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Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
Joined October 2012
We have received word that Assistant Professor of Economics Alexander Rodnyansky, from the Faculty @christs_college, is safe in Kyiv. He is writing to all Russian economists with a call up them to act #Kyiv .
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Congratulations to Professor Vasco Carvalho @JesusCollegeCam.His research on Production Networks, From Micro to Macro, and A Primer have been extensively quoted in the 2022 Economic Report of the US President.
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Congratulations to four of our academics at the Faculty of Economics who have been promoted to Professor grades. Prof Sriya Iyer, Prof Matt Elliott, Prof Debopam Battacharya, and Prof Christopher Rauh.
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The Faculty is saddened to announce renown economists Geoff Harcourt has passed away at the age of 90. A Fellow of @trinityhallcamb 1964–66, later President of @JesusCollegeCam, and famous as author of Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital.
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Congratulations to Professor Vasco Carvalho who has won a consolidator grant for research into ‘Micro Structure and Macro Outcomes’ from the European Research Council, Europe’s premier funding organisation for frontier research.
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Congratulations to Professor Sriya Iyer @Catz_Cambridge at the Faculty of Economics, who has been elected to the Council of The Royal Economic Society @RoyalEconSoc, following ratification at the Society's Annual General Meeting. @Cambridge_Uni
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Cambridge economist Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm @QueensCam discusses in the Guardian why a US growth-inflation ‘soft landing’ is vital to solving the global economy puzzle:.
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Well done to second-year economics PhD student Niklas Schmitz @nikl4sschmitz.He has now received no less than three awards for his paper on the effect of monetary policy on macroeconomic downside risk, and how this can support stock markets in a #recession.
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Congratulations to three of the Faculty’s academics who have been successful in the Academic Career Pathways applications recognising outstanding contributions & academic achievement. Prof Meredith Crowley @MeredithCrowle1, Prof Elisa Faraglia & Prof Flavio Toxvaerd @toxvaerd1 .
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In case you missed it, here is Mohamed El-Erian.@elerianm , economist and president of Queens’ College @QueensCam in the @FT on generative AI. It is a massively disruptive innovation that will bring both job destruction and enhancement, and will change asset management.
Posted earlier today:. FYI, some thoughts on the actual and potential impact of Generative AI on the asset management industry:. #markets #AI #GenAI #investing #investors @FT #ArtificialInteligence
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Congratulations to Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou @giannitsarou who has joined the European Economic Review Journal Editorial Board. Dr Giannitsarou will be appointed to Associate Editor for the journal, with immediate effect.
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Welcome to the Twitter from the Faculty of #Economics at the University of Cambridge. We are one of the longest standing economics faculties. Keep following @CamEcon for the latest news, academics in the media & relevant @Cambridge_Uni, and @CambridgeINET information.
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Congratulations to the Faculty's Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta (fellow @stjohnscam) who has won the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award for defining the field of environmental economics by incorporating and quantifying the social value of nature.
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The Faculty of Economics is pleased to announce its 2021 Job Market candidates. A complete list of the candidates can be found here: .Over the next few days, we will introduce each of them with a tweet on their JMP.
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Associate Professor Kamiar Mohaddes @KamiarMohaddes Entrepreneurship Lab has been awarded a generous gift of £1.5 million from David Sainsbury and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, to expand their activities.
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Great to see @elerianm revisting the Faculty of Economics!.
My Cambridge economics and my Queens’ College roots! . @CamEcon @Cambridge_Uni #cambridge @QueensCam @QueensAlumni @cambtweetecon @MarshallSociety
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The @JanewayInst in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge has a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship available for candidates who have recently been awarded a doctoral degree. The deadline is 8th November. Apply here:.
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Analysis by economist @elerianm (President of @QueensCam) on the current trends in US interest rates, and the implications for the bond markets, with the market now pricing in a half percent change.
Posted late yesterday:. On the what and so what of the unsettling market volatility triggered by the remarks of #FederalReserve Chair #Powell at his semi-annual Congressional testimony. #economy #markets #fed #centralbanks #inflation #growth @opinion
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Congratulations to Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's @KamiarMohaddes paper, "Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness", was named runner-up in the Financial Times @FT Responsible Business Education Awards.
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The UK Economics Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP) aims to help applicants from underrepresented backgrounds prepare their applications to competitive Economics PhD programmes by matching them with mentors from Cambridge, LSE, Oxford, UCL, and Warwick.
