HM Treasury (UK)

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What is the optimum balance of public and private financing of infrastructure?

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What are the potential productivity benefits from an increase in diffusion of technology and from AI? What is needed to boost technology and AI uptake?

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What is the impact of employer and wider labour market regulation on productivity and economic growth?

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What are the impacts of Automatic Enrolment on outcomes such as wage growth, business investment and other savings levels?

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What makes the UK financial services sector internationally competitive – including the role played by related professional services – and how can this be measured?

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How is the impact on consumers and competition of different market structures in the financial sector best measured?

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What are the key economic benefits to the UK of trade agreements that cover financial services?

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What is the relationship between increasing assets under management for defined contribution pension schemes and their level of productive finance investment (venture capital, private markets etc), and how much of this is UK-focused?

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What risks do excessive leverage, maturity & liquidity mismatches, and concentrated positions currently pose to the financial system? Are there other risks that threaten financial instability?

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How can risks to consumer confidence and broader public sentiment be proactively managed in times of financial market stress?

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How are multilateral financial flows (via international institutions) likely to evolve in the medium term, and what are the most pertinent influences (including structural, geographic and technological) for these flows?

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What is the impact and effectiveness of economic sanctions, on sanctions targets and the UK and global economy?

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What are the best ways of assessing and describing the combined impact of monetary and fiscal policy on the economy?

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What does the research literature tell us about an optimal strategy for debt issuance in the UK, and what are the practical implications?

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How do thresholds and boundaries in the tax system influence taxpayer/business behaviour?

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What role do headline tax rates (including the impacts of differing regional tax rates in devolved tax systems), reliefs, grants and tax system stability play in business investment decisions and economic growth, and what is the relative importance of each of these factors?

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How are the factors affecting financial adequacy in retirement changing over time?

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How can organisations, with a particular focus on public bodies, most effectively learn lessons from (i) crisis response; and (ii) systemic policy problems; and address them?