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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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
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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
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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
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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.
Published on - Thursday 1st December 2022
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Research indicates for every 30 Covid deaths, one extra person dies
New research by Professor Christopher Rauh has discovered that there was at least one additional preventable death among hospital patients for every 30 deaths that can be linked to the recent pandemic.
Published on - Tuesday 1st November 2022
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How did Treasury policy-makers approach the economic response to Covid-19?
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has published an article in the Economics Observatory. With the worst of the pandemic now behind us, it is time to take stock of how the government dealt with the crisis and to learn important lessons for the future
Published on - Thursday 24th November 2022
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The economics of electricity generation
The Faculty’s Assistant Professor Alexander Rodnyansky has recently been interviewed on CNN from Kyiv, on the economics of electricity generation.
Published on - Friday 18th November 2022
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The history of inflation
The Faculty's Victoria Bateman takes part in a new BBC Radio 4 economics series on “Understand: the economy”, presented by Tim Harford.
Published on - Monday 7th November 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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Slowing the spread of the next epidemic
VoxTalks have released a podcast based on Dr Flavio Toxvaerd's recent paper, "Epidemics in Space: Control, Targeting and Delegation".
Published on - Friday 21st October 2022
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Policy coordination and geographical targeting during pandemics
Dr Flavio Toxvaerd and Darren Hoover (Faculty of Economics, PhD student) have published an article for VOXeu that considers whether countries coordinate control measures during pandemics and should policies be locally targeted?
Published on - Wednesday 12th October 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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Ukraine ‘must revamp labour laws and step up privatisation to fix economy’
Dr Alexander Rodnyansky from the Faculty of Economics has been extensively quoted in the UK’s Guardian Newspaper about the cost of rebuilding Ukraine.
Published on - Tuesday 4th 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.
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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A more expansive definition of herd immunity
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for The Deepness, an online dive deep into the world of science.
Published on - Thursday 22nd September 2022
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Fighting climate change will help economic growth
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's research into long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change, has been featured in an article on the University of Cambridge news site.
Published on - Tuesday 16th August 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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Trickle-down economics: Phillips Machine shows how macroeconomy flows
A rare demonstration of the Faculty's Phillips Hydraulic Computer has shown how the analogue computer uses fluidic logic to model the workings of the United Kingdom economy.
Published on - Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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Economics without prices and without games: The Marshall Lecture
Professor Ariel Rubinstein was invited to give the Marshall Lecture for 2022, and brought insights into Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Choice Theory.
Published on - Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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Dynamic early warning of conflict
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office now has access to a forecast and costing model which uses machine learning and newspaper text to predict outbreaks and intensity of internal armed conflict.
Published on - Monday 20th June 2022
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Four new professors in Economics faculty
Four academics at the Faculty of Economics have been promoted to Professor grades at the University of Cambridge.
Published on - Thursday 16th June 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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Boris Johnson leaves a mixed legacy with his Brexit gambit
The e-book, “The Economics of Brexit: What Have We Learned?”, which Prof. Meredith Crowley provided a chapter for, has been quoted in a New York Times article about Boris Johnson's prime ministerial legacy.
Published on - Wednesday 13th July 2022
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Optimistic job applicants driven by pay, not WFH, post-pandemic
Research by Assistant Professor Christopher Rauh, indicates job seekers are more hopeful than they should be, and are wrong in believing there’s not much to be gained from spending more time hunting for a job.
Published on - Monday 23rd May 2022
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Using machine learning to study parenting styles
Dr. Christopher Rauh and Laëtitia Renée (Université de Montréal) have published an article for VOXeu that uses unsupervised machine learning to measure parenting styles applied to a panel of Canadian children from age five months to just over two years.
Published on - Monday 11th July 2022
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Cambridge’s Economics and Econometrics recognised in REF 2021
The results from the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) have highlighted the global impact of the University of Cambridge’s research in the field of economics, with an acknowledgement of the world leading quality of our overall research submission marked by both an increase in GPA, and an increase in the percentage of the submission scored as ‘world leading’.
Published on - Thursday 12th May 2022
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Productivity survey for Project CAPER
The Faculty's Prof. Chryssi Giannitsarou has sent out a survey in Qualtrics Cambridge for her ongoing research project on Covid-19 and academic productivity in economics research. Please do respond if you receive an invite.
Published on - Wednesday 8th June 2022
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Decentralized Finance and ESG Panel - Video
Watch the video of the "Decentralized Finance and ESG: Better or Worse?" Panel event, featuring Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., Annette L. Nazareth, Lin Peng and Wei Xiong.
Published on - Tuesday 7th June 2022
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Is a UK-US trade agreement getting closer?
Professor Meredith Crowley discusses US tariffs on UK steel replaced by quotas on the BBC TV News World Business Outlook.
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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Predicting when and where conflict breaks out
Funding by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has allowed development of a new model for forecasting conflict, led by Assistant Professor Christopher Rauh.
Published on - Thursday 5th May 2022
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Economics student wins national poetry competition
A University of Cambridge student at the Faculty of Economics has become the youngest person to ever win the National Poetry Competition, organised by The Poetry Society.
Published on - Wednesday 4th May 2022
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Keynes Fund 21st Call for Projects
The Keynes Fund has announced it's 21st Call for Projects. The deadline for project proposals is 30th September 2022. Please see the Keynes Fund site for the criteria and details of the project applications process.
