Helen Miller

This presentation was given at the launch of the Green Budget 2012.

This presentation was given in January 2012 at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC.

These slides were delivered as part of the IFS public economics lectures 2011.

This presentation was given at a briefing following the autumn statement 2011.

Figures released today show that corporate tax receipts fell by 6.9% in October this year, compared to the same month last year. This observation highlights the recent trends in corporate tax revenues and discusses what is known about companies' tax payments.

In a speech made yesterday, the leader of the Labour party, Ed Miliband, accused the coalition's corporate tax policies of "rigging" the tax system against manufacturing and long term investment. This observation discusses how the package of measures will alter the tax burden and affect the UK's competitiveness.

This presentation was delivered at the 38th annual conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), which took place in Stockholm from 1-3 September 2011.

China has experienced unprecedented investment in skills and science, which has resulted in rapid growth in innovative outputs. New evidence suggests that Chinese inventors have the capacity to engage in research at the technology frontier. Such trends have fuelled widespread concerns over Western economies' ability to maintain their dominance in knowledge creation and high skill employment. However, innovation is not a zero-sum game; the success of China need not be at the expense of the West.

This article was published in Vox on 30th June 2011

These slides were delivered at the IFS post-Budget briefing 2011.