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Professor Catherine Alexander | Social Anthropology | 01 March 2006
This seminar series explores how anthropology can provide an essential counterweight and complement to dominant economic and political macro-analyses of the world today. Each seminar will address emerging economic configurations in a specific area fo ...
Professor Orazio Attanasio | Economics | 02 October 2006
During the past 25 years, house prices and consumption have been closely synchronised in the uk, making changes in house prices an important indicator of inflationary pressures within the economy. This indicator is closely watched by the bank of engl ...
Professor Francesco Caselli | Economics | 01 October 2006
The project explores the role of institutional frictions in generating inefficient allocation of talent (failures of meritocracy) and insufficient entry of new firms (failures of entrepreneurship). There are at least two research papers that are part ...
Professor Jeffrey Karp | Political Science | 01 July 2010
Large scale comparative cross-national data collection efforts present new challenges for social scientists in the development of survey questions, sampling and case selection, data linkages and statistical analysis. While such data collection enhanc ...
Professor Timothy Besley | Economics | 01 October 2006
This proposal builds on a body of research that has been underway for more than a decade. the overarching theme of the research is to understand the implications of models of government behaviour for the proper role of government in the economy ...
Professor Panicos Demetriades | Economics | 01 June 2008
The broad aim of this project is to examine financial development experiences within africa, and especially the role of government in both relatively successful and unsuccessful cases. the theoretical part of the project will develop a model to ...
Professor Constantine Meghir | Economics | 01 April 2008
Policies that encourage human capital accumulation and employment are important tools for reducing poverty in both developed and developing countries. While evaluations based on pilot trials, (occasionally randomised), provide useful information on t ...
Dr Dennis Novy | Economics | 01 October 2008
Rapid global integration in goods markets is becoming a hallmark of the early 21st century. How can one explain this phenomenal increase in international trade that the world has experienced over the past few decades? The aim of research by dennis no ...
Ms Nia Powell | Economic & Social History | 01 March 2005
When lay taxation records for wales 1291-1689, held in tna’s e 179 series, were fully researched for the first time in 2003-4 (esrc project res-000-23-0200), a substantial corpus of new material was discovered, increasing known documentation by 44 pe ...
Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby | Social Policy | 01 October 2008
This project will organise a major international conference in beijing on the theme of managing the social impacts of change from a risk perspective. The conference will focus on the emergence of new social risks in the transition from a state social ...
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