With the opening ceremony just hours away, time for a link to some of our past olympic themed posts: 1. Something old on the impact of the...

  Posted by Dr Christian Hilber, SERC and LSE People buying a home in the UK have to pay stamp duty on the transaction.   Stamp duty-t...

There's a strong belief among some academics and large parts of the practitioner community that local engagement/partnership is key to t...

Posted by Prof Ian Gordon, SERC and LSE   What the first snippets of data from the 2011 Census show is that since the Millenniu...

Quoted in the economists piece on moves to deal with housing overcrowding in Newham : Good housing is obviously better than bad housing, but...

Posted by Dr Gabriel Ahlfeldt, SERC and LSE What’s heritage worth? Valuing such intangible cultural goods is challenging. It is similar...

We now have detail on all the city deals struck with England's 8 largest cities. These cover a range of policy areas including finance ...