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The Faculty of Economics is delighted to announce a new MPhil in Economics and Data Science, which will be both full and part time, from Autumn 2024. It is intended as an advanced research degree to expand the knowledge of economists.
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The Economic consequences of #covid19 are likely to be long lasting. @Cambridge_Uni @KamiarMohaddes & Hashem Pesaran in @voxeu find no country escapes, although #China and 'Emerging Asia' will fare better for #CovidEconomics in the short term @cepr_org.
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The Faculty of Economics is saddened to announce the passing of distinguished economist Professor Thomas Cockerill. Tony was a role model of public spiritedness for all of us at the Faculty of Economics. We will deeply miss him.
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We're looking forward to the new Janeway Institute which will launch tomorrow!.Bill Janeway explains his hopes for the new Institute and says he would like the new Institute to focus some of the lens of its research on inequality.@Cantabusa @Cambridge_Uni
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In an interview for alumni of the Faculty of Economics Vasco Carvalho reflects on the success of @CambridgeINET. It will shortly transform into a new institute investing in shaping young minds, transforming economic research & disseminating frontier work.
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The Faculty of Economics wishes you a well-deserved Happy Christmas and New Year holiday! .In case you haven't seen it, here is the Christmas Tree in the centre of Cambridge. Merry Chistmas, and all the best for 2023,.The Faculty of Economics.
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The Faculty of Economics is pleased to announce its 2020 Job Market candidates. A complete list of the candidates can be found here: but over the next few days, we will introduce each of them with a tweet on their JMP. Stay tuned.
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Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes has written for VOXeu examining sovereign credit ratings and climate-driven downgrades. Artificial intelligence research constructs ‘climate smart’ sovereign credit ratings and warns of climate-driven downgrades. @KamiarMohaddes @voxeu.
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What is happening to the UK's economy? .In an interview for the summer Alumni Magazine we meet with Visiting Professor Jagjit Chadha @jagjit_chadha from @NIESRorg to discuss macroeconomic issues, and analyse the current conflicting economic indicators.
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Join us in a week's time, on Thursday 12 May 2022, at 6pm, when the Cambridge Economics Alumni Webinar Series looks at Investment in a changing world with Professor Tiago Cavalcanti and Professor Chryssi Giannitsarou.
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Do you want to study for an economics PhD?.Applicants from underrepresented backgrounds can get help with mentors who are currently studying towards a PhD in economics, through the Economics Applicant Mentoring Programme. Apply by 1st December.
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Congratulations to Alba Patozi, who has won the best student paper award from the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, or CERF. She won for the paper Green Transmission: Monetary Policy in the age of ESG.
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Watch Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman @CaiusCollege explain why women are underrepresented in economic academia. @RoyalEconSoc finds improvement, stagnation & retreat in women’s representation, but also backward moves for students & for minority academics.
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Congratulations to the Faculty's Professor Flavio Toxvaerd, who has been awarded a fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, which demonstrates a commitment to professionalism in learning and teaching in higher education.
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Everyone in the Faculty is really looking forward to the Marshall Lecture by Professor Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University/New York University) on "Economics without prices and without games". Thursday 28th and Friday 29th April at 5pm.
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New research by Dr Christopher Rauh at @Cambridge_Uni shows women are likely to bear more of the economic impact of #Covid. He has found women are significantly more likely to be #furloughed in the UK, and are often less able to work from home: .
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Congratulations to Flavio Toxværd @toxvaerd1 who is going to be starting as the UKRI Competition and Productivity Economics Policy Fellow at the.@CMAgovUK , alongside 43 other researchers working across government.
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Congratulations to the Faculty's Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta who receives an elevated knighthood. Sir Partha, the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, is made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire for services to economics and the natural environment.
Congratulations to the Cambridge academics and staff recognised in the New Year Honours list! 🎉.
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It's time to meet the Job Market Candidates for 2023-24. The JMCs are Lukas B. Freund, Alastair Langtry, Balduin Bippus, Sarur Chaudhary, Vivek Roy-Chowdhury, and Diogo Salgado Baptista. Full details of the Job Market Paper and references:
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Congratulations to the Faculty's Sir Partha Dasgupta has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London by Special Nomination. His global review on the Economics of Biodiversity, will help set the agenda for the 25-year environment plan.
