The Dasgupta Review is an independent, global review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Dasgupta, commissioned by the UK Treasury in 2019. The review is expected to help set the agenda for the UK Government’s 25-year environment plan.
Economics News | Published on Friday, 1 March, 2024
Economics News | Published on Monday, 29 January, 2024
Part 2B student James Legrand (Jesus College) said “I am delighted to win this award; it is very satisfying for my research to be recognised in this way. I would like to thank Alex Savu for his exceptional support and advice as my dissertation supervisor, as well as Toke Aidt for his guidance and care as my Director of Studies.
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Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
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.”
Economics News | Published on Friday, 15 September, 2023
The co-principal Investigators Professor Vasco Carvalho, and Professor Matthew Elliott, have been awarded a grant of a quarter of a million US dollars by the Sloan Foundation to bring towards the mainstream of economics a branch of research on mes
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Economics News | Published on Monday, 4 September, 2023
Dr Flavio Toxvaerd from the Faculty of Economics, a Fellow of Clare College and an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge has been awarded a top prize by the European Economic Association, winning
Economics News | Published on Friday, 1 September, 2023
Dr Toke Aidt, a University Reader, Director of the Keynes Fund, fellow of Jesus College, and current Acting Chair of the Faculty of Economics, has been awarded the Oliver Williamson Best Conference Paper Award by the Society for Institutional &
Economics News | Published on Friday, 16 June, 2023
The University of Cambridge Academic Career Pathways scheme recognises and reward outstanding contributions and celebrate academic achievement through promotion and pay progression.
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Economics News | Published on Monday, 13 March, 2023
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 9 March, 2023
Established in 1950, the Feltrinelli Prize recognises outstanding achievements in the arts and sciences. It originally had two categories: International and Italian.
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Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
The Dasgupta Review is an independent, global review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Dasgupta, commissioned by the UK Treasury in 2019.
Economics News | Published on Monday, 12 December, 2022
UN Environment Programme
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 1 December, 2022
Congratulations to distinguished alumna Simona Paravani-Mellinghoff who has received an award from Investment Week magazine, which was delighted to honour the winners of the Women in Investment Awards 2022.
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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).
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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
Director of the Keynes Fund, Dr Toke Aidt congratulates Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, for winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2022. The Keynes Fund provides generous grants for work in the subject area of policies that prevent financial crises.
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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
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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 3 October, 2022
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's Entrepreneurship Lab has been awarded a generous gift of £1.5 million from David Sainsbury and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, to expand their activities.
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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.
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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 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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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 20 January, 2022
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper, "Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness", was named runner-up in the Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards.
Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
The Faculty of Economics’ Professor Dasgupta is the author of The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, which is an independent, global report calling for transformative change in the way we think, act and measure economic success to protect and enhance our prosperity and the natural world.
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 22 July, 2021
“I am very pleased and grateful to have received the Ellen McArthur prize,” says Natasha May. “I really enjoyed constructing my dissertation and I am very happy that my work has been deemed good enough for an award.”
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 1 July, 2021
The Adam Smith Prize Endowment Fund awards prizes annually for the Part 2B of the Economics Tripos: one for the best overall performance and for the best dissertation submitted. The Adam Smith prize for best overall performance in the Part 2B Tripos was won by Valerie Chuang of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
The Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology-enabled Learning Prize has awarded a high commendation to Dr. Toke Aidt, Mr. Oleg Kitov and Dr. Vasileios Kotsidis for mastery-oriented active learning methods to complement traditional lectures.
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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 21 June, 2021
Faculty of Economics PhD student, Daniel Ostry has won the Cambridge Finance Best Student Paper Award 2020-2021.
Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
The Keynes Fund for Applied Economics promotes innovative and path breaking quality research in economics and finance. It now has an additional Small Awards Scheme to support PhD students (whose research fall within the remit of the Fund) in building networks and disseminating their research at conferences and workshops, giving a grant of up to £2000.
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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 27 November, 2020
Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou has joined the European Economic Review Journal Editorial Board. Dr Giannitsarou has agreed to be an Associate Editor for the journal, with immediate effect.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 5 October, 2020
Dr. Toke Aidt, Mr. Oleg Kitov and Dr. Vasileios Kotsidis have been awarded a grant by the Teaching, Learning & Innovation Fund (TLIF).