Graham Pontin as the Company Director and Senior Economist at GPontin Ltd and as a Associate of WPI was asked to support the development of innovative research for a client. Where once the PC was the focus of internet activity, with low portability and slow access speeds, this is no […]
Tariff costs, tariff types, and switching levels Tariff rises continue to be of concern with the average dual fuel household bill rising from £1,057 in 2011 to £1,232 in 2012. These rises have been against a backdrop of low wage rate growth, employment uncertainty, and a general lack in consumer […]
This report takes a macroeconomic approach to explore the potential inefficiency and loss of economic productivity as a result of the current condition of the road network. This report considers a number of inefficiencies as part of this loss, with a total annual inefficiency of £12.2bn across England’s entire road […]
This paper is the final paper in ACE’s infrastructure investment series and explores in more detail the rational and practicalities of establishing a State Investment Bank. Key areas explored in the paper: A State Investment Bank could play an important role in long term economic policy A State Investment Bank would […]
This paper is the fourth in ACE’s infrastructure investment series and explores in more detail the current conditions within the market, and the implications they have on pension funds’ investment potential into infrastructure. Key findings include: The scale of the global pensions fund market holds great potential for investment Government role is […]
This paper is the third in ACE’s infrastructure investment series and explores in more detail improvement that could be made to the procurement within Public and Private Finance Models (PPFM). Issues explored in this paper include the concept of flexibility, transparency and the use of a centralised resource to improve procurement efficiency and reactiveness, […]
This paper is the second in ACE’s infrastructure investment series and explores in more detail the rationale, performance and market conditions that surround Public and Private Finance Models (PPFM). This paper explores a number of flexible models that should help to improve public and private sector performance. Whilst, encouraging the […]
ACE’s Barriers to Investment report explores a wide variety of aspects that act as barriers, or significantly change the risk profile of an investment project. These processes are important within the investment cycle and should be understood by all parties involved. By facilitating wider debate on these issues it is […]
This paper has been produced by ACE to explore the potential of regulatory and market reforms within the water sector. In particular this paper looks to address the relatively low levels of consumer competition, supply competition, the inadequate levels of investment and the environment under which investment takes place. To […]
There has recently been an increased level of debate as to how the structure of the railways operates and the manner in which franchises are provided. Whilst this paper does not look at the franchise mechanism itself it does pose the question as to how we could further incentivise train […]