The Commons Library Blog Features Faculty's Brexit Research
The Commons Library have published a blog about the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology event that Dr. Meredith Crowley and the Faculty's Brexit research team spoke at in October.
Published on - Monday 18th December 2017
Tags:
Partha and Aisha Dasgupta in Conversation
How Many People Can Earth Support In Comfort? Partha Dasgupta and Aisha Dasgupta spoke at an 'in conversation' event organised by Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme in Oxford. You can read about the event and watch a video of their conversation on the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust website.
Published on - Friday 15th December 2017
Tags:
Prof. Munshi to Deliver Three Invited Lectures
Professor Kaivan Munshi will deliver three invited lectures over December and January. The Infosys Prize Lecture at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on 15th December 2017, the Infosys Prize Lecture at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai on 4th January 2018 and 13th Annual Conference on Growth and Development, hosted by the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi on the 19th December 2017.
Published on - Monday 11th December 2017
Prof. Goyal to talk at Delhi School of Economics
Professor Sanjeev Goyal has been invited to talk at the Delhi School of Economics Winter School 2017, which is being held between the 13th and 15th December 2017.
Published on - Monday 11th December 2017
Prof. Corsetti and Dr. Crowley Publish Brexit Article on Project Syndicate.Org
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti and Dr. Meredith Crowley have published an opinion editorial on the UK's post-Brexit trade strategy, "The UK's Multilateral Trade Future" on Project Syndicate.Org.
Published on - Thursday 7th December 2017
Tags:
Brexit Research Group Publish 'No Deal' Article on VoxEU
As part of the Brexit Research Group, Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Dr. Meredith Crowley, Oliver Exton and Lu Han, have written an article "A granular analysis of the exposure of UK exports to EU tariffs, quotas and antidumping under 'no deal'" for VoxEU.
Published on - Wednesday 13th December 2017
Tags:
Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti "Exchange Rate Misalignment, Capital Flows and Optimal Monetary Policy Trade-offs"
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti is to deliver the keynote lecture "Exchange Rate Misalignment, Capital Flows and Optimal Monetary Policy Trade-offs" at the First Annual Workshop of the ESCB Research Cluster. The event will be held at the Bank of Spain in Madrid on November 16th and 17th 2017.
Published on - Wednesday 13th December 2017
Tags:
Paul Johnson (IFS) to give CIPP Lecture
Paul Johnson (IFS) is to give the Cambridge Institute for Public Policy (CIPP) lecture at Jesus College on Monday December 4th 2017, 5.00pm - 6.30pm. Please register your interest.
Published on - Monday 13th November 2017
Running the British Economy - 2017
More than fifty Year 12 and Year 13 students from schools in Eastern England and greater London took part in this year's computer-based simulation game 'Running the British Economy'.
Published on - Thursday 9th November 2017
Dr Toxvaerd - Economics as an Art
In the first of a series of interviews exploring the work of Cambridge academics, Helena Coggan meets economist Dr Toxvaerd
Published on - Wednesday 8th November 2017
Prof. Munshi to Deliver Annual Indu Bhatt Lecture
Professor Kaivan Munshi will deliver this years Indu Bhatt Lecture at Yale University on 9th November 2017. The title of the talk is Missing Girls. This annual lecture is organized by the South Asian Studies Council and the MacMillan Center at Yale University and is open to the public.
Published on - Friday 3rd November 2017
Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti "Business Cycle Stabilisation in the Eurozone"
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola, Marek Jarocinski, Bartosz Mackowiak, Sebastian Schmidt have written a new joint column for VoxEU, on "Business cycle stabilisation in the Eurozone".
Published on - Monday 23rd October 2017
Tags: 
Dr. Faraglia to speak at Taking Fiscal Policy Seriously Workshop
Dr Elisa Faraglia will speak at the one-day Taking Fiscal Policy Seriously workshop. This event is hosted by The Nufffield Centre for Applied Macro Policy (NuCamp) in London on 9th November 2017.
Published on - Wednesday 25th October 2017
The Return of Alfred Marshall's Lost Book
The Marshall Library received a proof book of Alfred Marshall's First Edition of Principles of Economics as a donation earlier this year, from Prof. Uemiya from Kobe University in Japan.
Published on - Thursday 19th October 2017
Brexit and Trade Conference
Dr. Meredith Crowley is speaking at a Trade and Brexit event at the British Academy on 2nd November. To register for the conference Click Here.
