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
Category: Impact
What are the implications of China’s economic slowdown on post-Brexit Britain?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Corruption among India’s factory inspectors makes labour regulation costly
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
Irma awarded 18th Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Economic Research
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. … Read more