Great to see mine & jan bakkers research featured in the ft today

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3w ago

Is Rightmove taking us for a ride? ft.trib.al/1ogmg1l | opinion

Can Labour build 2 million new homes? Around 18 per cent of new builds are in areas lacking a GP surgery or secondary school. Can data-driven policymaking make sure new homes are built in the right places? politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/can-lab...

Can Labour Build 2 Million New Homes?

Around 18 per cent of new builds are in areas lacking a GP surgery or secondary school. Can data-driven policymaking make sure new homes are built in the right places?

politicalquarterly.org.uk

Interested in a career in applied economics or quantitative analysis of public policies? There's still time to apply to join our team led by @amritakulka.bsky.social @nikdatta.bsky.social generating UK housing and planning evidence. D/L: Sun 12th July Start: 15th August (flexible) buff.ly/hbI68LX

@amritakulka.bsky.social and I are hiring a predoc to work with us on topics related to housing, planning, market power and local consumption. Great for someone interested in pursuing a PhD or a job in quant public policy. D/L: Sun 12th July buff.ly/hbI68LX

Fantastic opportunity for someone interested in a career in applied economics or quantitative analysis of public policies to join a team led by @amritakulka.bsky.social @nikdatta.bsky.social generating UK housing and planning evidence. D/L: Sun 12th July Start: 15th August (flexible) buff.ly/hbI68LX

Great to see the work of @nikdatta.bsky.social and Johannes Brinkmann on profits when fuel prices rise and fall covered by the FT today.

Tim Harford@timharford.ft.com · 3mo ago

A guide to 'greedflation' as.ft.com/r/5d20f811-2...

A new BoC album coming for the first time in 13 years really is a great gift www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Nl...

Boards of Canada - Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz

YouTube video by Boards of Canada

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New policy brief from @amritakulka.bsky.social and myself: We assess the 7 new towns viability given pre-existing excess housing demand, access to jobs, local amenities, similar nearby developments, and prospects given planned infrastructure. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Government’s seven New Town locations scored against real-world demand data - Manchester and Leeds most likely to succeed

The Warwick economists behind the Wheretobuild housing demand mapping tool have used their database to test the government’s seven-site shortlist against measures of likely success, and ranked the sit...

warwick.ac.uk

“Profit margins expand after the crisis has passed when prices start to slowly drift back down.” @nikdatta.bsky.social discusses his research on oil price spikes for a Times investigation on the increasing cost of fuel and ‘price gouging’ buff.ly/gBhLQCq

New article from myself & Johannes Brinkmann out in The Conversation on petrol price gouging (or lack thereof) theconversation.com/do-petrol-re...

Do petrol retailers really ‘price-gouge’ during oil price spikes?

Research suggests that profiteering may actually be more likely when we’re not watching prices closely.

theconversation.com

There has been a lot of discussion around petrol "price gouging" over the last few days. New @cagewarwick.bsky.social policy note from myself and Johannes Brinkmann on this claim with some analysis from around the Russian Invasion of Ukrain. The main points:

Excess profits are being made at the pumps – but not when you think

New analysis of fuel prices confirms a long-held suspicion – at times of crisis when wholesale oil prices rise, prices at the pump also rise quickly – but they are slower to match any subsequent fall.

warwick.ac.uk

@amritakulka.bsky.social and my housing work was featured on ITV Tonight yesterday. You can play with a fun map and read more about it here: wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk

#TeamHair strikes again

CAGE Research Centre@cagewarwick.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Where homes are built within a local authority matters far more than the headline targets set for each area." @NikDatta.bsky.social and @AmritaKulka.bsky.social discuss their research into tackling the UK’s housing crisis for Inside Housing magazine.

@amritakulka.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a full time predoc to work with us on a project on land use regulation and market power in the housing market. If you're interested in (very) big data and applied econ please do apply! #econra #econ_ra econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

New piece from #TeamHair

CAGE Research Centre@cagewarwick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🏘️ “Closing the housing gap will require building in the right places, not just building more.” @NikDatta.bsky.social and @AmritaKulka.bsky.social discuss their research into tackling the UK’s housing crisis for the Local Government Chronicle. 📰

ICYMI given today's focus on the budget: the UK government has today also published a working paper on options for reform of non-compete agreements. Responses to the specific options set out therein (statutory limits, size cutoffs and an outright ban), can be submitted until 18 February. 1/2

Working paper on options for reform of non-compete clauses in employment contracts

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Yesterday was my last day at the CMA. It has been a real honour helping to build its research function over the last three years. This therefore seems like a good opportunity to highlight a few things we have published in recent years. 1/

🚨 undergrads and masters students interested in careers in applied econ research: My department is recruiting 4-5 full-time RAs to start summer 2026. See the announcement here for more details: jessiehandbury.com/misc/RAflyer... A few reasons you should apply...

New piece from me and Jan Bakker in The Conversation theconversation.com/could-new-te...

Could new tenants’ rights usher in rent controls? Here’s why that wouldn’t necessarily be a positive

The government says it doesn’t back rent controls – but new protections should limit how much landlords can push up prices.

theconversation.com

Where should Britain build 1.5 million homes? @amritakulka.bsky.social l and I analysed 20 billion housing searches + availability to map demand at a hyper-local level. Map 👉 wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk Full + 350 LA reports 👉 www.warwick.ac.uk/cage/whereto... @cagewarwick.bsky.social 1/n

Are you an economist looking for a pre-doc? Are you interested in youth crime and policy? Then come work with us! We're hiring at @cep-lse.bsky.social to come and work with Rui Costa, Matteo Sandi and myself on a joint project. Applications now open: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #EconRA #EconSky

As someone who has lived in three different towns in Hertfordshire, I have no idea what he's talking about. Now if you need me I'll be eating second breakfast.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits" "And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids" "This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

Warwick econ are hiring! With a preference for Macro & Development. econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Glad to see my new piece in The Conversation is stimulating informed debate

theconversation.com/how-new-rent... New piece from Jan David Bakker & myself on some of the possible consequences of the renter's rights bill

How new renters’ rights could drive landlords out of the market

Landlords could see costs increase while profits fall.

theconversation.com

Attention IO job market candidates: Sometimes speakers in the CMA's external economics seminar series have to cancel at relatively short notice. We would love for these slots to go to JMCs to present their job market paper. Drop me a message if you are interested or share with those who might be.

I did not expect to wake up to a policy which included “subsidise pubs”. “That is what our £5bn neighbourhood fund is about, to be spent for local people and by local people on their community’s needs. Whether that’s restoring a local pub…” www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...

The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give communities back control

Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right

telegraph.co.uk

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a... Good to see coverage of mine and Johannes Brinkmann's @cagewarwick.bsky.social on the RTFO. Here's a nice graph showing the benefits...

19 years sober

One of the tunes I've written (I occasionally write music) just got added to a playlist with this title... open.spotify.com/playlist/7yL...

Music to get Killed to (But in a Hot way)

Playlist · VHEXPERTINE · 82 items · 7.9K saves

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