Research areas
The Department of Economics hosts a broad spectra of research areas in economics.
Behavioural and experimental economics
Behavioural economics attempts to model human behaviour through a combination of insights from economics and psychology.
Development economics
Research in development economics covers several topics such as industrial development, inflation, HIV and health, development aid, social conflict, natural disasters, land grabbing, institutional economics, the political economy of natural resources, and long-run development.
Environmental economics
Environmental economics deals with the economic aspects of global, national and local environmental problems and policies.
Financial economics
Financial economics, or simply finance, covers a wide range of topics broadly related to financial markets and the financing decisions of firms.
Health economics
Health Economics applies and develops microeconomic theory and empirical methods on issues related to people's health.
Industrial economics
Industrial economists study how markets work. We are often concerned with the causes and consequences of market power, typically in oligopolistic industries.
Labor and applied microeconomics
Labor economists investigate a wide range of questions aimed at understanding how labor markets work, and how public policies may interact with labor market choices and outcomes.
Public economics
Public economics is in short economics of the public sector - taxation and expenditure in terms of various kinds of public services.
