News for 2020
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A recent report co-authored by Dr Arun Advani, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick and Co-chair of the national campaig...
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We are pleased to report that Rethink Economics Society hosted their first online conference on 31 October to discuss “Public Debt Sustainability and M...
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A team of international researchers including economists from the University of Warwick has helped to inform public health messaging adopted by government of...
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The eighth edition and the first virtual version of Warwick Economics PhD Conference was held on 6-7 November 2020. The event was organised by PhD students w...
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We are delighted to report that Warwick Economics alumna (BSc Economics, Politics and International Studies, 2006) has been selected as one of Financial News...
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The Department of Economics, University of Warwick, has published the first episode in its new podcast series, Warwick Econ Sounds.
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We are pleased to report that Maike Kusserow, Warwick Economics 2020 graduate and Research in Applied Economics (RAE) Prize Winner has had a short article pu...
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We are delighted that you will be joining the Department of Economics this academic year.
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The Department is pleased to announce that Economics at Warwick has been ranked 4th in the specialist subject table for Economics in the Times and The Sunday...
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Warwick researchers will carry out the first detailed study into the impact of English schools’ conversions to autonomous academies on the teacher labo...
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Most European citizens do not particularly care about climate change. That’s the striking finding from new research on the views of 70,000 randomly sam...
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We are pleased to announce that the following new members of staff have joined the Department of Economics:
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We are delighted to announce that several of our academic staff from the Department of Economics have received promotions over the last few months:
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We are delighted to provide a final update on the successes of our Economics PhD job market candidates who have found placements at prestigious universities ...
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Arianna Ornaghi from the Department of Economics has been awarded the 2020 EEA Young Economist Award.
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The University’s Outstanding Student Contribution Award (OSCA) recognises Warwick students that not only excel academically but find the time to engage...
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We are delighted to announce that Robin Naylor, Professor of Economics, is the winner of an Advance HE National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) 2020.
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We are pleased to report that the Sutton Trust Summer School (STSS) which ran between 27-31 July was a great success. The programme, offered to Year 12 high ...
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The Department of Economics is delighted to announce a new student society which is currently recruiting new members.
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Emeritus Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow of CAGE, Mark Harrison has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of his out...
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We are delighted to announce that two of our postgraduate research students have been recognised in the 2020 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postg...
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We are delighted to report that in the National Student Survey (NSS) 2020, 91.4 per cent of our students in the Department of Economics said that they were s...
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Henry Tse and Avan Tam, two final year students studying BSc Economics were selected to represent the University of Warwick amongst a team of four at the BI ...
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Tributes have been made to Ben Knight, Professor of Practice and Associate Professor of Economics, who has sadly passed away at the age of 78.
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A Warwick Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) student was recently selected as a finalist to present her Research in Applied Economics (RAE) paper onlin...
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Researchers from the Department of Economics and CAGE Research Centre, University of Warwick are part of an initiative by the economic research community tha...
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To mark ten years since Chancellor George Osborne delivered the “austerity budget,” the CAGE Research Centre at the University of Warwick has pub...
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As conferences worldwide have been cancelled in the wake of Covid-19 and due to stringent lockdown measures, Economics PhD student Ivan Yotzov has co-organis...
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We are proud to announce that Karmini Sharma, a PhD student in the Department of Economics, has been selected as one of the qualified Young Economists for th...
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A Warwick Economics student - Christian Orr, was part of a team that represented the University of Warwick at the John Molson Undergraduate Case Competition ...
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A new e-book co-edited by economics historian Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics and Stephen Broadberry has been published in the week ...
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Dr Claudia Rei, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, comments on reports that the conoravirus may cause a bigger fall in UK GDP than the South...
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Lack of co-ordination between countries can result in excessive delays to their handling of pandemics, modelling from researchers at the University of Warwic...
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Researchers from the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick and the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) have examined the change in the r...
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Central banks throughout the world are charged not only with price stability, but also with maintaining financial stability. For example, the Federal Reserve...
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Although the job market season is not yet concluded, Economics job market candidates have had some great results so far.
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We are delighted to announce that a record number of 18 Economics undergraduate students have been accepted to present their papers at the British Conference...
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We are pleased to report that on 18-19 January 2020, the Department of Economics hosted the first event of this kind in the UK - Women in Economics Student W...
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A Warwick Economics alumna has won the Investment Week "Investment Woman of the Year (Small/Medium Firms)" Award in recognition of her work as a Policy Lead.