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Professor Tony Mcenery | 31 March 2013
Corpus linguistics uses computers to permit the analysis of millions, or even billions, of words of data to look for patterns of usage that are not necessarily observable otherwise. It was pioneered largely in the uk. It has revolutionised linguistic ...
Dr Laura Coroneo | Economics | 16 March 2013
The recent financial, economic and sovereign debt crises have highlighted how financial markets and economic activity around the world are strongly interconnected. These linkages pose a significant challenge to both macroeconomists and financial econ ...
Dr Angus Armstrong | 02 March 2013
The aim of this project is to re-examine the role of public policy in a modern banking system. We propose three separate studies. First, the policy debate over whether to separate specific banking activities (volcker rule and vickers report) depends ...
Professor Stephen Roper | Entrepreneurship | 01 February 2013
The enterprise research centre (erc) is an independent research centre which aims to provide trusted, robust and independent commentary on sme research and policy. Erc has six core research programmes focussing on entrepreneurial intentions, sme lead ...
Professor Tim Jackson | Earth Resources | 01 February 2013
Passage aims to explore the relationship between sustainability and prosperity in the context of the ‘green economy’. The award will support professor jackson over three years in two principal tasks. The first of these is to synthesise th ...
Dr Jayant Ganguli | Economics | 18 January 2013
Ambiguity or knightian uncertainty - the absence of objectively given probabilities for future events - is pervasive. Economic crashes and recoveries or war in west asia are arguably ambiguous events unlike the outcome of a fair coin toss. Jm keynes ...
Professor Catherine Hall | Economic & Social History | 31 December 2012
This project examines the nature and significance of caribbean slave-ownership in the formation of britain in the crucial coincident years of the peak of the slave-economy and a decisive period in the industrialisation of britain. It develops a histo ...
Ms Sharon Collard | Social Policy | 31 December 2012
The aim of this project is to generate new knowledge and understanding of the financial dimensions of well-being among older people in the uk. The objectives are:
to understand the dominant patterns of expenditure among older people
to explore how p ...
Professor Chris Starmer | 31 December 2012
This network project brings together economists, psychologists, computer and complexity scientists from three leading centres for behavioural social science at nottigham, warwick and uea. This group will lead a research programme with two broad objec ...
Dr Rebecca Coleman | Sociology | 14 December 2012
The question of the future has been of interest for many years, but its significance intensifies in an ‘age of austerity’ in the uk, europe and some other parts of the developed western world. The conviction that the future will necessari ...
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Jon Danielsson | 09 May 2013 | Newspaper
Article in city am
Michael Moore | 09 May 2013 | Economics | Organised event
We generalise the portfolio shifts model to allow fx dealers to use both limit and market orders in order to exploit private information in inter-dealer trading. Equilibrium exchange rates depend on both types of flows. Limit orders have lower price ...
Michael Moore | 09 May 2013 | Economics | Organised event
We generalise the portfolio shifts model to allow fx dealers to use both limit and market orders in order to exploit private information in inter-dealer trading. Equilibrium exchange rates depend on both types of flows. Limit orders have lower price ...
Michael Moore | 09 May 2013 | Economics | Seminar/workshop
We generalise the portfolio shifts model to allow fx dealers to use both limit and market orders in order to exploit private information in inter-dealer trading. Equilibrium exchange rates depend on both types of flows. Limit orders have lower price ...
Michael Moore | 09 May 2013 | Economics | Seminar/workshop
We generalise the portfolio shifts model to allow fx dealers to use both limit and market orders in order to exploit private information in inter-dealer trading. Equilibrium exchange rates depend on both types of flows. Limit orders have lower price ...
David Lain | 25 April 2013 | Social Policy | Impact Report
Population changes and workforce ageing are prompting a rethink of retirement by individuals, employers, governments and esearchers. Increasing life expectancy and delayed ill health create potential opportunities for many wanting to do paid or volun ...
Mathias Siems | 25 April 2013 | Economics | Journal article
The article reports on the utilization of the leximetric approach in determining the convergence in corporate governance. It highlights the differences between common law in anglo-saxon countries and civil law in continental europe. It focuses on the ...
Gerhard Schnyder | 25 April 2013 | Economics | Journal article
The aim of this article is to contribute to our understanding of the role that political institutions play in the reform processes of national corporate governance regimes. I argue that existing theories are limited in that they conceive of political ...
Mathias Siems | 25 April 2013 | Economics | Journal article
Comparative law and finance quantifies differences in the laws governing the business enterprise in various countries. The resulting data can be used to test which legal institutions (if any) matter for financial development. Until recently only cros ...
John Armour | 25 April 2013 | Economics | Journal article
The liberalization of india's economy since 1991 has brought with it considerable development of its financial markets and supporting legal institutions. An influential body of economic scholarship asserts that a country's “legal origin”—as a civilia ...
Case Studies
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Case Study | 15 April 2013 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media
Recommendations by professor rita de la feria led to reforms implemented in the portugal’s 2012 state budget which boosted the efficiency of tax and generated savings of 1. 2 per cent gdp.
