New research carried out by Professor Miltos Makris with Professor Alessandro Pavan Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) claims that on average workers become more productive over … Read more
Category: Micro
Should older workers pay higher taxes than younger ones?
In the article “Taxation under Learning-by-doing,” recently published in the Journal of Political Economy, Professors Makris (University of Kent, UK) and Pavan (Northwestern University, USA) argue … Read more
Makris and Toxvaerd publish their working paper ‘Great Expectations: Social Distancing in Anticipation of Pharmaceutical Innovations’
Miltos Makris has published his working paper Great Expectations: Social Distancing in Anticipation of Pharmaceutical Innovations, research in collaboration with Cambridge University’s Flavio Toxvaerd. “It sheds … Read more
“Biased Technological Change and Employment Reallocation” paper accepted by Labour Economics journal.
Christian Siegel’s paper “Biased Technological Change and Employment Reallocation” (with Zsofia Barany) has been accepted by Labour Economics, Special Issue on Technology and the Labour … Read more
Miltos Makris’ co-authored paper ‘Residence and source-based capital taxation in open economies with infinitely-lived consumers’ has been accepted in the Journal of International Economics
What is the effect of capital market integration on capital taxes when governments can tax according to the residence as well as the source principle? … Read more
Professor Iain Fraser is editor of new environmental journal, Q Open.
Professor Iain Fraser is the lead editor for a new journal – Q Open launched this summer by Oxford University Press and supported by the … Read more
Research focusing on India, post coronavirus, conducted by Amrit Amirapu and Irma Clots-Figueras has been awarded grant.
Many of our researchers at the School of Economics have been working to create solutions to the economic fallout caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
An Economic Analysis of Consumer Attitudes Towards Food Produced Using Prohibited Production Methods: Do Consumers Really Care?
Discussion paper KDPE 2004 by Kelvin Balcombe (University of Reading), Dylan Bradley (Agra CEAS Consulting) and Iain Fraser (University of Kent), June 2020. Abstract We … Read more
Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities
New discussion paper Discussion paper KDPE 2003 by Anirban Mitra (University of Kent) and Sarmistha Pal (University of Surrey), April 2020. Non-technical summary An important … Read more
What does a world food shortage mean?
In response to the news of an impending world food shortage, Dr Amrit Amirapu, an economics expert at Kent, explained what this meant. He said: … Read more