Opinion Pieces

The most widely used programming languages for economic research are Julia, Matlab, Python and R. This column uses three criteria to compare the...

A sizeable proportion of enterprises, especially SMEs, in receipt of financial assistance from the government will fail to repay. This column asks...

A decade of near-zero, and even negative, interest rates in advanced economies has both encouraged the continued accumulation of debt and a search for...

Despite regular reports in the media over the past decade on the imminent death of cash amid rapid innovation in payment technologies, cash in...

A rapidly expanding literature has shown the importance of political economy factors for legislative and regulatory actions in the financial sector...

Countries reform when their neighbours have reformed too, especially in the aftermath of economic crises. This column examines business regulatory...

What will be the political legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic? This column uses data from the 2006-2018 Gallup World Polls to show that epidemic exposure...

The correlation between monetary growth and inflation has an historic pedigree as long as your arm. This column argues that rejecting the likelihood...

It is argued that COVID-19 will reverse the ongoing trend of challenging the value of science and the integrity of scientists. This column shows that...

The COVID-19 crisis presents a multi-faceted challenge to policymakers. A combination of declining commodity prices, the rise in unemployment, and...

With businesses fast running out of cash, governments need to roll out a loan program that builds on the recently-created job retention scheme, write...

The authorities, like most of the rest of us, have been caught short by the sudden advent of the coronavirus pandemic, and are rightly rushing to...

Many comparisons have been made between the coronavirus crisis and the global systemic crisis in 2008. This column argues that seen through the lens...

Artificial intelligence, such as the Bank of England Bot, is set to take over an increasing number of central bank functions. This column argues that...

European banks have been criticised for holding too much domestic government debt during the recent euro area crisis, intensifying the doom loop...

Given that China is a strategic and economic rival to the US, the Trump administration’s framework for US-China trade makes far more sense than one...