Published on - Tuesday 17th October 2017
Tags:
Faculty and Cambridge-INET Members to talk at the INET 'Reawakening' Conference
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Professor Sanjeev Goyal and Dr. Pontus Rendahl will all give talks on 'INET and Economics in Cambridge' at the INET 'Reawakening' conference in Edinburgh, on Saturday October 21st 2017.
Published on - Monday 16th October 2017
Dr. Bateman spoke to the BBC about the Lack of Women in Economics
Dr Victoria Bateman and economics undergraduates Clara Starrsjo (Gonville and Caius College) and Paulin Nusser (Magdalene College) were featured on the BBC World Service programme - Business Daily. The subject of the programme was the lack of women in economics. Their discussion was also featured on the front page of the BBC news website.
Published on - Friday 13th October 2017
Tags:
Assessing Gender Equality: Athena Swan
The Faculty of Economics Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Committee was formed in October 2017 and includes academics, administrators and students.
Published on - Wednesday 11th October 2017
Tags:
Dr. Cavalcanti appointed to the Economic Journal's board as Associate Editor
Dr. Tiago Cavalcanti been invited to be an Associate Editor for the Economic Journal.
Published on - Wednesday 11th October 2017
The Tripos makes it to the top of two University Tables
The Faculty of Economics is delighted to announce that the Economics Tripos has been ranked top in both the Guardian and The Complete University Guide league tables.
Published on - Wednesday 4th October 2017
Prof. Goyal has been elected to the Ganshof Der Meersch Chair in Brussels
Prof Sanjeev Goyal is the holder of the next Ganshof van der Meersch Chair. In Spring 2018 he will deliver a cycle of lectures at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he will be welcomed by Professors Anne Weyembergh (Institute for European Studies), Patrick Legros and André Sapir.
Published on - Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Kenneth Arrow Tribute by Partha Dasgupta
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta has written a tribute to Professor Kenneth Arrow for the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Published on - Monday 2nd October 2017
Oliver Exton elected as UKDS Data Impact Fellow 2017
The Faculty is delighted to announce that PhD student Oliver Exton has been elected as one of the UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows for 2017.
Published on - Thursday 28th September 2017
Dr Anger-Kraavi appointed to International Advisory Positions
Annela Anger-Kraavi, who is a College Lecturer in Economics at Downing College in Cambridge and researcher at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership as well as Chief Executive of the Cambridge Trust of New Thinking in Economics, has been appointed to two leading international positions, as special advisor to the European Council on international climate policy and as vice chair of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's body for Scientific and Technological Advice.
Published on - Wednesday 27th September 2017
Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti "In a Great Recession, the case for Flexible Exchange Rates is Alive and Well"
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Gernot Müller and Keith Kuester's article "In a Great Recession, the case for flexible exchange rates is alive and well" has been published on the VoxEU website..
Published on - Wednesday 20th September 2017
Dr Chang's article on Korean democracy published in The New York Times
Dr Ha-Joon Chang's article on Korean democracy, titled, 'South Koreans Worked a Democratic Miracle. Can They Do It Again?', was published in The New York Times on 14 September 2017.
Published on - Friday 15th September 2017
Prof. Ogilvie to give Keynote Lecture in Helsinki
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie is giving the public keynote lecture at the final conference of the project on "The Making of Commercial Law" in Helsinki on 26 September 2017.
Published on - Monday 4th September 2017
Tags:
1st Year Student wins an Undergraduate of the Year Award
The Faculty would like to congratulate first-year economics student, Ekaterina Christova who won The Future CFO of the Year Award at this years Undergraduate of the Year Awards.
Published on - Monday 14th August 2017
Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti "Rethinking Competitiveness, Structural Reforms, and Macro Policy"
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will deliver the keynote address at the conference entitled "Rethinking Competitiveness, Structural Reforms, and Macro Policy". The conference is organised by the Bank of Italy, CEPR and the Central Bank Research Association and will take place on October 5th 2017.
Published on - Tuesday 17th October 2017
Tags: Prof. Corsetti to speak at the RFAs Research Seminar in Singapore
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will speak at the 1st Joint Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) Research Seminar (AMRO, ESM and FLAR) in Singapore, Sept 7th 2017, on "Official lending strategies during the euro area crisis" (joint paper with Aitor Erce and Timothy Uy).
