...

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