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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
So proud to announce that Sir Rchard Blundell is the the 2020 recipient of the Jacob Mincer Award for lifetime contributions to the field of labor economics. @R_Blundell_UCL @UCL_AHSHS @TheIFS
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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"Their work on the role of social relationships in economics, advanced through pioneering field experiments ... has inspired a generation of applied economists" 2019 Yrjö Jahnsson Prize winners @OrianaBandiera and @ImranRasul3
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
We are profoundly saddened by the loss of our colleague and friend, Konrad Mierendorff who died on Saturday 7 August in an accident. He will be sorely missed by us all at UCL. We send our deepest condolences to his loved ones at this difficult time.
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Feeling festive on @ucl campus 😍🎄🎉
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Sir Richard Blundell joins Emmanuel Macron’s expert commission on major economic challenges: Climat, inégalités, démographie. The new commission is headed up by Nobel Prizewinner Jean Tirole and former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard.’
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Out now in Econometrica: "Uneven Growth: Automation's Impact on Income and Wealth Inequality" by Benjamin Moll, Lukasz Rachel and Pascual Restrepo. @lukaszRachel
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
9 months
We’re thrilled to welcome Professor Francois Gerard @fgerard_BE into our team at the Department of Economics at UCL! Find out more about Professor Gerard here:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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📢We’re hiring! We’re looking for an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in any field of economics to join our team @ucl Department of Economics. 📅Deadline: 24 November 2023 Find out more and apply➡️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
We are so excited to host Professor Daron Acemoglu for UCL Gorman Lectures 2020! Lecture 1: Oct 12th from 5-30pm to 7pm (UK time) Lecture 2: Oct 13th from 5-30pm to 7pm (UK time) Registration (open to all via Zoom): @CReAM_Research @TheIFS @MITEcon
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Professor Imran Rasul is awarded an OBE for his services to Social Sciences. @ImranRasul3 @UCL_AHSHS @uclnews @ucl
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Congratulations to @PaulaAureo who has been appointed as a Turing Fellow @turinginst this year! 👏👏👏
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Congratulations to our newly promoted Professors, Fred Malherbe, @Gabri_EllaConti and Vincent Sterk - a fantastic achievement! 👏👏
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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Congratulations to all our fabulous academics who have been promoted this year! 🥳🥳🥳 ➡️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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Our brilliant colleagues Imran Rasul and Aureo de Paula are elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society. @ImranRasul3 @TheIFS
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
🚩 It's job market season and we're delighted to share with you our PhD candidates for this year! We'll be highlighting each of our 2021 job market candidates separately but in the meantime you can see all of our candidates on our website:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
📢 We're hiring! Join our team in UCL Economics as a Assistant Professor in any field! 📌 Position: Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics 📅 Deadline: 15 November 👉 Find out more:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Sir Richard Blundell on the social groups who have been hit hardest by the lockdown: @TheIFS @RoyalEconSoc @R_Blundell_UCL
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Our researchers have been busy during the pandemic, check out their podcasts, publications and other pioneering research into the effect on COVID-19 on economies
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
David Card (University of California, Berkeley), winner of Nobel Prize, Economic Sciences, will give a seminar organised by the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration in the Department of Economics at University College London. Open to UCL community ➡️ //bit.ly/3v3Ocmj
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
📢 We’re delighted to announce our new MSc in Data Science and Public Policy with @uclspp ! If you’re passionate about solving issues in public policy with data science then find out more & register your interest here 👉 @jblumenau @ucl @UCLSocHistSci
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Huge congratulations to UCL Economics Professor Christian Dustmann on winning the 2020 Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker Prize! 👏👏👏
@CReAM_Research
CReAM
4 years
We are incredibly excited to announce that CReAM Director Professor Christian Dustmann has been awarded the 2020 Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker Prize by the German Academy of Sciences @Leopoldina 🤩 He is the first economist to receive the biannual award👏 1/3 #EconTwitter
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Today the economics community tragically lost a prolific, influential and lively member. Alberto Alesina (1957-2020) 🖤
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Interested in studying Economics at UCL? Read the @coreeconteam free textbook, The Economy to get an idea of to expect.
