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The Institute’s key research themes are led by ten academic partners spread across the UK.

Investment in Places research project

We’re a UK-wide research organisation exploring what productivity means for business

Businesses are crucial to solving the UK’s productivity problems.

Research

Measurement & methods

Measurement & methods

Productivity is fraught with measurement issues, notably to do with output in service sectors, regional price and productivity differentials, intangible inputs and environmental capital, and knowledge. New techniques and novel data sources, including administrative data and ‘big-data’ at granular levels, can help to gain deep understanding of regional, national and firm-level productivity drivers.

Theme lead

Professor Rebecca Riley

Co-Investigators

Professor Mary O’Mahony

Collaborators

Josh Martin
Jon Franklin
Professor Bart van Ark
Assistant Professor Abdul Erumban
Klaas de Vries

Theme Paper

Productivity Measurement – Reassessing the production function from micro to macro

Productivity of tax collection in the UK, 1850 to 2019

This research estimates the productivity of tax collection and administration in the UK from 1850 to 2019.

Research
Apr 22, 2024

Measuring the value of free digital goods

Estimating the value of free digital goods within the national income accounting framework.

Research
Apr 8, 2024

The role of tangibles and intangibles in explaining the productivity slowdown – an international perspective

Examining the paradoxical situation that the role of intangibles in the UK has become bigger in the context of weaker productivity growth.

Research
Nov 29, 2023