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Congratulations to Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta who has been awarded the Kew International Medal for work to stop biodiversity loss by @kewgardens. It follows his ground-breaking report calling for transformative change to protect the natural world.
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Are you interested in Economic History?.Professor Bob Allen gives the Ellen McArthur lectures looking at the shift from foraging to agriculture, the rise of cities, and the creation of states with the approaches of economic historians in an effort to unravel the mysteries.
The Ellen McArthur lectures will be given by Prof Bob Allen (NYU, Abu Dhabi) on ‘From Foraging to the First States: An Economic History’ on 2-3 and 9-10 March. For further details about how to register, see
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Young Economist Prize Competition hosted by the Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance. This includes the Faculty's Niklas Schmitz @nikl4sschmitz for his paper the Downside Risk Channel of Monetary Policy.
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It's great to see so many students and staff returning to the Faculty of Economics, before the start of term next week, to cold and frosty Cambridge. The University looks superb in the clear Fenland air.
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Women are underrepresented at almost every level within economics in UK academia, according to a report co-authored by Dr Victoria Bateman at @CamEcon @CaiusCollege. The number of women has increased over the past 25 years, but only to 26% of economists.
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The Faculty's Sir Partha Dasgupta has been honoured at the UN Environment Programme as one of four 2022 Champions of the Earth. He is the first economist to have been awarded this honour, for trailblazers at the forefront of protecting our natural world.
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The Faculty of Economics wishes a Merry Christmas to all our academics, staff, students and alumni.
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Did you know that religion, mental health and the spread of disease like Covid-19 might be related to each other? A new #KeynesFundResearch project by Sriya Iyer @CamEcon, Girish Bahal and Anand Shrivastava begins to explore these interactions for the USA.
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In the latest alumni newsletter we feature Professor Ariel Rubinstein who was invited to give the Marshall Lecture. These lectures are one of our premier academic events and he brought insights into Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Choice Theory.
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Is GDP the best measure?.Cambridge economists are creating new statistical methods including vital components of prosperity. The ‘Wealth Economy’ project by @DianeCoyle1859 & Agarwala @BennettInst builds on groundbreaking work of Faculty's Prof Dasgupta.
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The Faculty of Economics is delighted to announce Professor Oliver Linton becomes the new Chair of the Faculty from October the 1st. This reflects Prof Linton’s deep knowledge, driving economic research and educating the next generation of economists.
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In a paper in the American Economic Journal, the faculty's Professor Tiago Cavalcanti found that anti-scientific messaging in Brazil had a significant impact on how closely citizens followed COVID-19 guidelines.
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Congratulations to Economics student 19-year-old Eric Yip who has become the youngest person to ever win the National Poetry Competition. He is from Hong Kong, and won for his poem Fricatives, about the guilt of leaving one’s home behind.
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A new exhibition in the Marshall Library of Economics tells the story of the origins and founding of the library, which celebrates its centenary this year. The launch of the exhibition will be tomorrow at 11:30am.
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One of our most famous alumni was Sylvia Ostry @GirtonCollege who earned a PhD in economics, and she was appointed Canada's first and only female chief statistician in 1972. Statistics Canada @StatCan_eng celebrate her appointment with a podcast:.
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Great to read research by @KamiarMohaddes quoted in various news outlets including @newscientist regarding the responses of different countries to El Niño shocks.
Thanks @MadeleineCuff @newscientist for highlighting our paper on the macroeconomic effects of #ElNiño with Paul Cashin @IMFNews and @mraissi80. You can read our @JIntlEcon paper here: Our results show that there are considerable.
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Congratulations to Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance Elisa Faraglia in the Faculty of Economics has been awarded the J M Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics.
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Exciting news from @CambridgeINET: tomorrow it becomes The Janeway Institute. It will build on 10 successful years, advancing innovative approaches in economics and benefiting from long-term sustainable funding. Find out more about the change tomorrow.
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Just a reminder, here is Faculty of Economics Job Market Candidate Miguel Ferreira. In his JMP, Miguel analyses the implications of non-financial firms' savings-portfolio on their investment decisions and overall aggregate dynamics. See more at
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How do money and social networks sustain cooperation? Watch Director Dr. Toke Aidt interviewing @gallo_edo about his research on “Monetary networks”, a recently funded Keynes Fund project. #KeynesFundResearch.
