Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE)

在过渡期，将重点关注进一步的影响活动和能力建设，同时寻求CAGE 1和CAGE 2自然产生的新研究机会。CAGE热衷于在未来的ESRC中心电话中申请全面的中心资金。在过渡期间，中心的主题将继续是“在全球经济中取得成功”，中心将按研究主题进行组织，每个主题都有一个“组织问题”：主题1：什么解释了比较长期增长业绩？主题2：文化和制度如何有助于解释全球化世界中的发展和差异？主题3：如何改进对福祉的衡量以及对政策的影响？主题4：全球化和全球危机对政策制定和经济与政治结果的影响是什么？在第1和第2类专家咨询期间，专题1的研究在建立欧洲和亚洲过去800年长期经济增长各方面的详细量化图方面取得了很大进展，现在将把分析范围扩大到非洲，从衡量人均真实的国内总产值转向按要素投入及其生产率计算增长来源。研究还将在更根本的层面上分析长期成功和失败的原因，调查范围涵盖前工业时代到后工业时代，研究地理，制度，贸易成本，人力资本和知识以及经济政策的作用。主题2强调经济发展的地方文化和体制背景，包括特性。我们在身份政治和宣传方面的许多经验教训不仅与英国脱欧有关，而且与世界各地的非自由政治和民粹主义的兴起有关。今后的工作将侧重于狭隘思想的作用，其表现形式是对族裔、语言和宗教少数群体以及移民缺乏容忍。第三个感兴趣的领域将是文化、宗教和法治。执行规则是所有社会和组织运作的核心。主题2中许多正在进行和计划进行的研究都与经济史有关，并使用历史数据。主题3将继续侧重于加深我们对福祉与行为之间相互作用的理解，并制定在国家一级衡量福祉的新方法。这超越了幸福，并进入一般的情绪，个性，心理特征，认知技能，信念形成和决策。此外，主题3与经济史有关，其兴趣在于从历史书籍中重建福祉措施。在任命了一名数量政治学教授之后，在第二阶段期间，将专题4添加到了两性平等问题咨询顾问委员会，作为进一步推动两性平等问题咨询顾问委员会工作的一项关键投资。这项研究探讨了随着全球化的加剧，税收竞争对经合组织国家资本流动性和福利国家政策可行性的影响。该研究强调了全球化威胁的不同暴露程度。这些领域的研究将继续进行，并扩大到发展中国家。此外，正在进行的关于产假政策的研究议程在理解两性平等方面将继续是转型期间的一个关键领域，因为它得到了政府（内阁办公室）和私营企业以及大学部门的极大兴趣，总之，CAGE的显著特点是它跨越了经济学内部的分歧，并探讨了传统上被认为是学科边界的问题。CAGE的研究和政策建议对环境敏感，并基于一种不随意强加新古典经济学先验的实证方法。最后，CAGE为当前的政策问题带来了一个明智的历史视角。

The transition period will see a strong focus on further impact activities and capacity building, alongside the pursuit of new research opportunities that naturally follow from CAGE1 and CAGE2. CAGE is keen to apply for fully-fledged centre funding in a future ESRC centres call. During the transition period, the overarching theme will continue to be 'succeeding in the global economy' and the Centre will be organised into research themes each with an 'organising question': Theme 1: What Explains Comparative Long-Run Growth Performance?; Theme 2: How do Culture and Institutions Help to Explain Development and Divergence in a Globalising World?; Theme 3: How Can the Measurement of Wellbeing be Improved and What are the Implications for Policy?; Theme 4: What are the Implications of Globalisation and Global Crises for Policymaking and for Economic and Political Outcomes?During CAGE 1 and 2, research in Theme 1 made excellent progress in establishing a detailed quantitative picture of the dimensions of long-run economic growth over the past 800 years in Europe and Asia and the analysis will now be extended to cover Africa, and move from measuring real GDP per capita to accounting for the sources of growth in terms of factor inputs and their productivity. Research will also analyse the reasons for success and failure over the long-run at a more fundamental level with investigations covering pre-industrial to post-industrial times looking at the roles of geography, institutions, trade costs, and human capital and knowledge as well as economic policy. Theme 2 highlights the local cultural and institutional context of economic development, including identity. Many of our lessons on identity politics and propaganda are of relevance to not just Brexit in the UK, but also the rise of illiberal politics and populism across the world. Future work will focus on the role of illiberal ideas in the form of lack of tolerance of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities, and immigrants. A third area of interest will be culture, religion and the rule of law. The enforcement of rules is central to the operation of all societies and organisations. A lot of the ongoing and planned research in theme 2 connects with Economic History and uses historic data. Theme 3 will continue to focus on deepening our understanding of the interactions between wellbeing and behaviour and developing new ways to measure wellbeing at the national level. This goes beyond happiness and into moods in general, personality, psychological traits, cognitive skills, belief-formation, and decision-making. Also Theme 3 links to Economic History with its interest in reconstruction of wellbeing measures from historic books. Theme 4 was added to CAGE during phase 2 after the appointment of a Professor of Quantitative Political Science as a key investment to further the work of CAGE. This research has examined the implications of tax competition for capital mobility and viability of welfare state policies in OECD countries as globalisation has intensified. The research highlights differing exposure to globalisation threats. Research in these areas will continue and expand into developing countries as well. Furthermore, the ongoing research agenda on maternity leave policy in understanding gender equality will continue to be a key area during transition, as it has received immense interest in government (Cabinet Office) and private industry and the university sector.In conclusion, the distinctive feature of CAGE is that it crosses divides within economics, and explores issues traditionally regarded as at the boundaries of the discipline. CAGE research and policy advice is sensitive to context and based on an empirical approach that does not arbitrarily impose the priors of neoclassical economics. Finally, CAGE brings an informed historical perspective to current policy issues.