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Sir Richard Blundell receives the ONS Research Excellence Awards! @R_Blundell_UCL @ONS
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
UCL Economics academic, Uta Schönberg has been elected as a British Academy Fellow! 🎉🎉🎉 Congrats Uta! Read the full article ➡️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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Recently published in @RevEconStudies : Sentimental Business Cycles by @MortenORavn and co-authors, estimating the dynamic causal effects of consumer sentiment shocks in the US 👇 @UCLSocHistSci @UCLPolicyLab
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Congratulations to Professor Daniel Wilhelm for winning the Philip Leverhulme Prize at @LeverhulmeTrust for his work on econometrics! 🎉 ➡️Find out more:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Check out the recent AER paper by Jeremy Lise (Uni of Minnesota) & Fabien Postel-Vinay (UCL) on “Multidimensional Skills, Sorting, and Human Capital Accumulation”. @fpvinay
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Our very own Hyejin Ku and Uta Schoenberg have been awarded @BritishAcademy_ Mid-Career Fellowships! 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to both and you can find out more here 👉 #EconTwitter @uclnews @CReAM_Research @UCLSocHistSci @SashaRoseneil @DavidPriceUCL
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
10 months
🎆 Congratulations to UCL Economist Timothy Christensen who has been awarded European Research Council (ERC) Grant! @ERC_Research
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Congratulations to @ImranRasul3 who is the new Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) at @TheIFS ⬇️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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We are pleased to announce promotions of our colleagues in the department, Alex Gorbenko, to Prof. of Economics and Finance, @RalphLuet , to Associate Prof. of Economics and @RaminNassehi and @SilviaDalBianc1 to Associate Profs. in Economics (Teaching)🎉
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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UCL Economics has ranked first for our research environment and outputs in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF). Find out more about our results ➡️ #UCLResearch #REFResults
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
📢 Inaugural Lecture announcement! Join UCL Prof. Kalina Manova on 17 March at 12:30pm for her talk on Global Firms: International Trade and Investment with Financial Frictions and Global Value Chains 🔴 Register now:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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🎆The Department's No Strings Attached Scholarship has been awarded to @morganemrichard and Jon Piqueras! Congrats 👏👏👏 Read more ➡️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
5 years
Twelve @EconUCL economists are on the job market this year. Details can be seen at Summaries of their research and interests in following tweets #econjobmarket #EconTwitter
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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Congratualtions to @WendyCarlinEcon who has been given Outstanding Career Achievement Award by the Economics Network at this year's Developments in Economics Education conference #DEE2019
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
📢 OUT NOW in @JPolEcon 📢 Sources of Wage Growth by Jérôme Adda and @EconUCL Christian Dustmann 👇 Costless Information and Costly Verification: A Case for Transparency by @EconUCL Deniz Kattwinkel and @JanKnoepfle 👇
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Congratulations to our very own Daniel Wilhelm who has been appointed as a Turing Fellow @turinginst this year!
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
6 years
UCL Economics Professor @ImranRasul3 named as new Managing Editor of JEEA @EEANews | UCL Department of Economics - UCL - London's Global University
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
The sun came out for an Economics Walk around London today with @RaminNassehi ! @CTaLE_UCL
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Congratulations to @ImranRasul3 , Professor of Economics at @ucl for being elected Co-President of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). To read more about this news, please click below. ➡️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Considering applying for an Econ PhD at UCL? The Applicant Mentoring Programme matches applicants from underrepresented backgrounds with mentors from PhD programmes at @CamEcon , @LSEEcon , @OxfordEconDept , @EconUCL and @warwickecon .🚀 Apply before Dec 1 👉
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Recognising her unique lifetime contribution to the discipline of economics, #UCLEconomics Professor Wendy Carlin has been elected to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Congratulations @WendyCarlinEcon 🥳 🎉 Read the article here ⬇️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
We are proud to learn that Professor Jean-Marc Robin has been elected to the Econometric Society Council.
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
📣UCL Economics are delighted to announce the return of our on-campus Gorman Lectures with guest speaker, Penny Goldberg from Yale University 📣 ⏰ 16 & 17 May, 6-7.30pm Be sure to join us and sign up here ⬇️ Lecture 1 Lecture 2:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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Huge congratulations to @Nik_Datta and @XhaniDajana , two of today's #PhD graduands, and to all our @EconUCL PG students graduating today 🎓🎉👏 📷 with (L-R) Prof @fpvinay , HoD Prof Antonio Guarino and Prof @IanPPreston #uclgrad @UCLSocHistSci
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Congratulations to Professors Pedro Carneiro, Raffaella Giacomini & Morten Ravn for being elected as Fellows of the Econometric Society. @econometricsoc @MortenORavn @carneiro_econ
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
🥳 Congratulations to PhD Students, Hugo Freeman and Riccardo D'Adamo who have been awarded prizes by the International Association for Applied Econometrics! ➡️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
We are saddened to report the death of colleague, Prof Wilfred Beckerman, 1925-2020. Head of Dept 1969-75, he worked on poverty, wage determination, growth and environmental questions and returned to teach on ethics and economics in recent years.
