Category: Research

by Dr Christian Crentsil, Dr Adelina Gschwandtner and Dr Zaki Wahhaj, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1814, December 2018. Non-technical summary: Small-scale farmers in developing countries … Read more

by Dr Katsuyuki Shibayama, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1813, October 2018. Non-technical summary: After the Great Recession around 2007-8, the U.K. has experienced the … Read more

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

by Dr Anthony Savagar, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1812, October 2018. Non-technical summary: A standard way to measure productivity is to take output growth … Read more

by Jan-Philipp Dueber, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1811, August 2018. Non-technical summary: Time-varying volatility plays a crucial role in understanding business cycles in emerging … Read more

The second Kent Workshop on Networks in Economics was held at the University of Kent on Friday 12 October 2018. This half-day workshop brought together … Read more

by Amrit Amirapu, University of Kent; M Niaz Asadullah, University of Malaya; and Zaki Wahhaj, University of Kent. Discussion paper KDPE 1810, September 2018. Non-technical summary: Large-scale … Read more

The School of Economics has a vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher to work on an ESRC-funded project `Firm Dynamics, Market Power and Productivity’. The position … Read more

The 22nd volume in the Great Thinkers in Economics series, edited by Professor Tony Thirlwall, has been published on the great Austrian economist, Friedrich von … Read more

Earlier this year, Dr Anirban Mitra was awarded (along with six other colleagues from the School) a sum of £1000 (a combination of the Dean of … Read more