Policy papers

Below is a selection of my policy writings. Other policy work (including blog posts and press releases) can be found on my IFS website.

Kevin Fox, Peter Levell and Martin O'Connell, April 2022, “Multilateral index number methods for Consumer Price Statistics,” Economic Statistics Centre for Excellence Discussion Papers 2022-08

• Media: ESCoE blog

Stuart Adam, Isaac Delestre, Helen Miller and Peter Levell, October 2021, “Tax policies to help achieve net zero carbon emissions,” in Carl Emmerson, Paul Johnson and Ben Zaranko, Eds., in IFS Green Budget 2021, London: IFS

• Media: Financial Times.

Monica Costa Dias, Christine Farquharson, Rachel Griffith, Robert Joyce and Peter Levell, May 2020, “Getting people back into work,” COVID Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 16.

• Media: Column by Martin Wolf at the Financial Times.

Peter Levell and Agnes Norris Keiller, October 2018, “The exposure of different workers to potential trade barriers between the UK and the EU,” in Paul Johnson, Carl Emmerson, Christine Farquharson, Eds., IFS Green Budget 2018, London: IFS.

• Media: BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, The Guardian, BBC.

Peter Levell, March 2018, “The Customs Union, tariff reductions and consumer prices,” IFS Briefing Note, BN225.

• Media: BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, The Guardian.

Peter Levell, Jonathan Shaw and Barra Roantree, September 2015, “Redistribution from a lifetime perspective,”IFS Working Paper W15/27.

• Media: Column by Martin Wolf at the Financial Times, The Economist, Marginal Revolution, City AM.

Peter Levell, Martin O’Connell and Kate Smith, February 2016, “Excise duties,” in Paul Johnson, Carl Emmerson, Robert and Joyce, Eds., IFS Green Budget 2016, London: IFS.

Abigail Adams, and Peter Levell, November 2014, “Measuring poverty when inflation varies across households,” Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

• Media: The Guardian.

Abigail Adams, Andrew Hood and Peter Levell, February 2014, “The squeeze on incomes,” in Paul Johnson, Carl Emmerson, and Helen Miller, Eds., IFS Green Budget 2014, London: IFS.

• Media: Financial Times, Huffington Post, BBC Newsnight.

Andrew Leicester, Peter Levell and Imran Rasul, July 2012, “Tax and benefit policy: insights from behavioural economics,” IFS Reports, C125.

Thomas F Crossley, Andrew Leicester and Peter Levell, February 2010, “Fiscal Stimulus and the Consumer,” Robert Chote, Carl Emmerson, and Jonathan Shaw, Eds., in IFS Green Budget 2010, London: IFS