The CMA Microeconomics Unit's State of UK Competition 2024 report is in the running for the ONS Research Excellence Awards 2025 in the Government-led Impact of Analysis and People's Choice Award categories.

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.

Interested in productivity, business dynamism and market power? Come to this year's CMA-Durham workshop on 20-21 November! We open with a keynote by Jonathan Haskel (Imperial), followed by two days worth of sessions on technology diffusion, market frictions,market power and more. 1/2

📢 We are hiring 📢 RFBerlin is looking for a #ResearchAssistant to support the project on the labor market effects of collective bargaining. Apply now or share with your network: www.rfberlin.com/job/research...

Deadline in two days!

Call for papers for our economics workshop: cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2... Please submit before 25th September if you work on: - UK productivity slowdown - Aggregate market power - Business dynamism - Industrial policy - Supply chains - Determinants of innovation and R&D

How does competition influence investment? The CMA has just published our new Microeconomics Unit lit review (joint work with my fantastic colleagues Amanda Ereyi and @joelkariel.bsky.social). 1/2

📢Nina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Call for papers for our economics workshop! Deadline in just over two weeks.

Doing research on productivity, business dynamism and/or market power? Please submit to our fourth CMA-Durham workshop! Deadline 25 Sept. Also apply if your work links to: industrial policy, technology diffusion, start-ups, supply chains. cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2...

It's well-established that UK firms engaged in international trade are more productive, but why? New analysis from @christinavpalmou.bsky.social and Kyle Jones (ONS) offers new evidence: tinyurl.com/5c9mazpa

📅 June 18, 2025: Day 1 of the PSE - @cepr.org Policy Forum "AI & Labor Reallocation" Featuring: 🎙️ Barbara Petrongolo (@ox.ac.uk) 🎯 @davidautor.bsky.social (@mit.edu)

📢 Calling early-career researchers! A 3-year postdoc in urban & regional economics at @alliancembs.bsky.social is open - guided by TPI experts & backed by Sir Terry Leahy. 🗓️ Apply by 18 June 2025 🔗 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #PostdocJobs #EconomicGeography #ResearchOpportunity

🚨 I'm hiring a Research Assistant at the Institute for Fiscal Studies 🚨 This is a great opportunity for someone interested in academic + policy work. The position is based in London and starting this autumn. Please apply below or share 🙂 app.beapplied.com/apply/nithts...

Looking forward to presenting @escoeorg.bsky.social today!

Please reach out if you'd like to know more about our research team and how we might collaborate on this fellowship.

For Earth Day 2025, an awesome paper on the long-term environmental impact of this particular activist event: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... Bad weather on Earth Day in 1970 is associated with far worse air pollution 50 years later. That is not the case for bad weather the day before or after!

Looking to do a fully funded, policy-relevant PhD in economics? The ESRC has funded another joint CMA PhD studentship, this time with Lorenza Rossi and Stefano Fasani at Lancaster University, on the interaction of market power, price setting and macro dynamics. Please share widely and apply!

The new @oxrepjournal.bsky.social on "New Directions in Competition Policy" is out. My colleagues @joelkariel.bsky.social, Mike Walker and I survey recent labour market competition cases, summarise lessons from our report on labour market power in the UK and highlight some open questions. 1/3

📰A project by Professor Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Dr Jakob Schneebacher, and Dr Christina Palmou has won one of this year's Office for National Statistics Research Excellence Awards. Read more: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Interested in an econ PhD on market power? Check out this great ESRC opportunity. I can't pretend I'm unbiased given my 8 years at Oxford & current role at the CMA, but it's a great chance to work on an important & interesting topic with brilliant researchers! www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/beyond-marku...

What does this all mean? In our State of Competition report, we show that other countries share similar secular trends in markups and business dynamism, and try to understand their potential causes. I have summarised the main findings here: www.economicsobservatory.com/how-is-compe... 3/3

Types of Econ Papers by @maximananyev.bsky.social #econsky #xkcd

For economics/polsci graduate students interested in UK policy, HMT has published its areas of research interest, which might spark some research ideas! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673207...

Resharing the government economists starter pack. go.bsky.app/K7fAcMi Plenty of room to add more, so ping me if you should be included.

Returned to my alma mater for the weekend. Little has changed since I started my graduate studies in 2016; it's still beautiful in the autumn, my favourite cafe is thriving, and social science students are debating "how the Democrats recover from this"

How is competition changing across the UK economy? by by Jakob Schneebacher, (Competition & Markets Authority) - JUST PUBLISHED on the Economics Observatory https://buff.ly/3AufJ5N #Economics #Econ

🚀 I’m looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow for 2025-2026! Join me at Penn to study e.g. monopsony power in the labor market, technology, jobs & inequality, and income support programs. Apply: sp2.upenn.edu/employment/#.... Please share with your network! 🙏

🚀 IZA (soon on Bluesky) is hiring Postdoctoral Researchers! If you specialize in applied (labor, education, environmental) or behavioral economics, apply to our collaborative environent. Up to 3 y term, no teaching required. Apply by Nov 17, 2024 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/10...

It's quite striking that UK markups haven't moved much since the GFC. Is this about competition policy, technology adoption, business dynamism, regional variation across firms, or something else? Our report isn't definitive, but suggests lots of interesting paths to explore.

How has competition changed across the UK economy over the past two decades? The CMA has just released our report on the state of UK competition. Let me pick out a few key narratives. #EconSky https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-state-of-uk-competition-report-2024#EconSky 1/

The ONS has today released results from two new data collection efforts on public-sector productivity: a public-sector version of the existing Management and Expectations Survey and a public-sector time use survey. Overall, management practices look similar in the public and private sectors. 1/

Very excited to present work with @jschneebacher.bsky.social on pollution pricing at the NBER Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century this Friday! Please reach out if you want to discuss our work, share feedback or see the draft. www.nber.org/conferences/...