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:
Behavioural Economics
- Behavioural Health Economics and Policy
- Behavioural Labour and Organisational Economics
- Decisions under Risk and Uncertainty
- Experimental and Behavioural analyses of markets
- Charitable Behaviour
- Analysis of Conflict and Conflict Resolution
- Behavioural Welfare Economics (including subjective wellbeing)
Financial Economics and Household Finance
- Banking and financial stability
- Household portfolios
- Household wealth inequality
- Household saving
- Household financial vulnerability and asset accumulation
Gender, Race and Inequality
- Domestic violence
- Discrimination and Wellbeing
- Identity Economics (gender, ethnicity, inequality)
- Wealth inequality and racial wealth gap
- Affirmative Action Policies
Health Economics
- Healthcare and demographics
- Health, wellbeing and employment
- Long-run impact of COVID
- Aversion to inequality in multidimensional wellbeing
- Health state valuation and stated preferences
Industrial Organization
- Competition Policy
- Innovation, industrial policy and mixed markets
- Networks and Regulation
- Firms Productivity
- Tax compliance and administration
International Economics and Development
- Empirical development economics
- Foreign aid and development finance institutions
- Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth
- Trade models with heterogeneous firms, trade gravity and productivity growth
- Trade policies and public economics
Labour and Education Economics
- Empirical studies on the relationships between labour, health and wellbeing
- Education Economics
- Gender differences in human capital accumulation
- Labour market transitions of (young) workers
- Social mobility
- Vocational education
- Wages, employment and contract type
Macroeconomics
- Open Economy Macroeconomics
- Business Cycles
- Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Modelling
- Labour Market Dynamics
- Search and Matching
Political Economy
- Elections, political ideology, institutions and economic policy
- Immigration: causes and consequences
- Terrorism, public attitudes and behavioural outcomes
- Rent-seeking and other contests
Time Series Econometrics
- Econometric detection of bubbles and crashes
- Specification testing and forecasting in non-linear Econometric/Time-Series models
- Theoretical econometrics and statistical inference
Urban and Environmental Economics
- Environmental economicsandenvironmental policy
- Environmental reporting
- Real estate economics
- Local labour markets
- Agglomeration externalities
- Spatial distribution of economic activities and innovation
- Transport economics
- Local economic impacts and drivers of internal and external immigration
- Local and regional determinants of social mobility and inequality
- Levelling-up: drivers of local productivity and growth
