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Associate Professor Toxvaerd interviewed on cost of living crisis
An analysis of the UK cost of living crisis discussed by Associate Professor Flavio Toxvaerd from the Faculty of Economics on Radio Ciudad. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 25th May 2023
Tags:St Catharine’s College highlights Catz Economics Fellows
An article on Catz Economics Fellows has been published today as part of the College’s 550th anniversary celebrations. Read More>>
Published on - Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Tags:Economics Faculty launch MPhil in Economics and Data Science
The Faculty of Economics is to launch a new MPhil in Economics and Data Science from Autumn 2024. The new interdisciplinary MPhil course is intended to expand the knowledge of economists to the tools of data science.
Published on - Monday 15th May 2023
Tags:Charles Read new book calming the storms
The latest book from Dr Charles Read, an Affiliated Lecturer in our Faculty of Economics is ‘Calming the Storms: the Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises since 1825’. Read More>>
Published on - Wednesday 10th May 2023
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Research by Lin Peng, a Visiting Professor and Director of Research in Faculty of Economics has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. Read More>>
Published on - Tuesday 9th May 2023
Tags:Professor Goyal launches ‘Networks: An Economics Approach’
Professor Sanjeev Goyal from the Faculty of Economics provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of the economic theory and the realities of networks in his new book: 'Networks: An Economics Approach', published by MIT Press.
Published on - Sunday 30th April 2023
Tags:The business of economics
Professor Sriya Iyer from the Faculty of Economics, and Professor Chander Velu from the Department of Engineering have a letter published in The Economist magazine this week arguing that Economics is continuing to be a foundational discipline, but it has the potential to become as practical as engineering. Read More>>
Published on - Monday 24th April 2023
Tags:Monetary policy also has short-run effects
Professor Vasco Carvalho is a co-author of a paper published in VoxEU, which examines the short-term effects of changes to monetary tightening, and finds it does have notable impacts in the short term.
Published on - Friday 21st April 2023
Tags:Alexander Skarsgard, Partha Dasgupta and the Answer to Everything
In 2021, Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta prepared a 610-page report for the British government about the financial value of nature. Read More>>
Published on - Monday 3rd April 2023
Tags:Academic analysis of Silicon Valley Bank
Charles Read, an affiliated lecturer for the Faculty, has an opinion piece in the Conversation regarding the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. He looks at how interest rates helped trigger its collapse and what central bankers should do next. Read More>>
Published on - Wednesday 15th March 2023
Tags:Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta Interview
The Faculty's Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta has received an elevated knighthood in the New Year Honours list, led an independent, global review on the Economics of Biodiversity and next month a conference will be held to honour his research.
Published on - Monday 13th March 2023
Tags:Why understanding the economy is important for everyone
Faculty’s Victoria Bateman and Diane Coyle, the Bennett Professor of Public Policy have taken part in the BBC Radio 4 economics series “Understand: the economy”, which looks to explain basic issues within the economy to a much wider audience.
Published on - Monday 13th March 2023
Tags:Workers’ responses to the threat of automation
Christopher Rauh's article into the threat automation poses to many workers has been published in VoxEU. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 9th March 2023
Tags:Ivano Cardinale awarded Feltrinelli Giovani Prize
An affiliated member of the Faculty of Economics has received the Feltrinelli Giovani Prize 2022 for pioneering research into structural political economy.
Published on - Thursday 9th March 2023
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The Faculty's Assistant Professor of Economics Alexander Rodnyansky is an economic adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. He has been interviewed by the Times, about life in Zelensky's Ukraine war bunker.
Published on - Monday 20th February 2023
Tags:Tight jobs market? AI meets worker shortage
Christopher Rauh’s discussion paper published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research has been mentioned in an article by Reuters on the tough jobs market.
Published on - Friday 17th February 2023
Tags:Remembering Professor Luigi Pasinetti
It is with great regret the Faculty of Economics announces that one of our former students and academics, Professor Luigi Pasinetti, He has passed away aged 92.
Published on - Thursday 9th February 2023
Analysis of Britain’s financial stability in the Truss Era
Charles Read has been quoted in an article about Liz Truss’ mini budget, saying he warned about the dangers of a policy that would quickly raise interest rates. Read More>>
Published on - Monday 6th February 2023
Tags:Meredith Crowley on Brexit
Professor Meredith Crowley was interviewed on the BBC 2 TV programme Newsnight with her analysis of the state of the UK economy three years on from Brexit.
Published on - Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics Christopher Rauh's research has been featured in the Economist Magazine.
Published on - Wednesday 18th January 2023
Tags:National accounts in a world of naturally occurring data
Prof. Vasco Carvalho has been featured in the magazine for the Stone Centre which advances research and teaching to provide a clear understanding of the causes of wealth inequality, and its economic and political consequences.
Published on - Tuesday 17th January 2023
Tags:Sir Partha Dasgupta honoured with elevated knighthood
Sir Partha, the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, is made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire for services to economics and the natural environment
Published on - Wednesday 4th January 2023
Tags:Four year grant for Debopam Bhattacharya
A University of Cambridge academic at the Faculty of Economics has been awarded a four year grant to research Econometric Demand and Welfare Analysis
Published on - Monday 19th December 2022
Tags:Sir Partha Dasgupta honoured as Champion of the Earth
A University of Cambridge academic at the Faculty of Economics has been honoured at the UN Environment Programme as one of four 2022 Champions of the Earth, the first economist to have been awarded this honour.
Published on - Monday 12th December 2022
Tags:Keynes Fund Celebrates 10 years
A decade of the Keynes Fund was celebrated with their nineth annual Research Day. Which featured a diverse collection of research papers presented, from funded projects.
Published on - Tuesday 6th December 2022
Tags:Gillette Hall PhD Funding
Gillette Hall describes how after struggling financially, Bill Janeway's philanthropic donation funded and transformed her PhD.
Published on - Tuesday 6th December 2022
Tags:Charlie Nunn Interview
Chief Executive of Lloyds Banking Group, Charlie Nunn recently visited Cambridge, and spoke to the Faculty’s Julian Lorkin in front of an audience of Economics students and members of the Faculty for the first in our series of careers and economics talks: Cambridge Connections.
Published on - Tuesday 6th December 2022
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