Cambridge Alumnus Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

Professor Angus Deaton awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Economics.

Published on - Monday 12th October 2015

Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes interviewed on CCTV America

The research of Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes, into the macroeconomic effects of El Niño has been given coverage on both CCTV America news channel and in The Economist.

Published on - Tuesday 25th August 2015

Bill and Weslie Janeway to donate $27 million to the Faculty of Economics and to Pembroke College.

Bill and Weslie Janeway have agreed to donate $27 million to the Faculty of Economics and to Pembroke College. The proposal is to establish the Janeway Professorship of Financial Economics within the Faculty, a linked Fellowship at Pembroke College, and establish the Janeway Fund for Economics

Published on - Tuesday 30th June 2015

Prof. Corsetti to speak at JELE Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will be a keynote speaker at the 18th Central Bank Macroeconomic Modelling Workshop 7-8 Dec 2015. The events will be held in Wellington, New Zealand.

Published on - Tuesday 27th October 2015

Prof. Sir Partha Dasgupta Awarded the 2015 Blue Planet Prize

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta has been awarded the 2015 Blue Planet Prize for his pioneering work on Welfare Economics and Environmental Economics. The commemorative lectures by the winners will be held at the United Nations University (Shibuya Ward, Tokyo) on October 15 (Thursday).

Published on - Monday 22nd June 2015

Dr. Rohit Lamba - India, Leverage and Capital Adequacy Article

Dr Rohit Lamba has written a tribute to Angus Deaton, "Ideas Over Methods". The article has been published in the Indian Express.

Published on - Monday 19th October 2015

Economic Theory

Data

Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti presented the Schumpeter Lecture

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti presented the Schumpeter Lecture on 'The Mystery of the Printing Press: Monetary Policy and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises', on 24th August 2015, at the 30th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, in Mannheim.

To view the schedule for the meeting please click here

Published on - Tuesday 8th September 2015

Monetary Policy

Debt

Debt Crises

Prof. Corsetti to speak at EABCN Discussion Meeting

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will be speaking at the EABCN Discussion Meeting "Rethinking the Link Between Exchange Rates and Inflation: Misperceptions and New Approaches". The event will be held on Monday, 28 September 2015 at the Band of England, London.

Published on - Friday 28th August 2015

Faculty members awarded two European Grants within the EU Horizon 2020 Framework.

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti and Professor Sanjeev Goyal have both been awarded European Grants within the EU Horizon 2020 Framework.

Published on - Monday 18th May 2015

Anil Ari Awarded the Klaus Liebscher Award by the Central Bank of Austria

Postgraduate Student Anil Ari Awarded the Klaus Liebscher Award by the Central Bank of Austria, for his paper “Sovereign Risk and Bank Risk Taking”.

Published on - Wednesday 17th June 2015

Prof. Sanjeev Goyal to give talk at the 2015 World Congress of the Econometric Society

Professor Sanjeev Goyal to give an invited talk on `Networks and Markets’, at the 2015 World Congress of the Econometric Society in Montreal.

Published on - Friday 7th August 2015

Christopher Rauh Receives Young Researchers Award

The Cambridge-INET is very pleased to announce that our Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Christopher Rauh received a young researchers award at ECINEQ conference in July.

Read more about the prize here

Published on - Monday 27th July 2015

Prof. Sanjeev Goyal made Fellow of the British Academy

The Faculty is very pleased to announce that Professor Sanjeev Goyal has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy

Read more about the British Academy Fellows 2015 here

Published on - Wednesday 22nd July 2015

Watch Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta's Lecture Videos for Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta and Professor Eric Maskin both gaves lectures as parth of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, "Reasoning via Formal Models in Economics" Lecture series. You can watch the videos of their lectures here.

Published on - Friday 22nd May 2015

The Marshall Lecture 2014-15 Videos Now Available

Professor Raj Chetty of Harvard University gave the 2014-2015 Marshall Lecture. The title was Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Evidence and Policy Lessons. Videos now available.

