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Kent Economists lend their expertise to parliament during the Covid crisis

By gs510 | 30 March 2020

Over the past few weeks, as the UK Parliament engages with the COVID-19 outbreak, they have experienced a surge in need for access to research … Read more

What are the implications of China’s economic slowdown on post-Brexit Britain?

By gs510 | 23 January 2020

Dr Jan-Philipp Dueber, Lecturer in Economics here at the School explains how we can better understand the slowdown in China’s economic growth and its implications … Read more

Expert comment: Much clarification needed within new Agriculture Bill

By gs510 | 17 January 2020

Professor Iain Fraser responds to the Government’s first reading of the new Agriculture Bill (16 Jan). Responding to the Government’s first reading of the new … Read more

Research Grant for Study on Birth Registration for Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh

By gs510 | 13 January 2020

Can the registration of adolescent girls in developing countries be accelerated disrupting child marriage? Dr Zaki Wahhaj at the School of Economics, together with Dr … Read more

Decision to buy organic food motivated by quality rather than animal welfare concerns

By tjg | 13 December 2019

Perceptions that organic foods are higher quality and more environmentally friendly drive shoppers’ decisions to buy to a greater extent than animal welfare concerns, despite … Read more

Social Effects of the Vote of the Majority: A Field-Experiment on the Brexit-Vote

By tjg | 10 November 2019

Research by the School’s Dr Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon and Markus Bindemann was cited in an article published on 30 October in Newtral, a … Read more

Firm Dynamics, Market Power and Productivity Puzzles

By tjg | 09 November 2019

Anthony Savagar, Lecturer in Macroeconomics (Principal Investigator) and Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Professor of Economics, were granted an ESRC Research Award in September 2018 for £200,000 to … Read more

Agricultural policy reform after Brexit

By tjg | 17 October 2019

What can we learn from Australia and New Zealand about agricultural policy reform after Brexit? This is an excerpt from an article by Professor Iain Fraser … Read more

Third Kent Workshop on Networks in Economics

By tjg | 21 September 2019

The third Kent Workshop on Networks in Economics took place in the Kennedy Building at the University of Kent on Friday 20 September 2019. The … Read more

Corruption among India’s factory inspectors makes labour regulation costly

By tjg | 27 August 2019

New research shows that ‘extortionary’ corruption on the part of factory inspectors in India is helping to drive up the cost of the country’s labour … Read more

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