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Ken Coutts
Assistant Director of Research
Room: 55
Tel: 44-(0) 1223 335203
Email: kjc1@cam.ac.uk
Interests:Open-economy models of debt dynamics; visible and invisible earnings in the balance of payments; macroeconomic policy; inflation; industrial pricing behaviour

Publications 2000-

  • Ken Coutts and Robert Rowthorn, "Growth and The Balance of Payments: The Role of Manufacturing", Paper for The Cambridge-MIT (CMI) Conference, Manufacturing Matters, New Hall, Cambridge, 19 July 2002
  • Ken Coutts, "Halving the World's Working Poor in Ten Years: The Implications for Investment", Report prepared for World and Regional Employment Prospects, International Labour Organisation, Geneva, August 2002.
  • Ken Coutts and Robert Rowthorn, "Some implications of Britain's Entry into the Euro", House of Commons Treasury Committee, The UK and the Euro, Sixth Report of Session 2002-03, Volume II, HC 187-II,  7 May 2003, London: The Stationery Office Ltd.
  • Robert Rowthorn and Ken Coutts, "De-industrialisation and the balance of payments in advanced economies", Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol 28, Number 5, September 2004, doi:10.1093/cje/beh034.
  • Robert Rowthorn and Ken Coutts, "The UK in the World Economy",  update of Rowthorn and Coutts (2004) prepared for meeting of the Council for Science and Technology, June 2006, download (pdf).
  • Ken Coutts and Neville Norman, "Global Influences on UK Manufacturing Prices: 1970-2000",  European Economic Review, Volume 51, Issue 5, July 2007, pages 1205-1221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2006.08.001
  • Ken Coutts, Andrew Glyn and Robert Rowthorn, "Structural Change under New Labour", Cambridge Journal of Economics, advance access published 17 September 2007, doi:10.1093/cje/bem022

Cambridge Pricing Project  July 2006
- in collaboration with Neville Norman, University of Melbourne, Australia.
UK manufacturing, all manufacturing and sectoral datasheets.

Working Papers

  • Coutts, K. J. and Norman, N. R. 'Global influences on UK Manufacturing Prices 1970-2000, Department of Applied Economics Working Paper No 0117, Faculty of Economics and Politics, November 2001.
  • Ken Coutts and Neville Norman, “Prices and Costs, Data Description Digest”, Faculty of Economics and Politics, August 2000.
  • Ken Coutts and Neville Norman, "Global impacts on British industrial prices", conference paper presented to the Global Conference on Business Economics, 3rd Program, Amsterdam, July 2004.