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.
Research Groups
We have strong research groups in experimental economics and decision theory; industrial economics; and economics of public policy. The School of Economics is involved in two interdisciplinary research centres, the Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) and the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS). These centres form an important part of a very active research environment and we actively encourage research students to participate in their activities.
We can offer PhD supervision in all areas of economics and welcome interdisciplinary research: we have 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, and one of our research strengths lies in work at the interface between economics and philosophy.
In the internal Economics workshop, research students and faculty present their work. PGR Workshops are held weekly.
Industrial Economics (Davies, Hviid, Lyons, Modak Chowdhury, Saha, Turocy, and Waddams, in conjunction with the Centre for Competition Policy)
Recent research topics include: Merger Control; Europeanisation of Industrial Stucture; Contract Theory; Multinational firms; Abuse of Monopoly Power; Competition Policy; Internet Economics; Price Guarantees; Transaction Costs; Privatisation and Regulation.
Behavioural and Experimental Economics (Fatas, Moffatt, Poulsen, A., Poulsen, O., Ramalingam, Sugden, Turocy, and Zizzo, in conjunction with the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS))
Recent research topics include: Testing New Theories of Choice Under Uncertainty; The Impact of Communication on Bargaining; The Nature and Role of Salience in Strategic Decision Making; Cooperation; Trust, Social Preferences and Groups; Experimetrics.
Economics and Philosophy (Dietrich, Hargreaves-Heap, McQuillin, Sugden, and Zizzo)
Recent research topics include: Foundations of Game Theory; Decision Theory and Welfare Economics; the Nature and Evaluation of Conventions; The Role of Culture in Economic Theory; Investigation of Psychological Assumptions and Decision Processes in Economic Theory.
Public Policy and Applied Economics (Dawson, De Leon, Long, Moffatt, Poulsen, O., Saha, and Yang)
Recent research topics include: Economics of the Environment; Valuation of Public Goods; Labour Market Economics; Household Decision Making, Training and Earnings.
