The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and governmental responses, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...

In the early 1990s, Anthony Fielding coined the term 'escalator region' to describe how London and the South East attracted those with greater human capital by offering them superior career prospects and enhanced returns in the housing markets. When delineating a housing or labour market area,...

This paper examines spill-over effects among regions. Estimating error correction models of British rates of unemployment and conducting Granger-causality tests, it is found that, on a short-run basis, the West Midlands is a leading territory within a closely knit group of surrounding regions....