Introduction
The School of Economics is a lively, friendly, research-oriented department, committed to excellence in research and teaching. We have been ranked among the top six UK Economics departments in the 2009 CHE Excellence Group in terms of number of outstanding research performance indicators. We are also recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as a centre for excellence in postgraduate research and welcome applications from both home and overseas students.
The research degrees offered by the School of Economics are:
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)The MPhil has a 24 month registration period and requires a thesis not exceeding 60,000 words. Students often progress from the MPhil to a PhD in Economics.
Doctorate (PhD)
The normal PhD registration period is between 36 months and 60 months and requires a thesis not exceeding 80,000 words.
| The fees for 2011/12 academic year | Home/EU | International |
|---|---|---|
| Research Degree | £3,732 | £11,200 |
Staff Research
We offer PhD supervision in all main areas of economics. Members of faculty are pleased to meet prospective PhD candidates and discuss the candidates’ research ideas. Supervision is based on our commitment to high-quality research. In recent years faculty have published in numerous leading international journals, both general and specialised, such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Economic Journal, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Mathematical Economics, Experimental Economics, and Social Choice and Welfare.
We have strong research groups in experimental and behavioural economics, in industrial economics, and in public policy. See our main Research pages for more information about our research and research groups. We also play a central role in two UEA social science research centres, the Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) and the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS). These centres are an important part of a very active research environment, and we actively encourage research students to participate in their research activities. The School also has research links with researchers in other Schools, such as International Development, Environmental Sciences, Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, the UEA Law School and Norwich Business School.
We have two weekly seminars, the Economics Seminar and the Internal Economics Workshop. In addition, there are internal and external CBESS seminars and CCP seminars. Research students are encouraged to attend all these workshops, and to present their own research findings.
Many students already have a good idea of the research area they would like to study or a research supervisor they would like to work with.
There are no prescribed areas of study for a postgraduate degree by research. Any economics based subject will be considered, as long as there are enough members of faculty who could supervise this topic. We have an interdisciplinary approach to research and strong links with the Centre for Competition Policy and other research centres. This allows research students to liaise with academics from other Schools within the University.
Students are supervised by a team of at least two members of faculty with expertise in their area and feedback and guidance are regularly provided. Members of faculty are pleased to be approached by prospective PhD candidates about the kinds of research they can supervise.
Academic Staff and their research areas
Lecturer Subhasish Modak Chowdhury (PhD PURDUE)
Theoretical, experimental and empirical investigation of problems in industrial organisation, public economics and political economy.
Professor Steven Davies BA MA PhD (WARWICK)
Industrial organisation, competition economics, tacit collusion, non-linear pricing in oligopoly, multinational firms, mergers, merger simulation and merger remedies, evaluating competition policy, buyer power in the retail food sector, the determinants of industrial structure and concentration, the Single European Market, diffusion of technology.
Lecturer Peter Dawson
Applied microeconomics.
Professor Frantz Dietrich
Social choice and economic theory.
Professor Enrique Fatas
Behavioural and experimental economics.
Professor Shaun Hargreaves Heap
Social aspects of decision making, the economics of television and, in macroeconomics, the sources of wage inequality.
Lecturer Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon (PhD CORNELL)
Political economy and public economics.
Professor Bruce Lyons
Economic analysis of competition policy; in particular on how the delegated objectives and organization of a competition authority affect remedies, outcomes and economic efficiency.
Lecturer Ben McQuillin BA (CANTAB) MA Dphil (UEA)
Game theory, social choice theory and normative microeconomics, formal representation of rights.
Reader Peter Moffatt
Experimetrics, econometric modeling of data from economic experiments, modeling of household debt, the modeling of the UK sex industry, and the theory of the consumer.
Lecturer Grischa Perino (PhD HEIDELBERG)
Environmental economics and regulatory economics with a special emphasis on instrument choice, the design of institutions and the economics of environmental innovation.
Senior Lecturer Arnold Polanski
Economic theory and mathematical economics.
Senior Lecturer Anders Poulsen PhD (ESSEX)
Game theory, experimental economics and behavioural economics, bargaining and co-ordination situations, strategic moves, focal points, and monetary reward systems and incentives.
Lecturer Odile Poulsen PhD (ESSEX)
Growth theory, unemployment, environmental economics, and theories of social capital.
Lecturer Abhijit Ramalingam
Employment contracts and behavioural and experimental economics.
Senior Lecturer Bibhas Saha PhD (CALIFORNIA)
Child labour, returns to education, corruption, privatisation, trade unions and managerial incentives.
Professor Robert Sugden
Welfare economics, social choice, choice under uncertainty, the foundations of decision and game theory, the methodology of economics, and the evolution of social conventions.
Senior Lecturer Theodore Turocy (PhD NORTHWESTERN)
Game theory, auctions, the provision of public goods, contests, cost allocation, network formation and sport.
Lecturer Fuyu Yang
Econometrics.
Professor Daniel Zizzo
Bounded rationality, models of expectation formation and behavioural macroeconomics, behavioural and cognitive game theory, cooperation, trust and social preferences.
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