Published on - Wednesday 6th September 2017
Tags: 
Keynes Fund - Call for Projects 2017
The Keynes Fund is running it's eleventh Call for Projects. The deadline for project proposals is 15th September 2017
Published on - Wednesday 2nd August 2017
Dr. Bateman debates Brexit on Radio 4
Dr Victoria Bateman was asked to debate Brexit and the latest GDP growth figures with a leading Brexiteer, on Radio 4's World at One programme. You can listen online or download the podcast.
Published on - Wednesday 26th July 2017
Tags:
IEA Roundtable on the Economics of Religion Report
Dr Sriya Iyer has written a report on the IEA Roundtable on the Economics of Religion that took place on the 10-11th July 2017 at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Published on - Tuesday 18th July 2017
Tags: Dr. Crowley talks to BBC World Service
Dr. Meredith Crowley spoke to the BBC World Service's Newshour Extra programme about globalization and her ESRC Brexit grant research. A podcast of the programme is available on the BBC website.
Published on - Friday 7th July 2017
Faculty Senior Academic Promotions
Vasco Carvalho, Sara Horrell, Pontus Rendahl and Petra Geraats have all been successful in the Faculty's Senior Academic Promotions.
Published on - Thursday 15th June 2017
Workshop held in Honour of Prof. Dasgupta
The James S McDonnell Foundation, St Louis, held a workshop on Complex Systems Science in honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta at St John's College, Cambridge on 7th-8th of June 2017.
Published on - Thursday 15th June 2017
Faculty Away Day May 23 2017
The Faculty held it's annual Away Day on the 23rd May 2017 at Madingley Hall, Cambridge.
Published on - Wednesday 14th June 2017
Prof. Dasgupta inducted as Fellow of the AERE
Professor Partha Dasgupta was recently inducted as Fellow of the (American) Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Unfortunately Prof. Dasgupta was unable to attend the ceremony, but his acceptance letter was read at the occasion by the current President, Laura Taylor.
Published on - Thursday 8th June 2017
Prof. Corsetti to talk at the Annual MacCaLM Conference
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti is giving a talk on 'Capital flows and monetary policy trade-offs' at the Annual MacCaLM Conference, University of Edinburgh on 21st June 2017.
Published on - Wednesday 7th June 2017
Tags: 
Dr. Edoardo Gallo awarded an Early Career Fellowship from CRASSH
The Early Career Fellowship scheme at CRASSH, jointly funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and the Schools of Arts & Humanities and Humanities & Social Sciences, allows Cambridge University Teaching Officers and College Teaching Officers to apply for an additional term of research leave in order to develop a new research project.
Published on - Saturday 1st April 2017
Prof. Goyal to give Public Lecture in Oxford
Professor Sanjeev Goyal will give a public lecture on "The Law of the Few" at the Oxford Mathematics Institute on 28th June 2017.
Published on - Wednesday 28th June 2017
The Tripos makes it to the top of the Guardian university table
The Guardian newspaper has released it's University league table for 2018 and the University of Cambridge Economics Tripos has come top.
Published on - Wednesday 24th May 2017
Dr. Vasco Carvalho's Research into "Supply Chain Disruptions"
Dr. Vasco Carvalho's Research has been featured in Columbia GSB's Ideas and Insights Article. Columbia Business School discusses how complex supply chains can transform local shocks into national economic malaise based on the paper "Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake", by Vasco Carvalho, Makoto Nirei, Yukiko Saito and Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi.
Published on - Wednesday 17th May 2017
Tags:
Maarten de Ridder wins Student-Led Teaching Award for Best Lecturer
Phd student Maarten de Ridder has won one of the Cambridge Student Union's, Student-Led Teaching Awards and will be honored at a ceremony in the University Combination Room on May 9th.
Published on - Thursday 11th May 2017
Dr. Mohaddes's Research Covered in the Financial Times
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's paper "Is There a Debt-Threshold Effect on Output Growth?" (joint with Alexander Chudik, M. Hashem Pesaran and Mehdi Raissi), which was published this month in The Review of Economics and Statistics, was covered in the Financial Times today.
Published on - Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Tags: 
Dr. Crowley, Prof. Corsetti and Dr. Bartels (Law) win £300k ESRC grant.
Dr. Meredith Crowley, with co-investigators Prof. Corsetti and Dr. Bartels (Law), wins £300k ESRC grant to study the impact of trade policy and exchange rate shocks on trade volumes and prices in post-Brexit Britain.
