Advantage Magazine
Advantage Magazine
Monday 1 Apr 2019Welcome to the Spring 2019 issue of Advantage
This is the magazine of the ESRC-funded Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy. This issue features a diversity of themes which reflects the breadth and depth of research undertaken by researchers at CAGE.
The full magazine is downloadable as a pdf HERELink opens in a new window.
And individual articles are:
Economic voters and partisan consumers: Assessing how political views affect economic decisionsLink opens in a new window
By Chris Anderson
Mobilisation, terror and rearmament: The Soviet economy on the eve of World War IILink opens in a new window
By Mark Harrison
The vanishing bus rider: What are the reasons for the great decline in bus ridership in the UK? Link opens in a new window
By Michael Waterson
Politics in the Facebook era: Examining the effects of voter ‘micro-targeting’ in the 2016 US presidential electionLink opens in a new window
By Michela Redoano
Taxing and spending: Examining the relationship between the sources of public finance and the effects on public accountabilityLink opens in a new window
By Lucie Gadenne
Essay competition winner: Ashok Manandhar's summary of Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda’s 2018 CAGE working paperLink opens in a new window: Gravity and migration before railways: Evidence from Parisian prostitutes and revolutionaries
Parting shotLink opens in a new window by Sascha Becker
About
Mark Harrison is a research fellow at the Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, and a professor of economics in the Economics Department at The University of Warwick. He was awarded the Alec Nove Prize for Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Studies in 1997, and the National Prize for Applied Economics in 2012.
Mike Waterson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and an expert on competition policy. His research interests also includes consumer behaviour and industrial Economics.
Sascha Becker is a Professor of Economics and CAGE Research Director. His research interests include Labour Economics, Education Economics, and Economic History.