Donation to The Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) will fuel vital research into European energy future
The Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), a joint research centre based in Cambridge Judge Business School and the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, recently received the donation from the Enel Foundation to support a two-year research project on Zero Subsidy Scenarios and International Natural Gas Markets.
Published on - Monday 2nd December 2013
Prof. Sanjeev Goyal to give Keynote Talk at the Southern California Symposium
Sanjeev Goyal is to give the Keynote Talk at the 2013 Southern California Symposium at UCLA
Read more at the SoCal NEGT Symposium website
Published on - Tuesday 5th November 2013
Ha-Joon Chang interviewed by the Financial Times
Over fish curry in Cambridge, the Korean economist and bestselling author says the time is right to embrace moral dilemmas as well as mathematical models
Published on - Sunday 1st December 2013
Prof. Sanjeev Goyal to give 2013 Annual Lecture at the European Academy of Sociology in Paris.
Sanjeev Goyal to give 2013 Annual Lecture at the European Academy of Sociology in Paris.
Read more at the EAS - Annual Lectures website
Published on - Thursday 24th October 2013
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Dr. Jane Cooley-Fruehwirth awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize
Dr Jane Cooley-Fruehwirth has been awarded one of the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes by the Leverhulme Trust Board.
Jane's research aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the determinants of social, economic and racial inequality and to inform policies to improve outcomes for the traditionally disadvantaged. A central theme is evaluating how peers affect student outcomes and how alternative peer groupings contribute to achievement gaps.
The Leverhulme Prize was awarded to support continuing research into the role of peers in shaping children's outcomes. One strand of this work considers how peer spillovers vary as students age. A second strand considers the role of parents, both in creating classroom spillovers and in shaping how students respond to their peers.
Published on - Wednesday 20th November 2013
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The Washington Post explains the 'Palma ratio', a new way of measuring income inequality.
The Washington Post explains why many development experts have come to prefer something now called the Palma ratio as a measurement of inequality. The ratio is named after José Gabriel Palma.
Published on - Monday 21st October 2013
Dr. Vasco Carvalho Awarded ERC Grant for MACRONETS Research
Dr Vasco Carvalho, a Cambridge-INET Research-Theme Co-ordinator, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his research 'Production networks in Macroeconomics (MACRONETS)'.
The organization of production in modern economies is organized around supply chains or production networks. Recent work in economics stresses that the structure of these production networks is key in determining whether and how microeconomic shocks – affecting only a particular firm or technology – can propagate throughout the economy and shape aggregate outcomes.
The ERC funded project MACRONETS, aims to further our understanding of these production networks and their impact on the macroeconomy. First, it aims to provide novel evidence that the origins of aggregate fluctuations can be traced back to individual technologies interconnected by input-supply relations. Second, it aims to shed light on the process of formation of these production networks over time.
Published on - Thursday 24th October 2013
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Cambridge-INET Launches New Video Series
The Cambridge-INET Conversations in Economics interview series aims to provide the public with access to new research on the forefront of economics. Watch the first two interviews now.
Published on - Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie awarded British Academy/Wolfson Research Professorship
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie has been awarded a three-year British Academy/Wolfson Research Professorship to study human capital and historical economic growth.
Published on - Wednesday 5th June 2013
Ha-Joon Chang included in a poll of 'World Thinkers'
Ha-Joon Chang has been included in the 65-person long list of the 'World Thinkers' poll of the Prospect magazine
Published on - Tuesday 26th March 2013
Ha-Joon Chang voted the third most influential economist in the Prospect World Thinkers 2013 poll
Ha-Joon Chang has been voted the third most influential economist in the Prospect World Thinkers 2013 poll (overall rank 18), after Paul Krugman (overall rank 5) and Amartya Sen (overall rank 7) and with Daniel Kahneman coming in with an overall rank of 10.
Published on - Sunday 24th March 2013
Professor Hashem Pesaran is pleased to announce the newly founded International Association for Applied Econometrics.
The aim of the Association is to advance the education of the public in the subject of econometrics and its applications to a variety of fields in economics, in particular, but not exclusively, by advancing and supporting research in that field, and disseminating the results of such useful research to the public. The Association is sponsored by Journal of Applied Econometrics and its publisher Wiley
Published on - Friday 17th May 2013
Andrew Harvey New Book Published in April
Andrew Harvey has a new book called, Dynamic Models for Volatility and Heavy Tails, published in April 2013.
Published on - Sunday 10th February 2013
Petra Geraats Profiled for Bloomberg News and Businessweek
Petra Geraats was recently profiled by Bloomberg News as part of a series on female economists shaping policy debates
Published on - Saturday 13th April 2013
Oliver Linton - Future of Computer based trading in financial markets report
Oliver Linton co-author of report on the Future of Computer based trading in financial markets published.
Published on - Tuesday 9th April 2013
Obituary of Frank Hahn
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta's obituary of Frank Hahn appeared in the April 2013 issue of the RES Newsletter
Published on - Tuesday 7th May 2013
Frank Hahn (1925-2013)
It is with great sadness that the Faculty report the death of Frank Hahn.
Published on - Sunday 10th February 2013
Sheilagh Ogilvie's book honoured at the Sorbonne
The Sorbonne will hold two days of events on Sheilagh Ogilvie’s book, Institutions and European Trade, an evening lecture on 24 January and a one-day conference on 25 January 2013 at which international scholars will discuss her work on institutions and exchange
Published on - Tuesday 22nd January 2013