Published on - Tuesday 18th April 2017
Tags:Dr Iyer Interviewed by ECNMY: What is the economics of religion really about?
Dr Sriya Iyer talks "What is the economics of religion really about?" in an article and interview was published in ECNMY.
Published on - Tuesday 18th April 2017
Tags:Holy Wars: Temple Desecrations in Medieval India
Dr. Sriya Iyer's Working Paper "Holy Wars: Temple Desecrations in Medieval India" (Cambridge-INET Working Paper wp1702 and Cambridge Working Papers in Economics cwpe1705) features in an article she (with Anand Shrivastava and Rohit Ticku) has written for Ideas of India.
Published on - Monday 27th March 2017
Tags:Dr Felix Martin - "Money: The Unauthorised Biography"
Dr Felix Martin (Institute for New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies) will give a on "Money:the unauthorised biography" at Seminar Room, No. 1, Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, on March 13th 2017, from 17:00-18:30pm.
Published on - Thursday 9th March 2017
Marshall Library's Three-legged Cat 'relieves exam stress'
A three-legged cat adopted by the Marshall Library is being used to help relieve students' stress during the exam season. Jasper, a five-year-old ginger tom, belongs to the deputy librarian at the Marshall Library of Economics.
Published on - Monday 10th April 2017
The Life and Work of Frank Hahn Exhibition
The Marshall Library launched The Life and Work of Frank Hahn Exhibition this week. The Exhibition will be on display in the Marshall Library Social Area until 22nd April, 2017.
Published on - Tuesday 28th February 2017
Prof. Sanjeev Goyal Publishes Two New Papers
Professor Sanjeev Goyal and Julien Gagnon's paper "Networks, Markets, and Inequality" is the lead article in the latest American Economic Review and his joint paper with Marcin Dziubinski "How to defend a network?" has also been published in the Theoretical Economics journal.
Published on - Tuesday 7th March 2017
Tags:Professor Kenneth J. Arrow, 1921-2017
The Faculty is saddened to announce that Professor Kenneth J. Arrow has died at age 95. He was the Joan Kenney Professor Emeritus of Economics and Professor Emeritus of Operations Research at Stanford University.
Published on - Friday 24th February 2017
Eric Maskin and Baron Turner Receive Honorary Degrees
The Faculty is pleased to announce that the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa will conferred on Eric Maskin and that the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa will be conferred on Jonathan Adair, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell.
Published on - Thursday 16th February 2017
Andy Haldane - "Whose Recovery?"
Andy Haldane(Chief Economist at the Bank of England) will give the next St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity on "Whose Recovery?". The event will be held Wednesday 22 February 2017, 18:00 -19:30, in the Mill Lane Lecture Room 1.
Published on - Wednesday 22nd February 2017
Muhammad Farid Ahmed awarded G-Research PhD Prize
The Faculty is delighted to announce that PhD student Muhammad Farid Ahmed was recently awarded the G-Research PhD Prize for his paper on "A Method for analysing the frequency of market efficiency".
Published on - Wednesday 8th February 2017
The Economics of Post Factual Democracy
Key Institute leaders Rob Johnson and William Janeway will be keynote speakers in a two-day event in Copenhagen on February 9 and 10 on the meeting the challenges of the ‘post-factual’ society, in which scientific expertise is losing authority and policy debate is becoming detached from reality.
Published on - Friday 20th January 2017
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd appointed Associate Editor at the European Economic Review
The Faculty is pleased to announce that Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has been appointed an Associate Editor at the European Economic Review.
Published on - Tuesday 17th January 2017
Prof. Corsetti's Schumpeter Lecture published by the JEEA
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti's Schumpeter Lecture at the 2015 European Economic Association Meeting published by the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Published on - Tuesday 17th January 2017
Tags:
Professor Sir Anthony B. Atkinson, 1944-2017
The Faculty of Economics is deeply saddened by the death of Tony Atkinson, who passed away on 1 January 2017 at the age of 72.
Published on - Tuesday 10th January 2017
Networks, Markets, and Inequality
Professor Sanjeev Goyal and Julien Gagnon's paper on "Networks, Markets, and Inequality" has been published as the lead article in the American Economic Review.
Published on - Thursday 5th January 2017
Tags:
The Economists: The art and science of economics at Cambridge
In 1924 John Maynard Keynes, who invented macroeconomics, used a biographical essay about his mentor Alfred Marshall to muse on the qualities of a good economist.
Published on - Tuesday 3rd January 2017