News for 2023
December 2023
Congratulations to Associate Professor Mingli Chen who has been appointed as Associate Editor of the Journal of Econometrics from 1 January 2024
On Tuesday 28th November Professor Jonathan Haskel CBE, external member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), delivered a speech...
November 2023
As the leading AI countries, businesses and AI experts gathered this week for the first AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park to discuss the global future of AI...
October 2023
The Department of Economics at Warwick has been placed 29th in the world amongst university economics departments, according to 2023 Global Ranking...
We are pleased to report that this year’s results of two national postgraduate student surveys show high levels of satisfaction amongst our postgraduat...
The Department is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Nick Crafts, who died on 6 October 2023 after a long illness.
Nine exciting and original dissertations were published last week in the bi-annual Warwick Monash Economics Student Papers (WM-ESP) series.
The Department is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Nick Crafts, who died on 6 October 2023 after a long illness.
September 2023
The Department of Economics would like to congratulate its job market candidates who have secured a role following the completion of their PhD.
We look forward to welcoming our new students to the Department of Economics in September 2023.
The Department of Economics is proud to announce that for the second year running we have been ranked top of the specialist subject table for Economics...
Class of 2016 MSc Economics alumna Ankita Pathak got in touch with the exciting news that her book on Macroeconomics is a best-seller in India.
Dr Federico Rossi, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, is one of just 400 researchers across Europe to have been awarded an...
Over 70% of properties held via overseas shell companies (109,000 out of 152,000 properties) still do not publish information about who really owns them...
August 2023
This year’s National Student Survey (NSS) results show a continuing high level of satisfaction among Economics final year undergraduates across almost ...
We all recognise that what we learn at university can have a long-lasting effect on our lives, shape our careers and have a wider impact on society. But it c...
Arun Advani, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, has been appointed as a member of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (O...
July 2023
Professor Leonardo Melosi has been named as a ‘Wim Duisenberg’ fellow for 2024 by the European Central Bank (ECB).
We are delighted to announce that three members of the Department of Economics have been successful in becoming Warwick International Higher...
A new study from Warwick Economics has revealed that a region trades with itself much more than with other regions in the same country, or with regions...
Warwick Economics alumnus Andy Haldane has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours 2023.
June 2023
The 11th edition of the Warwick Economics PhD Conference was held between 6th-8th June 2023 at the new Faculty of Arts Building. The event was...
Meet Elisabeth Prager, Warwick Economics alumna and co-founder of money advice company Aila. Elisabeth graduated from Warwick in 2009 with a...
Warwick Economics alumnus and honorary graduate Professor Oliver Hart has been knighted in the King’s Birthday Honours 2023 list for services to...
Dr Nathan Canen joined the Department of Economics in April 2023. Here he discusses his work in the areas of political economy and econometrics, and...
Warwick Economics PhD student, Jinlin Wei, has received the Best Paper Prize of the Business and Industrial Section of the Royal Statistical Society awarded ...
We are very pleased to announce that Warwick’s Department of Economics has retained its 4th position out of 130 UK institutions in the Complete Univers...
A behavioural experiment led by researchers from the University of Warwick and University College London has revealed how poorer people are willing to...
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) is launching a new Economic Advisory Council (EAC) to build on its Quarterly Economic Survey and to develop...
May 2023
Research from Warwick Economics and the University of Munich has offered a new explanation for why tax systems have failed to address rising levels of...
Four undergraduate students from the Department of Economics presented research papers at the prestigious Carroll Round conference in April 2023.
We are very pleased to announce this year’s winners of the Student Mentor Awards, an annual celebration of our students’ mentoring achievements.
April 2023
The Department of Economics was this year's host for the Economic History Society (EHS) Annual Conference. Founded in 1926, the EHS is a registered...
March 2023
Artificial intelligence is rarely out of the headlines. This week Microsoft founder Bill Gates declared the development of AI “as fundamental as the cr...
We are delighted to announce that Warwick’s Department of Economics has risen three places in the QS World University Ranking for Economics and...
The Department congratulates recent PhD graduate Ozge Demirci, who has won the CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award for her research in the economics...
Once again, we proudly report on the publication of 14 student papers on the Warwick Monash Economics Student Papers (WM-ESP) portal which contains...
In the next feature in our series focusing on our undergraduate entrepreneurs, we meet the team behind Butterfly, a new app taking flight on campus.
We are excited to announce the winners of this year's Warwick Future Economist competition jointly organised by the Department of Economics at Warwick...
February 2023
People in their midlife are disproportionately more likely to suffer from clinical depression, take their own lives, become dependent on alcohol, have troubl...
Homes in conservation areas may be responsible for between 3 and 4million tons of avoidable CO2 emissions every year.
It is with great sadness that the Department of Economics announce the death of our former Head of Department and colleague - Professor Graham Pyatt...
January 2023
In an occasional series focusing on our undergraduate entrepreneurs, we hear from Kartik Jambur, Warwick Enterprise Innovation Fellow, about his work to...
New research led by the Department of Economics has shed light on how eating and exercise habits changed during lock-down – or, in fact, how they...