3 December 2009
Two teams of students from our second-year Management Accounting unit have reached the semi-finals of the IBM Universities Business Challenge. 272 teams took part in the first five rounds of the challenge, including 8 from Bristol.
1 December 2009
In awarding the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, the Nobel Committee cited work of Bristol economist Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka.
1 December 2009
Sonia Bhalotra has been appointed to a new Scientific Resource Group at the World Health Organization. The group will advise the WHO on issues of health and equity within its Health Equity Analysis and Research stream.
4 November 2009
The CMPO is advertising for the first two PhD CASE studentships under the new capacity-building cluster on the economic impact of the third sector.
21 July 2009
Following a mid-term review in February, ESRC funding for the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) has been confirmed at £4.75m over the next five years.
26 June 2009
The Economics Department is hosting a new Centre for Structural Econometrics (CSE). The CSE will foster the development of new structural models and estimation techniques capable of addressing a wide range of fundamental economic topics.
19 May 2009
Second-year Philosophy and Economics student Roderick McKinley and final-year Economics student Bob Denham were both ranked in the top ten finalists in an essay competition organized by Deloittes.
3 March 2009
Recent research by Bristol’s Fabien Postel-Vinay (left) and Giuseppe Moscarini of Yale University has revealed that employment in large firms is cyclically more sensitive than employment in small firms.
18 February 2009
In an interview on Radio 4's PM programme, Professor Paul Gregg discusses the costs to the Treasury of unemployment. He believes that the number of unemployed persons is likely to rise to 3 million in the current recession.
16 February 2009
Mary Phillips and Ann Rippin (Department of Management) have been awarded a grant from the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol to run a series of three seminars on the subject of Research Ethics and Vulnerability.
10 February 2009
Research for the Department of Work and Pensions (Money's Worth of Pension Annuities) by Edmund Cannon (joint with Ian Tonks, University of Exeter) shows that annuities continue to be good value for pensioners, though there is some evidence this is less true following 2002.