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05 Jul 21

Brick by brick: Building better housing policies

Last week, INET Oxford Senior Research Fellow Professor John Muellbauer joined an expert panel to discuss key takeaways from the OECD’s Housing...

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02 Jul 21

Previous unemployment influences voter turnout, finds INET Oxford study

People who were unemployed in the past are less likely to vote, according to new research by INET Oxford Postdoctoral Research Officer...

30 Jun 21

New research: Poor use of science jeopardises climate lawsuits

Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation, published this week in Nature Climate Change, is the first global study on the use...

28 Jun 21

How tools from ecology can help prevent financial crashes

A team of Oxford University economists and scientists - including INET Oxford's Maarten Scholl and Doyne Farmer - today published a new...

28 Jun 21

New report: How tools from the UK offshore wind investment model can help decarbonise shipping

Incentivising private investment is key to the scaling and adoption of clean fuels and technology by the shipping industry, and the implementation...

25 Jun 21

Lukas Lehner wins Barnett Prize for work on Europe’s slowing wage growth

Congratulations to INET Oxford PhD student Lukas Lehner, who won the Department of Social Policy and Intervention’s annual Barnett Prize for the...

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25 Jun 21

Re-evaluating the sources of the recent productivity slowdown

Why has productivity recently stagnated in many countries? In a recent VoxEU article, Ian Goldin and Pantelis Koutroumpis together with INET Oxford...

11 Jun 21

Global green competitiveness: analysis for the G7

New analysis shows Germany, Italy and the United States leading but Australia lagging on global green competitiveness

24 May 21

Cameron Hepburn to lead major £30m greenhouse gas removal programme

Research teams across the UK, coordinated by a University of Oxford-led Hub, will probe innovative ways of removing greenhouse gases to help...

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24 May 21

Rebuilding Macroeconomic Theory: Eric Beinhocker interviews David Vines

Executive Director of INET Oxford Professor Eric Beinhocker talked to Professor David Vines (Director of INET Oxford’s Ethics and Economics Programme) about...

17 May 21

INET Oxford researchers awarded two Rebuilding Macroeconomics prizes

Congratulations to INET Oxford researchers Valentina Semenova, Julian Winkler, and Anton Pichler, who have this week been awarded prizes for their work!...

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30 Apr 21

An Earth-friendly Political Economy: Eric Beinhocker & Kim Stanley Robinson in conversation

INET Oxford's Executive Director Eric Beinhocker joined Genevieve Bell, Kim Stanley Robinson and Arun Majumdar to discuss ways of re-centring the environmental...

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20 Apr 21

Boosting production of renewables would significantly drop price of clean energy: Lessons from the WWII military equipment economy

New analysis of the military equipment economy during the Second World War shows that the boost in experience producers gained during the...

19 Apr 21

Report: ‘A new perspective on decarbonising the global energy system’

Today, INET Oxford Senior Research Officer Dr Matthew Ives and colleagues released a new report setting out how the revolution in renewable...

09 Apr 21

'Middle-Out: More than a Slogan' - Eric Beinhocker interviewed in Democracy Journal

Professor Eric Beinhocker, Executive Director of INET Oxford, was interviewed alongside Nick Hanauer for the journal Democracy this week. In the interview...

08 Apr 21

Climate change imperils countries’ ability to repay COVID debts

Most governments’ borrowing during the pandemic pays scant attention to the effects that climate change could have on their ability to repay...

06 Apr 21

'Reflections on how basic narratives about capitalism influence economic research' - Linus Mattauch Seminar

In his final seminar as Deputy Director of INET's Economics of Sustainability Programme, Linus Mattauch reflected on how basic societal narratives (such...

05 Apr 21

INET Oxford COVID-19 Research

During the pandemic, this page will post work and notes by INET Oxford researchers with data, analyses and views on the crisis...

24 Mar 21

'British housing is expensive and its supply must increase': FT's Martin Wolf discusses INET Oxford research

In this week's Financial Times, Martin Wolf drew on research by our Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer to analyse problems with the...

15 Mar 21

Achieving net zero: INET researchers provide Parliamentary evidence

In 2019, the UK Government set itself a monumental challenge – achieving a target of net zero emissions by 2050. It is...

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12 Mar 21

Preventing insurance industry ‘bankruptcy cascade’ requires more diverse risk models

To build a more robust and profitable industry – and to prevent a cascade of bankruptcies – catastrophe insurers should use a...

25 Feb 21

Janine Aron & John Muellbauer profiled in BankIndaba

BankIndaba, the in-house magazine of the South African Reserve Bank (‘SARB’), have profiled INET Oxford Senior Research Fellows Janine Aron and John...

10 Feb 21

Global heating to blame for threat of deadly flood in Peru: Guardian feature on new INET Oxford research

The Guardian has featured new research by Doctoral Student Rupert Stuart-Smith (INET Oxford and the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford), Professor...

08 Feb 21

'Can complexity economics save the world? It has to': Eric Beinhocker at SFI

In November 2019, Eric Beinhocker, Executive Director of INET Oxford, gave a lecture at the Santa Fe Institute’s (SFI’s) annual trustees’ symposium...

28 Jan 21

'The revolutions under way in macroeconomics': FT's Martin Sandbu on INET Oxford research

In today's Financial Times, Martin Sandbu talked to David Vines, INET Oxford's Director of Ethics and Economics, about his latest work on...

20 Jan 21

Targeted support needed to prevent automation hitting low wage workers hardest

Low-wage workers face a double blow from automation, a new Oxford University study has found; they are both more likely to lose...

19 Jan 21

21st century crises, from the global financial crisis to COVID, demand new economic understanding, say top economists

Leading economists, including Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Argentina's Minister of Economy Martin Guzman, and academics from Oxford, Yale, Columbia, and UCLA, are...

14 Dec 20

INET Oxford research inspires new 'Green Recovery Now' movement

Research led by Cameron Hepburn, INET Oxford’s Economics of Sustainability Director and Director of the Smith School, and jointly conducted by INET...

11 Dec 20

Female-breadwinner families on the breadline

Since the 1990s, there has been a rise in the number of households in which women are working more hours than their...

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10 Dec 20

Bringing women on board: How government policies can improve gender diversity in top jobs

The issue of women’s board membership has become hotly contested in recent years. Achieving a ‘critical mass’ of women on boards matters...

09 Dec 20

Report: Sensitive intervention points to achieve net-zero emissions

Alongside the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC’s) work on the Sixth Carbon Budget, the CCC convened an expert policy advisory group to...

07 Dec 20

INET Oxford’s Linus Mattauch wins Robert Bosch Junior Professorship

Deputy Director of INET Oxford’s Economics of Sustainability programme Dr Linus Mattauch has been awarded the prestigious Robert Bosch Junior Professorship. The...

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