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Recent Reports

Firm-level Predictors of Consumer Loss Through Poor Financial Advice

Report for Financial Services Authority

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Advice to the CAA on the Calculation of Incremental Costs

Report for Civil Aviation Authority

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Consideration of a Discretionary Recording Requirement

Report for Financial Services Authority

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Advice to CAA on Aspects of Cost of Capital for the Final Q5 Price Control Decisions

Report for Civil Aviation Authority

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The Benefits of Competition in the UK Mail Market

Report for TNT UK

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Impact of a Rise in Alcohol Duty

Report for The Wine & Spirit Trade Association (Annex 1 of the Association's Budget Submission 2008)

Click here to download from the Association's website


Impact Assessment on Priority Substances in Water

Report for European Parliament

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Business Models for a Dynamic and Successful Postal Market

Report for UK Mail

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Excipients Impact Assessment Report

Report for European Commission

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An analysis of the issue of consumer detriment and the most appropriate methodologies to estimate it

Report for European Commission

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A Comparison of the Costs of Alternative Policies for Reducing UK Carbon Emissions

Report for Open Europe

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Impact assessment study on a possible extension, tightening or simplification of the framework directive 92/75 EEC on energy labelling of household appliances

Report for the European Commission

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Home Information Packs Housing Market Analysis

Report for the Department for Communities and Local Government

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Evaluating the impact of the Financial Services Action Plan across EU25

Report for the European Parliament

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Individual country reports can be accessed Here, here, and here

News

May 8

David Stubbs is interviewed by BBC News about the latest financial results from Royal Mail which showed that it has suffered its first ever financial loss on the provision of the universal postal service.

May 6

David Stubbs comments on the interim report by the Independent Panel advising BERR on the future of UK postal services.

May 6

The Shadow Monetary Policy Committee, of which Andrew Lilico, our Managing Director, is a member, has published its latest report advising the Bank of England on interest rate policy.

April 29

Financial Services Authority publises our report on firm-level predictors of consumer loss through poor financial advice.

April 29

Civil Aviation Authority publises our report on calculating incremental costs.

April 23

Andrew Lilico talks with Bloomberg's Paul George in London about today's minutes of the Bank of England's April 10 rate-setting meeting, the outlook for UK interest rates and European Central Bank policies.

April 21

Andrew Lilico talks with CNBC in London about the Bank of England's plan to inject £50bn liquidity into the market and what it could mean for the UK economy.

April 11

Andrew Lilico talks with Bloomberg's Naga Munchetty in London about the response of governments and central banks to the credit crisis, inflation concerns and exchange rates.

April 7

The Shadow Monetary Policy Committee, of which Andrew Lilico, our Managing Director, is a member, has published its latest report advising the Bank of England on interest rate policy.

March 28

Financial Services Authority publises our report on consideration of a discretionary recording requirement (Annex of the FSA document).

March 26

Andrew Lilico talks about his forecast for today's German business confidence figures and the outlook for Bank of England Governor Mervyn King's testimony in Parliament on Bloomberg.

March 13

Europe Economics published today a report for TNT UK showing benefits for the UK of £229m and 3,300 jobs from competition in UK Mail market with a forecast of additional nett benefits of up to £405m and 6,600 jobs by 2016.

March 11

The CAA published its decision on the price controls for Heathrow and Gatwick Airports for the five years from 1 April 2008, including a Supporting Paper by Europe Economics on Cost of Capital at Heathrow and Gatwick airports

March 3

The Shadow Monetary Policy Committee, of which Andrew Lilico, our Managing Director, is a member, has published its latest report advising the Bank of England on interest rate policy.

March 3

The Wine & Spirit Trade Association publishes our report on the impact of a rise in alcohol duty (Annex 1 of the Association's Budget Submission 2008).

Recent Articles

Literature review of future developments in the telecommunications sector

Article by Stefano D'Ambrosio

Economics of merger control

Article by Jonathan Green and Gianandrea Staffiero

An extract from The 2007 Handbook of Competition Economics, a Global Competition Review special report

Competition Commission inquiry into the grocery market

Bob Young was recently invited by Competition Law Insight to write a 3,000 word article on the current Competition Commission inquiry into the grocery market. His article was published on March 13th 2007.

Gambling and the EU internal market: aspects of the micro-economics and socio-economics of gambling

Speech by Bob Young

The speech was given before a conference organised by the Academy of European Law held in Trier, Germany, February 8-9 2007.



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