Category: Research

The School’s Professor Chris Heady, an expert on the effect of taxes on growth, says last week’s Budget could have mixed implications for growth. He … Read more

School’s expert on transport economics Professor Roger Vickerman comments on road privatisation proposals. He said: ‘Prime Minister David Cameron has announced proposals to investigate ways … Read more

The School’s Professor Roger Vickerman this week added his expertise on high-speed rail to a panel of academics taking part in a seminar on the … Read more

Thursday 6 October 2011 The first meeting of the Kent Invest Society this year will be held on Thursday 6 October at 6pm in RLT1 … Read more

Professor Jagjit Chadha co-hosted the Second Modern Macroeconomic Policy-making Conference on 1 and 2 September at Clare College, Cambridge. The two-day conference was an opportunity … Read more

A workshop on Professor Tony Thirlwall’s work on the balance of payments and growth is to be held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal on … Read more

A landmark book on the role economics can play in developing nations has been revised by the School’s Professor Tony Thirlwall – forty years after … Read more

Switching some of the tax burden from personal and corporate income towards housing and consumption could boost economic recovery and growth. That’s one of the … Read more

The School is offering up to seven postgraduate funding scholarships for 2011: two University PhD scholarships, and up to four PhD departmental research scholarships in … Read more

The School of Economics welcomes applications for two Lectureships in Economics . We are seeking colleagues who are capable of publishing research of international excellence … Read more