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Double Honours for Emeritus Faculty Member
Professor Richard Smith has been appointed Honorary Professor at UCL and has had a Special Issue of the Econometric Theory journal published in honour of his 65th birthday.Published on: Wednesday 15th August 2018
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International Economic History Association Dissertation Prize
Faculty supervisor and examiner, Charles Read has been awarded a prize by the International Economic History Association (IEHA) for the best dissertation in nineteenth-century economic history completed in 2015, 2016 or 2017 at any university in the world. He was awarded the prize at the 18th World Economic History Congress hosted in July at MIT in Boston. Previously his research his PhD has also won the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, the T.S. Ashton Prize and the New Researcher Prize of the Economic History Society (EHS).Published on: Monday 6th August 2018
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Rebuild Macroeconomics's Sustainability Research Hub
Dr. Tiago Cavalcanti, along with Prof. Michael Grubb have joined Rebuild Macroeconomics's Sustainability Research Hub as Co-Leaders. You can read their profiles and find out about the Sustainability Research Hub on the Rebuild Macro site.Published on: Friday 3rd August 2018
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Trade Uncertainty
The Telegraph has quoted the research by Dr. Meredith Crowley, Oliver Exton and Lu Han in their article "Britain loses thousands of exporters on trade uncertainty".Published on: Tuesday 31st July 2018
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MPhil Student Publishes Development Studies Book
Peter Andreas Nielsen (MPhil in Economics Student) and Georgios Marinos (MPhil in Development Studies) are set to publish the first textbook on Development Studies for high schools in Denmark. Faculty member, Dr. Ha-Joon Chang will write the foreword of the book.Published on: Monday 30th July 2018
Cambridge Ranked Best for Economics for 4th Year Running
The Complete University Guide has recently ranked the University of Cambridge as the best UK University for Economics for the fourth year running. An article from The Telegraph (registration required to read) suggested that the 'biggest advantage' to the Cambridge Economics course was graduate employability.Click here for more information on how to apply for a BA in Economics. http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/apply/ba-economics
Published on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
President Trump's Trade War
Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed by BloombergTV Bulgaria on 13th July 2018. She discussed President Trump's Trade War. Please note the article and video are in Bulgarian.Published on: Thursday 19th July 2018
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UK in a Changing Europe awarded Best Think Tank
UK in a Changing Europe has been awarded Best Think Tank covering Global Affairs in the UK by Prospect Magazine. Dr. Meredith Crowley, a Research Leader for UK in a Changing Europe, and Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti along with their co-investigator from Law, Lorand Bartels, contributed a number of policy analysis pieces that were cited as one of UK in a Changing Europe's major successes.Published on: Wednesday 18th July 2018
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How the Brexit Vote Impacted Trade
New research by Dr. Meredith Crowley, Oliver Exton and Lu Han examines how the Brexit vote impacted trade in 2016, "Renegotiation of Trade Agreements and Firm Exporting Decisions: Evidence from the Impact of Brexit on UK Exports".Published on: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Innovation, Productivity & Trade Negotiations
Dr. Ha-Joon Chang discussed "innovation, productivity and trade negotiations" with both the Wall Street Journal and Financial Express.Published on: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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United Nations High-Level Advisory Board
Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti was invited to join the newly created United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Economic Social Affairs. The board held its inaugural meeting on July 9th and 10th 2018.Published on: Monday 16th July 2018
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UK-EU Future Customs Relationship
As part of the UK in a Changing Europe programme, Dr. Meredith Crowley and Oliver Exton have written a paper on the UK-EU Future Customs Relationship as part of a report on "What the government’s Brexit white paper must address".Published on: Monday 9th July 2018
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Research Horizons
Prof. Sheilagh Ogilvie's research is featured in the latest University's Research Horizons magazine. Read the article "How 9,000 lists written over 300 years are helping to test theories of economic growth" or download the latest issue of Research Horizons.Published on: Wednesday 4th July 2018
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Appointment to Ofgem's Academic Panel
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Robert Ritz, Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at Cambridge, has been appointed as a member of the Academic Panel at Ofgem, the regulator for electricity and natural gas markets in Great Britain. The Panel is set to enhance Ofgem's strategic thinking and early-stage policy development as well as enabling wider links to the academic community. Further details on the Panel, its aims and current members can be found on their here.Published on: Tuesday 26th June 2018
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How does the US see Brexit?
