The Decision Maker Panel has received significant media interest, having featured in outlets such as the Financial Times, the Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian and the Independent – to name a few
“If the Covid-19 crisis subsides and economies can largely reopen, the experiences of so many people working from home over the past year will surely shape what happens next. “
The Guardian, March 2021: Our Research Shows Working From Home Works, In Moderation
2024
The Telegraph, December 2024: Half of firms to slash jobs and raise prices after Budget
Financial Times, December 2024: Survey finds 54% of companies plan to raise prices in 2025 after national insurance increase
Guardian, November 2024: BoE’s Lombardelli: Too early to declare victory on inflation
Bank of England Deputy Governor November 2024: – Managing the present, shaping the future
The Times: November 2024: UK economy: Inflation will be higher in a year, firms predict
Newswires: October 2024: Monthly Decision Maker Panel data – October 2024
Bloomberg: September 2024: Firms expect to Raise Prices by the Least in Three Years
Reuters: September 2024: UK Firms expect Selling process pressure to Cool
Bank Of England: September 2024: Statistics Effective Interest Rates
Monetary Policy Summary and Minutes: September 2024: Bank Rate Maintained at 5%
Pound sterling, September 2024: Inflation Concerns Sounded in Lloyds’ Business Survey
Pound sterling, September 2024: Welcome Drop in Inflation Expectations Soured by New BCC Forecast
Financial Times, August 2024: Transcript: The case for holding rates, with Catherine Mann (ft.com)
Reuters, August 2024: UK firms scale back expected wage growth, BoE survey shows
Bloomberg, July 2024: Labour’s Minimum Wage Plan Becomes Concern for BOE and Business
Bloomberg, July 2024: Bailey’s Silent Treatment Stokes BOE August Rate-Cut Suspense
Bloomberg, July 2024: BOE Tilted Toward First Rate Cut Since Pandemic
Bank Of England, July 2024: Bank Rate reduced to 5% – August 2024
Financial Times, June 2024: BoE Survey Provides Ammunition for Hawks To Vote Against A June Rate Cut
Pound Sterling, May 2024: GBP/EUR Week Ahead Forecast: Strong Wage Data Can Secure a Recovery
Bloomberg, May 2024: BOE’s Broadbent Says UK Interest Rates May Drop This Summer
Pound Stirling Live, May 2024: Pound to Euro Week Ahead Forecast: Strong Wage Data Can Secure a Recovery
City A.M, April 2024: Bank of England Survey: Wage Growth Expectations Ease In Boost For Interest Rate Cut Hopes
Investment Week, April 2024: UK businesses forecast lower wage growth over the next year to 4.9%
Financial Times, April 2024: UK Wage Growth Expectations Fall To 2-Year Low
Financial Times, February 2024: Work From Home If You Want but Don’t Expect A Pay Rise
Investment Week, February 2024: UK Businesses Forecast Price Inflation Drops Throughout 2024
The Bank Underground, January 2024: Beyond The Average: Patterns In UK Price Data at The Micro Level
The Times, January 2024: Interest Rates Will Stay High Until the Pay Juggernaut Slows Down
The Bank Underground, January 2024: Beyond The Average: Patterns In UK Price Data at The Micro Level
Investment Week, January 2024: UK businesses forecast sizeable drop in inflationary pressures
2023
Investors’ Chronicle, September 2023: What the Bank of England Does Next
Reuters, September 2023: UK Businesses Plan Lowest Price Rises Since Feb 2022: BoE
Evening Standard, September 2023: Finance Bosses Doubt Bank Of England, Saying Inflation Will Still Be Too High In 2026
Bloomberg, September 2023: UK Firms Expect to Raise Prices at Slowest Pace Since 2021
The Guardian, September 2023: Now Even The Bank Of England Admits Greedflation Is A Thing
Financial Times, September 2023: UK Businesses’ Inflation And Wage Expectations Ease In August
Financial Times, September 2023: Time For The UK To Tax Inflation
Bloomberg, August 2023: UK Firms Become More Positive on Inflation as Expectations Fall
Reuters, August 2023: UK Firms Dial Back Price And Wage Growth Expectations, Bank Of England Says
FX Street, July 2023: BoE DMP Survey: UK Firms See Year-Ahead CPI Inflations Sharply Down To 4.8% In Aug
ING, June 2023: Why the Bank Of England Is Unlikely To Push Back Against Lofty Interest Rate Expectations
Bloomberg, June 2023: New BOE Rate Setter Greene Says Policymakers Should Focus on Medium Term
BNN Bloomberg, June 2023: UK Bond Yields Rise as Mann Warns on Persistent Inflation
ING, June 2023: Sticky UK Wage Growth Means No Rate Cuts For The Bank Of England Until 2024
Financial Times, June 2023: Finance Chiefs Expect Inflation Burden To Ease
Reuters, June 2023: UK Firms Plan Lower Price Rises In Next 12 Months: BoE Survey
Financial Post, June 2023: UK Firms Plan Lower Price Rises In Next 12 Months: BoE Survey
Bloomberg, June 2023: UK Mortgage Lending Unexpectedly Falls After Interest Rate Hikes
ING, May 2023: Bank of England: Four Scenarios For The May Meeting
Reuters, May 2023: UK Companies See Cooler Wage Growth And Inflation, Bank Of England Survey Shows
Bloomberg, May 2023: BOE Rate Hike Looks More Likely With UK Economy Showing Resilience
ICMB Graduate Institute – Geneva, April 2023: Inflation persistence and monetary policy − speech by Huw Pill
Financial Times, March 2023: Who’s To Blame For Sticky Prices?
