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Recession & recovery

Recession & recovery • 30 May 22

How is the UK economy faring compared with other countries?
Recession & recovery • 16 May 22

Russia’s 1998 currency crisis: what lessons for today?
Recession & recovery • 08 Jul 21

Do we have to choose between health and the economy?
Recession & recovery • 15 Jun 21

Will inflation take off in the UK?
Recession & recovery • 06 May 21

Is higher productivity at odds with improved wellbeing in post-pandemic Wales?
Recession & recovery • 15 Apr 21

How has coronavirus affected social capital in the UK?
Recession & recovery • 15 Dec 20

What has happened to consumer spending during the Covid-19 crisis?
Recession & recovery • 25 Nov 20

#economicsfest: What has coronavirus taught us about radical uncertainty?
Recession & recovery • 06 Nov 20

How might the autumn lockdown affect different sectors of the economy?
Recession & recovery • 05 Nov 20

Why is it hard to compare the economic costs of lockdown across countries?
Recession & recovery • 08 Oct 20

How can authorities control coronavirus without killing the economy?
Recession & recovery • 30 Sep 20

Could a national investment bank support recovery from the Covid-19 crisis?
Recession & recovery • 24 Sep 20

What kind of economy do people want if we ‘build back better’ after Covid-19?
Recession & recovery • 10 Aug 20

What will the shape of the recovery tell us about the best policy response?
Recession & recovery • 20 Jul 20

Should Modern Monetary Theory inform economic policy in the crisis?
Recession & recovery • 07 Jul 20

Is the Covid-19 recession caused by supply or demand factors?
Recession & recovery • 24 Jun 20

How much will lifting lockdown start to reverse the UK’s economic slump?
Recession & recovery • 12 Jun 20

What are the key sources of data for measuring the economy in a crisis?
Recession & recovery • 02 Jun 20

How can we measure what is happening in the economy now?
Recession & recovery • 29 May 20

Coronavirus and the economy: what are the trade-offs?
Recession & recovery • 29 May 20

Why is uncertainty so damaging for the economy?
Recession & recovery • 27 May 20

Can textual analysis be used to track the economy during the pandemic?
Banks & financial markets • 28 Nov 22

Fiscal and current account deficits: what threat to UK economic stability?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 24 Nov 22

How did Treasury policy-makers approach the economic response to Covid-19?
News • 22 Nov 22

#economicsfest: How might UK policy-makers overcome the polycrisis?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 31 Oct 22

How has employment of older workers changed since the pandemic?
Data stories • 26 Oct 22

What can the latest UK GDP data tell us about the economy?
Banks & financial markets • 11 Oct 22

Banking crises: who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and why?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 22 Sep 22

The shift to working from home: how has it affected productivity?
Lessons from history • 12 Sep 22

How did the UK economy change during the second Elizabethan age?
Inequality & poverty • 08 Sep 22

How might the cost of living crisis affect long-term poverty?
Transport & infrastructure • 30 Aug 22

Update: How is Covid-19 affecting international travel and tourism?
News • 19 Aug 22

Crisis? What crisis?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 15 Aug 22

Are wages keeping up with the cost of living?
Charities & volunteering • 21 Jul 22

What happens to charitable giving in a recession?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 11 Jul 22

How has Covid-19 affected self-employment in UK regions?
Data stories • 28 Jun 22

How has the UK’s pandemic labour market compared with other G7 countries?
Lessons from history • 20 Jun 22

Inflation past and present: how have we measured the rising cost of living?
Data stories • 14 Jun 22

What do the latest UK data reveal about regional GDP?
Lessons from history • 01 Jun 22

Platinum Jubilee: how has the UK economy changed over the past 70 years?
Energy & climate change • 26 May 22

What does the war in Ukraine mean for the geopolitics of energy prices?
Banks & financial markets • 17 May 22

How did the first Monetary Policy Committee members pursue their mandate?
Nations, regions & cities • 27 Apr 22

Can investment in skills improve Northern Ireland’s productivity performance?
Data stories • 06 Apr 22

UK GDP: what do the quarterly data tell us two years into the pandemic?
Business, big & small • 31 Mar 22

Two years on, how has the pandemic affected businesses in the UK?
Lessons from history • 24 Mar 22

Where did Russia’s post-communism economic reforms go wrong?
Data stories • 23 Feb 22

What do new data reveal about the UK’s regional economic performance?
Data stories • 16 Feb 22

What do the latest data reveal about UK inflation?
Data stories • 15 Feb 22

UK public finances: what do the latest data tell us?
Nations, regions & cities • 14 Feb 22

Update: How is Scotland’s economy faring in the pandemic?

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