Dr Kamiar Mohaddes's work on climate mitigation is quoted in the Boston Globe, as climate experts warn that failure to address the climate crisis will come at an even higher price.

Kamiar said: "It would make more fiscal sense to invest more money in climate mitigation today in order to prevent more costly climate impacts in the future."

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has commented on Sky News about a study which shows COVID certification led more people to get vaccinated.

He said the study "confirms that people respond to incentives, in this case incentives to get vaccinated, and requiring vaccine certification makes life for the unvaccinated more cumbersome".

Ines Lee and Eileen Tipoe have won the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize with their proposal for a book about the future of higher education, Failing the Class.

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti gave a talk at CEPR-Research and Policy Network on European Economic Architecture Workshop, on Wednesday 1st December 3.00-5.00pm, in Luxembourg.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's joint paper on the long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change has been quoted in a letter to the Chair of the US Federal Reserve.

The letter, from 25 members of Congress extensively referenced the findings of the paper, which will be published in the December 2021 volume of Energy Economics journal. Read the full paper and letter below.

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will give an online seminar, as part of the Office of the Chief Economist - Middle East & North Africa's Chief Economist Seminar series, on Thursday 18th November 10.00-11.00am.

Watch videos from the Modelling Behaviour to Inform Policy for Pandemics event, that Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and Newton Gateway to Mathematics organised.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes has written a joint article for The Conversation, that says climate change will shrink the economies of rich, poor, hot and cold countries alike.

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta was interviewed by Leslie Hook as part of the Financial Times's ‘Economists Exchange’ series.

The Telegraph covers research in the Faculty showing people spent less time on employment-related activities, while spending more time on housework.

Those who have not returned to the office spend less time on employment-related activities and more on housework, research by Ines Lee reveals.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd chaired The Great Vaccine Rollout: Covid-19, Cooperation & Global Public Goods webinar, organised by The Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper on Long-Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change, has been quoted in the Washington Post.

The paper (joint with Matthew Kahn, Ryan Ng, M. Hashem Pesaran, Mehdi Raissi and Jui-Chung Yang) shows that the negative long-run growth effects of climate change are universal, and has just been accepted for publication in the Energy Economics journal.

Professor Tiago Cavalcanti was a plenary speaker for the IV Workshop of the Spanish Macroeconomics Network, in Alicante (Spain).

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has written an introduction for a special edition of National Institute Economic Review, dedicated to Economic Contributions to Infection Control.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper on climate change and sovereign credit ratings, has been quoted in an article for Bloomberg News.

Dr. Sriya Iyer has given expert advice to a new Pew Research Center report saying all religious groups in India show major declines in fertility rates, limiting change in the country’s religious composition over time.

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta is quoted regarding his review into the “economics of biodiversity”.

Sir Dasgupta in February published a landmark review into the “economics of biodiversity” – how the world can find value in nature instead of profiting from its destruction.

In this Economics Observatory article, Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd explains that international cooperation of vaccine rollout is crucial, and asks how well are we doing?

Early procurement and stockpiling of doses by wealthier countries has led to inequality in the vaccine rollout. International coordination and initiatives such as COVAX may offer a path to close the gap.

Publishers have long claimed that gold open access is the only sustainable route for research publishing. The newly announced UKRI Open Access Policy places green and gold open access routes on equal footing, rightly rejecting publisher claims that gold is the only sustainable path for open access.

Dr. Edoardo Gallo was interviewed by Weekendavisen to discuss racism in football and his research on implicit discrimination. The article looks at the idea that in Italy, once spectators were no longer able to go to football matches because of the COVID-19 pandemic, black players suddenly started playing better.

The Wall Street Journal has picked up on the latest report from the Pew Research Center, which features expert advice from Dr. Sriya Iyer. She looks at how religious pluralism is faring in India, a religiously diverse county, where many religions practice freely.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper on climate change and sovereign credit ratings, has been quoted in the Financial Times. The article, by Moritz Kraemer, states that as the challenges of climate change and ageing mount, investors need benchmarks for risks in decades to come.

The Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology-enabled Learning Prize has awarded a high commendation to Dr. Toke Aidt, Mr. Oleg Kitov and Dr. Vasileios Kotsidis for mastery-oriented active learning methods to complement traditional lectures.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd spoke to the BBC World Service about vaccine apathy and the hesitation amongst some members of the public to get vaccinated. Dr. Toxvaerd says that "vaccine hesitancy has always existed, but it has never really come to the fore as much as it has been in recent times" - (the external article is in French).

