Microeconomics Unit research
皇冠体育app Competition and Markets Authority鈥檚 (CMA) research into competition, innovation, productivity and growth.
Part of the CMA, the Microeconomics Unit carries out economic research focusing on issues of competition, innovation and productivity to support growth in the UK economy.
皇冠体育app Unit provides expertise to the CMA and wider UK government, helping them to stay informed of emerging economic trends. This supports the CMA in its work to help people, businesses and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour.
Contact the Microeconomics Unit: [email protected]
Growth Programme
皇冠体育app Unit鈥檚 Growth Programme will analyse a range of issues, including:
- barriers to the spread of new technology and knowledge across the economy
- the role of competition in driving and directing productive investment聽
- the strength of competition along supply chains, and the impact of 鈥榰pstream鈥� market power on downstream sectors 鈥� reflecting the importance of competitive markets for important inputs to UK economic performance and resilience聽
- pro-growth industrial policy interventions, and lessons from past experience and other countries, to help inform the UK government鈥檚 industrial strategy
Economic research strategy
This strategy sets out the CMA鈥檚 areas of interest and approach to economic research.
Industrial strategy
This analysis examines past industrial policies to inform the design of a modern industrial strategy for the UK.
皇冠体育app state of UK competition
This analysis examines how well competition is working across the UK economy.
Labour markets
This report analyses trends in the UK labour market, focusing on the impact of competition and employer market power.
Literature reviews
皇冠体育appse reviews examine the existing evidence on issues of competition and productivity.
Discussion papers
皇冠体育appse papers describe research in progress. We鈥檝e published them to encourage comment and further debate on issues of competition, innovation and productivity.
Consumer detriment survey
Additional analysis of the consumer detriment survey 2024, including how detriment varies between consumer groups and purchasing channels.
Updates to this page
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Consumer detriment survey additional analysis published.
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Industrial strategy report published
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New literature review published
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New discussion paper published.
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First published.