The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee analyzes a wide variety of data to inform its monetary policy decisions. Some of these data are revised over time, and taking account of possible revisions is an important part of assessing any data release. This article discusses the construction of a...

Conventional techniques for estimating the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour in the production process typically focus on factor-demand equations. An implicit assumption in this approach is normally that the markup is stationary. But that may not be true. This paper considers...