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Are pro-productivity policies effective? Evidence from cross-country historical data

This paper examines how public policies, institutions, skills, markets, R&D, trade and environmental measures shape productivity across advanced economies.

Productivity Policy Unit

Wooden blocks featuring factory and policy icons, illustrating the factors that shape productivity.

Organisational capital, ICT and productivity in the digital age

This study explores how organisational capital and ICT investment interact to boost labour productivity, especially in digitally intensive industries.

Organisational Capital

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Artificial Intelligence: what drives adoption in EU countries?

Using Eurostat enterprise survey data, this paper analyses how skills, policy, costs, demographics and business barriers shape AI adoption across the EU.

Knowledge Capital

Places Campaign: Summary and Insights

Drawing on research across eight UK places, this report shows how the seven capitals framework can inform investment, productivity and local growth strategies.

Geography & Place

Framing a place-based investment strategy for Walsall

Walsall’s productivity lags behind the West Midlands and UK averages. But its long-term growth rate outpaces the region and is catching up.

Geography & Place

Public investment and supply

In this paper, we investigate the link between public investment and output in the United Kingdom.

Macroeconomic trends & policy

Is Greater Manchester growing significantly? If so, why? And what can we learn?

This paper investigates the evidence behind the "Manchester Model", examining growth, productivity, investment and governance to identify what is driving the city region's success and what other places can learn from it.

Geography & Place

Rewiring Europe’s Productivity Framework: Aligning Investment, Innovation, and Diffusion

This paper explores why Europe struggles to translate innovation into productivity gains and what policymakers can do to address it.

Macroeconomic trends & policy

Do workers share in the returns to firm-level R&D activity? Evidence from labour markdowns in UK Manufacturing

This study examines whether firms’ R&D investment shapes labour market power by affecting the wedge between workers’ marginal revenue product and wages.

Organisational Capital

Supply Chain Lock-in and the Selective Destruction of EU–UK Trade

Post-Brexit trade only survives where companies were already "locked in" to each other through complex, shared manufacturing processes. But smaller, simpler trade relationships are being systematically destroyed.

Organisational Capital

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