In this Royal Economic Society (RES) video Dr. Meredith Crowley looks at American attitudes, the potential for new trading partners and negative responses towards globalisation.Published on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Best Finance Student Paper Award
Congratulations to Maarten De Ridder and Thomas Auld (Faculty PhD students) who have both won prizes at the CERF Cambridge Best Finance Student Paper Award. Maarten's was awarded the £500 prize for his paper "Investment in Productivity and the Long-Run Effect of Financial Crises on Output" and Tom the same for his paper "The behaviour of betting and currency markets on the night of the EU referendum".Published on: Monday 18th June 2018
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Faculty Senior Academic Promotions
Dr. Tiago Cavalcanti, Dr. Meredith Crowley and Dr. Matthew Elliott have all been successful in the Faculty's Senior Academic Promotions.Published on: Thursday 14th June 2018
Tariff Scares Can Reduce Export Activity
Dr. Meredith Crowley was quoted in the NBC News article "Tariffs on sugar, shoes, mean higher costs for consumers". "Even the threat of a tariff - that is never followed through and imposed - can reduce export activity". The article also cited Dr. Crowley's "Tariff Scares: Trade policy uncertainty and foreign market entry by Chinese firms" 2018 paper (joint with Huasheng Song and Ning Meng), Journal of International Economics.Published on: Wednesday 13th June 2018
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Queen's Birthday Honours
Emerirus Professor Geoffrey Harcourt, was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in General Division (AC), in the Queen's Birthday Honours. An AC is the highest order of the Orders of Australia. The citation read "For eminent service to higher education as an academic economist and author, particularly in the fields of Post-Keynesian economics, capital theory and economic thought."Published on: Tuesday 12th June 2018
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Injecting Chaos into Economic Policy Negotiations
Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today about the recent G7 meeting in Canada and President Trump's policy of injecting chaos into international economic policy negotiations. Starts at 15 minutes into programme.Published on: Monday 11th June 2018
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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Dr. Meredith Crowley and Chad Bown's paper "The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy" 2016, The Handbook of Commercial Policy was cited in the Washington Post article "There are 'nuggets of truth' to what Trump says about trade". Which looks at the President's trade policy.Published on: Sunday 10th June 2018
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UK-EU relations after Brexit
Dr. Meredith Crowley was quoted in House of Lords EU Committee Report issued 8 June 2018 on on UK-EU relations after Brexit on p. 21 (para. 40 and 42) and p. 31 (para 83) the future trading relationship, prospects for FTAs with new partners, and regulatory divergence.Published on: Friday 8th June 2018
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PhD Funding
The Faculty is delighted to announce that the four students, who were nominated by the Faculty for an ESRC DTP Studentship, were all successful.Published on: Thursday 7th June 2018
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US steel tariffs imposed on EU and UK
Dr. Meredith Crowley has given live interviews to AlJazeera TV and LBC Radio and been interviewed by The New York Times and BBC News regarding the US tariffs on steel and aluminium imported from the EU (including the UK)Published on: Monday 4th June 2018
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The Iranian Economy and Challenges Ahead
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes gave a talk entitled "The Iranian Economy and Challenges Ahead" in the session on "Reconsidering the Economic Model" at the Iran Financial Future Summit in Brussels, on 29th of May 2018.Published on: Sunday 3rd June 2018
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Book Launch Photographs
William H. Janeway Launched the 2nd Edition of his 'Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy' book on Tuesday 29th May 2018 at Pembroke College, Cambridge. See photographs from the event.Published on: Friday 1st June 2018
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Reassessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework in EMU
Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti presented at the State of the Union conference, Solidarity and Union, in Florence. He spoke on Reassessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). You can watch his talk on the Cambridge-INET site.Published on: Wednesday 16th May 2018
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Oleg Kitov receives CUSU Student-Led Teaching Award
Oleg Kitov (Selwyn and Robinson College) received the award for best undergraduate supervisor of the year. The awards are based on student nominations of teachers who have had a profound impact on their education in Cambridge. The Faculty would like to congratulate Oleg on this superb recognition of his innovative approach to teaching and to his dedication to his students.Published on: Monday 14th May 2018
