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The Autumn Statement explained
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We analyse the Chancellor's 2023 Autumn Statement.
24 November 2023
The Autumn Statement 2023 explained in 90 seconds
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Paul Johnson responds to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement.
22 November 2023
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained
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This week, we dive into the oddities of the VAT system.
16 November 2023
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Education spending: an engine for levelling-up?
event 11 December 2023
The launch of the 2023 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Social mobility and wealth
conference 12 December 2023
At this in-person event, IFS researchers will share findings from ESRC-funded research on social mobility and its drivers.
Where next for the state pension?
event 13 December 2023
At this online event, IFS researchers will present findings from a major new report on the future of the state pension in the UK.
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Business and investment

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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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

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

The Spring Budget explained

Podcast

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

16 March 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Corporation tax and investment

Report

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

21 October 2022

Mini-Budget 2022 and follow-up

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

17 October 2022

The challenges facing the Chancellor

Podcast

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

12 October 2022

Global economic outlook: heading for a fall?

Report

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

11 October 2022

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

UK outlook: why we need to do things differently

Report

The UK is the talk of the town, and not in a good way.

11 October 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng homes in on the right problems, but solutions don’t add up

Comment

Paul Johnson writes in The Times on the impact of Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-Budget policies.

26 September 2022

Market power and wage inequality

Working Paper

We propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality.

26 September 2022

What drives wage stagnation: monopsony or monopoly?

Working Paper

Wages for the vast majority of workers have stagnated since the 1980s while productivity has grown.

26 September 2022

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