Articles on price caps

June 2, 2023

Price caps on groceries are not the answer to the UK’s inflation problem

Christoph Siemroth, University of Essex

Rishi Sunak is proposing to introduce voluntary caps for staples like milk and bread.

December 8, 2022

Tony Wood, Grattan Institute

Energy bills are about to hurt. But what can the government actually do to ease the pain?

November 10, 2022

Timothy Welch, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

How does keeping the price of petrol and diesel down align with New Zealand’s goal of being carbon zero by 2050? And do price caps even work anyway?

Timothy Welch
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Tony Wood
Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
Christoph Siemroth
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Economics, University of Essex