Published on - Monday 30th March 2015

Three New University Lecturers Appointed

The Faculty is delighted to welcome three new colleagues who have been appointed to University Lectureships and will be joining us in Autumn 2015.

Published on - Wednesday 1st April 2015

Prof. Corsetti to speak at XXVIII Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will be speaking at the XXVIII Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar. This will be held at Economics Foundation, University of Rome Tor Vergata on June 23rd - 24th 2016.

Published on - Saturday 23rd May 2015

Professor Oliver Linton Receives Humboldt Research Award 2015

Professor Oliver Linton, Cambridge University is the 2015 laureate of a Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The prize is awarded to outstanding scientists who have been distinguished by the substantial impact they have achieved in their areas of expertise.

Read More at the Humboldt University site

Published on - Thursday 9th April 2015

Dr. Edoardo Gallo's research on "The effects of reputational and social knowledge on cooperation" featured in Cambridge Research News.

Dr. Edoardo Gallo's online experiment reveals that the overall level of cooperation in a group almost doubles when the previous actions of all its members are rendered transparent.

Published on - Monday 9th March 2015

Dr. Rohit Lamba - India, Leverage and Capital Adequacy Article

Dr Rohit Lamba & Arvind Subramanian have had an article on "Why India should focus on Leverage and not just Capital Adequacy" published in India's Business Standard.

Published on - Friday 8th May 2015

India

Banking

Stability

Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti "Metaphors and Models of the Eurozone Crisis"

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will be giving the Edgeworth Lecture on "Metaphors and Models of the Eurozone Crisis", at the 29th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference, on May 8th 2015.

Conference link: http://www.iea.ie/category/annual-conference/

Published on - Friday 8th May 2015

Models

Eurozone

EU

Prof. Corsetti to speak at Annual Irish Economic Association Conference

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will be speaking at the 29th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference. The event will be held at the Institute of Banking, IFSC, 1 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1 on Thursday May 7th and Friday May 8th, 2015

Published on - Tuesday 7th April 2015

Prof. Corsetti Presents CEPR Report on Eurozone and Debt

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti is participating in the London presentation of the CEPR report 'A New Start for the Eurozone: Dealing with Debt'.

The Report 'A New Start for the Eurozone: Dealing with Debt' by Giancarlo Corsetti, Lars P Feld, Philip R. Lane, Lucrezia Reichlin, Hélène Rey, Dimitri Vayanos, Beatrice Weder di Mauro.

Presented on April 23rd 2015 in London

CEPR Press Release:
http://www.cepr.org/content/new-start-eurozone-dealing-debt-giancarlo-corsetti-lars-p-feld-philip-r-lane-lucrezia

Published on - Thursday 23rd April 2015

Debt

Eurozone

EU

Dr. Rohit Lamba - Five Questions on India's Credit

Cambridge-INET Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Rohit Lamba has had an article on "Five Questions on India's Credit" published in the Indian Business Standard. In which Dr Lamba, along with Sutirtha Roy & Arvind Subramanian, argue that India's credit and banking are neither too big nor too small.

Read the article on the Buisness Standard website

Published on - Thursday 9th April 2015

India

Banking

Credit

Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti to give three Public Lectures on "International Economics"

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will deliver three public lectures in "International Economics" at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday 25th March - Thursday 26th March 2015.

Giancarlo Corsetti, University of Cambridge

Three lectures on "International Dimensions of Monetary Policy"

• Wednesday 25th March - A39, SCGB - 1pm
  "Open-economy Challenges to Monetary Policy"
• Thursday 26th March - A39, SCGB - 10am
  "Macroeconomic Stabilization of Capital Flows"
• Thursday 26th March - A39, SCGB - 11am
  "Stabilization and Comparative Advantage"

Published on - Sunday 1st March 2015

International Economics

Monetary Policy

Economy

Policy