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has contributed to a piece on vaccines for the first edition of the Economics Observatory's ECO Magazine. In the article Dr. Toxvaerd and Tony Yates look at how vaccine nationalism is driving countries to compete for doses. Where as competition is often thought of as a good thing, could this race to get vaccines first actually be self-defeating.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for National Danish Radio’s Orientation programme about the stigma of naming COVID-19 variants after specific countries. The World Health Organization has said it is not acceptable to refer to corona variants as "The Indian Variant", because it stigmatises individual countries. Dr.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for National Danish Radio’s Orientation programme about the impending easing of restrictions in the U.K. Even before the current restrictions have been lifted, there is already fear of a third wave in the UK.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed by The Telegraph about public confidence in the vaccine roll out and the use of PCR test kits. The article suggests that people are less inclined than a month ago to take up offer of a COVID-19 test. The rapid test kits are being promoted by the Government as a primary source to control the spread of the mutated virus.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has written a new article for the Economics Observatory that looks at whether the patents on Covid-19 vaccines should be waived to allow low-income countries to produce their own doses. There has been much debate about this and if such a course of action is likely to have any effect.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper on climate change and sovereign credit ratings, has been quoted in the South China Morning Post. The article, by Moritz Kraemer, states that if China's current trajectory of emissions growth continues, its credit rating could drop six notches and face billions more in debt service.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and Tony Yates (independent economist), have written a new article for the Economics Observatory that discusses ‘vaccine nationalism’. This blog looks at how some governments faced with the severe health and economic damage caused by Covid-19, have gone for an 'our citizens first' approach to securing and rolling out the vaccines.

Cambridge-INET will be running an online mini-conference for early years researchers in networks on 1st - 2nd June 2021. The deadline for paper submissions has been extended until 27th April 2021. Please see the Call for Papers page for details.

Dr. Christopher Rauh has published an article for VOXeu that looks at how women have suffered far more from social distancing measures than men in terms of their mental health.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes has published an article for the Mastering Entrepreneurship Blog, which is run by the Judge Business School. In the article Dr Mohaddes discusses different types of uncertainty businesses face and how climate change will be the next global extreme uncertainty entrepreneurs and businesses around the world will have to face.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper on climate change and sovereign credit ratings, has been covered by New York Times in the article "How Debt and Climate Change Pose ‘Systemic Risk’ to World Economy".

La Vanguardia newspaper has published an article that reports on Dr. Christopher Rauh's new model for forecasting conflict.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in an article for NBC News, where he spoke about the effect possible trade restrictions could have on international distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and on new variants.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper "Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness", has been quoted in various news outlets. Including; Reuters, Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph The Financial Times, Forbes, The Hill, Rzeczpospolita and Politico.

Dr. Sriya Iyer was interviewed for The Review of Religions magazine, where they asked her about the economics of religion, why she thinks religion matters to economics, and if religion and happiness are correlated. The Review of Religions is one of the longest running magazines in comparative religions, and has been in print since 1902.

As part of International Women's Day, Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou will be a guest speaker at the University College Dublin (UCD) webinar, "Bridging the gender gap: Research and responses to COVID-19". The online event will take place on Monday 8th March 2021 at 11.00am.

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. Sandbu notes that Dr Mohaddes's paper finds that governments’ unprecedented fiscal support during the pandemic has been money well spent and has added significantly to economic growth.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for BBC News Scotland, where he talked about the implications of easing the current lockdown restrictions and the differences in approach between the UK Government and Scottish Parliament, for the easing the restrictions.

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper showing how illegal drugs foster public corruption (using data on crack cocaine and public corruption from U.S. states) will be covered in tomorrow's issue of Iran's major weekly magazine, Tejarat-e-Farda.

Cambridge University News has detailed feature on the independent review on the economics of biodiversity, produced by Emeritus Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta from the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

Read the full article on the University of Cambridge News Website.

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. If you missed the broadcast on Sunday, you can watch Dr Crowley's interview again on the bbc iplayer.

Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti is to speak at a policy panel on the 2020 Geneva report. The panel will discuss the contribution of the mix policy mix to the stabilisation of tail events and disruptive crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd gave a talk about his research into "Social Distancing: Two Extensions of the Standard Model" as part of the Adam Smith's Panmure House research seminar series. You can watch the video of his lecture below or on the Panmure House website.