The Fall issue of Journal of Economic Perspectives has a very strong Cambridge presence. In three separate articles, Dr Vasco Carvalho, Professor Kaivan Munshi and Professor Sheliagh Ogilvie discuss frontier research on production networks, on community networks, and on the economics of guilds.
Dr Vasco Carvalho has been awarded the Wiley Prize in Economics. The Wiley Prize in Economics rewards achievement in research by an outstanding early career economist. Research may be in any field of economics or economic history. The Prize was first awarded in 2013.
Cambridge-INET Postdoctoral Fellow, Rohit Lamba has had an article "Making PPPs work again" published in the Live Mint & Wall Street Journal. His article looks at Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and making the risks between private contractors and the government more transparent.
At the 5th World Congress of the Associations of Environmental and Resource Economists, Partha Dasgupta received the European Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
The Paper, Fair weather or foul: the macroeconomic effects of El Ni̱o, by Dr Kamiar Mohaddes, Paul Cashin and Mehdi Raissi comes as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology says there is at least a 70% chance of an El Nino weather event developing in 2014.
Dr Edoardo Gallo appears on BBC 5 live Science and the Naked Scientists broadcast to talk about football and economics and on his research on discrimination. You can listen to the the programmes on
The 21st annual Pilkington Prizes, which honour excellence in teaching across the collegiate University, were held at Downing College last night. Sriya Iyer was one of those awarded. Read the full article on the University of Cambridge News site.
Dr. Edoardo Gallo's research into the link between rivalry and unethical behaviour is featured in the Financial Times, USA Today, and New York Magazine.
Jane Fruehwirth has been promoted to a Readership from 1 October 2014. See all the promotions on the Cambridge University Reporter
Professor Sanjeev Goyal to give Keynote Lecture at 'Symposium on Social Networks, Social Media and the Economics of Food' in Montreal, Canada. The symposium is organised by the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
Ha-Joon Chang has been voted no. 9 in the Prospect World Thinkers 2014 poll.
Professor Alvin Roth's 2014 Marshall Lecture "Matching Markets and Market Design". The videos for day 1, day 2 and the question and answer session have been uploaded to the Faculty website.
Varsity Magazine speak to leading heterodox economist and Cambridge academic Ha-Joon Chang
Professor Linton will join the team of Jianqing Fan, Yacine Ait-Sahalia (both Princeton University), and Han Hong (Stanford University) as of January 2014