Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy

Current research within the CCEPP focuses on the following issues:

• The question of whether financial structure matters to growth and development.
• The impact of monetary and fiscal policy at the national, regional and international levels.
• Assessment of Inflation Targeting strategies.
• The relationships between finance, capital flows and growth/development - the role of credit in today's economies.
• The Great Recession and Economic Policy Implications.
• Regional growth theory and the development of a post-Kaldorian approach and a critical analysis of the neoclassical approach to modelling economic growth.
• Increasing returns and regional economic growth; EU convergence and Structural Funds.
• Macroeconomic developments in the USA, Europe and Japan.
• International trade issues with respect to regional and national economic growth.
• Wage and unemployment relationships in the European Union.
• The role of ‘economic policy reforms’ at both the theoretical and empirical levels with special attention to the emerging markets.
• Distributional issues of income and wealth in the UK.
• Inequality Adjusted Growth Rates in Latin America.