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Economics Research
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Research in the
School of Economics is
strongest in the following subject areas:
- Economic theory and market design: Game theory and mechanism
design, decision theory, finance theory, industrial organization and growth
theory.
- Macroeconomics, labour economics and econometrics: macroeconomic
analysis and modelling, micro-econometrics of labour markets and
microeconomic theory.
- Economic development and international economics: trade theory,
economic analysis of both micro and macro policies in developing countries,
comparative welfare and income distribution at the level of countries and
the world as a whole.
- History of thought and economic history: the evolution of economic
thought and policy, globalization in a historical context and the analysis
of famines and other crises in determining economic performance in
developing countries.
- Public economics: the theory of income distribution and both tax
policy and public finance, environmental economics, public choice and
political economy theory.
A summary of the results is provided in the table below. This indicates a
particularly productive school with considerable strengths in economic
theory, economic development and international economics. In the five years
1997-2001, 22 books were published, 131 articles were published in refereed
journals and three million dollars in research grants were won.
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Research Area |
Books |
Chapters in Books |
Articles |
Working Papers
(01-02) |
Research Grants
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(Number) |
(Value) |
| 1. Economic Theory and Market Design |
1 |
5 |
48 |
25 |
6 |
$786,000 |
| 2. Macroeconomics, labour economics and econometrics |
2 |
4 |
23 |
5 |
10 |
$321,000 |
| 3. Economic development and international economics |
16 |
19 |
19 |
6 |
6 |
$1,545,000 |
| 4. History of Thought and Economic History |
2 |
6 |
34 |
- |
1 |
$3,000 |
5. Public Economics
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1 |
5 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
$323,000 |
| Total |
22 |
39 |
131 |
38 |
26 |
$2,978,000
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