News Archive
How US tariffs against China provided a boost for Mexican exports and employment
Wednesday 17 Sep 2025
What makes an effective leader? American Civil War study provides crucial insight
Tuesday 12 Aug 2025
Why do boys and girls still choose different careers? New research points to childhood friendships
Tuesday 5 Aug 2025
Small boats, big waves: how channel crossings are shaping attitudes to immigration
Monday 21 Jul 2025
The i paper: Elon Musk's secret push to make millions for Tesla out of UK green energy scheme
Monday 2 Jun 2025
Fluctuating renewable fuel costs are a small price to pay for environmental benefits - new research finds
Friday 25 Apr 2025
School students learn how economics, politics and history impact modern society
Wednesday 19 Mar 2025
An Economic History of India: Growth, Income and Inequalities from the Mughals to the 21st Century
Wednesday 12 Feb 2025
Celebration of Economic History at the Nick Crafts memorial conference and lecture
Monday 25 Nov 2024
Did tariffs make American manufacturing great? New evidence from the Gilded Age
Thursday 14 Nov 2024
Why isn’t the whole world developed? Economic history and imperial interventions
Thursday 17 Oct 2024
How inclusive political institutions can foster cooperative norms that reinforce prosocial behaviours
Monday 30 Sep 2024
A coordinated military approach is needed for 21st century conflicts, new study finds
Thursday 6 Jun 2024
The Telegraph: Non-dom tax status: what it means and how the rules are changing
Thursday 25 Apr 2024
What would ensuring every child obtains universal basic skills mean for world development?
Monday 25 Mar 2024
Economic sanctions can have a major impact on the neighbours of a target nation – new research
Tuesday 5 Mar 2024
More capital gains are received in one neighbourhood in Kensington than in Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle combined, finds new report
Tuesday 20 Feb 2024
Applications open for the CAGE Summer School 2024: Pre-doctoral Research Training
Monday 19 Feb 2024
The Story of Britain's Industrial Revolution: How Slavery Wealth Propelled Economic Growth
Friday 2 Feb 2024
“We need to move away from the fax-machine age” - Professor Dennis Novy tells National Security inquiry that it is time to get serious about data
Wednesday 31 Jan 2024
Refugees are not just another group of immigrants | Policy brief by Sascha Becker
Tuesday 16 Jan 2024
Politicians need to start “the hard grind” of tackling the problems Brexit has created for UK businesses, Professor Novy tells the London Assembly
Friday 12 Jan 2024
Cleaning up our own mess - Dr Arun Advani comments on Commons debate on beneficial ownership in the UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
Thursday 7 Dec 2023
Book launch for Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism by Mark Harrison a great success
Friday 27 Oct 2023
If inheritance tax is to be retained, it urgently needs to be improved, argues new report co-authored by CAGE's Dr Arun Advani
Wednesday 27 Sep 2023
Dennis Novy appointed to the new Economic Advisory Council of the British Chambers of Commerce
Friday 2 Jun 2023
Applications open for the CAGE summer school 2023: culture, history and development
Tuesday 14 Mar 2023
Abolishing tax perks for non-doms could significantly boost UK tax revenue without risking an exodus of the super-rich
Thursday 9 Mar 2023
Why isn’t the whole world developed? CAGE and Discover Economics launch a new video series for schools
Thursday 9 Mar 2023
Childhood creativity has a positive impact on earnings in adulthood, new study finds
Tuesday 31 Jan 2023
Almost half of UK political donations come from private wealthy ‘super-donors’, new research finds
Wednesday 23 Nov 2022
How UK households could save £10bn a year by making homes more energy efficient
Wednesday 16 Nov 2022
Omer Moav Presents Cutting Edge Research in Coventry for the ESRC Festival of Social Science
Monday 31 Oct 2022
CAGE researchers awarded two out of five 2022 Philip Leverhulme Prizes in Economics
Monday 24 Oct 2022
Abolishing the non-dom regime would raise more than £3.2 billion each year, finds new report
Tuesday 27 Sep 2022
A few minutes of small talk can improve future social interaction, new research finds
Thursday 1 Sep 2022
Who are the super-rich? The wealth and connections of the Sunday Times Rich List
Thursday 28 Jul 2022
Skills are crucial to boosting productivity – but they cannot do the job alone
Wednesday 25 May 2022
Could more flexible working make it easier for women to have a career and a family?
Wednesday 11 May 2022
Professor Sascha Becker appointed to editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Monday 2 May 2022
New research into threat posed to climate change policies by the rise of the populist right
Monday 25 Apr 2022
More than one in five top earning bankers has benefited from non-dom status, finds new report
Thursday 7 Apr 2022
Subsidy would improve fruit and veg intake by as much as 15%, new research shows
Thursday 31 Mar 2022
Trade wars: The ghost of Smoot-Hawley tells why America isn’t too big to avoid retaliation
Thursday 10 Feb 2022
PRESS RELEASE: New evidence of the long- and short-term impacts of the pandemic on non-Covid-related healthcare
Tuesday 25 Jan 2022
Professor Bishnupriya Gupta appointed as an editor of the Journal of Economic History
Tuesday 30 Nov 2021
Community engagement initiatives in the Global South are not working effectively, new research shows
Friday 26 Nov 2021
'Botched covid-19 test results in Britain led to thousands of extra cases' – The Economist
Friday 19 Nov 2021
Press Release: ‘Investment in cities, not towns, is the best way to tackle regional inequality for the long-term,’ finds CAGE Research Centre
Thursday 18 Nov 2021
Capital gains tax reform: If the Chancellor wants to go down in history as a great reformer, there are some big tax changes he could make, says Arun Advani
Wednesday 27 Oct 2021
Fix our existing National Insurance system instead of adding a new Levy, urges new report
Wednesday 8 Sep 2021
Press release: Final withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan could see drastic increase in violent activity, new research suggests
Wednesday 7 Jul 2021
Equalising opportunity: the long-term effects of the Second World War on racial diversity in the US labour market
Monday 24 May 2021
Does a better understanding of the extent of racial discrimination encourage support for pro-Black policies?
