A research paper by Miguel León-Ledesma (Professor of Economics) together with Dr Cristiano Cantore (Bank of England) and Dr Filippo Ferroni (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) … Read more
Category: Impact
Political dynasties and vote-buying
Dr Anirban Mitra, Lecturer in Economics, has recently been awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for his work on political dynasties and vote-buying. Anirban, together with his … Read more
Early marriage and the persistence of traditional gender norms
An article based on research by the School’s Dr Zaki Wahhaj, Reader in Economics and his co-author Professor M. Niaz Asadullah from the University of Malaya, … Read more
Road pricing key to solving UK traffic woes
Emeritus Professor Roger Vickerman explains why tackling congestion on UK road requires innovative new ideas, chiefly a form of road pricing that charges for use … Read more
Miguel appointed Fellow of CEPR
Congratulations to Professor Miguel León-Ledesma on his appointment as Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The prestigious CEPR is a research network of economists established … Read more
De-linking final Basic Payments from farming: hardly ‘public money for public goods’
An interesting piece by Professor Iain Fraser in the Food Research Collaboration blog Food Voices on 12 December 2018 on ‘De-linking final Basic Payments from Farming’: ‘In … Read more
Grant success for Amrit and Zaki
Congratulations to Amrit Amirapu and Zaki Wahhaj who have obtained a research grant from the UK Department of International Development’s EDI research programme to study … Read more
Grant success for Anthony!
Congratulations to Dr Anthony Savagar, Lecturer in Macroeconomics, on winning an ESRC Research Award for £200,000 for his project ‘Firm Dynamics, Market Power and Productivity Puzzles’. … Read more
Understanding the bias in technological change and its impact on the labour market
Dr Christian Siegel (School of Economics) and co-author Zsofia Barany (Sciences Po) have written a column for VoxEU, which subsequently led to the item being reproduced as a … Read more
Technology key to making food origin labels useful
Any move to force food producers to provide information on the origin of ingredients in products will require the use of technology to help consumers … Read more