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Out now in @RevEconStudies : "The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation" by @EconUCL Professor Christian Dustmann and co-authors ☞ #UCLEconomics
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Our very own Prof. Sir Richard Blundell won the @ONSFocus Research Excellence Award. Congratulations! Watch this short clip explaining his team’s work analysing public policies at @IFS to help tackle inequalities in society.
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Congratulations to @CReAM_Research Director Christian Dustmann who was officially awarded the Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker-Prize 2020 last night by @stifterverband and @Leopoldina Read more:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Mornings in Gordon Street Garden 🌳🌳🌳
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Missed our flagship Gorman Lectures for 2022? You can catch up with Penny Goldberg's talks on Informality and Development here ➡️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Find out about our fantastic Job market candidates. Economics Postdoc Jan David Bakker’s research interests include International Trade, Urban Economics & Development Economics. Learn more about Jan & our Candidates at
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
A proud moment for our community: the launch of the UCL Journal of Economics, our official peer-reviewed undergraduate research Journal! @TribuneUcl @CTaLE_ @StoneEcon_UCL
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
🔔 Congratulations to UCL Prof. Cloda Jenkins ( @UCLEconCareersT ) in her new role as an Expert Advisory Panel member for the UK Regulators Network (UKRN)! Find out more about Cloda and her new role here 👉🏻
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Congratulations to @RaminNassehi for being runner-up in the Student Choice Awards for "Inspiring Teaching Delivery"!! Listen to Ramin reflecting on his teaching method and sending a BIG thank you to his students and @TheUnionUCL @UCL_AHSHS @CTaLE_UCL
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UCL Economics
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Due to the COVID crisis, UCL decided to switch to remote teaching on 13th of March. This is how UCL Economics rose to this challenge: Video produced by @RaminNassehi @CTaLE_UCL @UCL_AHSHS
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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🎉Congrats! @ucl Economist, Professor Christian Dustmann has been awarded the 2023 Reimar Lüst Prize @CReAM_Research ➡️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Congratulations to our job market candidate @Nik_Datta who was awarded the 8th Econ Job Market Best Paper Award for his paper "Local Monopsony Power"! 🎉🎉🎉 👉 Find out more:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Congrats to @ImranRasul3 for his successful @ESRC funding bid! His project is titled "Machine learning methods for studying the trajectories of young offenders in administrative data" You can find out more about his research bid here:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
In case you missed it 👀 Catch up on this @NewYorker piece on @WendyCarlinEcon and the pioneering work of @coreeconteam Read 👉
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Glad to learn that Aureo de Paula and his co-authors are awarded the Best Paper Prize in the Essen Health Conference. Their paper focuses on “subjective expectations and demand for contraception”. @BristolUniEcon @CmfValente
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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🎉UCL Economics has ranked in the top 20 for Economics worldwide and among the top 4 in the UK, according to @worlduniranking ! 🎉 Full rankings:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
5 years
Our congratulations go to @ImranRasul3 who has just been named Fellow of the British Academy.
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
A hypothetical dialogue with Frank Ramsey:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
5 years
Talks from @R_Blundell_UCL @M_De_Nardi and @orazio_at at @EconUCL @TheIFS conference today on Consumption Smoothing, Partial Insurance and Labour Supply @ERC_Research @ESRC
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
6 years
Major new study of #inequality to be launched by @TheIFS , funded by @NuffieldFound and chaired by Prof Sir Angus Deaton. Includes @EconUCL Profs @R_Blundell_UCL , @orazio_at , and Visiting Prof @PJtheEconomist :
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
📢 We're so proud to share with you our Job Market candidates for this year! Check out our very talented PhD students on our website:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Get to know UCL Professor @PaulaAureo in this video from @CTaLE_UCL He shares his early experience of studying economics, his memory of hyperinflation in Brazil and how he came to UCL.
