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Amanda Goodall For many researchers around the world, landing a position at a leading American university is a coveted outcome. Schools like Berkeley and Stanford not only pay well – they furnish excellent facilities and above all strong colleagues. This allows the US to attract talented PhD students and professors from countries like China, France, Norway, and India (Cole 2009, Clotfelter 2010).  If one turns back the clock 120-150 years, one finds something starkly different.  At the tim...

Ladysmith streets were flooded on Tuesday morning after heavy rain in the area. Memories long forgotten of flooded roads, homes and complete devastation were being re-lived by Ladysmith residents this week with heavy downpours from Tuesday morning resulting in flooding. On Wednesday morning disaster teams were in the area to assist members of the community. Public Safety and Disaster Management officials were on call to assist with road closures and residents that needed help with their flooded...

9 February 2021 (Original script, may differ from delivered version) It is an honour to be joining you all, virtually, to give the Bannerman Competition Lecture. In his time, Ron Bannerman was a pioneer and a forward-thinker. It seems self-evident now that the business cartels he confronted caused harm to Australian consumers and the economy. But his work over 2 decades to cut back at what he later described as the ‘astonishing web of restrictions’ [footnote 1] across Australian industry wa...

Date Time Andrea Coscelli Ahead of curve – Bannerman Competition Lecture It is an honour to be joining you all, virtually, to give the Bannerman Competition Lecture. In his time, Ron Bannerman was a pioneer and a forward-thinker. It seems self-evident now that the business cartels he confronted caused harm to Australian consumers and the economy. But his work over 2 decades to cut back at what he later described as the ‘astonishing web of restrictions’ [footnote 1] across Australian indus...

Romesh Vaitilingam 08 February 2021 The UK’s exit from the EU was finally completed on 1 January 2021. The IGM Forum at Chicago Booth invited its panels of leading European and US economists to express their views on the likely long-term effects of Brexit on both the UK economy and the aggregate economy of the remaining 27 EU members. As this column reports, a strong majority (86% of the panellists) agrees that the UK economy is likely to be at least several percentage points smaller i...

This report by two London-based PhD students uses wonky methodology and claims to forecast 30 years in the future

New wave of UK job losses expected in coming months, researchers say New research suggests the UK could be about to see a fresh wave of job losses as business struggle to cope amid Covid-19 restrictions. A huge increase in bankruptcies for UK firms looms as business support programmes end, according to the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and the Alliance for Full Employment (AFFE), with more than 900,000 small firms thought to be at risk. Almost 15%, more than one in seven, UK busin...

Almost 15, more than one in seven, UK businesses are at risk of imminent closure, especially those with fewer than 10 employees, research warns.

New wave of UK job losses expected in coming months, researchers say NEW research suggests the UK could be about to see a fresh wave of job losses as business struggle to cope amid Covid-19 restrictions. A huge increase in bankruptcies for UK firms looms as business support programmes end, according to the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and the Alliance for Full Employment (AFFE), with more than 900,000 small firms thought to be at risk. Almost 15%, more than one in seven, UK busin...

New wave of UK job losses expected in coming months, researchers say New research suggests the UK could be about to see a fresh wave of job losses as business struggle to cope amid Covid-19 restrictions. A huge increase in bankruptcies for UK firms looms as business support programmes end, according to the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and the Alliance for Full Employment (AFFE), with more than 900,000 small firms thought to be at risk. Almost 15%, more than one in seven, UK busin...