Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie is in dialogue with Professor Walter Scheidel (Stanford) on "What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?" at the Newell Classics Event. This event is Cambridge's most prestigious occasion for public-facing classical scholarship, and takes place on the 2nd May 2019 in the Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.
Professor Bart Lambrecht (Judge Business School), Professor Debopam Bhattacharya (Faculty of Economics), Professor Matthew Elliott (Faculty of Economics) and Professor Meredith Crowley (Faculty of Economics) will all speak at the J M Keynes Fellowship Fund annual lecture. Please register your interest on the event page.
Funded by the Templeton Religion Trust, the Social Consequences of Religion (SCORE) Initiative will delve into the profound impact of religious beliefs, behaviours, and institutions on economic development. This is a multi-decade, multi-national and multi-pronged effort to examine the role of religion on different aspects of human life, with the focus of this strand on economic development.
The now Harvard-based economics professor, has won the biggest prize in economics for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.
The award was in partnership with Amundi ETF, at a special ceremony in London. Simona from BlackRock was a double winner on the night, taking home accolades for Role Model of the Year and Investment Woman of the Year (large firms).
The Faculty's Prof. Chryssi Giannitsarou has sent out a survey in Qualtrics Cambridge for her ongoing research project on Covid-19 and academic productivity in economics research. Please do respond if you receive an invite.
Professor Meredith Crowley discusses US tariffs on UK steel replaced by quotas on the BBC TV News World Business Outlook.
She says it is a "welcome sign that the relationship is warming" but not a first step towards a UK-US trade agreement. Prof Crowley's interview starts at 4min15.
Dr Petra Geraats gave a presentation on "Taking the Right Path: Monetary Policy in a High Inflation and Volatile Environment" at an event organised by the Resolution Foundation and the Money, Macro and Finance Society.
Dr Carolina Alves will be editing a series of articles for the Economics Observatory (ECO) on decolonisation and economics along with Dr Ingrid Kvangraven (King’s College London, D-Econ) and editorial managers Ashley Lait and Charlie Meyrick.
Dr Carolina Alves will be editing a series of articles for the Economics Observatory (ECO) on decolonisation and economics along with Dr Ingrid Kvangraven (King's College London, D-Econ) and editorial managers Ashley Lait and Charlie Meyrick.
Ines Lee and Eileen Tipoe have won the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize with their proposal for a book about the future of higher education, Failing the Class.
This is according to a new study of “time-use diaries” kept by 766 UK citizens from across the social spectrum during three points in time: the last month of normality, the first lockdown, and the last lockdown in March of this year.
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes, Zeina Hasna and Henry-James Hatton are co-authors of a report on the impact of innovation in green-related activities to the broader economy.
The Telegraph covers research in the Faculty showing people spent less time on employment-related activities, while spending more time on housework.
Those who have not returned to the office spend less time on employment-related activities and more on housework, research by Ines Lee reveals.
Dr. Sriya Iyer has given expert advice to a new Pew Research Center report saying all religious groups in India show major declines in fertility rates, limiting change in the country’s religious composition over time.
In the first weeks of the pandemic, the submission of articles to journals by women, fell dramatically more than their male counterparts.
A new report from the Royal Economics Society (RES) reveals signs of “stagnation and retreat” in the closing of gender gaps across the study of economic, according to Dr Victoria Bateman. Female intake relative to male appears to be falling at both undergraduate and master’s levels over the last two decades.
The Wall Street Journal has picked up on the latest report from the Pew Research Center, which features expert advice from Dr. Sriya Iyer. She looks at how religious pluralism is faring in India, a religiously diverse county, where many religions practice freely.
Times Higher Education has quoted the research by Dr. Amano-Patiño, Dr. Faraglia, Dr.
The CBT succeeds the Monetary and Financial Policies Transparency Code (MPFT), which was published in 1999. In the two decades since, central banks’ roles and responsibilities have changed dramatically, as have international standards for financial policies.
Dr. Sriya Iyer was interviewed for The Review of Religions magazine, where they asked her about the economics of religion, why she thinks religion matters to economics, and if religion and happiness are correlated.
As part of International Women's Day, Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou will be a guest speaker at the University College Dublin (UCD) webinar, "Bridging the gender gap: Research and responses to COVID-19". The online event will take place on Monday 8th March 2021 at 11.00am.
Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou and Sarah Smith (University of Bristol) have written an article for the Royal Economic Society, that says the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and intensified inequalities in many areas of our life, including academic life.
Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed for BBC1's Countryfile, where she talked about how future trade deals could affect the UK, especially UK farming and food prices.
The report is part of the Government Office for Science Areas of Research Interest fellowships.
Dr. Geraats recommends significant improvements to the ECB's monetary policy transparency and a much needed update of its monetary policy strategy to incorporate major changes in its de facto monetary policy framework since the global financial crisis, including its monetary policy measures.
Dr. Meredith Crowley was interviewed about Brexit and it's effect on the UK economy, by the daily French newspaper La Croix. Dr Crowley answered questions on the proposed post-Brexit trade deals that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is negotiating with countries such as Japan, China and the US.
Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou has joined the European Economic Review Journal Editorial Board. Dr Giannitsarou has agreed to be an Associate Editor for the journal, with immediate effect.
Dr Carolina Alves is curating two panels at the Bristol Festival of Economics Ideas. One on how the discipline of economics has been challenged about its Eurocentric nature. And a second on the extent to which the project of economic development has its basis in colonial power structures.
Dr. Meredith Crowley was quoted in the New Statesman article "The Freeport Con", which looks at the setting up of freeports as a post-Brexit trade policy. The UK government is championing these free economic zones, but experts are not convinced they will work.