Author: School of Natural Sciences

A report by the School’s Dr Zaki Wahhaj and Dr M Niaz Asadullah from the University of Malaya has been published in The Conversation on Bangladesh’s new child … Read more

by Kevin S. Nell and A. P. Thirlwall, discussion paper KDPE 1703, March 2017. Non-technical summary ‘New’ (endogenous) growth theory seeks to explain growth rate differences between countries … Read more

“If you had been a canny investor back in 2008, you could have done a lot worse than make a substantial bet on upmarket ice … Read more

Economics PhD student, Sashana Whyte, has been selected to join the Young Professionals Program of the World Bank from September this year. Since its inception in … Read more

In macroeconomics, we typically model production by specifying a ‘production function,’ which tells us how much output is produced with given quantities of the ‘factors … Read more

by Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Wei Jiang and James Malley, discussion paper KDPE 1704, January 2017. Non-technical summary The evolution of inequality has been well documented in the data. … Read more

by Adelina Gschwandtner and Michael Burton, KDPE 1702, January 2017. Non-technical summary The main objective of the present project is to analyse and understand what … Read more

by Alex Klein and Guy Tchuente, discussion paper KDPE 1701, December 2016. Non-technical summary This paper offers an identification strategy in the situation when researchers work with … Read more

The Kent School of Economics Autumn term newsletter is now available on our website. We produce a newsletter at the end of the Autumn and Spring terms … Read more

A study from the School of Economics has found that an increase in Asian elderly population share will significantly lower economic growth due to decreased … Read more