Econometrics group members
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Department of Economics research
Our research activities cover all the mainstream fields of economics. This includes economic theory, econometrics, and finance.
Research groups
Our research activity is spread across five research groups.
Economic Theory group members
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Labour, Education and Health Economics group members
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Macroeconomics and Finance group members
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Public and Environmental Economics group members
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Research impact
Our research has furthered our understanding of various key economic issues, such as pensions, the minimum wage, economic cycles, financial markets, sustainability and policies to tackle obesity.
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.
Research environment
We have a regular series of seminars that takes place in our department.
Department of Economics online seminars 2020-21
See the schedule of online 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.
Research excellence
Showing our commitment to the quality of our work, our research was rated excellent by Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014.
Our research
Our department has a strong research culture, with many of our papers published in leading journals. We carry out interdisciplinary research that has a widespread impact on society, including contributions to large scale international projects.
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