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Economics News | Published on Monday, 19 December, 2022

Faculty Executive Director of Research Professor Debopam Bhattacharya says; “I am delighted that the hard work behind the application paid off.”

Economics News | Published on Monday, 12 December, 2022

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Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 6 December, 2022

The traditional site of Jesus College, which was established in 1496, saw a much younger anniversary than many it has seen, with the tenth birthday of the Keynes Fund this autumn.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 6 December, 2022

Gillette Hall is best known for her time at the World Bank.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 6 December, 2022

Charlie: It must be a bit of a shock coming back?

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 1 December, 2022

The award was in partnership with Amundi ETF, at a special ceremony in London. Simona from BlackRock was a double winner on the night, taking home accolades for Role Model of the Year and Investment Woman of the Year (large firms).

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 1 November, 2022

Increased pressure on doctors, nurses and hospitals may have created an unfortunate spill-over effect, as a result of much attention being given to Covid patents, and increasing preventable excess deaths among patients seeking medical help for rea

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 4 October, 2022

His thesis built a framework to detect stable relationships between individual time series when they are persistent but do not satisfy the common unit root assumption, thereby providing a solution to an ongoing issue that has challenged economists

Economics News | Published on Friday, 30 September, 2022

The EEA bestows the Young Economist Award to the authors no more than 3 years past a PhD defence of outstanding papers presented during contributed sessions of the EEA annual congress.

Economics News | Published on Monday, 26 September, 2022

Eu-Wayne (Christ’s College), who has just completed the final year of the BA in Economics, has been awared the Gladstone Memorial Prize, Academic Year 2021/22.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 2 August, 2022

Second-year Economics PhD student Niklas Schmitz has received three awards for his paper which he presented in different conferences.

Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 22 June, 2022

“Although I have spent so much of my time on game theory, I want to do something that is not exactly within the tradition of these stories.

Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 22 June, 2022

At Cambridge we are lucky enough to have a working analogue computer developed in the 1950s which represents money as flowing around the national economy.

Economics News | Published on Monday, 20 June, 2022

The new model for forecasting conflict, which predicts outbreaks of violence and subsequent escalations into armed conflict has been developed with funding by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 16 June, 2022

The Faculty is delighted to announce that with effect from the 1st of October 2022, Professorships (Grade 12) will be established for academics Sriya Iyer, Matt Elliott and Debopam Battacharya.

Economics News | Published on Monday, 6 June, 2022

Sir Partha Dasgupta, is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus within the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, and at the ceremony held in the Guildhall of the City of London, he was commended fo

Economics News | Published on Monday, 30 May, 2022

Professor Sriya Iyer has been elected to The Royal Economic Society Council from 2022-2027.

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Economics News | Published on Monday, 23 May, 2022

Research by Dr Christopher Rauh, an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, has found that while workers are overly optimistic about the probability of receiving a job offer conditional on any search, t

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 12 May, 2022

62% of the University of Cambridge’s overall submissions have been rated as ‘world leading’, to which our Faculty made a significant contribution, and 93% of Cambridge’s overall submissions were rated 3* and above, demonstrating the major impact t

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 5 May, 2022

Forecasting when an armed conflict is likely to break out is notoriously difficult, and history has shown conflict might suddenly appear out of a previously long lived and low-level dispute.

Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 4 May, 2022

19-year-old Eric Yip, who is from Hong Kong, won for his poem Fricatives, which plays with ideas about language to also comment on colonialism, race, migration, belonging and the guilt of leaving one’s home behind.

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 21 April, 2022

The new paper “Face Value: Trait Impressions, Performance Characteristics, and Market Outcomes for Financial Analysts” is being published in a top accounting journal, the Journal of Accounting Research.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 22 March, 2022

For the first time this year, the Keynes Lecture was delivered in a hybrid format, allowing both those at home to attend, and a select audience.

Economics News | Published on Monday, 14 March, 2022

The Faculty of Economics Assistant Professor Alexander Rodnyansky (Christs' College, Cambridge) says, "war will always have a catastrophic impact.

Economics News | Published on Monday, 7 March, 2022

It shows how Indians View Gender Roles in Families and Society and indicates Indians accept women as political leaders, but many favour traditional gender roles in family life.

Economics News | Published on Monday, 31 January, 2022

“The concept of Universal Basic Income has gained traction among some politicians and interest groups,” says Dr Christopher Rauh, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 25 January, 2022

Delays to cancer referrals and treatment times have led to an estimated 32,000 missing cancer patients that should have already started receiving treatment.