Economic Consultants Editing and Proofreading Services

Economic impact studies are commissioned by people who want a large number and produced by people who know how the large number is generated. A stadium, a festival, a new plant or an industry body's contribution to the economy is modelled, multipliers are applied, and the headline figure enters the press release and the parliamentary submission stripped of every assumption. The consultant's name is on it, and the assumptions are in an annex nobody reads until a critic reads them carefully.

We edit what economic consultancies and impact analysts produce — economic impact assessments and their headline findings, methodology and assumption sections, multiplier and modelling explanations, cost-benefit and appraisal reports, regulatory impact and competition analyses, market definition and pricing studies, expert reports for litigation and regulatory proceedings, funding and business case appraisals, evaluation and counterfactual analyses, sector contribution studies for industry bodies, forecasting and scenario documentation, peer review responses, and public-facing summaries of technical work. Our editors work on the relationship between the headline and the model.

The headline figure is where an economic study is either defensible or destined to be picked apart, and the fix is placement rather than caveating. An annex containing the assumptions protects nobody when the summary says the sector contributes £4.2bn and every subsequent citation drops the qualifiers. We write these so the headline itself carries its two or three load-bearing assumptions in the same sentence, however inelegant, since the sentence is what travels; so gross and net are distinguished at every mention, because a gross figure quoted as a contribution counts activity that would have happened anyway; so the multiplier is named with its source and what it assumes about spare capacity and displacement, as multipliers are where the difference between a credible study and an advocacy document usually sits; so the sensitivity range is given in the summary rather than the annex, with the figure at the pessimistic end; and so the study states plainly what it does not measure. Consultancies that publish this way are quoted by regulators rather than only by clients.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including client work, models and unpublished findings. We are editors rather than economists, and we offer no view on methodology, modelling choices, multipliers or any finding. What we can do is make the assumptions travel with the number.