CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Time for a no risk £30bn stimulus package?
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I haven't been heavily engaged in arguments about whether the government should currently be borrowing more to try to stimulate the econ...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
No Alternative to High Speed Rail?
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So, the parliamentary group whose "objectives are to raise awareness of the need for high-speed rail among parliamentarians" has ...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
House Prices: Local Booms and Busts
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The most recent American Economic Review has a set of interesting papers on 'Very Local House Price Dynamics'. It's surprising h...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Road Pricing
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A new report from the IFS makes the case for road pricing: "Such a move would generate substantial economic efficiency gains from re...
Friday, 11 May 2012
Is the Regional Growth Fund rubbish?
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Reporting of the NAO report on the Regional Growth Fund has highlighted the fact that the ' scheme may cost up to £200,000 per job '...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Back where they started?
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Posted by Prof Tony Champion, SERC and CURDS, Newcastle University Most people agree that our big cities have had a pretty good 90s an...
Friday, 4 May 2012
Cities reject elected mayors
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It looks like most, if not all, of the cities offered a choice are voting no to mayors [check Centre for Cities for a useful running comment...
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