Postgraduate Research

The Centre for Economic Research offers a lively and active environment for research in economics. The 2008 RAE rated work in Business and Economics as of international standard and some of the Economics submissions as world class. The Centre for Economic Research undertakes empirical and theoretical research in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and in public, financial and monetary economics.

Members of the Centre for Economic Research are actively engaged in frontier research and present their work at national and international conferences, and publish in leading economics journals. Research is funded from a range of bodies that include the ESRC, the DFID, charities and central government departments.

We welcome applications in the following areas:

Empirical Finance

• The Dynamics Of Sovereign Risk And The Price Of Risk In Bond And CDS Markets (Alena Audzeyeva + Gauthier Lanot)
• Investigation Of Sovereign Credit Rating Transitions (Alena Audzeyeva + Gauthier Lanot)

Applied Economics and Econometrics

• The Political Economy Of Debt And Deficits (Gabriella Legrenzi)
• An Empirical Analysis On The Determinants Of The Growth (And Decline) Of Governments (Gabriella Legrenzi)
• A Non-Linear Analysis On The Sustainability Of The Government’s Intertemporal Budget Constraint (Gabriella Legrenzi)
• Human Capital Investment In A Recession (Gauthier Lanot)

Economics of ageing and retirement (includes Actuarial research…)

• Solvency And Risk In Public Pension Systems (Carmen Boado-Penas)
• Solvency And Sustainability Of Pension Systems.  (Carmen Boado-Penas + Gauthier Lanot)
• Retirement And Informal Care-Giving (Roman Raab)
• Retirement Decisions And Asset Accumulation (Gauthier Lanot)
• Retirement And The “Global” Recession. (Gauthier Lanot)