Reuters, March 2023: UK Wage Data Supports Final BoE Hike Next Week
Bloomberg, March 2023: UK Pound Could Weaken Further, Warns BOE’s Catherine Mann
Financial Times, March 2023: UK Businesses Expect Inflation And Costs To Ease But Wages To Stay High
Bloomberg, March 2023: BOE Should Rethink Route to 2% Inflation, NatWest’s Davies Says
Reuters, March 2023: UK Businesses Plan Smallest Price Rises In A Year: BoE Survey
Financial Times, March 2023: UK Businesses Under Pressure As Wage Growth Rises Again
Bloomberg, February 2023: UK Finance Chiefs’ Price Fears Cooled Significantly, Says BOE
The Washington Post, January 2023: UK Firms Don’t Want to Talk About You-Know-What
Bloomberg, January 2023: UK Firms Don’t Want to Talk About You-Know-What
Financial Times, January 2023: UK Businesses Cut Investment As Interest Rates Rise, BoE Survey Finds
Bloomberg, January 2023: BOE Says Outlook for Inflation and Wages Worsens for Businesses
PoundSterling Live, January 2023: Key Bank of England Survey Shows No Let up in Wage Inflation Expectations
2022
Financial Times, October 2022: UK Businesses Predict Record Price Rises Will Offset Higher Wage Bills
Reuters, October 2022: UK Business Inflation Expectations Rise In September – BoE
FXStreet, October 2022: BOE Survey: UK Business Inflation Expectations Keep Rising In September
DailyFX, October 2022: BOE Survey: FTSE 100 Retreats as Sentiment Suffers on Fitch Downgrade and BoE Survey
Bloomberg, September 2022: Truss’s Energy Aid Boost for UK Mid-Caps May Prove Short-Lived
Bloomberg, September 2022: British Executives See High Inflation Lingering for Three Years
BNN Bloomberg, September 2022: Christmas Hiring Drives Job Vacancies in Britain to a New High
FXStreet, September 2022: BOE Survey: UK Business Inflation Expectations Rise in August
Nasdaq, September 2022: UK Business Inflation Expectations Rise In August – BoE
Reuters, September 2022: Rising Inflation Expectations Pressure Bank of England
Financial Times, July 2022: BoE Under Pressure As UK Companies Plan For Extended Period Of Inflation
Financial Times, March 2022: UK Businesses Expect Prices To Soar In The Coming Year
Financial Times, January 2022: BoE Policymaker Hints At More Interest Rate Rises In The Coming Months
PoundSterling Live January 2022: BoE’s Mann: Hike Now To Keep Terminal Rate Low
Sunday Times, January 2022: David Smith: How WFH Averted A Bigger Economic Catastrophe
Financial Times, January 2022: UK Business Confidence Takes A Sharp Hit From Omicron
2021
Financial Times, December 2021: Bank of England Seeks To Prove It Is In The ‘Price Stability Business’
Reuters, December 2021: UK firms Struggle to Find Staff, See Higher Inflation – BoE Survey
The Times, November 2021: Can a Four-Day Week Be The Key To Solving The Productivity Puzzle?
Financial Times, October 2021: Treating Companies Mean Will Not Keep Them Keen
EconomicsUK.com, April 2021: Pluses And Minuses Of The Return To Business As Usual
The Times, April 2021: Pluses And Minuses Of The Return To Business As Usual
Insider, April 2021: America’s Best Work-From-Home Expert Is Bracing For Turmoil
The Times, March 2021: Can Go-Karts and Ski Slopes Save Town Centres?
