
Data that seriously distort Britain’s post-war economic history arose because the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) made errors that should have been easily spotted and adopted a highly defective methodology, says a new working paper written by Bill Martin, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at Cambridge Judge Business School. Read more

What if business didn’t just do less harm, but actually made the world better? The new podcast from Executive Education – Cambridge Executive Business Insights: Journey to Regeneration with Christopher Marquis, explores how businesses can be truly regenerative – not just sustainable – and have a positive impact on people, places and the planet. Read more

Market expectations about sovereign default can be crucial determinants of political decision making and can even become self-fulfilling in triggering sovereign default. I provide novel causal evidence that an increase in the economic cost of default can credibly commit a government to repay and can curb market expectations for the propensity of a default event… Read more

Patents related to low-carbon technology provide an economic boost, mostly through the investment channel, finds new work co-authored by Dr Kamiar Mohaddes of Cambridge Judge Business School and the International Monetary Fund. Read more