Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance Elisa Faraglia in the Faculty of Economics has been awarded the J M Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics.
When asked about the award, Professor Faraglia said "It is a great opportunity and honour to be appointed to the J.M. Keynes fellowship. In the next years my research will be closely linked to the areas of the Fund, exploring links between corporate structures, portfolio choice and global financial cycles.”
Professor of Macroeconomics Vasco Carvalho, has joined the European Economic Association Council for a term of five years. He plans to review existent mentoring programs geared at helping applicants from underrepresented backgrounds successfully apply to Economics PhD programs, typically by matching applicants to academic economists and PhD students.
Sarah Breeden has been appointed deputy governor at the Bank of England. The Newnham Associate and finance expert, who studied Economics at Newnham, has worked at the Bank since 1991.
The paper "Religion, Covid-19 and Mental Health", by the Faculty's Professor Sriya Iyer has been published in the European Economic Review, assisted by the Keynes Fund project 'Religion and Covid-19'.
In a paper in the American Economic Journal, the faculty's Professor Tiago Cavalcanti found that anti-scientific messaging in Brazil had a significant impact on how closely citizens followed COVID-19 guidelines.
Flavio Toxvaerd has been selected for a UK Research and Innovation Policy Fellowship. Over the next 18 months, he will work with the Competition and Markets Authority on a jointly defined project and the wider research priorities of the CMA’s Microeconomics Unit
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to US economist Claudia Goldin, for her work on women’s participation in the labour market
The Faculty of Economics has received a grant from the Sloan Foundation. This will support the development of an international community of meso-economics researchers, funding travel, accommodation, and teaching for around 20 PhD students from all backgrounds.
The co-principal Investigators Professor Vasco Carvalho, and Professor Matthew Elliott, have been awarded the grant to bring towards the mainstream of economics a branch of research on meso-economics.
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