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Productivity, Trade, and Regional Economies

Why is the UK less productive than similarly advanced nations and what can be done about it? How are the gains from economic growth distributed and why does this matter? How can the increasing regional disparities be addressed to prevent the widening gap between the different component parts of the United Kingdom?

NIESR has a long record of leading trade, productivity and regional analysis. Working with partners within the devolved nations, as well as with other major research centres, we focus our research on improving the measurement of productivity, understanding the the drivers of firm behaviour and assessing how policy affects households at a regional level.

Projects

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The Links Between Sectoral and Regional Investment and Sectoral, Regional, and Aggregate Productivity in the United Kingdom

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Alternatives to Commercial Lending in the SME Business Market

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Business Investment and Brexit

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Public Investment and Supply

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Investigating the Factors Driving Scotland’s Productivity Gap with International Countries

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Data Use and Productivity in the UK: an Economic Modelling and Longitudinal Study

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Reindustrialising the United Kingdom

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Understanding the Drivers of Innovation and Productivity across Firms, Regions and Industries in the UK

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Publications

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Brexit and Non-Tariff Barriers: Effects on UK Business Investment and Productivity

14 Aug 2025

Discussion Papers

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Understanding Productivity Variations across the United Kingdom

06 Aug 2025

UK Economic Outlook Box Analysis

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Human Capital and Stagnating Productivity in the United Kingdom

06 Aug 2025

UK Economic Outlook Box Analysis

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Housing Divides

31 Jul 2025

UK Economic Outlook Box Analysis

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Joining Up Pro-Productivity Policies in the UK

08 Jul 2025

Occasional Papers

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Britain’s Trade Challenge: Tracking The Costs in Real Time

24 Apr 2025

National Institute Economic Review

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Understanding the Effects of Brexit on UK Productivity

24 Apr 2025

National Institute Economic Review

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Policies for Inclusive Growth

09 Apr 2025

National Institute Economic Review

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Blog Posts

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Policy Priorities for UK Productivity Growth

Adrian Pabst

Luca Pieri

14 Jul 2025

5 min read

Image of a container ship at sea to denote international trade

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Trade Deals & Trade Wars: The Regional Impact

Eliza da Silva Gomes

Adrian Pabst

12 May 2025

4 min read

Row of terraced houses in a residential street

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Understanding UK Housing Market Dynamics

Robyn Smith

Tibor Szendrei

Adrian Pabst

17 Feb 2025

4 min read

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How Artificial Intelligence Could Narrow the Productivity Gap

Adrian Pabst

Larissa Marioni

06 Jan 2025

4 min read

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Rethinking Regional Regeneration

Adrian Pabst

Eliza da Silva Gomes

Robyn Smith

Tibor Szendrei

Arnab Bhattacharjee

23 Sep 2024

6 min read

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The UK Productivity Paralysis

Larissa Marioni

Adrian Pabst

09 Sep 2024

4 min read

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How Has UK Trade Been Impacted by Leaving the European Union?

Antonio Haro Bañón

Stephen Millard

02 Sep 2024

6 min read

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What Can The New Government Do About The UK’s Productivity Problem?

Eliza da Silva Gomes

Adrian Pabst

15 Jul 2024

4 min read

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News

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How are the UK’s Devolved Nations Faring Ahead of the General Election?

16 May 2024

12 min read

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The Industrial Turn

31 Oct 2023

5 min read

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Understanding the Causes of the UK’s Low Productivity

23 Sep 2021

5 min read

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Press Release: Destitution levels are rising across the country – and terribly worrying in certain regions, NIESR research shows

22 Feb 2021

4 min read

Events

NiGEM Workshop: Introduction of Fiscal Packages into NiGEM (International Examples)

This workshop, aimed at those users who are familiar with NiGEM and the way the model operates, will provide a step-by-step guide to introducing fiscal packages. The contents will be…

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11:00 to 12:00

20 June, 2025

NiGEM Workshop: Modelling Fiscal Rules in NiGEM

This workshop is an advanced course on fiscal policy rules in NiGEM, covering how to set them in forecast and simulation, how government debt feeds through into the model, and…

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14:00 to 15:00

19 June, 2025

NiGEM Workshop: Forecasting in NiGEM

Aimed at users who are already familiar with NiGEM and the way the model operates, this workshop provides instruction in how to create a new forecast base. It includes an…

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11:00 to 12:00

19 June, 2025

NiGEM Workshop: Unwinding Conflict Scenarios in NiGEM

This workshop is designed for users who are familiar with NiGEM and provides a step-by-step guide in building complex scenarios using different channels in NiGEM.

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14:00 to 15:00

20 March, 2025

NiGEM Workshop: General Imbalances and Structural Trends: An Exercise Using NiGEM

This workshop is designed for users who are familiar with NiGEM. It is focused on exploring trade imbalances, and how different shocks in NiGEM can adjust them.

This content is only available to members.

11:00 to 12:00

20 March, 2025

Summer 2023 Economic Forum

NIESR is delighted to bring to you our latest Economic Forum where we presented our forecast for the next economic quarter. With inflation remaining stubbornly high, a labour market that...

11:00 to 12:00

11 August, 2023

Spring 2023 Economic Forum

NIESR is delighted to bring to you our latest Economic Forum where we present our forecast for the next economic quarter. As King Charles III is officially crowned, and the...

11:00 to 12:00

12 May, 2023

Winter 2023 Economic Forum

With recent UK GDP figures prompting a cautious optimism amongst some analysts, the question has arisen around whether the UK can avoid a recession? Was the 0.1% growth in November...

11:00 to 12:00

10 February, 2023

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