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2023 We thank the ESRC for confirming the award of £1.8m to support the Decision Maker Panel 2023-2026.
2023 I am delighted to accept a role as Member of the Expert Group for The Productivity Institute Data Lab.
2023 Special Session available to view on "New Evidence on the Surprise Surge in Inflation" at the American Economic Association meetings, New Orleans, 7 January.
2023 ESCoE contract for 2023-28, hosted by King's Business School, Directed by Rebecca Riley, has been launched 12 December at One Bird Cage Walk, London. Pleased to be Deputy Director and Research Associate.
2022 June 2022 HM Treasury has approved £250,000 for funding Management and Expectations Survey (MES) 2023. Joined the MES Advisory Board.
2022 Pleased to be appointed to the National Statistician’s Committee for Advice on Standards for Economic Statistics (NSCASE) which is part of the new governance framework for the Office for National Statistics, reporting to Sir Ian Diamond (National Statistician) and chaired by Martin Weale.
2022 The Productivity Institute latest podcast episode, Bart van Ark looks at Staying productive in uncertain times with Jagjit Chadha, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research; Rain Newton-Smith, Chief Economist at the Confederation of British Industry, and Paul Mizen, Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Nottingham
2022 Tim Harford, Undercover Economist and Financial Times columnist featured my research on potential capital with Jan Eberly and Jonathan Haskel in The lesson humble sea urchins offer about economic resilience.
2022 The NBER Digest features our latest research on how ‘At-Home Capital’ Attenuated COVID-Related Output Losses. This was featured in a Sunday Times article on 9th January 2022 by the economics editor David Smith.
2021 The Economic and Social Research Council is pleased to announce the Decision Maker Panel among the finalists for its Celebrating Impact Prize 2021. ESRC announcement. ESRC sponsored short introductory film.
2021 Summary of the findings of DMP and WFH surveys on productivity at a ProPEL Hub webinar with Paul Mizen, Nick Bloom, John Van Reenen and Rebecca Riley.
2021 Awarded a second round of extension funding £440,000 by the ESRC for the Decision Maker Panel project.
2021 member, The Productivity Institute
2021 Expert Witness to the Cabinet Office (international comparisons, Levelling Up unit and Covid-19 task force)
2021 invited to be a member of the ESCoE Management Group.
2020 Awarded£265,000 extension funding by the ESRC for the Decision Maker Panel project.
2020 Invited to join the Programme Board of the Midland Engine.
2020 Invited to be a member of the Analytics Group of the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership, feeding knowledge of Covid impact and response to the D2N2 Board and city and county councils.
2020 UKRI has awarded £800,000 to support research into the business impact of Covid-19, which is a joint project with Bank of England and the Office for National Statistics.
2019 The NBER DIgest features our Brexit uncertainty index and the toll on the UK economy.
2019 International Central Banking Course for central bankers from the European System of Central Banks and other central banks (venue:Central Bank of Malta). More details here.
2019 Kevin Lee and Paul Mizen have been awarded £132,600 by ONS-ESCoE to fund a project on Using Firm-Level Surveys to Understand Industrial and Regional Capacity, Investment, Productivity and Output Growth.
2019 ESRC has awarded £1,102,171 to conduct a second wave and analyse the results of a Management and Expectations Survey with the Office for National Statistics Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, Nick Bloom (Stanford) and John van Reenen (MIT).
2018 DMP evidence used extensively by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee including the official assessment of the Withdrawal Agreement presented to Parliament (Nov 2018) and in the Agents' Survey on Preparations for EU Withdrawal presented to Parliament (Dec 2018).
2018 Invited to join the Expert Group, ifo World Economic Survey (WES), Munich. ifo surveys have been conducted since 1949 and WES began in 1981. It is one of the longest running surveys of global economic conditions.
2018 Presentations of the DMP evidence on misallocation due to Brexit uncertainty at the FRB Philadelphia, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve, Peterson Institute, International Monetary Fund and Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago.
2018 Presentation MMF Special Session at the Royal Economic Society on the DMP evidence base for effects of Brexit on the UK economy.
2018 Presentation at the Royal Economic Society on ONS Management and Expectations Survey.
2018 A new edited book on Macroprudential Policy and Practice was published by Cambridge University Press, this book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of macroprudential instruments used by central banks around the world.
2017 A second launch event for the Decision Maker Panel attended by about 80 senior business executives took place on 22 November 2017 at the Bank of England. Chief Economist Andrew Haldane gave introductory remarks on the timeliness of the Decision Maker Panel project.
2017 A launch event for the Decision Maker Panel attended by about 100 senior business executives took place on 6 November 2017 at Jubilee Conference Centre, University of Nottingham. Deputy Governor Sir Dave Ramsden discussed the role of business surveys in monetary policymaking.
2017 The Decision Maker Panel has received £1.3m funding from various sources including the ESRC, the Bank of England, the University of Nottingham and Stanford University. I will act at Principal Investigator (PI) on this project 2017-2020.
2016 As part of a team involving Professor Nick Bloom, the Bank of England and HM Treasury I have set up a Decision Maker Panel to review the effect of current economic uncertainty on UK firms investment, growth, sales, and cost of finance. Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy has referred to this work here. It has been supported by the ESRC Nottingham Impact Accelerator.
2016 Funded by the Office for National Statistics Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, as CI on successful NIESR bid to develop a survey on management and uncertainty. We are now collaborating with Nick Bloom (Stanford), Tatsuro Senga (QMUL) and Phil Wales (ONS) to roll out an ONS-led statutory survey of 25,000 firms in mid 2017.
2016 Invited to be the Inaugural OeNB Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna established to mark the 650th anniversary of the University of Vienna and the 200th anniversary of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB)).