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Watch Daron Acemoglu’s first Gorman Lecture on “Tasks, Automation and Labor Market”: @CReAM_Research @TheIFS
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
6 years
Congratulations to UCL Economics Professor Fabien Postel-Vinay on his election as a fellow of the Econometric Society! This International Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics elected 22 new fellows -
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
The first of our “Get to know your professor” series. Professor Martin Cripps, in conversartion with Yash Dewan from @EconSocUCL Video producion: @RaminNassehi . Full interview: Professor Cripps reveals his passion for Isaac Asimov:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Want to study economics at UCL? Check out @coreeconteam who've produced free ebooks and resources for students, teachers and anyone interested in economics. 👉
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
UCL Prof. @ParamaChaudhury has been appointed as Chair to the @QAAtweets Benchmark Statement Review for Economics Congratulations Parama! 🎉🎉🎉 Find out more:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation have made a generous donation of £5m to open a new centre at @ucl led by @ImranRasul3 and @WendyCarlinEcon @coreeconteam @uclspp @UCLSocHistSci #EconTwitter
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
We welcomed Jim and Cathy Stone to @StoneEcon_UCL on Friday. Jim and Cathy’s philanthropy is enabling us to address the global challenges of #inequality . They joined a workshop, enjoyed a tour and had their hands cast for the #UCLDonorWall . @coreeconteam @UCLGiving
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
Happy 196th birthday to @ucl ! 🥳🥳🥳
@UCLRecords
UCL Records
3 years
UCL was founded on this day, 11th February 1826 with this Deed of Settlement. You may read it for yourself here
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
5 years
New PhD graduates Jeremy McCauley, Ming Qiu and Susana Parraga Rodriguez with @papiteide and @IanPPreston at today's graduation ceremony in Royal Festival Hall #UCLGrad
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
"Temporary reduction in Germany’s value added tax in the second half of 2020 led to a 36% increase in durable spending" Check out the new @voxeu column from @RalphLuet on A" temporary VAT cut as unconventional fiscal policy" 👉
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
8 years
The dept is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Tony Atkinson, great original economist, continuing inspiration, former head, Hon DSc @ucl
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
6 years
UCL honorary graduand @PJTheEconomist with @blundell09 before today's ceremony
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
In this new episode of #CapitalismafterCoronavirus , professor Wendy Carlin talks about a paradigm shift in economics after the crisis. You can listen to the full podcast here: @coreeconteam @lugaricano
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Next in our “Get to know your professor” series: Imran Rasul, named among the top 100 influential economists in the world, shares his passion for economic research (and cricket) with Yash Dewan! Video production: @RaminNassehi @CTaLE_UCL
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
@EconSocUCL recently hosted Professor Yanis Varoufakis discussing if technology is making the world safer and the role of academia and politics today. Catch up on the Drayton Discourse podcast here 👉👉👉
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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Missed this year's Gorman Lectures with Professor Per Krusell? Catch up with the recordings here:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
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@EconUCL has been ranked 17th best in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2023! #QSWUR @worlduniranking
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
7 years
"All the bashing of economics … gives politicians freedom to make policy choices without being accountable to the facts. We are heading away from evidence-based policy and dangerously close to surrender to special interest groups, gut feelings and superstitions"
@orazio_at
Orazio Attanasio
7 years
Dismal ignorance of the “dismal science”—a response to Larry Elliot via @prospect_uk
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
5 years
UCL Econ Professor Wendy Carlin @WendyCarlinEcon presented at @bankofengland last week on the CORE project @coreeconteam and the future directions of this brilliant opensource resource for economics education
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
4 years
Sir Richard Blundell delivering the 2020 Vilfredo Pareto lecture on “Inequality, Redistribution and the Labour Market”. @R_Blundell_UCL Full lecture:
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
📢 Catch up on last week's Gorman Lectures with Penny Goldberg! Watch the recordings of both lectures in the two-part series here ➡️
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
3 years
📢 Job Market Candidate: Economics PhD student Uta Bolt’s research interests include Applied Micro, Health Economics & Human Capital. Learn more about @uta_bolt & other @ucl Job Market Candidates at
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@EconUCL
UCL Economics
2 years
Check out the list of academic promotion in UCL Economics this year. Congratulations to all! 👏👏👏 ➡️
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