The School of Economics has a reputation as a centre of research excellence. Kalaitzidakis et al.’s survey (European Economic Review, 1999) placed it in the top dozen economics departments in the UK and in Europe's top thirty.
In the rankings of economics departments published at econphd.net for the most recent available period (1993-2003), based on the publications of the foremost 15 faculty in different sub-areas, UEA is ranked fifth in the world and first in the UK for ‘decision theory/experiments’. The Centre for Competition Policy, of which the School of Economics is a leading partner, is at the forefront of policy debates in competition economics at the international level, with advisory links with the European Commission, the UK Office of Fair Trading and the UK Competition Commission. Academic rigour, policy relevance and interdisciplinarity are at the heart of the School’s research philosophy.
The School's research has been published in most of the world's leading economics journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, as well as in numerous major specialist journals and leading non economics journals. Between them, its members have written more than a dozen books.
In addition to its core funding, the School has recently attracted research contracts from the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Union, the UK government, the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation, the Bank of England and the Leverhulme Trust, among others. Robert Sugden is one of a very small number of UK economists to have been awarded a Leverhulme Research Professorship.
Research areas
Experimental Economics
Industrial Economics
Applied Econometrics and Policy
