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As corporate planning season approaches, the global consumer outlook for 2027 remains uncertain. In this webinar, we’ll cover macro assumptions and scenarios for next year, covering opportunities for B2C firms at the country, city, and sector level, as well as risks and scenarios companies can build into their plans to improve resilience to external shocks. We’ll cover major geographies like the US, Europe, China, and emerging markets, as well as highlights across different consumer segments, tourism opportunities, and input costs. 

As B2B firms start building 2027 budgets, the global economic outlook remains complex and uncertain. In this webinar, we’ll cover all the key macro planning inputs companies need for next year’s budgets, as well as scenarios and implications. We’ll cover top growth areas and opportunities at the geographic, sector, and segment level to support prioritization decisions. 

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Register for this webinar to understand how geopolitical tensions are reshaping global trade and supply-chain resilience.

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The scale of AI’s impact on the world economy is still deeply uncertain. In this webinar, we examine AI’s likely effect on productivity growth, the implications for labour markets, and the explicit AI assumptions embedded in our baseline forecast.

Join us for this webinar as we examine Zambia’s general elections on 13 August and what the outcome could mean for the country’s political and economic outlook.

Australia’s construction sector is shifting gears. Data centres and non-residential investment are stepping up as engines of growth while engineering firms pivot from transport megaprojects toward the infrastructure of the energy transition. Beneath these shifts, the sector continues to grapple with capacity constraints, elevated costs and a tight labour market that will shape how far and how fast activity can grow. This webinar brings together Oxford Economics’ construction and macro specialists to unpack these shifting growth engines and what they mean for capacity, costs and strategy over the decade ahead.

Oxford Economics’ experts will explore how AI adoption will affect workers and productivity, developments from the Middle East conflict, and the broader global macroeconomic outlook.

Oxford Economics explores the forces reshaping Australia’s prefab market, from rising public procurement commitments and regulatory reform to growing domestic manufacturing capacity and import competition. We examine where adoption is likely to accelerate most, including social and affordable housing, student accommodation, co-living, land lease communities, and selected public infrastructure.

Credibility Gap in Climate Policy

This webinar will present the findings from our latest Energy Security scenario, in which countries take action to mitigate risks associated with dependence on fossil fuel imports. More generally, we will discuss how the Strait of Hormuz crisis is affecting countries’ energy policy and the transition to a cleaner energy system.

The China shock 2.0 is set to shape Europe’s economic and trade landscape for years to come. As its effects intensify, European policymakers are weighing a stronger response. In this webinar, we will examine how the shock is affecting Europe’s economy and assess the policy options available.

Artificial intelligence is already being adopted across economies, reshaping how firms work and beginning to feed through to productivity and labour markets. What remains deeply uncertain is the scale, speed, and distribution of its effects over the years ahead.

This webinar will explore how the surge in spending on AI is reshaping the trajectory of global technology spending, and how it sits alongside the broader trends driving demand.

The economy remains resilient, but the economic costs of the conflict in the Middle East will be more visible in the second half of the year.

Le tensioni in Medio Oriente si sono attenuate, ma resta da capire se la pace sarà duratura e in quale misura gli sviluppi geopolitici si rifletteranno sul contesto macroeconomico. Nelle prossime settimane l’attenzione sarà rivolta soprattutto all’andamento dei prezzi dell’energia, fortemente influenzato dal traffico nello Stretto di Hormuz, mentre permangono incertezze sulle prossime mosse di alcune banche centrali.

As corporates increasingly use scenarios to frame uncertainty in their short and long-range planning, standard approaches to building simple upside/downside ranges increasingly struggle to frame the complex environment in which corporates actually operate.

Tourism Economics and IATA will review the latest air passenger demand trends, outlook and the macroeconomic underpinning the outlook. We’ll focus on the Iran war and the implications for macroeconomic demand and air passenger demand, particularly through squeezed crude oil and jet fuel supplies which are expected to linger for several months beyond the eventual cessation of hostilities.

The supervisory bar for scenario analysis is rising fast. The EBA’s environmental scenario analysis guidelines apply from January 2027 with climate risk entering the 2027 EU-wide stress test, and nature-related risk is firmly on the supervisory agenda.

Tourism Economics will provide an overview of the latest developments in the European travel sector and examine the key trends facing destinations heading into the summer.

This webinar will cover: How the ongoing Middle East conflict is creating a prolonged supply shock for African economies, driving persistent inflation, intensifying external and fiscal pressures, and reshaping the continent’s macroeconomic outlook, while highlighting the key risks businesses and investors should monitor.

Asia Pacific industrial production has started 2026 stronger than expected, but supply shortage stemming from the US-Iran conflict are creating new challenges for manufacturers.