The 2020 Geneva Report has been published.
“When I started, I had no expectation that the first year would be a very unusual year on every possible ground,” says Professor Leonardo Felli.
Back in March, as it became apparent that Easter term would take place remotely, the Faculty set to work devising a new assessment method.
The European Research Council has awarded a grant to Vasco Carvalho, Professor of Macroeconomics and Director of Cambridge-INET for research titled ‘Micro Structure and Macro Outcomes’.
“It’s great news we have two possible vaccines against COVID-19 that are likely to start rolling out soon, and a third in the wings,” says Dr Flavio Toxvaerd.
“The Covid-19 pandemic is a global shock ‘like no other’, involving simultaneous disruptions to both supply and demand in an interconnected world economy,” says Kamiar Mohaddes, a Fellow in Economics at King's College, Cambridge.
“In recent years we have seen online social networks become increasingly prominent in political campaigns, and this has coincided with shock election outcomes in several countries” says Dr
“Households with lower incomes consume less nutritious food irrespective of the areas where they live and how much they work.
A biological chemist, he was a pioneer in the field of fragment-based drug discovery, a successful entrepreneur, a founding director of Cambridge Enterprise, and the University’s first Director of Postdoctoral Affairs.
The U.S. Presidential election of 2016 caught many by surprise.
Professor Milgrom visited the University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics to give the Marshall Lecture in 2019, when he explained how the tools of game theory were applied to auctions.
“It is clear women, and particularly mothers, will take a larger economic ‘hit’ due to the coronavirus pandemic.
See his Faculty of Economics profile page: http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/people/faculty/ebf26
The UK in a Changing Europe, supported by Cambridge-INET, is organising a one-day conference on the Economics of Brexit for Early Career Researchers (untenured assistant professors, post-docs, and PhD students) to take place on Zoom.
The Adam Smith Prize Endowment Fund awards two prizes annually for the Part IIB of the Economics Tripos, best overall performance and best dissertation submitted.
The Ellen McArthur Fund named after the pioneering economic historian Ellen McArthur who endowed it in the first place, is a Cambridge University fund, which exists to promote research and study in Economic History.
Update - watch videos from the 24hr Conference below
Conference opened by Sascha Becker, Monash Business School and University of Warwick.
Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we explore how personality traits are associated with people’s responses when confronting the Covid-19 crisis.
COVID-19 in Developing Economies - Vox eBooks
edited by Simeon Djankov and Ugo Panizza - 22 Jun 2020
The Athena SWAN Charter is an initiative established by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) designed to recognise
The Dasgupta Review is an independent, global review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta (Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge).
From the Guardian website:
Tracking the COVID-19 Crisis with High-Resolution Transaction Data, Carvalho, V. M., Garcia, J. R., Hansen, S., Ortiz, Á., Rodrigo, T., Rodríguez Mora, J. V. and Ruiz, J.
CWPE2030
From the RES website:
Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: New Survey Evidence for the US
CWPE2022
CEPR has decided to launch a new online peer-reviewed review to disseminate emerging scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic.
The following talks will be given as webinars.
Janice Eberly
Uncertainty effects amid the Covid-19 pandemic
2 September 2020 at 15.00 BST (London)
Submissions of papers and Special Sessions are invited for the Royal Economic Society’s 2020 Annual Conference taking place on 6-8 April 2020 at Queen’s University