The Guardian, March 2021: Our Research Shows Working From Home Works, In Moderation
EconomicsUK.com, March 2021: Now the Economy Braces For The Shock of The New Normal
2020
The Times, November 2021: Can a Four-Day Week Be The Key To Solving The Productivity Puzzle?
Financial Times, December 2020: UK Services Activity Better Than Expected, Despite New Covid Curbs
Bloomberg, November 2020: BOE’s Ramsden Says Unclear if Vaccine Warrants Boost to Forecast
Reuters, November 2020: Bank of England’s Ramsden Sees Plus For Economy From Vaccine News
The Telegraph, November 2020: Third of Hotels and Restaurants Fear Collapse Over ‘Tough Winter’
The Wall Street Journal, September 2020: The Stock Market Barely Faltered in the 1918-20 Pandemic. Is History Repeating Itself?
Financial Times, August 2020: Central Bankers Grapple with Changed Landscape at Jackson Hole
The New York Times, August 2020: As Uncertainty Threatens U.S. Growth, Fed Seeks More Firepower
The Sunday Times, August 2020: V, W or Aarrgh? It Depends on the Virus – And Jobs
The Times, August 2020: New Thinking For a New Normal: Embrace Change or Be Left Behind
Sunday Times, June 2020: The Floor’s The Limit – We Must Avoid Negative Interest Rates
Chicago Booth Review, April 2020: The US economy Could Contract 11 Percent in 2020
Financial Times, March 2020: Bank of England Warns of ‘Very Sharp’ Economic Downturn
New York Times, March 2020: More Firms Expect Brexit Uncertainty to Stretch Into 2021: Bank of England
Reuters, March 2020: More firms expect Brexit uncertainty to stretch into 2021: Bank of England
Action Forex, March 2020: 76% of UK firms expect Brexit uncertainty to persist until at least 2021
Nasdaq, March 2020: More firms expect Brexit uncertainty to stretch into 2021 – Bank of England
Markets Insider, March 2020: BoE Survey Shows More Firms See Brexit Uncertainty Lasting Until At Least 2021
Financial Times, February 2020: Business Investment Expected To Pick Up As Brexit Begins To Clear
Financial Times, January 2020: Is The UK Set For a Brexit Bounce?
Financial Times, January 2020: Will the Bank of England Cut Interest Rates?
The Times, January 2020: David Smith: Hoping For The Best on Brexit and World Trade
Independent, January 20202: Brexit: Four in 10 Firms Still Think Uncertainty Will Not Be Resolved in 2020
Financial Post, January 2020: UK Businesses Report Fall in Brexit Uncertainty In Dec – BoE Survey
MoneyAge, January 2020: Brexit Continues to Cause Uncertainty Amongst UK Businesses
The Telegram, January 2020: UK Companies Turn a Little Less Gloomy Over Brexit Impact – BoE Survey
Financial Times, January 2020: UK Hit by Sharpest Deterioration in Manufacturing in 7 Years
Independent, January 2020: Brexit Uncertainty Lifted Slightly for Business Leaders – Survey
Forexlive, January 2020: Cable gives back some of the late-year gains
Belfast Telegraph, January 2020: Brexit Uncertainty Lifted Slightly for Business Leaders – Survey
Bloomberg, January 2020: U.K. Election Result Reduces Companies’ Brexit Uncertainty
The Guardian, January 2020: Business Hope Fading for Brexit Clarity in 2020, Bank Says
The Sun, January 2020: Election Booster, Print Only (p. 47)
Evening Express, January 2020: Brexit Uncertainty Lifted Slightly for Business Leaders – Survey
2019
Bloomberg, November 2019: UK Businesses Put Probability of Brexit Deal in 2020 Below 50%
Reuters, November 2019: Brexit Impasse Takes its Toll on British Business Investment
The New York Times, November 2019: Brexit Impasse Takes its Toll on British Business Investment
The Telegraph, October 2019: Businesses Tell Westminster to ‘Get It Sorted’ on Brexit as Investment Spending Lags
Investors Chronicle, October 2019: Brexit: Trick or Treat?
