Eleanor Carter and Michael Gibson explore the evolving roles of the state, issues arising from outsourced delivery, emerging collaborative models, and the increasing role of citizens in welfare provision. #Welfare #PublicPolicy academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Rising health spending threatens fiscal sustainability in England. Anita Charlesworth and Ann Raymond suggest that long-term funding must rely on higher taxes or private spending due to limited scope for public service cuts. #NHS #FiscalPolicy academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

The UK must significantly expand health and social care supply to meet rising demand. @maxwarner.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social explore how to boost inputs and productivity amid policy and fiscal constraints. #HealthPolicy #SocialCare academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Council housing, once common and broadly accessible, now serves mainly low-income households and sees minimal new builds. Peter A. Kemp finds that social housing covers only 1 in 6 households today. #HousingPolicy #uk academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

UK pensions face challenges from an ageing population. Jonathan Cribb, Carl Emmerson and Heidi Karjalainen argue that this implies raising pension age—hitting poorer groups hardest—or limiting ‘triple lock’ indexation, impacting higher earners more. #Pensions academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

In 2023, the UK tax-benefit system reduced income inequality by 27.6%, trailing France. Victoria Prowse shows that fiscal drag disproportionately affects low earners, while advocating for higher Universal Credit to limit inequality. #TaxPolicy #Inequality academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

David Coady traces 40 years of UK fiscal redistribution. Labour’s 1997–2010 expansion boosted budget effort but cut progressivity; post-2010 austerity reversed this. Notably, redistribution to the poorest declined throughout. #Welfare #UKPolicy academic.oup.com/oxrep/issue/...

Sustained productivity growth underpins a successful welfare state but the UK has faced years of stagnant real wages and weak productivity. Stephen Machin explores policies to revive sustained wage growth. #Growth #UK academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

The Nordic welfare model is lauded for balancing high income and equality in open economies with large public sectors. Torben M. Andersen and Michael Svarer review its features, resilience, and policies, while exploring future challenges. #Welfare #Nordics academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Generous welfare systems don’t uniformly attract migrants. @mfreino.bsky.social, @isabel-ruiz.bsky.social and @williamlallen.bsky.social show that skilled immigrants tend to contribute, while humanitarian migrants may incur short-term costs. #Migration #Policy academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Rhys Andrews examines divergence in local welfare expenditure across the devolved UK. While academy school expansion in England reduced local education spending, Scotland’s free social care policy increased adult social care expenditure. #LocalWelfareUK academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

@iprnickp.bsky.social and @gavin-kelly.bsky.social analyse how the UK welfare state was reshaped by austerity and Covid, showing that despite fundamental changes, most reforms aligned with the UK's liberal model. They also explore future policy options. #UKWelfare academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

The British welfare state faces challenges in service delivery and funding. Christopher Adam and @iremguceri.bsky.social discuss ageing populations, precarious work, and housing shortages, and explore how Labour can make welfare fit for the future. #FutureWelfareUK

Lawrence Goldman traces the British welfare state’s evolution through the 1830s, 1900s, and 1940s, arguing that issues from the Poor Law era still resonate. Similarly, Beveridge and Bevan's visions underpin welfare provision even today. #Welfare

The OxREP's newest issue on "The Future of the Welfare State In the UK" has been published! Read all articles online here: academic.oup.com/oxrep

Recommender systems are both a beneficial tool and source of market distortion. In the OxREP, @EmilioC_, Giacomo Calzolari, Vincenzo Denicolò, and Sergio Pastorello argue that the benefits of RS need to be balanced against their economic implications. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Are the traditional tools and frameworks of competition policy robust to artificial intelligence? In the OxREP, Catherine Tucker discusses how competition policymakers can identify bad intent by firm when confronted with algorithm-based decision-making. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Clarifying the discussion around eco-systems in competition policy, Pierre Régibeau and Katharine E. Rockett identify key theories of harm. Read the latest OxREP to find out more about “defensive foreclosure” and the Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta cases. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Insights from behavioural economics have been key to improving regulation of markets dominated by tech companies. Amelia Fletcher and Zita Vasas emphasise the importance of choice architecture in competition law cases in their contribution to the OxREP. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Although firms' labour market power in the UK has not risen substantially, it has significant economic costs to some. In their OxREP article, Joel Kariel, Jakob Schneebacher and Mike Walker discuss the implications of these findings for competition agencies’ tools. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Damien Geradin and Stijn Huijts investigate in the latest OxREP whether the European Commission’s effects-based approach to abuses of dominant position has gone too far. Considering the DMA, they also assess how it could improve its enforcement mechanisms. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

The competition policy of past decades is inadequate, argue @lancierifilippo.bsky.social and Tom Valletti in the latest OxREP. They emphasise the importance of rebuttal structural presumptions in making merger review policy fit for the 21st century. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Theories of harm in EU merger control have evolved rapidly. Using data extracted from merger decisions, Tomaso Duso, Lea Bernhardt and Joanna Piechucka analyse how the introduction of the new EU Merger Regulation in 2004 has impacted merger assessment. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

In the latest OxREP issue, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social alerts us to institutional challenges amidst activism in industrial and competition policy: How to combine expertise with political legitimacy; and how to coordinate policymaking across different bodies. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Does a “more-economics approach” to competition law lead to under-enforcement? Finding mixed evidence, Jorge Padilla suggests in his OxREP article that only greater scrutiny of different types of evidence can correct excessively lenient enforcement. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

In the latest OxREP, Gregory J. Werden describes, compares and traces the history of philosophies on competition policy. Different approaches vary widely as to their intensity, scope and focus of enforcement – and directly impact decisions made by courts. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Has competition policy kept pace with the market power of (tech) firms? How should it respond to temporary critiques like the “hipster antitrust movement”? In their introduction, Simon Cowan, Peter Ormosi and Joe Perkins address the future of competition economics. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

The OxREP's newest issue on "New Directions in Competition Policy" has been published! Read all articles online here: academic.oup.com/oxrep/issue/...