How do I choose an economic research topic?

Applications are welcomed in all Economics topics. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with research interests in the following speciality areas of our research-active staff:

Financial Economics and Household Finance

• Banking and financial stability
• Household portfolios, financial literacy and wealth inequality
• Household saving, financial vulnerability and asset accumulation

Gender, Race and Inequality

• Domestic violence
• Discrimination and Wellbeing
• Wealth inequality and racial wealth gap

Health Economics

• Healthcare and Demographics
• Long-run impact of COVID

Industrial Organization

• Innovation, industrial policy and mixed markets
• Theory of firm and individual decision-making

International Economics and Development

• Development economics and aid effectiveness
• Theory of Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth
• Trade models with heterogeneous firms, trade gravity and productivity growth
• Trade policies and public economics

Labour Economics

• Empirical studies on the relationships between labour, health and wellbeing
• Executive compensation, corporate governance, gender in the boardroom
• FDI and labour markets
• Gender differences in human capital accumulation
• Labour market inputs and outcomes
• Transmission of human capital
• Vocational education
• Wages, employment and contract type

Political Economy

• Elections, political ideology, immigration and terrorism

Sports Economics

• Testing ideas in applied microeconomics with sports data

Time Series Econometrics

• Econometric detection of bubbles and crashes

Urban, Regional and Environmental Economics

• Environmental investments, environmental policy and green preferences
• Inter-regional trade
• Local labour markets
• Skills mismatch and agglomeration
• Spatial distribution of Innovation and Inequality

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