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In a turbulent world, effective policy requires granular estimates of firm responses to shocks as they unfold.

Burnham has spoken of creating a new politics in which government levels with the public about difficult decisions. That ...

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Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...