Our research explores how markets, institutions, and public policies interact to create and sustain competitive advantage in a changing global economy, how such advantage evolves over time, and how it influences growth, deprivation and well-being both in the short and the long run.

The separate aspects of our research programme flow from a single unifying theme: succeeding in the global economy. The more specialised questions that organise our research are managed by the members of our academic team and are used to organise our projects and research outputs:

Theme 1

What Explains Comparative Long-run Growth Performance?
with Stephen Broadberry

Theme 2

How do Culture and Institutions Help to Explain Development and Divergence in a Globalising World?
with Sharun Mukand

Theme 3

How Can the Measurement of Wellbeing be Improved and What are the Implications for Policy?
with Andrew Oswald and Daniel Sgroi

Theme 4

What are the Implications of Globalisation and Global Crises for Policymaking and for Economic and Political Outcomes in Western Democracies?
with Vera Troeger