New monthly indices of the British stock market,…

Stock market indices around the world are near historic highs. During the past ten years, the FTSE 100 has almost doubled, the DAX trebled, and the S&P500 quadrupled. Including dividends, the returns are even higher.…

The impact of Brexit on UK firms

Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Scarlet Chen, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka, Gregory Thwaites 04 September 2019 More than three years have passed since the EU referendum, but uncertainty surrounding the process of the UK’s withdrawal from…

Costs of employment and flexible labour demand

Costs of employment and flexible labour demand: Evidence from maternity and parental leave reforms Persistent gender gaps in employment and wages exist in many OECD countries. These gaps appear most prominently around childbirth, a phenomenon…