🆕️ working paper 👇🏼

🎉 Shortlisted! “Market concentration & productivity: evidence from the UK” (w/ Savagar, Aguda & Wu) is up for the ONS Research Excellence Awards 2025 People’s Choice. 🗳️ Vote here: forms.office.com/pages/respon... (Find: “Market concentration and productivity: evidence from the UK.”)

The programme is now out and includes ESCoE's @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and @yannisgalanakis.bsky.social, with a keynote from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Jonathan Haskel: tinyurl.com/7st5fv73 @jschneebacher.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

Yesterday's 'measurement and methods' session at @productivity.bsky.social's research conference featured ESCoE's Rebecca Riley, @yannisgalanakis.bsky.social and Russell Black discussing papers on economic measurement.

Just launched: a dashboard on UK company ownership 👉 Breaks down company counts by ownership structure and gender of the entrepreneur. 🖱️Explore it here: dashboard.yannisgalanakis.com/entrepreneur... #Entrepreneurship #UK #OpenData #DataViz #CompanyOwnership

ESCoE Postdoc Researcher @yannisgalanakis.bsky.social & Research Associate Anthony Savagar are presenting ESCoE work on business dynamism at a workshop on business dynamism, firm survival, and market potential at University of Westminster on 15 May. 📈 Register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

The UK will soon have a new industrial strategy. What can we learn from past policies, and from examining the sectors in the government's recent green paper? Our new CMA report looks at the data. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-policies-new-evidence-for-the-uk 1/

📢 #CallForPapers 📢 Submissions are now welcome for the BoE—QMUL—U.Bristol—U.Kent Joint #Conference on “Firm Dynamics, Market Structures & Productivity in the Macroeconomy” 📆 29 May 📍 Charterhouse Square Campus, QML, London Deadline: 14 April Submit your paper: forms.gle/7F5KLe8fvWnZ...

So pleased to present earlier today our revised "Real-time Business Dynamism" (joint work w/Anthony Savagar) at @niesrorg.bsky.social Seminar -- amazing hosts and great feedback! @escoeorg.bsky.social @productivity.bsky.social

This evening I'm at the @productivity.bsky.social and @escoeorg.bsky.social and RES event on firm-level productivity in the UK, as part of #NationalProductivityWeek. Will we "unlock productivity" as the title threatens?! (Think we'd need a little more than 2 hours...)

⚠️Today is the last chance to submit a paper for ESCoE's 2025 Conference on Economic Measurement. This will be held on 21-23 May 2025 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3w7rc626 #Conference #EconSky

⏰Just one week left to submit papers for ESCoE's Conference on Economic Measurement 2025. The event will take place on 21-23 May 2025 @kingsbschool.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Submit by 13 Jan.➡️ tinyurl.com/3w7rc626

🥱 Bored on your commute? Stuck in traffic? 🤩 Turn your downtime into insight-time. 🎧 Check out an AI-genrated podcast based on our working paper that looks at the impact of #board gender composition on the company-reported #GenderPayGap 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/7tzC...

Want to do a funded, joint Oxford-CMA PhD on market power? Howard Smith (Oxford) and the CMA Microeconomics Unit are looking for promising candidates interested in doing research on the topic of "Beyond markups: understanding changes to competition, concentration, and market power". #EconSky 1/2

@twickersham.bsky.social gave an amazing presentation this morning at the 'Stimulating UK economic growth through dynamism' featuring our dashboard data

New analysis from our team today: the 2024 edition of our annual 'Trends in UK business dynamism and productivity' statistical bulletin: www.ons.gov.uk/releases/tre... Essential reading for understanding how firm-level trends influence overall UK economic growth. A few highlights follow. #econsky

Anthony Savagar and I are working on a *real-time* #BusinessDynamism project In our dashboard we visualise the entry and exit of UK-registered companies: asavagar.shinyapps.io/BusinessDyna... Soon a working paper is coming

And this one is for organisational economics and the economics of entrepreneurship and management: go.bsky.app/4DSq8AZ Will add to both as more people transition over here. 2/2

🎙Just presented at the #EconStats2024 UNSW-ESCoE conference @escoeorg.bsky.social

Excited to attend and present at the UNSW-ESCoE conference in Sydney #econsky @escoeorg.bsky.social #EconStats2024

BÆM is back! Come and join us in beautiful Bristol for the 2nd edition of the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings: Development Economics: May 6-7 Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital: May 8-9 Submit your paper by Feb 28. Travel support is available. baem.info. 1/4

I made a start on an economic measurement starter pack. Open to those producing regular economic statistics, assembling datasets for other researchers to use, or working to improve economic measurement tools. Nominations (include self-nominations) very welcome! go.bsky.app/SPLaNN1