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Jim Cuthbert is an independent statistician and economist and former Scottish Office Chief Statistician. Working often jointly with Margaret Cuthbert, he has published a number of influential articles on Scotland’s economy and public finances. Their research can be found here – http://www.jamcuthbert.co.uk/index.html In his talk at the Fraser of Allander …
Paul Smith is Director and Senior Economist at IHSMarkit, where he helps to oversee the production of business survey data for over 30 countries. His research interests include nowcasting and the role that new sources of information (particularly so-called ‘big data’) can play in helping to understand current economic conditions. Latest data from …
Today we have published our first Scotland’s Budget report – for 2016 – at an event in Edinburgh attended by all parties and representatives from Scotland’s business, third sector and public sector communities. Scotland’s Budget: 2016 provides an objective assessment of the outlook for Scotland’s finances and the choices, challenges …
FAI response to the analysis by the Scottish Government on the impact of Brexit in Scotland Today the Scottish Government published analysis of the possible long-term impact of the decision to leave the European Union on the Scottish economy. The headline figures are substantial – a potential loss of £11.2 …
Today the First Minister announced welcome measures to try to stimulate the Scottish economy in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. The major element announced today is a package of £100m to be spent on capital projects this financial year – as we called for in our Special Issue Fraser …
Paul Smith is a senior economist at IHS Markit, where he helps to oversee the production of business survey data for over 30 countries. His research interests include nowcasting and the role that new sources of information (particularly so-called ‘big data’) can play in helping to understand current economic conditions. In …
Brexit and Scotland’s Economy: Insights from the July Business Surveys Read More »
Dr David Skilling is Director at Landfall Strategy Group, a Singapore-based economic and political research and advisory firm – see @dskilling on twitter, www.landfallstrategy.com The Brexit vote places Scotland in a challenging situation. A hard Brexit would risk Scotland’s market access to the EU, the destination of 15% of its …
Small Economy Insights for a Post-Brexit Scotland Read More »
Grant Allan & Stuart McIntyre, Fraser of Allander Institute, Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde This post also appears on our Nowcasting blog: www.nowcastingscotland.com Following the release of the Fraser Commentary last week, today we release the results of our latest nowcasts of the Scottish economy. These are the first …
Robert Wright, Professor of Economics, University of Strathclyde. Robert’s expertise is in the economics of demography and he has published widely in the field of population change and migration. Evidence from social surveys consistently indicate that a significant number of the British population takes a dim view of immigration. It is believed …
Today we published an update to our Economic Commentary in the light of the EU referendum outcome. We hope that you like the new format. This short blog summarises our key conclusions in six bullets.