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Thu 1 September 2011
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The IZA Young Labor Economist Award 2011
Tue 10 January 2012
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."
Peter Neary awarded ERC Advanced Grant
Mon 28 November 2011
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.
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference - ‘Young Talent’
Mon 14 November 2011
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.
Dr Johannes Abeler receives the CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award
Mon 7 November 2011
Our congratulations to Dr Johannes Abeler who received the CESifo Distinguished Affiliate award for his paper entitled "Fungibility, labels and consumption". During the CESifo Annual Area Conferences, the Committee for the CESifo Prize grants the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate award to a young economist for the scientific originality, policy relevance and quality of exposition of his/her paper presented at the conference. The selection committee comprises three renowned scholars from the area in question and is chaired by the Co-ordinator of the respective Research Area. Further information is available here on theCESifo website.
Dr Sophocles Mavroeidis awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics
Fri 21 October 2011
Our congratulations to Sophocles Mavroeidis who has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme prize for his contributions to econometrics and empirical macroeconomics. Sophocles works on developing and applying methods for testing macroeconomic theories using available economic data.
Inauguration of the Andrew Glyn Professorship, University of Massachusetts
Tue 18 October 2011
The Andrew Glyn Professorship has been created at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) to honour the life work of Andrew Glyn who taught economics at Oxford for 38 years until his untimely death in 2007. Funded by a gift from an anonymous donor and a matching fund established by the Provost at the University, the position is to be housed jointly in the Department of Economics and the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). The Inauguration of the Andrew Glyn Professorship and Recognition of Professor Léonce Ndikumana as the first Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics will be held on Monday, 7th November 2011. Event details.
Regional Studies Association awards 2011
Thu 13 October 2011
‘Economic linkages across space’ by Henry Overman (LSE), Patricia Rice and Tony Venables has been given the Regional Studies Association award for the best paper in Regional Studies, 2010-11. Voted for by the editors of Regional Studies. Details of the award can be found on the RSA website.
Paul Klemperer to give British Academy Keynes Lecture 13 October
Mon 3 October 2011
This year's prestigious Keynes Lecture at the British Academy will be given by Professor Paul Klemperer on; "Creating Competition: New Auctions for Public Policy". The lecture will discuss new auctions, including those now running at the Bank of England, as well as other potential applications. Date and Location: Thursday 13 October, 6pm at British Academy. Further details can be found on the British Academy website. There is a reception afterwards.
Job Placements for 2011
Tue 2 August 2011
The Department would like to offer its congratulations and very best wishes for the future to those of its doctoral students and post-doctoral research fellows who are leaving in 2011 to take up posts elsewhere.
Oxford Economics among the top 5 departments in the world
Tue 2 August 2011
Oxford Economics Department has been ranked 5th worldwide in the 2011 QS World University Rankings by Subjects. QS World University Rankings by Subject 2011 - Social Sciences: Economics. As in the other QS World University Rankings® by Subject, the rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation, and research citations.
Oxford’s Master’s in Financial Economics tops the FT rankings
Tue 21 June 2011
In the Financial Times ranking of pre-experience finance masters programmes published on 20 June 2011, the MSc in Financial Economics (MFE) programme was ranked top in the UK and fourth globally.