Monday, 27 October 2014

Can 'Tech North' take off?

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Posted by Dr Max Nathan, SERC and NIESR Rory Cellan-Jones has a nice article on the BBC website on the prospects for the Government’s ‘Te...
Friday, 3 October 2014

Agglomeration Economies

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[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] I've been reading some of the recent material from the Foresight project on cities. In particular, I...
Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Why are the poorest regions in the UK the poorest regions in Northern Europe?

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[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] A few weeks ago the map below showed up in my twitter stream. It had been retweeted hundreds of times. ...
Friday, 5 September 2014

Garden Cities

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[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] I'm fairly ambivelant about Garden Cities. We clearly need additional housing. The idea of finding s...
Thursday, 21 August 2014

Foreign buyers and property markets

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[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] In May last year, I did some back of the envelope numbers on the role of foreign buyers in driving the L...
Tuesday, 5 August 2014

How to roll out high speed broadband in Britain

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Posted by Gabriel Ahlfeldt , LSE and SERC Across the globe, governments are looking for ways to roll out reliable and fast internet access...
Friday, 1 August 2014

Planning supermarkets away, for less convenience and variety, higher prices and lower productivity

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[By Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber] One of the 'joys' of putting together a serious evidence based analysis of the effects of ...