Sloan Foundation awards Economics a grant for meso-economics
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 meso-economics.
Published on - Thursday 14th September 2023
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Flavio Toxvaerd wins EEA Award for Exceptional Teaching
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 the 2023 EEA Award for Exceptional Teaching in the Senior Category.
Published on - Monday 4th September 2023
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King's Birthday Honours 2023
Congratulations to both Keynes Fund Manager, Prof. Anne Ferguson-Smith and Keynes Fund Principal Investigator, Prof. Diane Coyle who have been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours 2023. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 22nd June 2023
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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
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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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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
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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
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Women in Investment Awards 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. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 1st December 2022
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Economics Postdoc wins 2022 Edgeworth prize
Faculty of Economics Postdoc, Jerome Simons, has been awarded the 2022 Edgeworth prize for the outstanding DPhil thesis in Economics for his thesis titled “Cointegration without unit roots.”
Published on - Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Faculty student wins Young Economist Award
Faculty of Economics student, Alastair Langtry, has been awarded the 2022 EEA Young Economist Award, for his paper “Keeping up with ‘The Joneses’: reference dependent choice with social comparisons”.
Published on - Friday 30th September 2022
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Nobel Prize in Economics and The Keynes Fund
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.
Published on - Tuesday 11th October 2022
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Gift set to expand Entrepreneurship Lab
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. Read More>>
Published on - Monday 3rd October 2022
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Economics Student Wins Gladstone Memorial Prize
Faculty of Economics Undergraduate student, Eu-Wayne Mok (Christ’s College) has been jointly awarded the Gladstone Memorial Prize for his dissertation.
Published on - Monday 26th September 2022
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PhD student wins three awards
The Faculty's Niklas Schmitz has been commended for his paper that looked at why stock markets react to monetary policy decisions.
Published on - Tuesday 2nd August 2022
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Freedom of City of London for Professor Dasgupta
The Faculty's Sir Partha Dasgupta, was commended for his economic research, including the Dasgupta report, at the ceremony held in the Guildhall of the City of London
Published on - Monday 6th June 2022
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Professor Sriya Iyer elected to RES Council
Professor Sriya Iyer at the Faculty of Economics has been elected to the Council of The Royal Economic Society, following ratification at the Society's Annual General Meeting.
Published on - Monday 30th May 2022
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Kamiar Mohaddes paper runner-up in FT awards
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. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 20th January 2022
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Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta awarded Kew International Medal for work to protect nature and stop biodiversity loss. The Economist was selected by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to receive the prestigious award following his ground-breaking report The Economics of Biodiversity.
Published on - Wednesday 8th September 2021
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Economics Undergraduate Wins the Ellen McArthur Prize
Natasha May from Emmanuel College has won the prize for best dissertation in Economic History. The selectors judged Natasha’s dissertation on ‘Investment and the Nazi economic recovery’ to be the best contribution to economic history submitted this year.
Published on - Thursday 22nd July 2021
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Undergraduate Achievements Topped with Adam Smith Prizes
Three Undergraduate students in the Faculty of Economics have been awarded prizes following a superlative exam performance.
Published on - Thursday 1st July 2021
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The Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology-enabled Learning Prize
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. Read More>>
Published on - Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Winner of the Best Student Paper Award
Faculty of Economics PhD student, Daniel Ostry has won the Cambridge Finance Best Student Paper Award 2020-2021. Read More>>
Published on - Monday 21st June 2021
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New Keynes Fund PhD Students Small Awards Scheme
The Keynes Fund at the Faculty of Economics has appended another funding stream for PhD students to apply for small grants outside the main funding process.
Published on - Wednesday 12th May 2021
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Best Finance Student Paper Award
Congratulations to Maarten De Ridder and Thomas Auld (Faculty PhD students) who have both won prizes at the CERF Cambridge Best Finance Student Paper Award. Read More>>
Published on - Monday 18th June 2018
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