Economic Theory Our group brings together staff with research interests in economic theory, including both macroeconomics and microeconomics.
Labour, Education and Health Economics Our group research the minimum wage, wage discrimination, health behaviours, education and migration.
Macroeconomics and Finance Our group conduct theoretical and empirical work across many areas of modern macroeconomics and finance.
Public and Environmental Economics Our group investigate the analysis of social norms, unlawful behaviour and climate change.
Econometrics We focus on time series and panel data econometrics for the analysis of macroeconomic and financial data.
Examining the variation in household recycling across the UK The UK has made dramatic progress in increasing its recycling levels, rising to just over 40% now, but we still have to reach 50% by 2020.
Tracking changes in employment and compensation patterns in response to the national minimum wage In a poll of political experts by the Institute of Government, the minimum wage was voted the most successful UK government policy of the past 30 years.
Trading off efficiency versus optimality in the procurement process In light of the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent spending cuts, many large projects are being increasingly scrutinised for their cost effectiveness.
Improving predictions of interest rate changes The recent financial crisis has cast doubt on existing economic models used by the Central Bank.
Understanding the choices and incentives to retirement Around 19 million people in the UK are expected to be over the normal retirement age by 2050.
Department of Economics seminars 2019-20 See the schedule of seminars taking place in the Department of Economics. All our seminars are free to attend.
Department of Economics academic staff We oversee and deliver the Department’s teaching and research activities.
