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
Category: Research
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. Irma … Read more
Workshop on Microeconomic Approaches to Development Economics
The School of Economics held its second workshop on Microeconomic Approaches to Development Economics on 24-25 June 2019. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Royal … Read more
Multi-million pound bee project gets green light from EU
A NEW project that aims to reverse the declines of wild pollinators is set to receive a multi-million pound investment from the EU’s North Sea Region Interreg … Read more
Quantifying the Economic and Social Impacts of High-Speed Rail: Some Evidence from Europe and the People’s Republic of China
A paper by Chia-Lin Chen (University of Liverpool, London) and Roger Vickerman (University of Kent) has been published in the Asian Development Bank Institute working paper series. “High-speed rail … Read more
Alex Klein’s research cited in The Wall Street Journal
Research by the School’s Dr Alex Klein was cited in an article published in the The Wall Street Journal on 9 June. The article entitled ‘The South’s Economy … Read more
Macroeconomic simulation comparison with a multivariate extension of the Markov Information Criterion
by Sylvain Barde, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1908, June 2019. Non-technical summary: The paper develops and tests a multivariate extension of the Markov Information Criterion (MIC) … Read more
Ethnic Identities, Public Spending and Political Regimes
by Sugata Ghosh, Brunel University and Anirban Mitra, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1907, June 2019. Non-technical summary: Discrimination against minorities – ethnic, religious, linguistic, etc. – is … Read more
The Effect of 9/11 on Immigrants’ Ethnic Identity and Employment: Evidence from Germany
by Isaure Delaporte, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1906, June 2019. Non-technical summary: A growing concern in Western countries is the fact that immigrants might … Read more
Social Effects of the Vote of the Majority: Field-Experiment on the Brexit-Vote
by Fernanda L. Lopez de Leon, School of Economics and Markus Bindemann, School of Psychology, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1905, April 2019. Non-technical summary: The … Read more