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Consumption and prices

Our work in this area looks at how consumers respond to price signals and other incentives to change their borrowing, saving and spending behaviour, as well as how different households' welfare is affected by inflation and changes in indirect taxes.

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    Do tariffs work?

    Podcast

    We discuss the economic consequences of tariffs, why governments use them, and whether they actually achieve their intended goals.

    23 January 2025

    Offshore wind farm

    Which net zero?

    Comment

    Climate change doesn’t care about national borders. 

    30 October 2024

    Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

    Spring Budget 2024

    Collection

    All our analysis of the Spring Budget 2024. Includes research, comment, explainers and more.

    6 March 2024

    Salt mine

    The materials that shape our economy

    Podcast
    In this episode, we speak with Ed Conway, Economics Editor at Sky News and author of a new book Material World: The Making of Civilisation.

    13 September 2023

    Working Paper Cover Page

    Targeting taxes on local externalities

    Working Paper
    We consider optimal anonymous consumption taxes in situations where the magnitude of an externality varies with individuals who cause it.

    14 August 2023