News for 2013
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Crowd-sourced technologies reveal the tensions between information providers and consumers
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High-skilled immigration benefits scientific progress, new research shows
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Air pollution affects students’ performance on high-stakes tests and long-term educational and career prospects, new research shows
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At the British High Commission in Singapore last week, Professor Andrew Oswald delivered a Distinguished Visitor Lecture to Warwick alumni on 'Happiness arou...
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Domestic spying and surveillance are rarely out of today’s headlines. Prof. Mark Harrison will discuss how real-life totalitarian secret police go abou...
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The Department welcomes the nomination of Dr. Janet Yellen as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Janet will be the first woman to hold t...
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In the LSE British Politics & Policy blog, Warwick's Eugenio Proto, Michela Redoano and Federica Liberini advise the Prime Minister to keep the British p...
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In a broadcast for the BBC World Service Forum, Rocco Macchiavello considers whether we're too obsessed with metrics and whether we're measuring the right va...
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In his latest blog, Mark Harrison reflects on Milliband, Marx and the masses.
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As the British Bankers' Association releases figures showing that credit card debt has reached record levels, Michael McMahon explains why the rise in credit...
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Stagecoach has named nine Unibus buses after the founding professors of the University. Economics professor Dick Sargent, together with family members of the...
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Missed this year's Alumni Day? Catch up on videos of the day's presentations on the theme of 'happiness', featuring economists Andrew Oswald, Tim Harford, Ni...
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Professors Wiji Arulampalam and Ben Lockwood have been awarded an Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) grant worth �1.75 million to investigat...
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In an article in the Knowledge Centre this week, Mike Waterson discusses whether Ed Miliband was right to make his comments about taking action against energ...
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The West Midlands region saw a 6% increase in property prices last month. Andrew Oswald tells the Birmingham Post that the inflation caused by the Help To Bu...
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The number of British people living beyond the age of 100 has hit a record high. In an article in the Daily Express, Jonathan Cave describes the 'crushing pr...
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Lord Gus O'Donnell, Jacqui Smith and Douglas Carswell MP join Abhinay Muthoo and Nigel Thrift for a lively economics debate in the Butterworth Hall today at ...
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As China struggles to rebalance its economy, Mark Harrison considers the opportunities and risks for Britain.
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'Bank on It' - the theatre production inspired by Warwick's Department of Economics - will return to Coventry this autumn after a critically-acclaimed summer...
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Head of Department, Professor Abhinay Muthoo, extends a warm welcome to all new students joining us this year.
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Financial stress means not just lower income, but also less mental bandwidth, according to research by Anandi Mani, published in Science magazine.
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The problem with the alternatives to capitalism is not that we cannot find them. It is that the people who went searching for them fell into a dream and woke...
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As the Gareth Bale transfer saga drags on, Abhinay Muthoo has some words of wisdom for Real and Spurs on the art and science of negotiation (published in The...
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Women lobbyists in Washington are outperforming men at bringing in high-value contracts. In an article in the National Journal, Mirko Draca explains that men...
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In his latest blog, Mark Harrison argues against John Aziz's article 'In defence of Protectionism' for Pieria, making the case that a country's size and weal...
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Read about the 2013 Summer Graduation and find out who received special student and staff awards for outstanding achievement.
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Warwick Economics Exchange will host its new Dissertation Colloquium at Warwick on Monday 5 August 2013, providing Master’s students a platform to pres...
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George A. Akerlof's 'Phishing for Phools' Distinguished Visitor lecture at Warwick on 11 June is now available as an MP3 to download.
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Men are 'softened' when they have a daughter, becoming more generous and liberal in their views, according to an article in the New York Times last week. And...
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Dr Fabian Waldinger has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant worth €733,621 to investigate the effect of individu...
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In a blog for The Guardian, former Cabinet Secretary Lord O'Donnell backs the new Warwick Policy Lab, saying its freedom from agendas and time pressures will...
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As Emeritus Professor Ken Wallis celebrates his 75th birthday, Mark Harrison shares some invaluable lessons from the once Chair of the Department of Economic...
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Congratulations to all our economics graduates who received their degrees at Butterworth Hall last week. Remember your big day on our Storify page.
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The rupee’s falling value shows a malaise in the economy, observes Bhaskar Dutta in The Telegraph India. The Indian economy is in more than a spot of b...
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A shale oil and gas revolution will lower energy costs and rearrange global geopolitical equations, predicts Bhaskar Dutta in the Financial Express.
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Stimulus, not austerity, is the key to global economic recovery, Robert Skidelsky writes in The Guardian economics blog. In the argument between austerity an...
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The Warwick Policy Lab will chart its quest for innovative and cost-effective policy solutions in a new blog series for The Guardian. Abhinay Muthoo and Siob...
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What it will take to get policymakers to use academic evidence? Abhinay Muthoo joined the Guardian debate last week, to coincide with the launch of The Guard...
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Two PPE students have been awarded Outstanding Student Contribution Awards (OSCAs) for 2013. The final year undergraduate students are being honoured for mak...
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Fiscal policy and popcorn makes for a surprisingly happy marriage according to The Guardian's review of 'Bank on It', the new Theatre-Rites production inspir...
