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Charlie Nunn Interview

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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Banking

Finance

Financial Services

Career


Gillette Hall PhD Funding

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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Development

International Finance

Funding

World Bank


Keynes Fund Celebrates 10 years

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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Bubbles

Gender

Trade

Economic Growth


Four year grant for Debopam Bhattacharya

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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Econometrics

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Consumers

Behaviour


Sir Partha Dasgupta honoured as Champion of the Earth

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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Awards

Biodiversity

Environmental Economics

Climate Change


Women in Investment Awards 2022

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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Awards

Investment

Finance

Industry


Research indicates for every 30 Covid deaths, one extra person dies

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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COVID-19

Excess Mortality

Pandemic

Public Health


How did Treasury policy-makers approach the economic response to Covid-19?

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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COVID-19

Economic Response

Governments

Policy


The economics of electricity generation

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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Ukraine

Conflict

Exports

Electricity Generation


The history of inflation

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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Inflation

Interest Rates

Economic History

GDP


Economics Postdoc wins 2022 Edgeworth prize

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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Awards

Cointegration

Time Series

Unit Root


Faculty student wins Young Economist Award

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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Awards

Skilled Workers

Models

Social Comparisons


Slowing the spread of the next epidemic

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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COVID-19

Epidemics

Policy

Spread


Policy coordination and geographical targeting during pandemics

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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COVID-19

Geography

Governments

Policy


Nobel Prize in Economics and The Keynes Fund

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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Awards

Financial Crisis

Banks

Policy


Ukraine ‘must revamp labour laws and step up privatisation to fix economy’

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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Ukraine

Conflict

Economic Growth

Reforms


Gift set to expand Entrepreneurship Lab

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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Awards

Entrepreneurs

Innovation

Business


Economics Student Wins Gladstone Memorial Prize

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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Awards

Immigration

US

Justice System


A more expansive definition of herd immunity

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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COVID-19

Epidemiology

Herd Immunity

Policy


Fighting climate change will help economic growth

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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Climate Change

Climate Finance

Macroeconomics

Policy


PhD student wins three awards

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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Awards

Recession

Monetary Policy

Macroeconomics


Trickle-down economics: Phillips Machine shows how macroeconomy flows

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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Phillips

Hydraulic Computer

Analogue

Macroeconomics


Economics without prices and without games: The Marshall Lecture

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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Game Theory

Experimental Economics

Choice Theory

Models


Dynamic early warning of conflict

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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Conflict

Governments

Models

Risk Estimation


Four new professors in Economics faculty

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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Conflict

Development

Firms

Networks


Freedom of City of London for Professor Dasgupta

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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Awards

Biodiversity

Climate Change

Environment


Boris Johnson leaves a mixed legacy with his Brexit gambit

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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Brexit

Price Impacts

Trade

UK


Optimistic job applicants driven by pay, not WFH, post-pandemic

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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COVID-19

Job Search

Unemployment

Workers


Using machine learning to study parenting styles

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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Children

Machine Learning

Models

Parenting


Cambridge’s Economics and Econometrics recognised in REF 2021

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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Central Banks

Debt Crises

Environment

Post-Brexit


Productivity survey for Project CAPER

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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COVID-19

Gender

Inequalities

Women in Economics


Decentralized Finance and ESG Panel - Video

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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ESG

Finance

Capital Markets

Environment


Is a UK-US trade agreement getting closer?

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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Trade Deal

UK

US

Women in Economics


Professor Sriya Iyer elected to RES Council

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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Awards

Development

India

Religion


Predicting when and where conflict breaks out

Predicting when and where conflict breaks out 

Funding by the Foreign, Commonwealth and 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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Conflict

Models

Prediction

Risk Estimation


Economics student wins national poetry competition

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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Economics

Language

Colonialism

Migration


Keynes Fund 21st Call for Projects

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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Keynes

Applied Economics

Inefficiencies

Market Allocations


COVID and Economics, Explain it to a Comedian - Video

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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COVID-19

Economics

Epidemiology

Policy


Predicting Conflict - Sustainable Development Talks

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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Conflict

Forecasting

Models

Risk Estimation


Monetary Policy in a High Inflation and Volatile Environment - Video

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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Monetary Policy

High Inflation

Volatile Environment

Women in Economics


Weak links in supply chains are weaponised

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 and John Spray, Supply Chain Bottlenecks in a Pandemic.

Published on - Tuesday 10th May 2022

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Attacks

Networks

Shocks

Supply Chains


Face Value: the importance for financial analysts

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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Financial Analysts

Machine Learning

Social Psychology

Forecasting


How would an energy embargo affect Germany’s economy?

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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Energy

Production Networks

Supply Chains

Supply Networks


Building resilient supply chains

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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Firms

Markets

Production Networks

Supply Chains


Conversations with Sebastian Galiani: Episode XLV - Video

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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Economy

COVID-19

Epidemiology

Vaccines


National Poetry Competition has its youngest ever winner

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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Economics

Language

Colonialism

Migration


The Ukrainian economy: where now for the future?

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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Ukraine

Conflict

Economic Growth

Economy


How Indians view gender roles

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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COVID-19

Family

Gender

India


Keynes Lecture 2022 - Is this Time Different? Financial Follies across Centuries

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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Macroeconomics

Keynes

Economic History

Financial Crisis


The Ukraine conflict is an economic catastrophe

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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Ukraine

Conflict

Economic Growth

Economy


Behaviour and Policy During Pandemics Workshop - Videos

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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Behaviour

COVID-19

Models

Policy


The value of Universal Basic Income: worth the cost to the economy?

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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Basic Income

Employment

Inequalities

Labour Market


Better UK sick pay will help us live with Covid

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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COVID-19

Inequalities

Public Finances

Sick Pay


Evidence of the pandemic on healthcare

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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COVID-19

Health

NHS

Public Health


Economics Observatory (ECO) – Special Issue on Decolonisation and Economics

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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Decolonising Economics

Policy

Public

Women in Economics


What is ‘the Cambridge difference’ in teaching economics?

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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Education

Philosophy

Politics

Teaching


Strain on health services led to extra non-covid deaths

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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COVID-19

Health

NHS

Public Health


Tackling Covid by talking to each other

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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Behaviour

COVID-19

Epidemiology

Public Policy


Kamiar Mohaddes paper runner-up in FT awards

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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Awards

Climate Change

Climate Finance

Environment


Impact of Omicron on UK economy expected to be modest

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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COVID-19

Omicron

UK Economy

Variants


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