This report describes a didactic input-output modelling framework created jointly be the team at REEDS, Universite de Versailles and Dr Garry McDonald, Director, Market Economics Ltd. There are three key outputs associated with this framework: (i) a suite of didactic input-output models...

This paper presents critical reflections on the governance of natural hazards, in the context of New Zealand’s Auckland volcanic field (AVF). The AVF is unusual given that there is an urban area built on this active field, and the potential for a volcanic eruption is clearly identified as a...

This paper presents two optimisation models for use in the production of symmetric input-output tables (SIOTs) based on data contained within supply-use tables (SUTs). The first model produces commodity-by-commodity SIOTs derived from the selection of appropriate technology assumptions, while...

Patterson M. G., McDonald G. W. and Smith N. J. Ecosystem service appropriation in the Auckland Region economy: an input-output analysis, Regional Studies. This paper assesses the appropriation of ecosystem services by the Auckland Region economy in New Zealand. A novel application of...

The coalition government's austerity programme has resulted in some sizeable reductions in the police workforce, yet crime has continued to fall. A key question for the next Parliament is whether further real-terms reductions in police budgets can occur without more deleterious effects on crime....

Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...

We analyse the role of financial sector workers in the huge rise of the share of earnings going to those at the very top of the pay distribution in the UK. Rising bankers' bonuses accounted for two-thirds of the increase in the share of the top 1% after 1999. Surprisingly, bankers' share of...