Grant Allan and Eleanor Malloy
Fraser of Allander Institute
Are oil and gas firms seeing opportunities in renewables? In this blog, we examine the responses from our latest Oil and Gas Survey, produced along with Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce.
Today we published our latest Scottish Business Monitor with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The results cover the 2nd quarter of 2017 and are therefore a helpful up-to-date indicator of economic trends in Scotland. Overall, the results suggest that the Scottish economy grew in the 3-months up to the end of June, albeit at a fragile pace.
Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde
To help obtain a picture of how businesses are reacting to the decision to leave the EU, we undertook a survey of Scottish companies to gauge their initial assessment of what the outcome means for them and their future plans.
The survey was conducted between Monday 5 July and Tuesday 12 July and covered more than 320 firms. It is – to our knowledge – the first post-referendum survey in Scotland of business sentiment.
