We are delighted to announce that a PPE graduate was the Global Winner in the Economics category at the Global Undergraduate Summit.

The Global Undergraduate Awards is an international academic awards programme that recognises originality, innovation, and excellence at the undergraduate level. The Economics category was won by Warwick PPE graduate Beatriz Sasse.

Beatriz’s submission was her dissertation on “The limited impact of a drinking-and-driving law reform on traffic accident hospitalisations: quasi-experimental evidence from Brazil”. Her supervisor was Professor Kobi Glazer who is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Warwick.

The University of Warwick has welcomed former student, His Excellency Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, back to the university’s Coventry campus to talk with students and to learn more about research being undertaken.

His Excellency, who graduated from Warwick in 1997 with a Masters Degree in Economics, spoke on economics to a gathering of students before answering questions, on topics including his life in public service, how his studies at Warwick have informed his career, and industrialisation.

Dr John H Morris, Teaching Fellow in International Political Economy, Department of Politics and International Studies:

"The Bank of England climate stress test is being undertaken now to provide a better understanding of the financial exposures of participants and the financial system to climate-related risks to financial stability. As such it foregrounds the Bank of England’s commitment to - and desire to be a leading figure of – the emerging consensus that central banks have a role to play in the transition to low carbon economies. This is something that Paul Langley and I have called “central banks as climate governors of last resort."

In this new CAGE video short, Christine Braun, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, reveals why a large female labour force may have an unanticipated negative impact on the economy in the US.

Between 1960 and 2000 the proportion of women wanting to work doubled. This had all kinds of positive consequences for women and wages, but there may be an unanticipated negative impact on the economy. Christine Braun explains that married couples are finding it harder to move across the country to find the best jobs, because both partners are working.

Dr Thijs van Rens, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, will play a key role in the Mandala Consortium group of internationally renowned academics from the universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, Warwick, Exeter, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The team has been awarded a five-year grant by the UK Government for a research project which could transform the local urban food system and its relationship with the wider regional economy.

Dr Thijs van Rens will take the lead on developing models of how people make choices about the food they eat, and assist with evaluating the impact of potential policy interventions.