Our economists are looking at topics as diverse as the effect of government climate change policies on business, the value of knowledge assets to economic growth, determining fairness and value in the telecommunications industry and quality service incentives in the public sector. Our projects engage a range of different industries as well as researchers from across Imperial.
Projects and Centres
Exploring new ways of measuring low-carbon innovation, exploiting new datasets emerging from Internet activity.
Addressing consumer behaviour in energy consumption in order to suggest ways to better utilise and facilitate contributions.
Examining the larger scale deployment of energy storage to help resolve key policy and business uncertainties.
Developing new techniques to better evaluate the economic and environmental benefits of a range of energy storage technologies.
Assessing the impact of road interventions on congestion and pollution in Britain to investigate what drives changes in traffic.
Looking at the effect of telecoms on society including growth and productivity.
A study of possible spillovers from intangibles and their impact on productivity growth.
Examining the tensions and trade-offs between EU policy goals and Member State priorities.
Improving the use of evidence in the design and delivery of policies for local economic growth and employment.
Exploring the incentives that drive productivity, innovation and health-related behaviours, as well the factors that determine the success of health policies designed and implemented by governments