Economics Department News

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

Talk by Ulrich Volz at Yale International Fox Fellowship Conference on Leadership in New Delhi

On 7 January 2017, Ulrich Volz spoke on the role of large emerging economies in taking the lead in advancing the green transformation.

7th January 2017

France and Europe after Brexit

International Conference, Paris, 2-3 December

29th November 2016

UNCTAD launches its flagship publicaion at SOAS

UNCTAD launches its flagship publication at SOAS

21st September 2016

Professor Ben Fine appointed to the Economists' Oversight Group of the Citizens' Economic Council

Professor Ben Fine has been appointed to the Economists' Oversight Group of the Citizens' Economic Council

12th September 2016