PhD research topics
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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