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The Department provides a focus for a very diverse and internationally renowned group of academic economists, many of whom have made major recent contributions to modern economic analysis. With 78.5 full-time equivalent researchers, Oxford Economics was by far the largest group of economists submitted to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise conducted jointly by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils. Within a large group, 95 percent of all research activities were classified as internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour (3* or better), with 40 percent of activities regarded as world leading (4*). This places Oxford with more 4* research activities in total than any other UK Economics Department, see RAE viewer. Research Fortnight also ranks Oxford Economics first for research power, a measure that takes into account of both the quality and the quantity of research submitted.
The Department is committed to excellence in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level. For the third consecutive year, Oxford Economics is ranked in the top two for the study of economics in the UK, by all of the university guides.
Some Recent News in the Department
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The IZA Young Labor Economist Award 2011
Our congratulations to Johannes Abeler, who with co-authors, Steffen Altmann (IZA and Bonn University), Sebastian Kube (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn University, and IZA) and Matthias Wibral (Institute for Empirical Research in Economics and the Center for Economics and Neuroscience, Bonn University, and IZA) has been awarded the Young Labor Economist Award 2011 on the decision of the IZA Program Directors for the paper entitled "Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality is Unfair, Journal of the European Economic Association (2010), 8(6): 1299-1324." Read More
Peter Neary awarded ERC Advanced Grant
Congratulations to Professor Peter Neary FBA who has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant to work on a five year research project entitled “Superstar Firms in the Global Economy” starting in April 2012. Read More
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference - ‘Young Talent’
Congratulations to Andrew Zeitlin who is one of the three recent UK graduates invited to present their work at the “Young Talent” session of the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference to be held at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2012. Andrew Zeitlin, currently a research officer at CSAE, uses theory-driven field and laboratory experimental methods, together with the collection of observational data, to study the microeconomic mechanisms of economic development.