Microeconomics
The main focus of the department's research in microeconomics is the Leverhulme Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO). The Centre undertakes research into economic activities on the boundary of the state. This includes such issues as the role of incentives in the public sector, the role of markets in the delivery of health care, the regulation of privatised industries, and pensions policy. Its research agenda has since broadened to cover the wider impact of policy on the users of public services. Use the link at the top of the page to access the CMPO web site.
Members of the department are also currently researching in the following microeconomic fields:
- Industrial Organisation
The following staff members are currently undertaking research in the area of industrial organisation: Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Paul Grout, and Silvia Sonderegger.
- Health Economics
There are a number of research projects in health economics being undertaken in the CMPO. Much of this work is being undertaken by Carol Propper.
- Labour Economics
Several members of the department are researching into various topics in labour economics: Paul Gregg, Simon Burgess and Hélène Turon.
- Poverty and Inequality
An area that covers a number of inter-related fields is that of income inequality and poverty which several staff members are currently researching. They include Paul Gregg, Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Sonia Bhalotra.
- Development Economics
Research into the economics of development is currently being undertaken in the department by Sonia Bhalotra and Jon Temple.
- History of Economic Thought
The department also hosts the main UK web site for the History of Economics, including a large collection of texts created by Rod Hay in Canada and by Paulette Taieb and others in France, bibliographies constructed by George Zitka, and pages for the Newsletter of The European Society for the History of Economic Thought, the History of Economic Thought Newsletter, and for the UK History of Economic Thought conference series. The site is maintained by Tony Brewer. Use the History of Thought link on the right to access site.