Our former colleague Professor Jagjit Chadha, expert on financial markets and monetary policy, now director of NIESR, returned to our economics community to give a … Read more
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Quantitative Easing or Quantitative Tightening? Mince Pies or Christmas Pudding?
‘Kent Invest have had a busy first term with the weekly meetings and socials. Most recently, we had a ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ social in … Read more
Why women are no better off having a baby now than in the 70s
Equal pay day – ‘the day in the year where women effectively stop earning relative to men because of the gender pay gap’ – is set for Sunday … Read more
Professor Jagjit Chadha: The Money Minders
Join Jagjit Chadha, formerly Professor of Economics here at Kent, now Director of NIESR, and author of ‘The Money Minders: the Parables, trade-offs, and Lags … Read more
Dragons Den: Training to tender for a Research Project with the Green Infrastructure Framework
This interdisciplinary CEAS and KISS PhD training Workshop examined what it actually means to be a consultant based on a real-life call for tender – … Read more
October News RoundUp
Who ever said Economics wasn’t political?! Times are turbulent in this month’s round up, from mini-budgets to proposed tax-cuts, we can’t keep up! We also … Read more
Thinking about economics in everyday situations; Introducing Jan-Philipp Dueber
‘Hi all, I’m Philipp, and I’m the Director of Studies Stage 1. Basically that means that I’m around to help you with any problems you … Read more
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? Do employers discriminate on the basis of race?
This Black History Month we have been looking at economics research around black outcomes, opportunity and income. U.S. citizen, Dr Amrit Amirapu discusses a paper … Read more
Professor Miltos Makris, 1970- 2022
Professor Makris was struggling with an aggressive brain tumour and had been undergoing several surgeries, and innovative treatment thanks to the support of many who … Read more
Breaking the bank: why removing interest on reserves would ‘tie one hand behind the back of the Bank of England’
As the Chancellor finds himself under pressure because of his £43bn tax-cutting programme, it is understood that the Treasury is weighing up a number of … Read more