News for 2017
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Warwick now one of only 3 European institutions to have access to this data
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Two of our Economics students were amongst four finalists for the International Atlantic Economic Society’s 13th annual Best Undergraduate Paper C...
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New evidence on how much the referendum vote is already costing UK households.
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We are delighted to invite all second and third year students to join Jeremy Smith (Head of Department), Robin Naylor (Director of Studies) or Elizabeth Jone...
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New research conducted reveals which types of people are most likely to under-report their taxes.
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Congratulations to Nick Crafts on winning the Jonathan R. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History.
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On the evening of Monday 2nd October, Butterworth Hall opened its door to a packed audience for the fifth annual Warwick Question Time.
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Economics ranked in the 'Top 5' in The Times/Sunday Times' Good University Guide 2018.
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We are delighted that you will be joining the Department of Economics this academic year.
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Matteo Gamalerio from the Department of Economics has been awarded the 2017 EEA Young Economist Award.
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We are pleased to announce that our CAGE Research Associate and former Warwick Economics PhD student Christoph Koenig has won this year's Best Paper Award at...
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We were pleased to announce that not one, but two of our Economics students won this year's Outstanding Student Contribution Awards (OSCA).
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The annual Political Economy of Development Conference featured 12 seminar talks and 12 discussants on political economy of development spread over two days.
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Professorial Teaching Fellow Elizabeth Jones, has been awarded the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE) at the Learning and Teaching Showcase 2017.
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We are pleased to announce that one of our researchers has been awarded the Parliamentary Academic Fellowship.
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Evidence of Midlife Suicide among Females in Western Society. New research from the University of Warwick documents modern international evidence of a midlif...
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On 19-20 May, 2017, our Department collaborated with two US university departments to discuss political economy research in Venice.
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Economics students and staff as well as the wider university community had the opportunity to listen to Oliver Hart deliver a guest lecture on 'Incomplete Co...
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This year we hosted the fifth annual Warwick Economics PhD Conference on 26-27 April 2017. The event was organised by PhD students with the help of the Event...
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The Department of Economics at Warwick is pleased to be ranked 3rd in the subject league table for Economics in the Complete University Guide 2018 cementing ...
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We are pleased to announce that three final year Economics students presented their RAE dissertations at the prestigious Carroll Round International Conferen...
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First year undergraduate student Bisman Deu has been listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia List – Class of 2017.
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March 20 has been established as the International Day of Happiness. Read an article published by CAGE and check out Daniel Sgroi's new blogpost on 'Measurin...
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The QS World University Rankings by Subject published on 8 March 2017, has declared Economics at the University of Warwick to be 25th in the world’s to...
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On 16 January 2017 we held our annual Students’ Question Time event. Following on from our main Question Time event in October, where we invite politic...
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Adam Brzezinski, who graduated with a First Class BSc (Econ) degree was awarded the prize for the 'Best Undergraduate Paper' at the Atlantic Economic Society...