Joao Santos Silva and Silvana Tenreyro investigate whether the new currency has delivered the promised growth in trade between member countries

Zack Cooper assesses the coalition government's plans for healthcare reform

Ethan Ilzetzki and colleagues examine whether programmes of fiscal stimulus and fiscal austerity have a significant impact on national economic activity

Nick Bloom and colleagues examine whether well-managed firms are more or less energy-efficient than badly managed firms

John Van Reenen and colleagues measure China's impact on the innovation and productivity performance of European firms

Most countries' education policies make raising average student performance their priority. Yet just as in the football World Cup, the quality of the top performers is the key to competing successfully at the global level. Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo explore this challenge in the...

The study of football - the clubs, the players, the managers, the referees - is telling us more and more about the operation of labour markets and incentives. Here, Alex Bryson and colleagues show that two-footedness - the rare ability to use both feet equally well to pass, tackle and shoot -...

There has been a proliferation of regional trade agreements around the world since the early 1990s. In a survey of the latest theoretical and empirical research on regionalism, Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas ask whether we should celebrate or be concerned about this trend.

Radha Iyengar considers whether public debate about the UK's involvement in Iraq might undermine the chances of military success

Stephen Machin and James Vernoit argue there has been a U-turn in academy schools policy under the new government