News for 2024
This report, by Teve Markson, was first published in Civil Service World on 20 December 2024.
We have caught up with Lis Prager, Warwick Economics alumna and Fintech entrepreneur to get an update on how her mission to close the gender wealth gap was p...
Italian higher education leader Professor Giovanna Iannantuoni visited Warwick University and the Department of Economics last month as part of her mission t...
Professor Stefano Caria has recently featured in the VoxDevTalks podcast series, discussing new work in the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Pol...
After four decades of dedicated service, Professor Wiji Arulampalam, a distinguished member of the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, is r...
The recent COP29 discussions in Baku have drawn attention once more to an underlying tension - climate campaigners tend to regard metals and minerals, as wel...
A project led by Professor Thiemo Fetzer has won one of this year’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Awards.
Dr Ludovica Gazze, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, has been awarded a significant research grant by the Nuffield Foundation to...
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury James Murray MP was the keynote speaker at a Parliamentary reception held on 11 November 2024 to officially launch the ne...
Professor Sonia Bhalotra organized a two-day workshop bringing together economists from the UK, Europe, America and India to share ongoing research and its i...
Professor Paola Profeta, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability at Bocconi University, visited Warwick at the invitation of the Quan...
The ESRC Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), based in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, has been awarded &...
Our most recent Graduate Outcomes Survey results demonstrate strongly that our graduates continue to do well after graduation. The Times & Sunday Times' ...
Professor Giovanni Ricco has been nominated to the Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee (EABCD). Founded in 2003, the committee works to map and date re...
Warwick Economics alumnus Dr Maurizio Bussolo (PhD, 1997) returned to campus on 17th October at the invitation of Professor Sonia Bhalotra.
We are very proud to announce that five Warwick Economics finalists from 2023 and 2024 are recipients of the Global Undergraduate Awards 2024 in the category...
We are proud to report that three of the best Warwick Economics student dissertations have been published in the seventh round of the Warwick Monash Economic...
We are delighted to announce that Sascha Becker, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, has been elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
A quarter of estates worth over £10 million pay less than 9% Inheritance Tax, thanks to uncapped exemptions and reliefs, according to new research co-w...
Warwick Economics alumnus and honorary graduate Professor James Robinson (Honorary Doctorate 2015, MA Economics 1985-86) is one of three economists jointly a...
Workers on zero-hour contracts (ZHC) face lower wages and significantly higher turnover rates, yet such jobs have 25% more applicants than a permanent positi...
Professor Dennis Novy has delivered a lecture on Economic Security and Geoeconomics to an audience of 100 senior military officers as a guest of the Royal Co...
The Department of Economics is delighted to announce that for the third year running we have been ranked top of the specialist subject table for Economics in...
Affordable home ownership is at its lowest for 30 years with house prices now eight times higher than the average salary.
We look forward to welcoming our new students to the Department of Economics in September 2024.
Professor Sascha Becker is one of 45 new Fellows appointed this week to the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of his excellence in research and his s...
Professor Sascha Becker has been elected to the leadership team of the Society for Institutional and Organisational Economics (SIOE) as Second Vice President.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from UK universities, government health agencies and the NHS focused on reducing the harm caused by lead in our envir...
Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin (PhD Economics 1995), United Nations (UN) Climate Change High-Level Champion and UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda received ...
We are very excited to share the news that a former student of the Department of Economics will be representing Spain in wheelchair tennis at the Paralympic ...
The 2024 National Student Survey (NSS) results published recently show that Warwick Economics students remain highly satisfied with their undergraduate cours...
In the popular imagination, a marketplace is somewhere you can expect to be cheated – so much so that the English language has several idioms, from buy...
Tax expert Dr Arun Advani’s ambitious research agenda has been backed by the UK’s national research funding body with the award of a prestigious ...
University of Warwick researcher Dr Lory Barile is passionate about reaching new audiences with her work on understanding the barriers to improving the energ...
We congratulate Dr Lory Barile for being part of the winning Designing Together Team who have been recognised for excellence in running a collaborative proje...
The Department of Economics are delighted to share that four of our students have presented their papers in the prestigious Carroll Round Undergraduate Econo...
Warwick Economics PhD student, Adam Di Liza, has received the Best Paper prize of the Business and Industry Section of the Royal Statistical Society awarded ...
We congratulate a Warwick Economics finalist, Alex Reid (BSc Economics), who is one of the winners of the University's Outstanding Student Contribution Award...
Low-performing, disadvantaged schools notoriously struggle to attract and retain high-quality teachers.
Professor Caroline Elliott has taken up a prestigious role on the UK’s Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC), an independent body of experts which assesses...
The Department of Economics is joining forces with one of the top business schools in the UK to launch a new undergraduate course.
We congratulate Selina Shibata, Year 1 Economics student, who has won the Student Volunteer of the Year award at the Warwick Volunteers Award night.
Local artists, schoolchildren and their families in Radford, members of Coventry City Council and University of Warwick researchers have teamed up for a uniq...
The Department of Economics is pleased to have been chosen as this year’s host of the prestigious event organised by the Review of Economic Studies &nd...
Last week, a group of students and staff from the Department of Economics participated in a sensory awareness workshop to gain insights into what it feels li...
Final year BSc Economics student Khushi Sampat coached Warwick's Quadball Team to triumph in all three competitions that took place this year.
Two members of the Department are taking on leadership roles in the University’s Research Spotlight programme, a new programme designed to promote coll...
The Department of Economics wishes to congratulate Kasia Jasiniewska, final year Modern Languages and Economics student, for promoting excellence of student ...
BSc in Economics is a typical pathway for anybody wishing to become an economist, but there are other ways to achieve this career goal, even if you don’...
We are very pleased to announce that Warwick's Department of Economics has been ranked 23rd in the QS World Ranking for Economics and Econometrics.
A new research project launched today by a partnership including the University of Warwick will explore how shoppers can be encouraged to make more sustainab...
Delegating tax-and-spend powers to local government risks limiting the ability of local authorities to respond to environmental disasters, according to new r...
August Küenburg (BSc Economics, Year 2) has released an exciting new podcast Econ Bites, exploring economic public policymaking and its key figures and ...
Professor Giovanni Ricco has received a prestigious American Economic Journal Best Paper 2024 Award for a paper published in the American Economic Journal: M...
Historical experience of battles fought with physically-demanding weapons created a preference for sons over daughters which persists to the present day, acc...
Advice given by Professor Dennis Novy to the London Assembly Economy Committee has been reflected in the Committee’s formal recommendations to Mayor of...
There are substantial psychological gains from having a strong welfare state, finds new research done jointly by the University of Warwick and City Universit...
Many factors contribute to the persistence of pay disparities between women and men in the workplace, from unequal responsibility for caring for children to ...
We are proud to report that four of the best Warwick Economics student dissertations have been published in the sixth round of the Warwick Monash Economics S...
Total capital gains have almost tripled over the last decade, to £65bn by 2019/20. Despite this, most people never receive any capital gains, with less...
Over the past 25 years, sustainable finance has grown from a visionary concept discussed at UN climate conferences to a multi-billion dollar market. It’...
67% of Warwick Economics graduates choose careers in finance, consulting, technology and government*. But a degree in economics opens the door to a wide vari...
We are pleased to announce that Sascha O. Becker, Professor of Economics at Warwick and Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, is...
Speaking to a joint committee of both Houses of Parliament on the first session of its new inquiry into the UK’s economic security, Professor Dennis No...
Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick has been appointed Chair of a new N...
Professor Dennis Novy has given evidence to members of the London Assembly on the impact of Brexit on the London economy, at the invitation of the Assembly&r...