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Prof @ArielRubinstein Marshall Lecture presents theoretical models where conflicts between insatiable wants & limited resources resolve through social institutions like ‘norms about the permissible and the forbidden’, and power rather than prices & money.
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It's time to meet our PHD Job Market Candidates for 2021:.PHD JMCs are Maryam Vaziri, Lidia Smitkova, Emile Marin, Joerg Kalbfuss, Zeina Hasna, Dexter Yashuang Ding and Xiaohua Chen.
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Watch the video as the Faculty's Assistant Professor of Economics Alexander Rodnyansky @arodnyansky @christs_college tells @bbcaaron that President Zelensky's economic reforms are part of a desire of #Ukraine's people to edge towards Europe:.
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Does automation affect labour market sorting? Are high-wage workers more likely to be employed by high-wage firms? And how about inequality? .#KeynesFundResearch by S. Lattanzio looks for answers using Italy as a case study and rich administrative data.
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US rejoins #ParisAccord but what does this mean for the US economy and how does it compare across countries? Tiago Cavalcanti @TiagoCa01150760 Zeina Hasna @HasnaZeina & Cezar Santos - Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Aggregate and Distributional Effects.
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Well done to@KamiarMohaddes!.
We are delighted to announce that Prof. @KamiarMohaddes is the new Deputy Director of the #ExecutiveMBA programme! . Kamiar is "thrilled and looks forward to working with our brilliant students, continuing to leverage the power of academia for real-world impact.". @CambridgeJBS
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Should the patents on Covid-19 vaccines be waived to allow low-income countries to produce doses for themselves? .The @CamEcon Faculty's Flavio Toxvaerd @toxvaerd1 says in @EconObservatory right now such a course of action is likely to have little effect:
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If you missed the fascinating discussion between @DianeCoyle1859 & @MESandbu discussing the approaches needed to address post #pandemic inequalities at the #coyle_sandbu event, it is available on the @bennettinst channel.
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Delighted that the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy @centre4ITP is to launch in early 2022. It will include Co-Investigator Professor Meredith Crowley from the Faculty of Economics.
Thanks to @ESRC funding, the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy will launch in early 2022. It is led by @MichaelGasiorek & Alan Winters @SussexUni with Giovanni Facchini @UniofNottingham.
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Watch the video of the @BloombergLive Equality Summit the Faculty's Assistant Prof Christopher Rauh @TrinCollCam discusses why so many women left the workplace during the #Covid pandemic with Bloomberg’s Lizzy Burden. @Cambridge_Uni .
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Victoria Bateman @Cambridge_Uni @vnbateman @CaiusCollege continues in a BBC Radio 4 economics series, “Understand: the economy”, presented by @TimHarford.Today at 1.45pm in PART SIX she details what is a recession and what causes a recession?.
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Congratulations to Ed Bracy (@WolfsonCam) who did a fantastic job as cox of the Cambridge Blue Boat - and who is also one of our MPhil students in Economics! Well done from all of the Faculty.
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In @RoyalEconSoc newsletter @toxvaerd1 explains what last year taught us about the policy & economics of #Covid. He says policy is too compartmentalised & separate expert groups make recommendations that may only.come together on the Prime Minister's desk.
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How does #VentureCapital differ in the 21st Century? .Dr William Janeway, an affiliated member of the Faculty of Economics @CambridgeINET launches a new video series that explores economic growth through technological innovation such as Railways or Dotcoms.
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The Faculty is proud that a conference in honour of the work of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta is to be held next month. In this interview for the Faculty's Alumni Magazine, he explains what lead to his global review on the Economics of Biodiversity.
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Well worth reading the book by Visiting Professor at @CamEcon, @jagjit_chadha, and now Director of @NIESRorg, on the issues with Central Banks. It's 'The Money Minders: The Parables, Trade-offs and Lags of Central Banking', and provokes many questions.
Having granted operational independence to @bankofengland's #MPC, politicians must avoid making public statements on #BankRate. By calling for a cut, it makes it much more difficult for the #MPC to do just that and retain credibility. Stop. @NIESRorg.
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It with sadness the Faculty notes the passing of former Marshall Lecturer Professor Bob Solow. A groundbreaking economist and Nobel Prize winner, in 1984 he gave the Marshall Lecture on ‘Effective Demand and Capital Theory’, and also taught the Tripos.
