2023 news

Ning Xue and Yaprak Tavman were successful in securing a Learning and Teaching (L&T) Fund award for their project "Co-development of inclusive PBL resources for tutors and students".

Staff from YHEC will continue to teach on our Health Economics distance learning programmes.

Welcoming a Lecturer to the Department.

The Department of Economics and Related Studies calls for papers for the first York Economic History & Political Economy workshop held from Thursday the 30th to Friday the 31st of May 2024 at King’s Manor, York.

Second-year Economic's student Noah Kirby has won a competition for his analysis of a current event from an economic perspective.

Welcoming a new Lecturer to the Department

A Professor in the Economics department was invited to be an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A).

The University’s UKRI-funded AI centre for doctoral training in Lifelong Safety Assurance of AI-enabled Autonomous Systems (SAINTS CDT) has opened applications for its first cohort of PhD students.

A Professor in the Economics department was invited to be an Associate Editor of the European Economic Review.

The Economic and Social Research Council White Rose DTP is a regional consortium of seven universities with social science research excellence and involves the universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York as well as Bradford, Hull, Manchester Metropolitan and Sheffield Hallam.

We are pleased to introduce you to the University of York's Econ job market candidates for this academic year (2023/24).

A student-led Diversifying and Decolonising the Curriculum Initiative has been established at the Department of Economics.

The conference was chaired by Ruth Curtice, Deputy Director, Fiscal Group, HM Treasury.

Congratulations to Dr Thilo Huning for securing a prestigious fellowship

Head of Department, Professor Michael Thornton, wishes students a warm welcome.

The workshop, held in Madrid, was organised by Andrew Jones (University of York) and Owen O'Donnell (Erasmus University).

The 8th Workshop on Labour and Family Economics (WOLFE)

The results of a nationwide survey have revealed that the Department of Economics and Related Studies is home to some of the happiest finance students in the UK.

On Wednesday 19 July, the graduation ceremony for Economics and Related Studies took place.

Welcoming a new Lecturer to the Department

Welcoming a new Lecturer to the Department

Welcoming a new Lecturer to the Department

James Lomas' report 'Promoting population health through pharmaceutical policy: The role of the UK voluntary scheme' has been discussed in the media

Luigi Siciliani was asked to be a keynote speaker for a European Health Policy Group meeting. His talk was titled 'Backlogs, waiting lists and waiting times: evidence and policy'.

On June 26 and 27, the 10th Asset Pricing Workshop welcomed speakers from around the world to present.

Recent research presented by Professor Emma Tominey at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO) reveals that mixing with schoolmates from elite-educated backgrounds increases enrolment of students from poorer backgrounds on elite degree programmes, and can increase social mobility.

If you missed the event, or want to watch it again (or share with your friends) it is now available on the YouTube channel.

We deeply regret to inform you that Dr Makoto Shimoji unexpectedly departed from us on 10 June.

Welcoming a new Lecturer to the Department

Professor Yongcheol Shin visited The University of Melbourne as an Eminent Professor from April 21 to June 7. He participated in a variety of activities while there.

Join us in congratulating John Bone on his retirement from the Department of Economics and Related Studies after 40 years of service.

The event, organised by the Economic Theory Research Cluster brought leading academics from across the field including keynote speaker Roberto Serrano (Brown).

Today, Michal Horvath will be appointed finance minister in Slovakia's caretaker government.

Advice on Publishing in Economics, chaired by Cheti Nicoletti, was held at the University of Glasgow on Monday 3 April.

The Department of Economics invites paper submissions for the 8th Workshop on Labour and Family Economics (WOLFE). 4th-5th September 2023.

A new article written by Dr. Tho Pham and co-authors has been published in the American Economic Review.

We welcome Dr Mark Hallam to the Department of Economics and Related Studies who has joined us as a Senior Lecturer in Finance.

We have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Amos Golan from the American University to our department.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Neil Shephard from Harvard University.

Professor Yongcheol Shin’s research has been recognised as among the most influential of the last half century by a leading journal.

We welcome Dr Ines Lee to the department.

Dr Yaprak Tavman has joined the University's Learning and Teaching Forum Committee.

We welcome Dr Tho Pham to the Department of Economics and Related Studies who has joined us as a Senior Lecturer in Finance.

Staff and students at the Department of Economics and Related Studies met visiting Professor Paul Johnson, as he was awarded an honorary degree.