Moving away from Theoretical Models
Professor Vasco Carvalho discusses how new sources of large amounts of data are providing opportunities to test previously untestable things.Published on: Tuesday 8th May 2018
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Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy
William H. Janeway is holding a launch event for the 2nd Edition of his book, Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators and the State. On Tuesday 29th May 2018, 6.30pm, at Pembroke College, Cambridge.Published on: Friday 4th May 2018
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The Future UK-EU Trade Relationship
Dr. Meredith Crowley and Oliver Exton have written a blog for The UK in a Changing Europe website on "The Future UK-EU Trade Relationship".Published on: Thursday 3rd May 2018
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Gender and Collaboration in Economic Research
Professor Sanjeev Goyal contributed a recent VoxEU article (joint with Lorenzo Ductor and Anja Prummer) on gender and collaboration in economic research.Published on: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
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The Economics of Religion in India
Dr. Sriya Iyer recently gave the Faculty Research Seminar based on the research in her 2018 Harvard University Press book, where she uses economic methods to study religion. Her talk was titled 'The Economics of Religion in India' and delivered on 23 April 2018.Published on: Tuesday 1st May 2018
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Conflict in Networks: The Rise and Fall of Empires
Professor Sanjeev Goyal will give the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) Distinguished Seminar on Tuesday 1st May 2018, Cambridge, MA. See poster for details.Published on: Thursday 26th April 2018
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Student Receives 'Best Negotiator' Prize at Model WTO
Peter Andreas Nielsen (MPhil in Economics Student) was awarded two prizes at the Model WTO at the University of St. Gallen and the WTO Headquarters in Geneva. Peter received the prize for being the best negotiator on the Special and Differential Treatment and Dispute Prevention Committee and another prize for the second best essay submitted during the application process.Published on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
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US-China Trade War and Trade Deflection
Dr. Meredith Crowley gave an interview to Keri Philips of ABC's (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Rear Vision radio program examining trade wars of the past and how President Trump's trade war might unfold. The interview was broadcast on 22 April and is available now for download.Published on: Sunday 22nd April 2018
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Integration and Diversity
Professor Sanjeev Goyal holds the Ganshof van der Meersch Chair for 2017-2018. He will deliver a series of public lectures in Brussels on April 23-26, 2018. The opening lecture will be "Integration and Diversity", on Monday 23 April at 6pm at Institute of European Studies (IEE), Brussels.Published on: Wednesday 18th April 2018
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Post-Brexit UK-EU Relations
Dr. Meredith Crowley will give evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee on the future relationship between the UK and the EU. Dr. Crowley's testimony will be broadcast live from 15:00 on Tuesday 17 April.Published on: Sunday 15th April 2018
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Coffee, Economics and Education
The Faculty's Athena SWAN members organised a coffee morning at Newnham College with Prof. Caroline Hoxby, the 2018 Marshall lecturer.Published on: Saturday 14th April 2018
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Good luck to our team for the 2018 Econometric Games
Good luck to Gustavo Nicolas Paez (Captain, PhD), Shuyi Ge (PhD), Martin Miklos (MPhil in Economics) and Daniel Mobayyen (MPhil in Economics) who will be competing in the Annual Econometric Games from 11 - 13 April in Amsterdam. They'll be hoping to unseat Harvard as last year's winners.Published on: Wednesday 11th April 2018
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Trade War Risks between the U.S. and China
Dr. Meredith Crowley appeared on CTV News (Toronto) to disscus “Trade war risks between the U.S. and China”.Published on: Monday 9th April 2018
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Trade Wars: Passion vs Logic
Dr. Meredith Crowley appeared on the BBC World Service Business Daily to disscus “Trade Wars: Passion vs Logic” presented by Ed Butler with Simon Tulette.Published on: Sunday 8th April 2018
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Impact of US-China Trade War on UK Industry
Dr. Meredith Crowley discusses how a US-China trade war will impact UK industry as well as post-Brexit trade agreements, on BBC Radio Four, The Briefing Room - “Can you win a trade war?”, presented by David Aaronovitch.Published on: Friday 6th April 2018
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When is Debt a Drag on Economic Growth?
