The partnership started in 2023. The main partners are the CMA Microeconomics Unity, the Business School, the Department of Economics and the DREAM Research Centre.
The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics and Durham Research in Economic Analysis and Mechanisms (DREAM) organise a workshop on the topic of “Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power“, that takes place on 20-21 November 2025 at the Durham University Business School. The workshop is designed to facilitate a dialogue between academic researchers and policymakers trying to understand what makes an economy competitive, innovative and productive.
The workshop features a keynote speech by Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College Business School).
Professor Karen O’Brien and Dr Mike Walker, the Chief Economic Adviser to the CMA, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Darlington Economic Campus on Thursday 27 July, 2023.
The partnership of the University with the Microeconomics Unit (MU), a dedicated unit within the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) at the UK Government’s Darlington Economic Campus (DEC), will play a pivotal role in advancing open-access economic research and informing evidence-based policy. The main partners from the University are the Durham University Business School, the Department of Economics and the DREAM Research Centre
20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School (DUBS) and Durham Research in Economic Analysis and Mechanisms (DREAM) are organising a small in-person workshop on the topic of “Productivity, business dynamism and market power”. The workshop is designed to facilitate dialogue between […]
14-15 November, 2024 Aggregate Market Power and the Competitive Process The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics and Durham Research in Economic Analysis and Mechanisms (DREAM) at Durham University Business School(DUBS) are organising an in-person workshop on the topic of “Aggregate market power and the competitive process”. The workshop will take place on November 14-15, 2024 […]
Sarah Cardell, the CMA CEO, will be launching a new report on UK labour markets on 25 January in a speech at Durham University. The event is taking place both in person and online.
This report, titled Competition and Market Power in UK Labour Markets, is the first report from the CMA’s Microeconomics Unit. The Microeconomics Unit is the CMA’s centre for research on competition, innovation and productivity and is based on the Government’s new Darlington Economic Campus. In a dynamic and changing labour market, this report looks at the extent of labour market power and concentration in the UK economy in the last 25 years, and differences across regions and occupations. The report also considers the impact of the gig economy, employment law and hybrid working on the changing nature of work in the UK, using novel survey and text data.
The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics and the Durham Research in Economic Analysis and Mechanisms (DREAM) Research Centre organised a small in-person workshop on the topic of “Innovation, business dynamism and market power”, on 6-7 November 2023 at the Durham University Business School (DUBS). The workshop was designed to facilitate a dialogue between academic researchers and policymakers trying to understand what makes an economy competitive, innovative and productive.
