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Economics News | Published on Monday, 12 October, 2015

My colleagues and I are delighted to hear of the award of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics to Professor Angus Deaton. Prof Deaton was associated with Fitwilliam College and the Department of Applied Economics (DAE) in Cambridge at the start of his career.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 27 July, 2015

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.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 22 July, 2015

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

Keywords: FellowshipAwards
Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 30 June, 2015

Bill and Weslie Janeway have agreed to donate $27 million (£17.5 million) to the Faculty of Economics and to Pembroke College.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 22 June, 2015

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).

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 17 June, 2015

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

Economics News | Published on Monday, 18 May, 2015
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 9 April, 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.

Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 1 April, 2015
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 18 December, 2014

We are delighted to report on the outstanding results that the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge has achieved in the 2014 REF.

Keywords: Awards
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 13 November, 2014

The Fall issue of Journal of Economic Perspectives has a very strong Cambridge presence. In three separate articles, Dr Vasco Carvalho, Professor Kaivan Munshi and Professor Sheliagh Ogilvie discuss frontier research on production networks, on community networks, and on the economics of guilds.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 25 July, 2014

Dr Vasco Carvalho has been awarded the Wiley Prize in Economics. The Wiley Prize in Economics rewards achievement in research by an outstanding early career economist. Research may be in any field of economics or economic history. The Prize was first awarded in 2013.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 14 July, 2014

At the 5th World Congress of the Associations of Environmental and Resource Economists, Partha Dasgupta received the European Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 1 July, 2014

The 21st annual Pilkington Prizes, which honour excellence in teaching across the collegiate University, were held at Downing College last night. Sriya Iyer was one of those awarded. Read the full article on the University of Cambridge News site. 

Keywords: AwardsTeaching
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 13 June, 2014

Jane Fruehwirth has been promoted to a Readership from 1 October 2014. See all the promotions on the Cambridge University Reporter

Economics News | Published on Monday, 9 June, 2014
Economics News | Published on Monday, 12 May, 2014

The Faculty would like to extend their congratulations him.

See more details about this award on the CUSU Teaching Excellence and Student Academic Rep Awards Website

Keywords: AwardsTeaching
Economics News | Published on Monday, 12 May, 2014

Saleem Bahaj has been awarded the Klaus Liebscher Award 2014, by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, for a Paper on "Systemic Sovereign Risk: Macroeconomic Implications in the Euro Area". The Prize will be awarded at the Economics Conference of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) on May 12th and 13th, 2014.

Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 12 February, 2014

The Pilkington Prizes were initiated by Sir Alastair Pilkington, the first Chairman of the Cambridge Foundation, who believed passionately that the quality of teaching was crucial to Cambridge’s success.

Dr Sriya Iyer is one of this year’s recipients, and a formal presentation of the Prize will be made by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz on 30 June 2014.

Economics News | Published on Monday, 2 December, 2013

“The Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), a joint research centre based in Cambridge Judge Business School and the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, recently received the donation from the Enel Foundation to support a two-year r

Economics News | Published on Monday, 22 July, 2013

Hamid was elected a UK Fellow in 2013, under the section of Economics and Economic History.

Keywords: AppointmentsAwards
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 4 April, 2013

The election of the first board of the International Iranian Economic Association is as follows:

Officers: President, Hashem Pesaran; Executive Secretary, Hassan Hakimian, and Treasurer, Parvin Alizadeh. Board: Sohrab Behdad, Masoud Karshenas, Fatemeh Etemad Moghaddam, and Hadi Salehi Esfahani.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 1 August, 2012

Edoardo Gallo awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award, by the Unicredit Foundation.

Keywords: PhD ThesisAwards
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Sunday, 17 June, 2012

In this year's Birthday Honours list, Professor David Newbery will receive CBE. See the University of Cambridge news for more details.

Keywords: HonoursAwards
Economics News | Published on Sunday, 17 June, 2012

The research is based on his doctoral thesis entitled “Essays on investment under uncertainty and asymmetric information”. The award was presented by Prof Robert Aumann, the 2005 Nobel Laureate in economics. Amongst the participants attending the forum were John Nash, Robert Mundell, Finn Kydland, Edward Prescott, Eric Maskin and Christopher Pissarides.

Economics News | Published on Sunday, 17 July, 2011

The short-listing committee meets on the Monday before the start of Michaelmas Full Term (i.e. on the day formerly of the Fellowship Election), and the decisive meeting of the Fellowship Electors will be on the Monday before the start of Lent Full Term, 16 January 2012.

Keywords: Awards
Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 20 January, 2010

Scope of the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

Your actual programmes or proposed programme of activities should reflect your prior knowledge and experience and be designed to support your longer-term research career aspirations.

 

Keywords: Awards
Economics News | Published on Friday, 1 January, 2010

The EAERE is an international scientific association dedicated to three main goals: contributing to the development and application of climate and environmental economics in Europe; encouraging climate and resource economics collaboration on clima