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...Erik Neilsen, chief economist at UniCredit, said the eurozone’s current weakness was “a statistical phenomenon”, as employers who struggled to hire in the post Covid upswing were now hoarding labour in the...
...Public research, R&D tax incentives and research grants were the most cost-effective tools for governments to use, the research found....
...Some economists see signs that the R-star has risen....
...“Sunak’s big claim is that he knows how to run the economy, but if the ‘R’ word is being discussed in an election year, that’s very bad for him. We want to fight the election on the economy.”...
...“The response rate to the labour force survey is shocking right now — it is a really poor situation,” said Erik Britton, a former BoE economist now at Fathom Consulting....
...Erik Britton, chief executive of economics consultancy Fathom, said that given sticky readings on wages and services prices the BoE would be taking a risk if it cut rates soon in 2024....
...A draft resolution submitted this week by Erik Bánki, chair of the economic committee at the Hungarian parliament, added that there was no guarantee that Pillar One would go ahead alongside the Pillar Two...
...The deal commits the EU and US to making sure R&D funding to aircraft makers will not “harm the other side”....
...To further support research and development, I am creating a new simplified R&D tax relief, combining the existing R&D Expenditure Credit and SME schemes....
...But the reality is that economic policymaking is looking increasingly discordant, writes Sam Fleming in Brussels....
...“These should be sectors we know are highly productive and where there are [positive] spillovers from R&D into other sectors....
...Erik Britton: A huge step up in government support for innovation, including (but not restricted to) direct government funding of R&D....
...I join Erik Lorincz, former head bartender at the Savoy’s American Bar, to find out more about making the perfect Vesper Martini, Bond’s favourite drink....
...Economists, including Erik Brynjolfsson, have noted that productivity growth follows a J-curve: complementary investments and organisational changes are central to realising the benefits of new technologies...
...The episode shows the risks of working in a country where even nominally independent initiatives are often highly politicised, says Erik Meyersson, a Swedish economist and vocal critic of the EBRD....
...As Erik Nielsen, chief economist at UniCredit said, “You cannot persuade the German government to do anything if they get bad vibes from Italy. So it is very good from that point of view.”...
...Specific programming skills, such as Python, R, VBA and “classics” such as Java and C++ are always valuable too, Spade says....
...Among the ministers under the most intense scrutiny will be Germany’s new finance minister Christian Lindner and Sigrid Kaag from the new Dutch coalition government, writes Sam Fleming in Brussels....
...Britain is the land of Newton, Darwin, Fleming, Faraday, Franklin, Gilbert and Berners Lee. The home of three of the world’s top 10 universities....
...Orban’s government has “already egregiously violated basic rule of law principles” as laid out in the EU’s new conditionality rules, write Kim Lane Scheppele of Princeton University, R Daniel Kelemen of...
...Instead, he and Erik Torstensson formed London-based marketing agency Saturday Group (now Wednesday Agency) in 2003, conjuring white-hot heat for stagnant consumer brands....
...Additional reporting by Daniel Dombey in Madrid and Sam Fleming in Brussels...
...In the Netherlands, Peter R de Vries, the crime journalist who was shot in the head on a street in Amsterdam last week, passed away in hospital yesterday....
...“The brokerage market is not a winner-takes-all market,” says Scalable co-founder Erik Podzuweit. “I think a handful will survive, but not too many.”...
...The International Maritime Research and Development Board (IMRB) is a $5bn programme, governed by the IMO, to co-ordinate and fund applied R&D to catalyse the introduction of zero-carbon fuels and technologies...
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