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Nikhil Datta

@Nik_Datta

Economist. Assistant prof @warwickecon, fellow @CEP_LSE, PhD alum @EconUCL. Child of immigrants. Serene since 17/06/06. https://nitter.cf/t.co/8bEF05qIfy

 London, England
Joined June 2017
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Where should Britain build 1.5 million homes? @AmritaKulka .bsky.social l and I analysed 20 billion housing searches + availability to map demand at a hyper-local level. Map 👉wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk/ Full + 350 LA reports 👉warwick.ac.uk/cage/wheretobu… @cage_warwick
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1/ After three years processing 19 million planning applications and 120 terabytes of documents, @edoardo_badii, @AmritaKulka and I are releasing the first findings from our Housing Pipeline dataset. Fewer distinct proposed homes. A much stronger rebound in 2025. 🧵
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8/ Next, we’ll examine where developments get stuck, how proposals change—and how often planning permissions actually become homes. If we want to fix the housing pipeline, we need to be able to measure it.
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9/ Read the findings: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom… Our first CAGE policy brief: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…
New study changes the picture of England's housing pipeline

New study changes the picture of England's housing pipeline

The first findings from Housing Pipeline, a new dataset that connects applications, revisions and phases belonging to the same development has been released as part of a three-year study of 19...

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Exactly where is there excess demand for housing? Flats or houses? Buying or renting? Amazing data from billions of property searches by @Nik_Datta & Amrita Kulka wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk/
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New article from myself & Johannes Brinkmann out in The Conversation on petrol price gouging (or lack thereof) theconversation.com/do-petro…
Do petrol retailers really ‘price-gouge’ during oil price spikes?

Do petrol retailers really ‘price-gouge’ during oil price spikes?

Research suggests that profiteering may actually be more likely when we’re not watching prices closely.

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There has been a lot of discussion around petrol "price gouging" over the last few days. New @cage_warwick policy note from myself and Johannes Brinkmann on this claim with some analysis from around the Russian Invasion of Ukrain. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom… The main points:
Excess profits are being made at the pumps – but not when you think

Excess profits are being made at the pumps – but not when you think

New analysis of fuel prices confirms a long-held suspicion – at times of crisis when wholesale oil prices rise, prices at the pump also rise quickly – but they are slower to match any subsequent fall.

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7. There is substantial heterogeneity in this asymmetry. Some stations exhibit close to no asymmetry, while others have up to 5 times the size of the average.
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8. The main takeaway - petrol retailers can make "excess profits". But it doesn't happen during oil price spikes when everyone is looking. Full piece here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…
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