Yannis Papadakis

The UK will soon have a new industrial strategy. What can we learn from past policies, and from examining the sectors in the government's recent green paper?

Our new CMA report looks at the data.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-policies-new-evidence-for-the-uk

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Call for papers for this one-day workshop on IP Rights, Technology & Trade at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social on 26 June 2025! Submit your paper to Richard.kneller@nottingham.ac.uk & @papadakis.bsky.social by 14 April 2025.

Competition policy and labour market power: new evidence and open questions Abstract. Emerging evidence on pervasive and rising market power in US labour markets has led some competition agencies to wonder if the prevailing focus o

Although firms' labour market power in the UK has not risen substantially, it has significant economic costs to some. In their OxREP article, Joel Kariel, Jakob Schneebacher and Mike Walker discuss the implications of these findings for competition agencies’ tools.
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Thanks to The British Academy, Competition and Markets Authority, University of Sussex, University of Nottingham, Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP), GEP-Nottingham

📅Call for papers
for the research workshop that Richard Kneller and I are organizing on 𝗜𝗣 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀, 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲. Send us your papers to join us on June 26 at the University of Nottingham. Keynote: James Bessen!

We had another great edition of the #Athens #Winter #Econ #Meeting! Many thanks to the organisers!

New research. How has Brexit affected UK trade?

We find TCA reduced goods exports by 6.4%, imports by 3.1%

Smaller firms hardest hit. Around 16,400 firms stopped exporting to the EU entirely

But larger firms' exports unaffected, contributing to relatively small fall in overall trade 1/

Read the briefing paper here: citp.ac.uk/publications...
@papadakis.bsky.social @mariasavona.bsky.social

I had a wonderful time presenting at the @UniofReading. Many thanks to Christos Mavrodimitrakis for hosting me and to the whole econ department for their warm welcome, collegiality and useful input. Keep the good work on and let's cross paths again soon!

Data and cloud centres are essential for today’s digital economy. My latest BP with @mariasavona.bsky.social looks at where these centres are concentrated and why it matters. Check out the BP: citp.ac.uk/publications... @thecitp.bsky.social