Economics Department News

Ten SOAS Economics Graduates Awarded Prestigious ODI Fellowship

Ten SOAS economics graduates have been awarded prestigious Fellowships by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a world leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues based in London.

26th July 2017

Teaching Prizes for Eric Golson, Aleksandra Peeroo and Ramin Nassehi

Teaching Prizes for Eric Golson, Aleksandra Peeroo and Ramin Nassehi

8th July 2017

SOAS Economists and LMEI Host First Workshop on Dynamics of Gender Inequality in MENA and South Asia

3rd July 2017

SOAS Hosts Asian Development Bank President Takehiko Nakao

SOAS University of London’s Department of Economics hosted a roundtable meeting on the Asian Development Bank’s (ABD) new strategy last week.

27th June 2017

Ulrich Volz as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)

21st June 2017

SOAS academic awarded Gatsby Foundation grant to study the impact of financialisation on innovation and productivity in UK manufacturing.

Dr Antonio Andreoni, Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London, has been awarded a Gatsby Foundation grant of £180,000 to lead a project on “Governing Financialisation, Innovation and Productivity in UK manufacturing” (GOFINPRO), with a specific focus on biopharma and aerospace.

20th June 2017

Ulrich Volz delivered lecture at I.S.E.O. Summer School

17th June 2017

SOAS Economics Student Henna Akram Wins DSA-ICEA MSc Dissertation Price

16th June 2017

T20 Policy Brief on Fostering Sustainable Global Growth through Green Finance

Call on G20 to promote green finance practices, enhance disclosure standards and support market development

3rd May 2017

Critical Economics Summit; Bologna on 5 to 7 May 2017

Critical Economics Summit, Bologna May 5-6-7th:  A Debate on Political Economy.

12th April 2017

SOAS academics awarded ESRC grant to study gender and dynamics of inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia

Professor Massoud Karshenas, Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London, has been awarded an ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) grant of £114,000 to lead a project on female labour and the dynamics of inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.

28th March 2017

Antonio Andreoni is Co-editing a Special Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics on "The Dynamics of Industrial and Economic Renewal in Mature Economies"

The Dynamics of Industrial and Economic Renewal in Mature Economies: Implications for Theory and Policy.

Deadline for submission of papers is 15 August 2017

21st March 2017

Mushtaq kHan joins high-level panel on 'What Institututions Do Countries Really Need?"

Professor Mushtaq Khan speaking at ODI about SOAS Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme

2nd March 2017

SOAS Economics hosts high-level conference on 'Foreign Exchange Swaps in the Money and Financial Markets' sponsored by the Royal Economic Society

Keynote speeches by former Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirikawa and Claudio Borio, the Head of Monetary Policy at the Bank of International Settlements

24th February 2017

2015-16 Department of Economics Postgraduate Prize Winners

Two postgraduate students awarded with Postgraduate Department Awards

13th January 2017