Aggregating the Single Crossing Property (Econometrica, 2012)

Posted: 04/01/2013

John K-H Quah, Bruno Strulovici, 'Aggregating The Single Crossing Property', Econometrica, 2012, Vol. 80(5), pp 2333-348, 09.

 

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Urbanization and Structural Transformation (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012)

Posted: 28/12/2012

Guy Michaels,  Ferdinand Rauch, Stephen J Redding, 'Urbanization and Structural Transformation', The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, Vol. 127(2), pp 535-86.

 

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Oxford economics graduate appointed Governor of the Bank of England

Posted: 29/11/2012

Oxford economics graduate Mark Carney has been appointed as the next Governor of the Bank of England.

Mark joined Oxford as an economics graduate student in 1991 and was awarded an MPhil in 1993 and a DPhil in 1995.

His thesis topic was on the dynamic advantage of competition and he was supervised by Dr Meg Meyer.

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Regulated Prices, Rent Seeking and Consumer Surplus

Posted: 02/11/2012

Jeremy Bulow, Paul Klemperer, 'Regulated Prices, Rent Seeking, and Consumer Surplus', Journal of Political Economy, 2012, Vol. 120(1), pp 160-86.

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Sir David F. Hendry elected as Academician by the Academy of Social Sciences

Posted: 25/10/2012

Sir David F. Hendry, along with the Head of the Social Sciences Division, Roger Goodman, were elected as Academicians by the Academy of Social Sciences.  The Academy only elects a small number of Academicians each year.

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A Structural analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

Posted: 18/10/2012

David Gill, Victoria Prowse, 'A Structural analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition', American Economic Review, 2012, Vol. 102(1), pp 469-503.

 

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On the Smooth Ambiguity Model

Posted: 17/10/2012

Peter Klibanoff, Massimo Marinacci, Sujoy Mukerji, 'On the Smooth Ambiguity Model: A Reply', Econometrica, 2012, Vol. 80(3), pp1303-21, 05.

 

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The 2012 Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics

Posted: 19/09/2012

The 2012 Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics has been awarded to Kevin Sheppard and Neil Shephard for their paper

“Realising the future: forecasting with high frequency based volatility (HEAVY) models”, 2010, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 25, 197-231

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Optimal fiscal Feedback on Debt in an Economy with Nominal Rigidities

Posted: 06/09/2012

Tatiana Kirsanova, Simon Wren-Lewis, 'Optimal fiscal Feedback on Debt in an Economy with Nominal Rigidities', Economic Journal, 2012, Vol. 122, pp 238-64.

 

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Johannes Abeler awarded an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant

Posted: 15/08/2012

Our congratulations to Johannes Abeler who has been awarded a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders grant to fund a three year project entitled “Preferences for truth-telling”.

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