Case Study | 24 September 2012 | Academic, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector
Researchers from the centre for economic performance and the spatial economics research centre analysed the impact of reforms in health care, where private hospitals could compete with nhs hospitals on publicly funded care. Their findings were cited ...
Case Study | 11 March 2011 | Business, General public, International, Press/media
A study of reinsurance underwriting and broking practices in the london and bermuda analysed the strengths and weaknesses of face-to-face and electronic trading approaches, highlighting how they affect training and business development.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Findings from the institute for fiscal studies' tax and benefit model of the uk had an important influence on the debate about abolishing the ten per cent income tax band.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Award-winning psychological research has underpinned the development of electronic financial advice software which delivers computer-based feedback on financial decisions, leading to commercial research spinouts.
Features
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Feature | 09 April 2013 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Nicholas crafts, professor of economics and economic history at the university of warwick and director of the esrc centre for competitive advantage in the global economy, examines how the economic policies of the thatcher era affected the uk economy. ...
Feature | 31 January 2013 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Investing in human capital, improving the national infrastructure, improving finance provision for private investment and innovation, and the creation of an independent national growth council are key recommendations in the final report from the lse ...
Feature | 11 January 2013 | Business, General public, Press/media, Schools
Over one third of uk equity trading volume being generated through high-speed computer-automated trading, with little to no human involvement. The issue and foresight report is being highlighted in an event hosted by the esrc-funded systemic risk cen ...
Feature | 20 December 2012 | General public, Press/media, Schools, Voluntary sector
The amount that people give to charity is highly dependent on income, according to esrc-supported research. Results from a game study suggests that donor level of income is vital in determining charitable donations.
Feature | 05 December 2012 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Research looking at how banks and other financial firms have begun to address the problems of risk culture has found that change is underway, with new programmes and experiments in risk management.
Feature | 30 November 2012 | General public, Press/media, Public sector, Voluntary sector
A report launched today by the institute for fiscal studies and co-funded by the esrc reveals that a third of those approaching retirement report that they find it impossible even to guess how much income they will receive from their private pensions ...
Feature | 24 February 2012 | Business, General public, Policymakers
Are lessons learnt, and can we avoid another global financial crisis in the future? the national institute of economic and social research/esrc conference 'never again?' has examined whether there has been progress towards a safer banking system.
Feature | 01 February 2012 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector
Government borrowing is reduced, but the economic outlook is still bleak, according to the green budget analysis from the institute for fiscal studies.
Feature | 25 November 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Research shows that some policy options to curb bankers' pay will fail - and even risk making banks more unstable. However, a cap on the available bonus pool will both limit bankers' pay and reduce the risk of a bank default.
Feature | 02 November 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Pay over the last decades have risen fastest for those at the very top of the income distribution - and most of the gains have gone to the financial sector through bonuses, according to research from the centre for economic performance.
Press Releases
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Press Release | 23 October 2012 | Academic, Business, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector, Voluntary sector
People on low incomes who find it impossible to secure affordable loans can now access finance more readily following a successful knowledge transfer partnership (ktp) project jointly funded by economic and social research council (esrc) and the engi ...
Press Release | 27 January 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
A new report released today (thursday 27 january) by the economic and social research council (esrc) provides a snapshot of what we know about our current economic situation and explores what can be learned by looking at evidence from economic and so ...
Press Release | 12 October 2010 | General public, Press/media
Esrc-funded researchers have devised a mathematical model to better understand drivers and fluctuations in the housing market.
Press Release | 11 March 2010 | Academic, International, Press/media
The winner of the 2010 michael young prize has been announced as dr ann le mare for her work on the impact of fair trade on the wellbeing of women, businesses and organisations in bangladesh. This prestigious prize is awarded for excellence in the so ...
Press Release | 28 January 2010 | Business, Policymakers, Press/media
Initial findings carried out under the esrc's world economy and finance research programme which comes to a conclusion with a conference in london on 28 january 2010 - a paper presented warns against privatising the recently nationalised banks too so ...
Press Release | 17 September 2009 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Britain has now been in recession for over a year. How can policymakers respond most effectively, on a global scale as well as nationally?
Press Release | 21 June 2009 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
A drop in the value of some older people's savings and investments during the current economic crisis will worsen the financial difficulties already felt by many when their partner dies.
Press Release | 07 May 2009 | Policymakers, Press/media
The impact that wealth and social class has on people's well-being in old age is far greater than is often assumed. New research from the economic and social research council reveals just how great the difference really is in people's health and well ...
Press Release | 11 March 2009 | Press/media
One positive development of the current global financial crisis could be the recent election of barack obama as president of the united states of america, in the opinion of economist prof panicos demetriades of the economic and social research counci ...
Press Release | 24 February 2009 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
In the past 50 years individual levels of wealth have increased by but so have crime, deprivation, depression and addictions to alcohol and drugs.
