One hundred months of the Decision Maker Panel
(with Philip Bunn, Jessica Henley, Sami Khan, Craig Menzies, Krishan Shah, Nicholas Bloom, Paul Mizen, and Gregory Thwaites)
Bank Overground, December 2024
The Decision Maker Panel (DMP) is a large monthly online panel survey of UK businesses. It was established in 2016 and is run by the Bank of England in partnership with King’s College London and the University of Nottingham. It collects quantitative information from Chief Financial Officers about recent developments in business conditions, (the distribution of) expectations, and uncertainty. This paper provides an overview of the survey. It covers the survey methodology and evaluates the data quality. It shows how the survey is representative, that the data are of high quality and that they match official statistics well. Aggregated DMP data are published on a monthly and quarterly basis, and anonymised microdata are available to researchers via the Office for National Statistics’ Secure Research Service.
The impact of higher interest rates on UK firms
(with Krishan Shah, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, and Gregory Thwaites)
VoxEU Column, April 2024
Managers say working from home is here to stay
(with Krishan Shah, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, and Gregory Thwaites)
VoxEU Column, February 2024
Profit margins and firm price growth: Evidence from the Decision Maker Panel
(with Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, and Gregory Thwaites)
Bank Underground, September 2023
Price-setting in a high inflation environment
(with Philip Bunn, Nicholas Bloom, Paul Mizen, Özgen Öztürk, and Gregory Thwaites)
VoxEU Column, August 2023
Firm inflation perceptions and expectations: Evidence from the Decision Maker Panel
(with Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Özgen Öztürk, and Gregory Thwaites)
Bank Underground, July 2023
Firm inflation expectations in quantitative and text data
(with Lena Anayi, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Özgen Öztürk, and Gregory Thwaites)
VoxEU Column, December 2022
(with Rabah Arezki, Oussama Belmejdoub, Bilal Diab, Samira Kalla, Ha Nguyen, and Abdulla Saif)
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, June 2022
The impact of the war in Ukraine on economic uncertainty
(with Lena Anayi, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, and Gregory Thwaites)
VoxEU Column, April 2022
Two years on, how has the pandemic affected businesses in the UK?
(joint with Lena Anayi, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, and Gregory Thwaites)
Economics Observatory, March 2022
What matters to firms? New insights from survey text comments
(with Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka, and Gregory Thwaites)
Bank Underground, April 2021