Labour Markets and Monetary Policy
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Labour markets, uncertainty and monetary policy: CFM Survey
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Surveys
Bitcoin and the City
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Economists relaxed about Bitcoin: new expert survey on cryptocurrencies, the financial system and economic policy
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House Prices and the UK economy
Saturday, November 25, 2017
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Global risks from rising debt and asset prices
Thursday, October 12, 2017
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Juncker's State of the Union Address
Thursday, October 12, 2017
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The European Commission president’s suggestion that joining the euro should be compulsory for all EU members is not well received by over three quarters of leading economists responding to the latest Centre for Macroeconomics and CEPR survey. Asked a broader question about the success of the common currency, half the experts think it has had more benefits than costs while only a quarter think the opposite. The majority view is that there have been significant benefits but the way the Eurozone has been operated has also imposed significant costs.
Wages and economic recoveries
Monday, May 15, 2017
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Low growth of real wages has had a positive impact on European employment rates during the recovery phase of the Great Recession, according to the majority view of the latest Centre for Macroeconomics and CEPR expert survey. Asked about the quite different behaviour of wages in the UK relative to the big Eurozone economies, another strong majority of respondents agrees that the dire performance of UK real wage growth is in large part due to the country’s labour market policies, which provide workers with comparatively weak protection.