Professor Hamid Sabourian gave the sixth Hahn Lecture in Siena. The lecture “Following the Crowd: Rational Herding and Social Learning in an Uncertain World”.
See the Dipartimento di Economia Politica e statistica, at the University of Siena event page for more details
During the COVID-19 pandemic, national health authorities in many countries recommended that citizens wear masks and practice social distancing to stop the spread of the disease. But at the same time, a number of political leaders downplayed or contradicted such advice.
The Faculty's Sir Partha Dasgupta explains why climate change is really a subset of the broader issue of how humans are interacting with natural resources, in an interview in the Conversable Economist. Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta from the Faculty of Economics and Professor Sir Tim Besley from the LSE discuss Biodiversity and the implications for economic thought and policy.
Research into forecasting conflict by Professor Christopher Rauh has been featured in the weekend edition of the National News. Conflict Forecast, a project that uses artificial intelligence to predict where outbreaks of violence will occur in the world, noticed a surge in discussion of military activity in Russian media in April.
A study by the Faculty's Professor Peter Bossaerts has been featured in the Economist. The magazine reports on the study he co-authored, indicating that study drugs make healthy people worse at problem-solving, not better. The drugs are also popular with devotees of “nootropics”—chemicals that supposedly boost brainpower.
Professor Edoardo Gallo has been quoted in an article on the existential risk posed by AI in an article in El Pais.
An analysis of the UK cost of living crisis discussed by Associate Professor Flavio Toxvaerd from the Faculty of Economics on Radio Ciudad. He examined how the Russian invasion of Ukraine had caused a spike in fuel prices and energy costs, just at the point when Brexit had caused supply chain problems for the UK which is very reliant on food supplies from Europe, on Radio Ciudad, one of the leading talk radio stations in South America.
An article on Catz Economics Fellows has been published today as part of the College’s 550th anniversary celebrations.
The latest book from Dr Charles Read, an Affiliated Lecturer in our Faculty of Economics is ‘Calming the Storms: the Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises since 1825’.
Research by Lin Peng, a Visiting Professor and Director of Research in Faculty of Economics has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Professor Sriya Iyer from the Faculty of Economics, and Professor Chander Velu from the Department of Engineering have a letter published in The Economist magazine this week arguing that Economics is continuing to be a foundational discipline, but it has the potential to become as practical as engineering.
In 2021, Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta prepared a 610-page report for the British government about the financial value of nature. It's incredibly important, so the New York Times Opinion asked Alexander Skarsgård, a Swedish actor, to help simplify its concepts in this short film.
Charles Read, an affiliated lecturer for the Faculty, has an opinion piece in the Conversation regarding the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
Christopher Rauh's article into the threat automation poses to many workers has been published in VoxEU.
VoxEU is the Centre for Economic Policy Research online policy magazine.
A new study co-authored by Emeritus Professor Andrew Harvey produces good forecasts of epidemics before new cases or deaths peak.
Related link
Time Series Models Based on Growth Curves with Applications to Forecasting Coronavirus, COVID-19 Economic Research special feature.
The Faculty's Assistant Professor of Economics Alexander Rodnyansky is an economic adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. He has been interviewed by the Times, about life in Zelensky's Ukraine war bunker.
Christopher Rauh’s discussion paper published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research has been mentioned in an article by Reuters on the tough jobs market.
Charles Read,an affiliated lecturer for the economics faculty, has been quoted in an article about Liz Truss’ mini budget, saying he warned about the dangers of a policy that would quickly raise interest rates.
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.
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics Christopher Rauh's research has been featured in the Economist Magazine.
Prof. Vasco Carvalho has been featured in the magazine for the Stone Centre which advances research and teaching to provide a clear understanding of the causes of wealth inequality, and its economic and political consequences.
Congratulations to Andrew Harvey (Corpus Christi College), an Emeritus Professor of Econometrics in the Faculty of Economics. His paper on Covid modelling has been honoured as Highly Commended in the category “Academic research with real-world impact” by the Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards. It provided near term forecasts of the trajectory of the pandemic.
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