CMA Durham Partnership

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.

CMA Durham Workshop

The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics and the DREAM Research Centre organised a workshop on the topic of “Innovation, business dynamism and market power”, that took place on 6-7 November 2023 at the Durham University Business School. The workshop was designed to facilitate a dialogue between academic researchers and policymakers trying to understand what makes an economy competitive, innovative and productive.

The workshop featured a keynote speeches by Sara Calligaris (OECD) and Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven), as well as a policy panel of senior UK policymakers.

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Memorandum of Understanding

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

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CMA Report on Labour Markets

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.

CMA Durham Workshop

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.