A macroeconomic study examining the impacts of the UK Gambling Act review has concluded that the agreed reforms would result in only a “limited net negative effect on the wider UK economy”.
The assessment has been published by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), Britain’s oldest independent economic research institute, which evaluates the macro-economic consequences of regulatory and fiscal policy changes/reforms.
The study is co-authored with the University of Glasgow as an assessment of “The Macroeconomic Impact of Reducing Gross Gambling Yield: An Empirically-Informed Model”.
Researchers sought to analyze how reforms proposed under the Gambling Act review White Paper, published in April 2023, could affect wider economic activity, growth and efficiencies.
