Department of Economics and Related Studies
Departmental News
PhD Studentships
The Department has 2 departmental PhD studentships and 2 quota ESRC awards to offer in 2010/11. Please see the Postgraduate Financial Aid page for further details.
IBM University Business Challenge
Six teams from the Department entered into this year’s IBM University Business Challenge. Two of the teams have successfully gained places in the regional semi-finals to be held in March 2010, and are in the top 72 teams from 270 around the country. The Department wishes them every success.
Congratulations to:
Team: Apogee
Christopher Lau, Wee Tiam Ang, Corina Chalkiadaki and Musa Khan.
Team: Jorvick Consulting
David Coppard, Benjamin Hornsby-Odoi, Steven Leah, Tom Masterman–Webster and Laura Von Lennkh.
Welcome to the Department of Economics and Related Studies
We are a large vibrant department with a wide range of BSc and MSc programmes, and a large community of research students. Our high quality research directly informs our teaching, and we are proud of the impact and influence of our research in society, and of our contribution to scholarship.
Economics at York:
- Ranked 8th in the UK for ‘research power’ in RAE 2008
- Included in the excellence group by the CHE - Centre for Higher Education Development
- The place where ‘health economics’ was pioneered
- Strong links with Politics, Philosophy and Mathematics at York
- 5 BSc programmes in the Department, and 10 joint BSc programmes
- 9 MSc programmes
- A large and active department in one of the UK’s best universities
We hope you will come and join us!
Professor Peter Simmons
Head of Department
Forthcoming Events
Departmental Seminar - 10 February
Miltos Makris, University of Leicester
Title: Addictive and Compulsive Consumption and the Value of Information (joint with Subir Bose, University of Leicester)
Thursday Workshop - 11 February
John Hey, University of York
Title: Dynamic Decision Making: What Do People Do? (joint paper with Luca Panaccione, LUISS)