News and Events

The School of Economics is pleased to announce that the first Applied and Financial Economics Workshop is scheduled to be held on Monday 4th February 2013 at the University of East Anglia from 16.00 until 17.00 in Arts 2 room 3.27. The presenter will be Dr Peter Dawson, of the UEA School of Economics, who will give a presentation titled 'Olympic news and attitudes towards the Olympics : A compositional time-series analysis of how sentiment is affected by events'.

New research by Dr Grischa Perino from the School of Economics suggests that many of the recommendations made by government agencies and environmental NGOs about how to reduce an individual's carbon footprint are inappropriate in the European Union, because of its Emission Trading System (EU ETS) which caps emissions from certain industries and allows regulated sources to trade emission allowances. Advice commonly offered, for example by the Department of Energy and Climate Change,...

  The School of Economics is pleased to announce the second lecture within the Contemporary Economic Issues series this semester, which takes place on Monday the 4th of February 2013, from 6pm, in lecture theatre Arts 01.02 . The talk will be delivered by Professor Stephen Davies, of the UEA School of Economics and Centre for Competition Policy.   Is competition really delivering the goods? A stocktake of competition within the UK from the consumer’s perspective* ...

  We are pleased to announce that from 1 st January 2013 Professor David Cooper and Professor Eugenio Miravete have joined the School of Economics to take up positions as part-time Professors. Professor Cooper is primarily based at Florida State University, USA and his research interests include Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics, Managerial Decision Making and Economic Theory. Professor Miravete is a Professor of Industrial Organisation and is primarily based...

The School of Economics is pleased to announce the first lecture within the Contemporary Economic Issues series this semester, which takes place on Monday 28 th   January 2013, from 6pm, in lecture theatre Arts 01.02. The talk will be delivered by Dr Alper Kara, of the University of Hull: ‘Financial Innovation and Banking Risks'   We investigate the effect of securitization activity on banks’ lending standards using evidence from pricing behaviour on the...

Professor Daniel Zizzo has been appointed a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Socio-Economics .

CREATe is the recently founded RCUK research centre for copyright and new business models in the creative economy. It is a pioneering academic initiative designed to help the UK cultural and creative industries thrive and become innovation leaders within the global digital economy. Professor Daniel Zizzo , School of Economics, UEA, http://www.uea.ac.uk/~ec601 , is one of the members of academics from the consortium of seven Universities : the University of East Anglia, the University...

The School of Economics and MIND  are pleased to announce a mini-conference ‘The conceptual structure of mathematical economics’ to be held on campus Queen’s Building room 2.22 on 14 th and 15 th February. The conference has the purpose to stimulate a debate around the use of mathematics in economic modelling.  This is extremely relevant considering that economic models have a major impact on contemporary society: they are used to inform policy designs that aim to...

A joint report "Income Effect and Altruism", published by the School of Economics, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science, and the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, explored how income – specifically changes in income - affects the altruistic behaviour of donors to charity. A recent article by Dr Subhasish Modak Chowdhury and Joo Young Jeon of the School of Economics, published on the ESRC website, found that for many people, giving to charities over the...

Consumers should be 'nudged' into action in order to get the best energy deals according to new research published today by the University of East Anglia. A study by Prof Daniel Zizzo, Dr Stefania Sitzia and Jiwei Zheng, of UEA’s School of Economics, has addressed the question of whether reducing the number of tariffs and giving consumers the best one helps them get the best energy deal. The study Complexity and Smart Nudges with Inattentive Consumers, published today by the ESRC...