Professor Iain Fraser is the lead editor for a new journal – Q Open launched this summer by Oxford University Press and supported by the … Read more
Research focusing on India, post coronavirus, conducted by Amrit Amirapu and Irma Clots-Figueras has been awarded grant.
Many of our researchers at the School of Economics have been working to create solutions to the economic fallout caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
Kent PhD student Gustavo Mellior wins prestigious MMF prize.
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
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
Economics at Kent achieves top results in the National Student Survey 2020
More than 94% of our students* who completed the survey expressed their overall satisfaction with the quality of their course; this places Kent firmly in … Read more
The award-winning Kent Economics Society scoops another award.
The Outstanding Contribution to Academic Communities goes to the Kent Economics Society at this year’s Kent student awards. The University of Kent and Kent Union … 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
For a Democratic Monitoring of Policing: In memory of George Floyd.
Dr Guy Tchuente, responds to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis this month, as an economist, as a black man, and father of a black boy. … Read more