Author: tjg

Economics at Kent has excelled in the National Student Survey 2019 with over 92% of students expressing overall satisfaction with the quality of their course. … Read more

Irma Clots-Figueras has been awarded the 18th Banco Sabadell Foundation Prize for Economic Research for her quantitative research work on gender aspects in political economy. Irma … Read more

The School of Economics held its second workshop on Microeconomic Approaches to Development Economics on 24-25 June 2019. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Royal … Read more

The School was saddened to hear of the death of alumnus Dr Ambachew Mekonnen, Regional President of the Amhara region of Ethiopia, who was assassinated … Read more

A NEW project that aims to reverse the declines of wild pollinators is set to receive a multi-million pound investment from the EU’s North Sea Region Interreg … Read more

A paper by Chia-Lin Chen (University of Liverpool, London) and Roger Vickerman (University of Kent) has been published in the Asian Development Bank Institute working paper series. “High-speed rail … Read more

Research by the School’s Dr Alex Klein was cited in an article published in the The Wall Street Journal on 9 June. The article entitled ‘The South’s Economy … Read more

by Sylvain Barde, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1908, June 2019. Non-technical summary: The paper develops and tests a multivariate extension of the Markov Information Criterion (MIC) … Read more

by Sugata Ghosh, Brunel University and Anirban Mitra, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1907, June 2019. Non-technical summary: Discrimination against minorities – ethnic, religious, linguistic, etc. – is … Read more

by Isaure Delaporte, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1906, June 2019. Non-technical summary: A growing concern in Western countries is the fact that immigrants might … Read more