Department of Economics

By exploring economic principles we help to address complex problems, from the decisions made by people and firms through to global economic policy.

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Research seminar series

The Department of Economics hosts a research seminar series throughout the academic year.

Our next external seminar

29 March 2023 Dimitris Christelis University of Glasgow "The causal effect of facemask-wearing on symptomatic Infection from COVID-19: Observational data evidence from 26 European countries and Israel."

Our next internal seminar

28 March 2023 Mich Tvede Fiscal policy: random is optimal

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Sheffield Economics Research Paper Series

The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series (SERPS) offers a forum for the research output of the Department of Economics. Our latest working papers include:

Platform Models and Strategic Interaction on a Multi-Agent Transport Network, by Jolian McHardy

Arbitrary Inflation in Fractional Models, by Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray, William Greene, Mark N. Harris

Household portfolios and financial literacy: The flight to delegation, by Sarah Brown, Alexandros Kontonikas, Alberto Montagnoli, Harry Pickard, Karl Taylor

Minimum Wage Spillover Effects and Social Welfare in a Model of Stochastic Job Matching, by Panagiotis NanosView all working papers

News

29 March 2023

The Royal Economic Society and Scottish Economic Society combined conference Glasgow, 3-5 April 2023

Academics from the Department of Economics will attend the Royal Economic Society and Scottish Economic Society combined conference in Glasgow, 3-5 April 2023, an event marking the 300th birthday of Scottish economist Adam Smith.

8 March 2023

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023

Women economists are undertaking innovative research projects focused on the disability employability gap, environmental economics, education economics, labour economics, and financial bubbles and crashes.

8 March 2023

Women in Economics

On International Women’s Day, the women in the Department of Economics are challenging the traditional perception of Economics.

13 December 2022

Unpacking the Disability Employment Gap in the UK

This week marks the climax of UK Disability History Month, an appropriate time to understand the barriers faced by disabled people when trying to access paid employment.

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