Research
- The Department is one of the leading UK university research departments in Economics.
- In the 2008 RAE Assessment, the Department was awarded 5th or higher in national rankings.
- The Department has a strong research culture, including a lively PhD community, and both team and individual research.
- A combination of active strategy and natural evolution has led to the development of four key clusters: Incentives and Governance, Macroeconomics, Banking and Finance, Development Economics, Environmental Economics
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Incentives and Governance, our largest cluster by number of staff encompasses a number of areas vis. Economic Theory; Institutional Economics; Labour Economics; Public Economics; Sports Economics, and Development Economics. The interests of the Macroeconomics cluster lie mainly in the time series analysis of macroeconomic variables, the analysis of monetary policy and inflation targets, and the interactions between macroeconomics and financial markets The Development Economics cluster has focussed on issues such as corruption, transition, aid effectiveness and wellbeing. |
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The Environmental Economics cluster has been at the forefront of efforts within Europe to integrate environmental issues into standard national accounts of the environment. Projects for the European Commission have included the Greensense, where standard welfare-based green accounting techniques are linked with work on sustainability standards, to allow for a better inclusion of sustainability issues within decision making. The ongoing INSTREAM project aims to build on this work. Other areas of environmental research include analysis of energy systems, environmental regulation and valuation of the environment. Researchers at Bath are heavily involved in the ExternE series of projects, aiming to get the prices right for policy in Europe. A recent grant from the ESRC provides funding to investigate recycling behaviour. The group is active in I-SEE and has strong links across the University, with joint grants with Engineering, Management and Maths. In particular, there is major involvement in the EPSRC Supergen projects on highly distributed power systems, now renewed until 2013.
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