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Economic Research in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

The Department aims to raise productivity in order to realise ‘Prosperity for All’ by supporting successful businesses, promoting world-class science and innovation and ensuring fair markets. Policies to achieve this have to be supported by an economic evidence base.

This site contains the economic research that the Department is currently undertaking, publications from past research, and also forward-looking research projects in order to add to the evidence base.

The Department is committed to publishing research reports which are split into the following series:

• Main Economics Paper Series  
• Occasional Paper Series
• Sector Competitive Studies
• Other Economic Reports

The main Areas of BERR Economic Research page includes links to specialist research reports.