Wall Street Journal, October 2019: Financial Markets Face Fresh Wave of Political Uncertainty: ‘There’s Literally Nowhere To Hide’
The Australian, October 2019: Brexit Fatigue Huirting British Business
The NBER Digest, October 2019: Brexit Uncertainty is Taking It’s Toll on The British Economy
The Telegraph, October 2019: UK Damaged ‘Speed Limit’ for Growth Could Hamper Bank of England Lowering Rates Says Deputy Governor
The Spectator, October 2019: Why Ken Fisher Thinks Brexiting Should be Bullish
The Economist, October 2019: Uncertainty About Brexit is Hampering Business Investment in Britain
Fortune, October 2019: ‘Nobody Knows What to Do:’ How 3 Years of Brexit Uncertainty Has Paralysed British Business
Financial Times, October 2019: Fall in UK Labour Productivity is Worst in 5 Years
The Telegraph, October 2019: Economy Takes £20bn Hit From Business Investment Plunge Since Brexit Vote
Bloomberg, October 2019: Productivity Suffers as UK Managers Focus on Brexit Readiness
Financial Times, September 2019: Entrenched Uncertainty is a Global Problem
Independent, September 2019: Brexit if Hurting the UK Productivity, and Wages With It
Financial Times, August 2019: Brexit Has Cut Productivity by up to 5% says Bank of England
Reuters, August 2019: Brexit Planning Cut Productivity of UK Firms – Bank of England
The Daily Mail, August 2019: Brexit Planning Cut Productivity of UK Firms – Bank of England
The New York Times, August 2019: Brexit Planning Cut Productivity of UK Firms – Bank of England
Bloomberg, August 2019: Brexit Planning Cut Productivity of UK Firms – Bank of England
The Economist, August 2019: The Chilling Economic Effects of Brexit Uncertainty are Intensifying
Business Telegraph, August 2019: Brexit Cuts Productivity by up to 5%, Says Bank of England
Bloomberg, July 2019: Bank of England Agents Help Policy Makers See Through Brexit Economic Noise
ADVFN, July 2019: UK in the Brexit Dumpster
Yahoo Finance UK, June 2019: British Firms Stockpile £6.6bn of Goods in Run-Up to Brexit
Resolution Foundation, March 2019: Spring forward or fall back?
Business Marker News, February 2019: Bank of England expects UK economy to grow by just 1.2% in 2019
Central Banking, February 2019: BoE paper outlines results of uncertainty experiment
Financial Times, January 2019: Economists Predict the UK Economy’s Trajectory in 2019
2018
LexisNexis, December 2018: Weekly Highlights LexisNexis
AccountancyAge, December 2018: Brexit Forecasts Helping of Hindering?
The Times, December 2018: Be braced for more chaos, but give thanks to the Bank
EY ITEM Club, July 2018: Will the clouds clear for the economy?
GLA Economics, July 2018: London’s Economy Today
Bloomberg, June 2018: Businesses Are Getting More Pessimistic Over Brexit
The Times, June 2018: Brexit pessimism is growing, agents find
The Daily Mail, June 2018: Two thirds of British businesses do not see Brexit as a major cause for concern to the economy
Market News, June 2018: MNI: BOE Agents: Headcount Seen Falling In Consumer Sector
Reuters, June 2018: UK consumer economy slows, manufacturing perks up in BoE, EU surveys
The Guardian, April 2018: For British bosses a bigger headache than Brexit is emerging
ICAEW, April 2018: Brexit’s role in global growth trends
MNI, March 2018: Downside Infla Risks Cloud BOE Rate Rise Message
The Guardian, March 2018: Firms handing out inflation-beating pay rises, says Bank of England
City A.M, March 2018: Businesses set to boost investment and expect price inflation to slow
Financial Times, March 2018: Factories set to step up investment
The Independent, February 2018: Brexit ‘dampening’ UK productivity growth warns deputy Bank of England Governor Dave Ramsden
Financial Times, February 2018: BoE surveys point to long-awaited pay rise for UK workers
Reddit, February 2018: Brexit wiped out £7.7bn of business investment, says Bank of England
The Sunday Times, February 2018: Brexit wiped out £7.7bn of business investment, says Bank of England
Bloomberg, February 2018: Wages to Migration: Some Takeaways From the BOE Inflation Report
Gestion, January 2018: BoE: Incertidumbre por Brexit perjudica inversiones en Reino Unido
MTA, January 2018: Economic Data This Week
2017
The Sunday Times, December 2017: Only an end to uncertainty will lift all our spirits
Financial Times, December 2017: Labour shortage fears could drive up pay
UK and EU, November 2017: The cost of Brexit related uncertainty
Financial Times, September 2017: Business fears Brexit will hit sales, study finds
Market News International, September 2017: BOE CFO Survey: Brexit A Downside Risk But Firms Staying Put
Financial Post, August 2017: London losing status with financial firms as Brexit approaches