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The Sloan Foundation @SloanFoundation has awarded Economics a grant for mesoeconomic research. Congratulations to Prof Vasco Carvalho & Prof Matthew Elliott @JesusCollegeCam. The grant will fund travel, accommodation & teaching for about 20 PhD students.
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Congratulations to Andrew Harvey of @camecon, @CambridgeJBS and @NIESR. His & Dr Kattuman's paper on Covid modelling has been Highly Commended in the category “Academic research with real-world impact” by the @FT Responsible Business Education Awards.
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Mini Conference on 'Dominant Currency Pricing' .Tuesday 1st Dec 3.10PM-6PM GMT @CambridgeINET mini conference.Speakers: Oleg Itskhoki @itskhoki , Silvia Miranda-Agrippino @_SiLviA_mA & Dmitry Mukhin.Registration deadline tomorrow 10am.
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What does it mean to go bankrupt? Though painful, is it always bad for the economy?.The Faculty's @Cambridge_Uni Victoria Bateman @vnbateman @CaiusCollege explains in the BBC Radio 4 economics series at 1.45pm, “Understand: the economy”.
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A paper by @KamiarMohaddes on the Long-Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change has been quoted in the @washingtonpost indicating that the negative long-run growth effects of climate change are universal:.
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Well done to @KamiarMohaddes for being awarded the 2023 Sandra Dawson Research Impact Award for his work on the economics of #ClimateChange.
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Congratulations to Dr Toke Aidt @JesusCollegeCam who has won the Oliver Williamson Best Conference Paper Award by the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics. @SIOEcon.The research examines the transition to democracy in post-WW II France.
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Congratulations to #KeynesFundResearch which is celebrating it's 10th year this year. We feature it, and the diverse research the fund enables, in the latest edition of the alumni newsletter.
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The @CambridgeINET virtual Climate Macroeconomics Mini Conference will assess the risks and damages associated with climate change, and look at the economic effects of climate change mitigation policies. May the 4th 3pm to 6.15pm. Register now:
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Visiting Professor at @CamEcon, @jagjit_chadha, and now Director of the The National Institute of Economic and Social Research @NIESRorg, looks at the current macro economic situation, and says the job of the @bankofengland will just get harder. .
Picking a path for Bank rate in the middle of an inflation surge, a war, a fiscal maelstrom, a global tightening cycle and at the start of #QT, the #MPC @bankofengland has an uneviable job. 1/n. @NIESRorg @CFMUK @MMF_research.
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What are the economics of controlling #covid?.In 'Lives Vs Livelihoods' this Friday @Cambridge_Uni Dr Flavio Toxvaerd @toxvaerd1 will discuss costs and benefits of #lockdown2, at an event organised by the Tony Blair Institute For Global Change @InstituteGC.
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Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes' paper "Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness", in many newspapers. Read all the media coverage of @KamiarMohaddes including; Reuters, Bloomberg, Guardian, Times & Telegraph.
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How should policy-makers ensure university admissions are fair & efficient? .In @EconObservatory Dr Erdil @aytekerdil argues for a new post-qualification admissions system, with UCAS playing matchmaker, removing any unfairness of predicted grade offers.
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Are you an alumni of the Faculty of Economics? If so, you should have received our latest alumni newsletter on email. It features the launch of the Janeway Institute, research into changes in daily routines during lockdowns, faculty news, and much more.
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Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes' @KamiarMohaddes paper indicating there may be a link between illegal drugs and fostering public corruption poses the question about the relationship between smugglers and governments:
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The Economics of Brexit: What Have We Learned?.That's the title of a new book, which Professor Meredith Crowley provided a chapter for. It has been quoted in a New York Times article about Boris Johnson's prime ministerial legacy.
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Meredith Crowley @MeredithCrowle1 from the Faculty of Economics has contributed to the report for the Government Office for Science on Rebuilding a Resilient Britain: Trade and Aid. Here are more details of the report:.
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What are Deep Trade Agreements?.New @cepr_org eBook explores world economy causes & consequences. The Faculty's Meredith Crowley is featured with World Bank research co-authored with Lu Han (@CambridgeINET) & Thomas Prayer. #EconomicsofDeepTradeAgreements.
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Why is the building sector so hard to decarbonise?.And does social media help to incentivise people-centric climate action?.Kamiar Mohaddes @KamiarMohaddes and Ramit Debnath examine just why in a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports:
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