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Our research covers a wide range of topics related to businesses and their investments, including firm productivity, innovation and research and development, the location of firms’ activities and the effects of tax, competition and other policies.

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Houses

Levelling Up: Is inequality between places Britain’s biggest problem?

Podcast

Since 2019, 'levelling up' has been at the forefront of the political agenda - but is inequality between places really Britain’s biggest problem?

16 August 2023

Arrivals board at airport

The economics of immigration

Podcast

Recently, the government announced record net migration figures. Paul Johnson speaks to Madeleine Sumption, a political scientist, to get the facts.

8 June 2023

An image of a factory releasing smoke into the atmosphere

CIOT/IFS debate: Carbon border adjustment – what approach should the UK take?

Presentation

The government is consulting on how to prevent UK taxes on greenhouse gas emissions simply leading to emissions-generating activities moving abroad.

24 May 2023

Woman working from home

Remote working is probably here to stay, and these are the reasons why

Comment

"Let’s try to shed some light into a heated debate." Paul Johnson writes for the Times on the evidence on working from home and hybrid working.

22 May 2023

A photo of Nick Bloom giving the annual lecture

Does working from home have a future?

Presentation

Professor Nick Bloom, William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, gave the 2023 IFS Annual Lecture on 18th May.

18 May 2023

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Firm concentration & job design: the case of schedule flexible work arrangements

Working Paper

We build a model of job design under monopsony to analyse the amenity value of job flexibility on offer across the wage and occupational distribution.

6 April 2023

Jeremy Hunt

The Spring Budget explained

Podcast

We provide our analysis on the Chancellor's Spring Budget.

16 March 2023

Solent harbour

Freeports and Investment Zones – what sorts of things should we consider when assessing whether they are good policy?

Comment

We discuss the economic issues central to whether Freeports and Investment Zones are a good idea.

10 March 2023

Teesside

Freeports: What are they? What do we know? And what will we know?

Report

This report analyses the rationale for Freeports and what we can learn about their potential impact from past policies and a planned evaluation.

10 March 2023

Pipeline

Are high energy prices here to stay?

Podcast

As we leave winter and enter spring, we ask whether high energy prices are here to stay

8 March 2023

Working paper cover

Taking the biscuit: how Safari privacy policies affect online advertising

Working Paper

We analyse how much advertisers are willing to pay for third-party cookies and how tightening privacy policies affect market outcomes.

9 February 2023

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Firm heterogeneity and the impact of payroll taxes

Working Paper

We examine the heterogeneous impact of a large payroll tax cut for older workers in Hungary.

24 November 2022

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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes

Working Paper

We study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers using rich administrative data from the Netherlands.

7 November 2022

London skyscrapers

If we can’t have lower corporate taxes, can they at least be stable?

Comment

"What is needed is a coherent plan for the future of corporation tax as part of a wider fiscal strategy." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

7 November 2022

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Firms as tax collectors

Working Paper

We show that delegating tax collection to large firms can help build tax capacity in weak-enforcement settings.

31 October 2022

High rise building

Corporation tax and investment

Report

We look at the corporate tax system and proposals to change it.

21 October 2022

Downing Street

Mini-Budget 2022 and follow-up

Collection

Analysis of the government's tax and spending plans - and follow-up - announced as part of the mini-Budget.

17 October 2022

Westminster

The challenges facing the Chancellor

Podcast

We explore the Chancellor's options for achieving fiscal sustainability.

12 October 2022

Aerial view of town

Global economic outlook: heading for a fall?

Report

New shocks are threatening to cut the global post-pandemic recovery short.

11 October 2022

Big Ben

IFS Green Budget 2022

Report

The IFS Green Budget 2022 takes stock of the economic and fiscal outlook following Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget and analyses the challenges ahead.

11 October 2022