CAGE's research will explore how markets, institutions, and public policies interact to create and sustain competitive advantage in a changing global economy, how such advantage evolves over time, and how it influences growth, deprivation and well-being both in the short and the long run.

The separate aspects of our research programme flow from a single unifying theme: succeeding in the global economy. The more specialised questions that organise our research are managed by the members of our academic team and are used to organise our projects and research outputs:

Recent Research Highlights:

Increase in crimes against women is good news?

An increase in female representation in local politics has caused a significant rise in documented crimes against women in India, new research has found.A new study by Anandi Mani at CAGE, Lakshmi Iyer at Harvard Business School, and Prachi Mishri and Petia Topalova from IMF, argue that the increase is down to greater reporting of crimes against women, rather than greater incidence of crimes against them. Read more...

Bye-Bye Berlusconi

New work by CAGE researchers Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts examines Italy’s record in economic growth and productivity performance since World War II. Their research suggests that the Berlusconi era was indeed a serious failure but also that Monti faces huge challenges in improving matters. Read more...

Delivering Growth While Reducing Deficit

In the 1930s Great Depression Britain grew strongly despite significant cuts in the government’s deficit, short-term interest rates which were already very low, and the international economy in disarray. That is exactly what policymakers need to achieve today. In a new Centre Forum report Professor Nicholas Crafts demonstrates what the government did then – and what we can learn from history. Read more...