Monday 24 May 2021
CAGE associate, Sonia Bhalotra, awarded fellowship of the International Economic Association (IEA)
Thursday 29 Apr 2021
It’s not what you know: how professional networks helped Jewish academics flee persecution in Nazi Germany
Wednesday 24 Mar 2021
Sascha Becker appointed to the Editorial Board of the Quarterly Journal of Economics
Thursday 21 Jan 2021
'We are all Nate Silver now': Mirko Draca considers the future of economics in the age of information overload
Wednesday 20 Jan 2021
‘It is possible to raise money by taxing wealth…but there remains a big political choice in who pays, and how much.’
Wednesday 9 Dec 2020
Should the UK have a wealth tax? The Wealth Tax Commission publishes its recommendations
Wednesday 9 Dec 2020
NHS Test and Trace works, new research finds, but the data glitch which led to over 15,000 late referrals caused more than 125,000 additional COVID-19 infections
Tuesday 24 Nov 2020
Fixing capital gains tax: CAGE research contributes to the Chancellor’s tax review
Thursday 12 Nov 2020
‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme drove new COVID-19 infections up by between 8 and 17%, new research finds.
Friday 30 Oct 2020
Voting online using a blockchain based system could boost the integrity of national elections, new research finds
Friday 25 Sep 2020
An ever-growing group of US citizens are in extreme distress, new research shows
Thursday 24 Sep 2020
Artificial Intelligence as a General Purpose Technology: An historical perspective
Monday 6 Jul 2020
Is it time for a UK wealth tax? Ambitious collaborative research programme launched
Thursday 2 Jul 2020
CAGE economists join cross-institutional initiative to answer policy questions on coronavirus
Thursday 25 Jun 2020
Top 1% receive a sixth of the nation’s income (pre-crisis) due to hidden rise of capital gains
Thursday 21 May 2020
How can a safe lockdown exit be designed? The case for a rolling age-release strategy
Wednesday 29 Apr 2020
Indian migrants caught in the lockdown: How many will return? Where will they come from? Where will they return to?
Wednesday 22 Apr 2020
Forced Migration and Human Capital: CAGE working paper accepted in American Economic Review
Friday 17 Jan 2020
The simple change that could create a fairer tax system and bring in billions, all without raising taxes
Monday 25 Nov 2019
How should the government make the tax system fairer? Make tax more accountable.
Tuesday 12 Nov 2019
Reading the past like an open book – researchers use text to measure two hundred years of happiness
Monday 14 Oct 2019
Left vs Right is dead- politics is about anarchists vs centrists, new study shows
Wednesday 18 Sep 2019
Millions of Brits lying about how much tax they owe – the facts about tax returns
Tuesday 11 Jun 2019
Fewer people taking the bus as fares rise faster than driving costs, says expert
Thursday 4 Apr 2019
Brexit has already cost average UK worker more than week's wages due to post-referendum price rises, research shows
Thursday 14 Feb 2019
Brexit voters hit by austerity now realise how EU membership benefits them, new academic study find
Tuesday 4 Dec 2018
Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles which includes Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back by CAGE Director Professor Crafts
Tuesday 27 Nov 2018
Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back: British Economic Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Financial Crisis
Friday 26 Oct 2018
£2m funding award recognises the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy as a UK centre of research excellence
Wednesday 19 Sep 2018
Wiley Prize in Economics awarded to Associate Professor Mirko Draca of Warwick Economics
Monday 20 Aug 2018
Moving around: The changing geography of US manufacturing during the 20th century
Wednesday 13 Dec 2017
There are good reasons why the Bank of England is trying to speak to ‘ordinary people’
Tuesday 21 Nov 2017
Professor Nick Crafts awarded Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History
Wednesday 27 Sep 2017
Immigration continues to be unpopular but cutting it will hurt Britain's economy
Thursday 15 Jun 2017
David Willetts and Nicholas Crafts discuss 'Was Brexit a rebellion against globalisation?'
Friday 25 Nov 2016
Dennis Novy interview on the state of the British economy after the EU referendum
Tuesday 13 Sep 2016
Two centuries of data reveal that health not wealth has always been the key to wellbeing
Tuesday 13 Sep 2016
Two centuries of data reveal that health not wealth has always been the key to wellbeing
Thursday 8 Sep 2016
Andrew Oswald comments on lottery winners and human well-being in radio interviews
Thursday 14 Jan 2016
New Bank of England report on EU Membership cites research by CAGE academics Novy and Draca
Friday 23 Oct 2015
Cast Back into the Dark Ages of Medicine. The Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance
Wednesday 7 Oct 2015
3.5 Million pounds awarded to the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Wednesday 6 Aug 2014
The Power of Political Voice: How Women in Politics can Help Tackle Gender Crime
Saturday 26 Jul 2014
Economists calculate true value of 'who' you know, rather than 'what' in US politics
Monday 7 Jul 2014
