Understand the consequences of global, national and local events on cities and regional economies.
Service Category: City Economics and Regions Consulting
We offer evidence and strategic advice to support urban and regional development; produce bespoke datasets, models and reports; and assess the economic impact of local investments.
Here is how our insights help a leading metropolis’s economic development agency demonstrate the city’s position as a premier business destination.
This is how we help a global real estate company identify the most attractive locations for investment and development.
This report highlights the University’s role in driving innovation, fostering entrepreneurship and boosting human capital, while outlining future growth opportunities.
In the past decade, employment growth in Paris and its surrounding region has been slower than in several other French regions. These other regions are typically in the west and south of France—including Pays de la Loire, Bretagne, Occitanie, and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes—whereas growth in the north and the north east has been more sluggish. Within fast growing regions, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Lyon have been flourishing.
A lot of data exist regarding local differences in household income levels, but very little on differences in wealth. But the latter are very important in understanding the resilience of local economies, opportunities, and spending behaviour. To address this, we have produced wealth estimates at the local authority level for England and Wales.
Asia-Pacific’s fast-growing emerging cities are driving the continued expansion of the region’s middle-income class and the reshaping of its consumption patterns. In previous decades that was driven by China’s ascent to becoming an upper middle-income country, and the rapidly rising living standards of its urban residents.
Oxford Economics estimated the University of Sussex’s impact on the UK economy during 2020/21. The findings demonstrate the economic and social contributions the University makes within the region and across the UK.
In early 2023 the Hackney Council commissioned Oxford Economics in partnership with Ramidus to research the current scale and specialisms of Hackney’s green economy, and identify future opportunities and potential barriers to growth.
Oxford Economics provided economic and labour market insight and forecasts for the Spring 2023 edition of Adecco’s Labour Market Outlook.
The city of Sydney commissioned BIS Oxford Economics to conduct its 2022 Business Needs Survey.
The future for London as a global city and as a location for investment in residential real estate remains very positive, according to a new report from Oxford Economics commissioned by Mitheridge Capital Management.
Challenges and opportunities from the net zero transition across the nations and regions of the UK.
In this report for Lloyds Banking Group we review evidence on the potential impact of the transition to net zero on the UK economy.