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's column "When is debt a drag on economic growth?" was published on the ERF Policy Portal. Click through to read his column on the ERF forum.Published on: Thursday 5th April 2018
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Peter Tinsley, 1939-2018
The Faculty is saddened to announce that Peter Ault Tinsley passed away on the 19th March 2018. Peter was with the Faculty of Economics from 1998-2003. The Washington Post have published an obituary of his life.Published on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Dr. Crowley Quoted in the New York Times
Dr. Meredith Crowley was quoted by the New York Times in their article "Trump Says Getting Tough on Chinese Trade Will Empower U.S. He Risks the Opposite"Published on: Tuesday 27th March 2018
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Dr. Crowley Discusses Research Findings on BBC World Service
Dr. Meredith Crowley discussed the findings of the paper "Markups and Markets: A New Empirical Framework and Evidence on Exporters from China" (joint with Giancarlo Corsetti, Lu Han and Huasheng Song) in an interview with Fergus Nicoll of BBC World Service Business Matters. Dr. Crowley's interview discussing the research conducted at Cambridge starts at 09:30.Published on: Monday 26th March 2018
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Prof. Corsetti Gives Deutsche Bundesbank and IMF Keynote Speeches
Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti has two Keynote Speeches this week. At the Deutsche Bundesbank's "Fiscal Policy in EMU – The Way Ahead", in Frankfurt and the IMF Conference "Many Objectives or Too Few Instruments?" in Washington DC.Published on: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Plenary Panel on Brexit
As part of the Royal Economics Society's Annual Conference in Brighton, there will be a Plenary Panel on Brexit - "The View on Brexit from Abroad: New Opportunities or Damage Control?". Dr. Meredith Crowley will be speaking as part of the panel.Published on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
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RES Annual Conference 2018 Brighton - Brexit Event
As part of the Royal Economics Society's Annual Conference in Brighton, the RES is holding a debate 'One year till Brexit: Are we nearly there yet?'. Dr. Meredith Crowley will speak on the open-to-the-public panel debating Brexit. Titckets are available through EventBrite.Published on: Wednesday 14th March 2018
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Dr. Crowley Discusses Trump's Trade Policy with the NY Times
Dr. Meredith Crowley spoke about the danger that Trump's steel tariff poses to the World Trade Organization system of trade.Published on: Monday 12th March 2018
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Dr. Geraats Keynote Speaker at the Dutch Central Bank Conference
Dr Petra Geraats was a keynote speaker at the Central Bank Communication and Transparency Conference at the Dutch central bank (De Nederlandsche Bank) in Amsterdam on Friday 16 February 2018.Published on: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Dr. Crowley Interviewed Live for BBC Radio 4 Today
Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed live for BBC Radio 4 Today programme about the US's Import Tariffs on Steel. You can listen to the programme on the BBC iplayer for the next 29 days.Published on: Friday 9th March 2018
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Dr. Mohaddes's Research Featured in the News
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper "Country-Specific Oil Supply Shocks and the Global Economy" (joint with Prof. Hashem Pesaran) was featured in the Albawaba News article "Reneging on the Nuclear Deal Will Isolate America, Empower China, and Distance Europe".Published on: Thursday 1st March 2018
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Dr. Bateman on BBC Radio 4
Dr Victoria Bateman spoke on a Radio 4 Money-Box special this Wednesday on the topic "what Britain sells". Available to listen here (Dr Bateman is in the latter half of the programme).Published on: Friday 23rd February 2018
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Financial Times Brexit Briefing
Dr. Meredith Crowley's blog on 'Response to leaked government Brexit analysis' was included in the Financial Times Brexit briefing.Published on: Monday 19th February 2018
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Prof. Chatterjee appointed to Government Remuneration Body
Professor Monojit Chatterjee has been appointed as a member of the Police Remuneration and Review Body and the National Crime Agency (NCA) Remuneration Review Body.Published on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Faculty Members to speak at CERF in The City 2018
Dr Elisa Faraglia and Dr Matt Elliott are to speak at the CERF in the City 2018 event on The Risks in Financial Markets.Published on: Wednesday 31st January 2018
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Response to leaked Government Brexit analysis
The UK in a Changing Europe website have published a blog written by Dr Meredith Crowley, which is in response to a leaked Government Brexit report.Published on: Thursday 1st February 2018
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