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A new lecture series is starting on Monday by Professor Claudio Mezzetti (Warwick) and Professor Leslie Marx (Duke) entitled Foundations for Research in Coll...
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On Tuesday 11 June, Nobel Prize-winning economist George A. Akerlof will present his Distinguished Visitor Lecture on 'Phishing for Phools' at the Unive...
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A Warwick economist who calculated he had just a one in 285,000 chance of meeting Mrs Right got married last weekend. Peter Backus wrote a paper on 'Why I do...
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The Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) will hold its Interim Conference at Warwick from 28-31 May 2013. Themes include: 'Accountin...
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The Summer School in Economic Growth 2013 offers graduate students and young researchers the opportunity to interact with leading economists and learn a...
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Warwick Alumni Day 2013 takes place on Saturday 18 May. Register on the day to hear economic perspectives on the theme of 'happiness' from Andrew Oswald, Tim...
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The European Central Bank must adopt targeted lending in the euro area sooner rather than later, says Michael McMahon in The Economist. In the latest Free Ex...
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Keynes cared little about the long run, says Robert Skidelsky in the Washington Post, but not because he was gay. Historian Niall Ferguson stirred up a horne...
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An extra hour per week on core subjects would raise educational standards, according to research by Victor Lavy featured in The Economist. That should please...
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Increasing numbers of home owners significantly impact the labour market, according to new research from Andrew Oswald. 'Does high home ownership impair the ...
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Andrew Oswald and Nick Crafts discuss the real data behind the debate on Radio 4's 'More or Less' show with Tim Harford. Margaret Thatcher was a divisive fig...
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Warwick Economics is ranked as the top economics department in the UK. The economics department rankings in the Complete University Guide’s University ...
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Cuts in policing and increasing wage inequality may herald the end of the trend in falling crime levels, argues Mirko Draca in Public Service Europe. Mirko's...
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Peter Hammond has been awarded Economic Theory Fellowship from the Society for the Advancement of Economics Theory (SAET). Economic Theory Fellows are chosen...
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And in the square mile? Richard Fausto is a Marlowe-inspired morality play set amidst the banking crisis, written by Marcus Miller. Marcus recently created a...
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For Neharika Rajagopalan, studying economics at 'one of the best universities in the U.K.' was 'a dream come true'. In an article in The Hindu on Monday, Neh...
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Osborne's new social policy echoes the report that created workhouses for the poor, says Geoffrey Renshaw in The Guardian. In a letter to The Guardian, Warwi...
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If the 80s were anything to go by, benefit cuts could create more jobs, according to Nick Crafts in the Financial Times. Nick was commenting on the FT invest...
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As regional parties flex their political muscle in India, Bhaskar Dutta asks if fiscal decentralisation is the future for the country. In an article for the ...
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Global media coverage and No. 1 in The Economist’s recommended writing list. It’s been a busy week for Nick Crafts. The death of Margaret Thatche...
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Mark Harrison grudgingly accepts the Iron Lady may have been right about society, we just weren't ready to hear it. Along with millions of others, Mark Harri...
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Nick Crafts on the death of Lady Thatcher, and her governments' short and long term impact on economic performance. The policies of the Conservative governme...
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Mark Harrison reviews North Korea's seemingly mad actions over the past month and finds them costly but calculated. A continuation of 'The shadow of rational...
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Nick Crafts describes George Osborne’s New Buy scheme as ‘misguided’ in the Sunday Times, suggesting the Chancellor learn from post-war Bri...
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Home is where the data is with new personal digital hub. A new �1.2 million research project between the University of Warwick and five other instituti...
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In an article in The Scotsman, Robert Skidelsky proposes that Ch�vezism may prove to be a significant phenomenon far beyond its homeland and suggests ...
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In the Financial Times, Marcus Miller argues that, although official statistics overstated the real contribution of banks to national output before the finan...
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Mark Harrison and Debin Ma (LSE), in a New CAGE-Chatham House briefing paper titled “Soaring Dragon, Stumbling Bear”, discuss China’s rise ...
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This_Is_Tomorrow blogger Matt Trueman sums up a day in ‘the Dragon’s Den in double time’. More…
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Economics Professor Sascha O. Becker’s research showing that the death of a founder in the first decade of a company’s existence wreaks lasting d...
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Lord Professor Meghnad Desai, an economist by profession and a keen observer of British politics, will be speaking at the University of Warwick Department of...
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Professor Abhinay Muthoo's column on the tunnel effect in today’s economies has been published by Public Service Europe.
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Professor Mike Waterson was interviewed on Tuesday February 19th on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire’s “Drivetime” show in connection with an ...
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A new study by Professor Sascha O. Becker (Warwick Economics and CAGE) and Professor Hans K. Hvide (University of Bergen) sheds light on exactly how much a f...
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Professor Andrew Oswald will speak at Alumni day 2013: The Happiness Effect.
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Writing in the Financial Times, Warwick Professors Marcus Miller and Robert Skidelsky argue that the UK economy needs more innovation and more investments in...
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The Atlantic Economic Journal has published the research paper of Jia Yi Leong, a recent graduate of the University of Warwick Department of Economics underg...
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David Miles, one of the nine members of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, will be speaking at the University of Wa...