Some more great news for the School! Kent PhD student, Gustavo Mellior, has been awarded (jointly with another candidate) the first Peter Sinclair Prize … Read more
Category: Research
Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma takes over as Head of School.
We are really excited to welcome Professor Miguel Leon Ledesma to his new role here at the School of Economics. He joined Kent in 1999 … Read more
Grant success; Mathan Satchi and Miguel Leon-Ledesma awarded Leverhulme Trust Grant.
The £98,000 grant has been awarded to study the dynamics of the labour share of income. Mathan Satchi, Lecturer in Economics and Miguel León-Ledesma, Professor … 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
The missing link: monetary policy and the labor share
Paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the European Economic Association, co-authored by the School’s Professor Miguel Leon Ledesma. Professor Miguel León-Ledesma along with … 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
Efforts to dramatically change labour laws in India may not succeed in reducing mass unemployment caused by coronavirus measures.
Parsing the labour law debate: what does the evidence say? Op-ed By Amrit Amirapu and Vidhya Soundararajan printed originally in The Hindustan Times. In the … Read more
GCRF award for Development Economics Research Group
The Development Economics Research Group has received an award of £9,500 from the University’s GCRF Partnership Development Fund. Five members of the Development Economics Research … Read more
Dr Christian Siegel, along with Dr Catherine Robinson from KBS, receive funding from the ONS
Christian Siegel and Catherine Robinson have recently been awarded research funding by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for a project entitled, “The role of … Read more
‘Was Domar Right? Serfdom and Factor Endowments in Bohemia’ accepted for the Econometric Society’s World Congress 2020.
Dr Alex Klein’s paper exploring causes of labour coercion in 18th century Bohemia, has been accepted for presentation at the Econometric Society’s World Congress 2020 … Read more