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Here are some news about our department:

March, 2023: Hiring news – Shuai Chen, LISER, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Shuai’s research interests include applied microeconomics, labor economics, and political economy.

March, 2023: Hiring news – Mert Gumren, Koc University, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Mert’s research interests include experimental and behavioural economics as well as economics of education.

March, 2023: Hiring news – Tingyan Jia, Stanford University, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Tingyan’s research interests include behavioural and experimental economics as well as experimental finance.

March, 2023: Hiring news – Raghav Malhotra, Warwick University, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Raghav’s research interests include microeconomic theory, labor economics, public finance, and applied econometrics.

March, 2023: Hiring news – Agustina Martínez, Carlos III University of Madrid, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Agustina’s research interests include political economy, development economics, and economics of networks.

March, 2023: Hiring news – Paul Schaefer, Bonn University, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Paul’s research interests include applied microeconomics, behavioural industrial organization and cultural/institutional economics.

March, 2023: Hiring news – Vanessa Valero, Loughborough University, has accepted an Associate Professorship in EFA. Vanessa’s research interests include behavioural and experimental economics.

February, 2023: Hiring news – Levent Celik, City University of London, has accepted a Professorship in EFA. Levent’s research interests include industrial organization, information economics and political economy.

February, 2023: Hiring news – Omar Licandro, University of Nottingham, has accepted a Professorship in EFA. Omar’s research interests are primarily in the field of macroeconomics, with particular interest in growth theory, innovation, and technical progress.

February, 2023: Hiring news – Hilary Coyle, University of Derby, will join us as Lecturer in Accounting.

December, 2022: Hiring news – Matt Polisson, University of Bristol, has accepted a Professorship in EFA. Matt’s research interests include applied microeconometrics, microeconomic theory, and health economics.

December, 2022: Hiring news – Ania Zalewska, University of Bath, has accepted a Professorship in EFA.

December, 2022: Hiring news – Tianshu Zhao, University of Birmingham, has accepted a Professorship in EFA. Tianshu’s research interests include financial intermediation and microeconomics in banking.

November, 2022: Teaching news – We are now recruiting to our new BSc Economics and Data Analytics. Here is further information on the programme.

October, 2022: Hiring news – We are again on the junior job market with several positions. Here is the job advertisement.

July, 2022: Hiring news – Fabio Tufano, University of Nottingham, has accepted a Professorship in EFA. Fabio’s research interests include Behavioural and Experimental Economics.

July, 2022: Hiring news – Piercarlo Zanchettin, University of Nottingham, has accepted a Professorship in EFA. Piercarlo’s research interests include the fields of Industrial Economics – Innovation and Competition Economics in particular – and Endogenous Growth Theory.

July, 2022: Hiring news – David Rojo, Chapman University, has accepted an Associate Professorship in EFA. David’s research interests include Microeconomics, Game Theory, Behavioural and Experimental Economics.

July, 2022: Hiring news – Lorenzo Trapani, University of Nottingham, has accepted a Professorship in EFA. Lorenzo’s research interests include Econometric Theory and Statistics.

May, 2022: Hiring news – Bo Pan, University of Westminster, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Bo’s research interests include Accounting and Finance.

May, 2022: Hiring news – Lu Qiao, University of Nottingham, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Lu’s research interests include Accounting and Finance.

February, 2022: Hiring news – Matteo Duca, Rome Tor Vergata, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Matteo’s research interests include Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Economic Theory.

February, 2022: Hiring news – Tim Obermeier, IFS, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Tim’s research interests include Macroeconomics and Labour Economics, in particular in questions related to inequality, family economics or firm behaviour.

February, 2022: Hiring news – Gaurav Mehta, Barcelona School of Economics, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Gaurav’s research interests include Financial Economics, Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics.

January, 2022: Hiring news – Chung-Yi Tse, University of Hong Kong, has accepted a Lectureship in EFA. Chung-Yi is an applied theorist with wide-ranging interests in different areas in Economics and Finance.