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Economics Events | Published on Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
Event location: Corpus Christi College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RH
Event date: Feb 15, 2024

Professor Bart Lambrecht (Judge Business School), Professor Debopam Bhattacharya (Faculty of Economics), Professor Matthew Elliott (Faculty of Economics) and Professor Meredith Crowley (Faculty of Economics) will all speak at the J M Keynes Fellowship Fund annual lecture. Please register your interest on the event page.

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 23 November, 2023

Here at the Faculty of Economics we're always looking at the latest cutting-edge economic research, particularly when it comes to the financial markets which may appear rational, but how about the traders in those markets - are they as Professo

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 1 February, 2023

Professor Meredith Crowley was interviewed on the BBC 2 TV programme Newsnight with her analysis of the state of the UK economy three years on from Brexit.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 6 December, 2022

The traditional site of Jesus College, which was established in 1496, saw a much younger anniversary than many it has seen, with the tenth birthday of the Keynes Fund this autumn.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 13 July, 2022

The e-book, “The Economics of Brexit: What Have We Learned?”, which Prof. Meredith Crowley provided a chapter for, has been quoted in a New York Times article about Boris Johnson's prime ministerial legacy.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 30 November, 2021

The UK has experienced a huge change in trade policy. Having left the EU, it is in the process of devising its own trade policy, one that will shape economic and welfare outcomes in all corners of the United Kingdom for generations.

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 17 June, 2021

A world-wide pandemic could have started at any point in the past century since Spanish Flu circled the globe. However, as Dr Toxvaerd explains; “To a certain extent the world ‘got lucky’, and the world was almost lulled into a false sense of security; it was thought we could contain a virus as well as we did SARS. This turned out to be wrong.”

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 4 March, 2021

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper "Covid-19 Fiscal Support and its Effectiveness" (joint with Alexander Chudik and Mehdi Raissi) was quoted by Martin Sandbu in his Financial Times column.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 1 February, 2021

Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed for BBC1's Countryfile, where she talked about how future trade deals could affect the UK, especially UK farming and food prices.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 26 January, 2021

The report is part of the Government Office for Science Areas of Research Interest fellowships.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 15 December, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed about Brexit and it's effect on the UK economy, by the daily French newspaper La Croix. Dr Crowley answered questions on the proposed post-Brexit trade deals that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is negotiating with countries such as Japan, China and the US.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 12 November, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley was quoted in the New Statesman article "The Freeport Con", which looks at the setting up of freeports as a post-Brexit trade policy. The UK government is championing these free economic zones, but experts are not convinced they will work.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 10 November, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley gave a pre-recorded interview to Victoria Craig for the Marketplace Morning Report podcast. In the interview, Dr. Crowley talks about what a Joe Biden administration means for future UK-US trade relations and for Brexit.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 16 October, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley will be presenting new research on trade agreements at the World Bank's "The Economics of Deep Trade Agreements Seminar Series". Dr.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 23 July, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley will be a panellist on the live webinar "The European Parliament and Future EU-UK Trade Relations", organised by the European Parliament Liaison Office in the United Kingdom.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 22 June, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley gave testimony to the House of Commons International Trade Committee, via Zoom, on the 17th June 2020. You can watch a video of the meeting on the parliamentlive.tv website.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 18 June, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley is one of the authors of a new report called "The Brexit Negotiations: A Stocktake", published by academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 2 June, 2020

UK in a Changing Europe have published a blog by Dr.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 13 May, 2020
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 5 May, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley will join Ed Balls, Nick Macpherson, and George Osbourne to discuss Covid-19 and the next round of the UK-US Free Trade Agreement at a webinar organised by The Strand Group.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 6 March, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley and Raoul Ruparel (former special advisor to Theresa May) took part in a Brexit Breakdown podcast, for The UK in a Changing Europe.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 31 January, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed by BBC World Service's World Update programme about the prospect for the UK and EU negotiating a trade deal modelled on the EU's deal with Canada.

Keywords: EUBrexitTradeUK
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 27 January, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed by BBC Radio Scotland about the UK's proposed digital sales tax and whether it will lead to a trade war with the US. You can listen to the programme on the BBC website (starts at 1h 06m).

Keywords: TaxUSTradeUK
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 27 January, 2020

Professor David Newbery was the lead author on the Ofgem commissioned report "The Value of International Electricity Trading".

Keywords: EnergyEUTradeUK
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 23 January, 2020

Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, discussing the US-UK spat over a proposed digital services tax on. You can listen to the programme on the BBC website (starts at 1h 25m).

Keywords: TaxUSTradeUK
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 16 December, 2019

Dr. Meredith Crowley was quoted in the New York Times article "Brexit's Advance Opens a New Trade Era" about the implications of the General Election result and the now inevitable Brexit for the system of global trade.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 28 October, 2019

Dr. Meredith Crowley is a member of the US-China Trade Policy Working Group.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Sunday, 27 October, 2019

Dr Meredith Crowley was quoted in The New York Times article "Getting Brexit Deal Over Finish Line Would Only Begin a Torturous New Race", which predicts that should Parliament pass the current Brexit deal, then this would only be the star

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 17 October, 2019
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 1 October, 2019

Dr. Meredith Crowley was quoted in The New York Times article "Global Trade is Deteriorating Fast and Sapping the World's Economy", regarding the negative impact that Brexit is having on the growth of global trade.