Latest Publications
Fair Markets
Markets are the best way to create and distribute wealth, but they don’t always work well for all the people in them. We research ways that sensible interactions between the state and the private sector can maximise growth and fairness.
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Stick or Switch? Making markets fairer and more competitive
And, rightly so: too many people feel they are being ripped off and poorer households in particular are vulnerable to unfairly high prices and unfavourable contracts. In a period of...
| Published: | 12 October 2017 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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Concentration, not competition: the state of UK consumer markets
This SMF report provides new insights into the state of consumer markets in the UK. In particular it examines the extent to which the UK’s consumer markets are competitive and concentrated and the impact this is having on consumer outcomes
| Published: | 02 October 2017 |
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| Author(s): | Scott Corfe, Nicole Gicheva |
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Consumers and the economy are getting a bad deal because companies don’t face enough competition
Infographic for SMF report Concentration, not competition: the state of UK consumer markets.
| Published: | 02 October 2017 |
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| Author(s): | Scott Corfe, Nicole Gicheva |
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Switching the measure
This report assesses how the current account market is performing for vulnerable consumers.
| Published: | 19 September 2017 |
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| Author: | Kathryn Petrie |
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A Verifiable Success
Identity verification processes in the UK have not fully kept up with either technological or social change.
| Published: | 10 September 2017 |
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| Author: | Scott Corfe |
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A Lost Generation
Lucy Powell MP guest writes this piece on inter-generational inequality for the SMF.
| Published: | 31 August 2017 |
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| Author: | Lucy Powell MP |
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Saving Better
This report builds on previous SMF work and research from other organisations to set out a comprehensive framework with which to understand the UK’s poor savings behaviour.
| Published: | 08 August 2017 |
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| Author(s): | Nicole Gicheva, Matthew Oakley |
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Informed decision-making: an evaluation of the advice gap
FAMR had the potential to revolutionise the advice market and tackle the advice gap but our research suggests its recommendations are unlikely to make a significant difference to the number...
| Published: | 29 June 2017 |
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| Author: | Kathryn Petrie |
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Let’s Stay Together? Combating discrimination on Airbnb
This report draws on recent findings detailed in Laouénan and Rathelot (2016) and looks at nineteen cities in North America and Europe with the largest number of listings to examine the existence of discrimination on Airbnb.
| Published: | 04 December 2016 |
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| Author(s): | Roland Rathelot, Morgane Laouénan |