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 academic researchers and policymakers trying to understand what makes an economy competitive, innovative and productive. You can find the programme for the 2024 workshop here.
The workshop will feature a keynote by Jonathan Haskel (Imperial).
The workshop organisers are looking for papers on the following topics:
- Contributing factors to the UK productivity slowdown
- Aggregate market power and markup estimation
- Business dynamism and the role of start-ups and scale-ups
- How industrial policy shapes productivity and interacts with market power
- Competition and bottlenecks along supply chains
- Determinants of innovation, R&D and technology diffusion
Submissions using UK data, from early-career researchers and from those who are from under-represented groups are especially welcome. Please submit your papers by 25 September 2025. Preference will be given to completed papers, but extended abstracts will also be considered. Successful candidates will be notified the following week. The workshop will take place in person at Durham University. Attendance is free and open to all.
The organising committee:
Spyros Galanis (DUBS)
Fizza Jabbar (CMA)
John Moffat (DUBS)
Jakob Schneebacher (CMA)
Joel Kariel (CMA)
The 2025 CMA Durham Workshop is part of the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the Durham University Business School.