Published on - Wednesday 25th May 2022
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COVID and Economics, Explain it to a Comedian - Video
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed by Comedian Sammy Obeid, for his "Explain it to a comedian" video series.
Published on - Tuesday 24th May 2022
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Predicting Conflict - Sustainable Development Talks
Dr. Christopher Rauh spoke to the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks series about his research into conflict prediction.
Published on - Monday 23rd May 2022
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Monetary Policy in a High Inflation and Volatile Environment - Video
Dr Petra Geraats gave a presentation on "Taking the Right Path: Monetary Policy in a High Inflation and Volatile Environment" at an event organised by the Resolution Foundation and the Money, Macro and Finance Society.
Published on - Tuesday 10th May 2022
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Weak links in supply chains are weaponised
An article in Nature magazine this week notes that weak links in finance and supply chains can be easily weaponised. It quotes the paper Prof. Vasco Carvalho, Prof. Matthew Elliot & John Spray, Supply Chain Bottlenecks in a Pandemic.
Published on - Tuesday 10th May 2022
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Face Value: the importance for financial analysts
Professor Peng has applied social psychology and machine learning techniques to study the importance of first impressions about Financial Analysts, and found perceived trustworthiness and dominance improve forecast accuracy.
Published on - Thursday 21st April 2022
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How would an energy embargo affect Germany’s economy?
Professor Vasco Carvalho's research on Production Networks and Professor Matthew Elliott's research into Supply Network Formation and Fragility has been quoted in The Economist.
Published on - Friday 29th April 2022
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Building resilient supply chains
Professor Vasco Carvalho's research on Production Networks, has been extensively quoted in the 2022 Economic Report of the US President, on 'Building Resilient Supply Chains'.
Published on - Thursday 28th April 2022
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Conversations with Sebastian Galiani: Episode XLV - Video
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed by Sebastian Galiani, for his 'Conversations' video series (in Spanish).
Published on - Thursday 7th April 2022
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National Poetry Competition has its youngest ever winner
Faculty of Economics student, Eric Yip’s National Poetry Competition win, has been featured in the Guardian.
Published on - Thursday 31st March 2022
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The Ukrainian economy: where now for the future?
A University of Cambridge academic at the Faculty of Economics has warned that the impact of the war will be disastrous for the Ukrainian economy, regardless of the outcome.
Published on - Monday 14th March 2022
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How Indians view gender roles
The latest report from the Pew Research Center features expert advice from the Faculty’s Professor Sriya Iyer. It has found traditional gender norms are still prevalent.
Published on - Monday 7th March 2022
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Keynes Lecture 2022 - Is this Time Different? Financial Follies across Centuries
Professor Hélène Rey (Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at the London Business School) delivered the annual Faculty of Economics Keynes Lecture, focusing on whether it is possible to predict a macroeconomic financial crisis.
Published on - Tuesday 22nd March 2022
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The Ukraine conflict is an economic catastrophe
Dr Alexander Rodnyansky, who is currently an economic adviser to President Zelenskyy, has been speaking to news outlets about the effect of the current conflict on the Ukrainian economy and people.
Published on - Friday 4th March 2022
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Behaviour and Policy During Pandemics Workshop - Videos
Watch videos from the Behaviour and Policy During Pandemics: Models and Methods Workshop, hosted by Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and the Isaac Newton Institute.
Published on - Friday 4th March 2022
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The value of Universal Basic Income: worth the cost to the economy?
A majority of people would be better off by replacing means-tested transfer programs to aid the poor with a Universal Basic Income, according to the Faculty’s Chris Rauh.
Published on - Monday 31st January 2022
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Better UK sick pay will help us live with Covid
Dr. Christopher Rauh's research into the value of sick pay, has been mentioned in a Financial Times article.
Published on - Tuesday 1st March 2022
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Evidence of the pandemic on healthcare
The faculty’s Dr Christopher Rauh has jointly published new evidence of the long and short term impacts of the pandemic on non-Covid-related healthcare.
Published on - Tuesday 25th January 2022
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Economics Observatory (ECO) – Special Issue on Decolonisation and Economics
Dr Carolina Alves will be editing a series of articles for the Economics Observatory (ECO) on decolonisation and economics along with Dr Ingrid Kvangraven (King’s College London, D-Econ) and editorial managers Ashley Lait and Charlie Meyrick.
Published on - Monday 14th February 2022
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What is ‘the Cambridge difference’ in teaching economics?
Professor Tiago Cavalcanti explains what matters is studying economic problems and their issues, plus additional training in political philosophy.
Published on - Thursday 10th February 2022
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Strain on health services led to extra non-covid deaths
Dr. Christopher Rauh and Thiemo Fetzer's (University of Warwick) research into the pressures put on public health care during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been picked up by a range of media sources.
Published on - Wednesday 26th January 2022
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Tackling Covid by talking to each other
In the Financial Times Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd argues that we can’t tackle Covid unless economists and epidemiologists talk to each other.
Published on - Wednesday 26th January 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.
Published on - Thursday 20th January 2022
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Impact of Omicron on UK economy expected to be modest
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in the Financial Times newspaper's article on the economic impact of the Omicron variant.
Published on - Friday 14th January 2022
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