Category: Research

‘You’ve infected a computer, locked it down and demanded a ransom. Congratulations, you’re a cybercriminal. The bad news is that you’re doing a terrible job … Read more

Falling fertility rates have often been linked to rising female wages. However, over the last 40 years the US total fertility rate has been rather … Read more

The 10th edition of Professor Tony Thirlwall’s textbook, Economics of Development: Theory and Empirics, now co-authored with Dr Penélope Pacheco-López, is published this month by Palgrave-Macmillan … Read more

by Masaru Inaba and Keisuke Otsu, discussion paper KDPE 1705, March 2017. Non-technical summary The objective of this paper is to construct a dataset of Japanese … Read more

A report by the School’s Dr Zaki Wahhaj and Dr M Niaz Asadullah from the University of Malaya has been published in The Conversation on Bangladesh’s new child … Read more

by Kevin S. Nell and A. P. Thirlwall, discussion paper KDPE 1703, March 2017. Non-technical summary ‘New’ (endogenous) growth theory seeks to explain growth rate differences between countries … Read more

“If you had been a canny investor back in 2008, you could have done a lot worse than make a substantial bet on upmarket ice … Read more

In macroeconomics, we typically model production by specifying a ‘production function,’ which tells us how much output is produced with given quantities of the ‘factors … Read more

by Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Wei Jiang and James Malley, discussion paper KDPE 1704, January 2017. Non-technical summary The evolution of inequality has been well documented in the data. … Read more

by Adelina Gschwandtner and Michael Burton, KDPE 1702, January 2017. Non-technical summary The main objective of the present project is to analyse and understand what … Read more