The UK is facing not one but two housing crises. The first is a short-term fall in prices and construction whcih is both driven by and driving the recession. The second and more profound is the overall shortage of housing and the problems of affordability that this generates.

Henry Overman sketches the evolution of CEP research on why prosperity is so unevenly distributed across cities, regions and nations

Despite dire predictions, the UK capital has experienced a relatively mild recession, at least so far - Henry Overman asks what went right

Average earnings vary widely across the regions of Britain, a fact that has prompted many decades of policies aimed at reducing regional disparities. But as Henry Overman and Steve Gibbons demonstrate, such variation reveals little, especially if we ignore regional differences in the cost of...

New research by Henry Overman and colleagues provides a detailed picture of how land is used in US cities - and challenges conventional wisdom about urban sprawl.

People who move from compact to sprawling neighbourhoods do not gain weight.

Henry Overman considers the regional distribution of prosperity and the potential policy responses.

Henry Overman considers the arguments for and against building a new high-speed rail line from London to Birmingham.

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

Henry Overman surveys the evidence on potentially effective responses to the recession and longer-term structural change.