Economic Research Institute

The aims of ERI are to promote directly and indirectly research in economics and interdisciplinary research that has an economic aspect; to facilitate the funding and organisation of collaborative research projects involving the participation of members of the Department of Economics; and to support scholarly activities such as conferences and research networks that extend beyond the routine scholarly life of the Department of Economics.

Publications
Programmes
Centre
  • ESRC Centre CAGE (Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy)
Research Grants
  • Games and Economic Behaviour Study Group. Funded by ESRC. Principal Investigator Andres Carvajal. (1 Oct 2010 - 30 Sept 2012)
  • Endogenous Product Characteristics in Empirical Industrial Organisation. Principal Investigator Greg Crawford ( 1 Oct 2010 - 30 Sept 2012)
  • Happiness Economics and Neuroeconomics. Funded by ESRC. Principal Investigator Eugenio Proto (1 Sept 2010 - 31 Dec 2010)
  • Visiting Leverhulme Professorship for Mark Thomas
  • Enabling Microsavings through Bank-linked Mobile Phones in Sri-Lanka. Funded by IGC. Principal investigator Chris Woodruff (1 April 2010 - 31 March 2012)
  • Women's Automony and Nutritional Status of Children in India. funded by ESRC Principal Investigator - Wiji Arulampalam (1 April 2010 - 31 March 11)
  • Development Blossoming: Industrial Policy and Evolution of the Kenyan and Ethiopian Floriculture Exports. Principal Investigator Rocco Macchiavello Funded by IGC, LSE. (15 Feb 2010 - 30 Aug 2011)
  • Japanese conference - Great Divergence. Funded by Daiwo Anglo Japenese Foundation and Sasakawa Foundation. Principal investigator Stephen Broadberry (1 sept 10 - 30 sept 10)
  • Empirical Tests of Non-competitive Behaviour. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Andres Carvajal (1 Oct 2009 - 30 Sept 2011)
  • Optimal contracts for providers of medical treatments. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Motty Perry (1 Oct 2009 - 31 Dec 2010)
  • Modelling Imprecise Preferences and Identities and Identifying the Implicaitons for Theory and Policy. Funded by ESRC. Principal Investigator Graham Loomes (1 Sept 2009 - 31 Aug 2012)
  • Price Dynamics in Food Retailing. Funded by ESRC, Principal investigator Michael Waterson (1 Oct 2009 - 30 Sept 2011)
  • HI-POD Historical Patterns of Development and underdevelopment. Funded by EU, Principal investigator Nick Crafts (1 Nov 2008 - 31 Oct 2012)
  • ‘International Trade Integration: New Methods and New Data. Funded by ESRC, Principal investigator Dennis Novy (1 Oct 08 - 30 Sep 2010)
  • ‘Business, Tax and Welfare’. £2.5 million for 4 years starting in the autumn 2008, funded by the ESRC. Wiji Arulampalam and Ben Lockwood were two of the co-applicants. The main research will be based at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, where the Principal applicant, Mike Devereux is the Director.
  • Public Economics U.K. Working Group. Funded by HM Revenue and Customs and HM Treasury. Principal investigator: Kimberley Scharf (1 Nov 2003 to 31 Oct 2008, extended to 31 Oct 2011).
  • Economics of Globalisation (jointly with CSGR). Funded by Research Councils UK. RCUK Fellow: Nikolaus Wolf (1 July 2006 to 30 June 2011).
  • Rank versus Monetary Incentives: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Iwan Barankay (1 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2010)
  • Reconstructing the National Income of Britain and Holland, c. 1270 to 1500. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Principal investigator: Stephen Broadberry (1 Oct 2007 to 30 Sept 2010).
  • Decision Making Frameworks in the Management of Livestock Disease: interaction of epidemiology, economics, and politics (jointly with Biological Sciences, Law, Mathematics, & Politics and International Studies). Funded by ESRC. Co-investigator: Jonathan Cave (1 Sept 2007 to 31 Aug 2010).
Recently Concluded Grants
  • CEELBAS Midlands Russia Seminars (Interdisciplinary Seminar Series) Principal Investigator, Mark Harrison (Oct 2009 - March 2010)
  • Adapting to the Entirely Unpredictable. Funded by European Commission. Marie Curie Chair of Excellence: Peter Hammond (1 April 2007 to 31 March 2010).
  • Dynamics of the Wage Distribution in the Presence of Minimum Wage Rises. Funded by ESRC. Principal Investigator: Mark Stewart (1 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2009).
  • The Economics of Well-Being. Funded by ESRC. ESRC Professorial Fellow: Andrew Oswald (1 Jan 2007 to 31 Dec 2009).
  • Chronic Poverty and Aspirations Failure. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Sayantan Ghosal (1 May 2008 to 31 July 2009).
  • Credit Boom, Credit Crunch and Central Banking. Funded by Houblon- Norman Fund. Principal Investigator Marcus Miller (20 Sept 08-31 Dec 08)
  • BA Conference Grant - annual Public Economics Weekend. Principal Investigator Kimberley Scharf (20 May 08 - 22 May 08)
  • Unifying the European Experience. Funded by European Commission. Principal investigator: Stephen Broadberry (1 Nov 2004 to 31 Oct 2008).
  • Legal and Economic Aspects of Sovereign Debt. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Amrita Dhillon (1 Oct 2006 to 30 Sept 2008).
  • Economic Issues in Lottery Markets. Funded by National Lottery Commission. Principal investigator: Ian Walker (1 Oct 2005 to 30 Sept 2008).
  • Marie Curie Host Fellowships. Funded by European Commission. Principal investigator: Ian Walker (1 Oct 2004 to 30 Sept 2008).
  • Spatial Aspects of Industrial Organisation. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Margaret Slade (4 Jan 2006 to 31 Aug 2008).
  • Network of Industrial Economics. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Michael Waterson (1 Sept 2006 to 31 Aug 2008).
  • Moral Hazard and Political Economy. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Lei Zhang (1 Aug 2005 to 10 Aug 2008).
  • Parents, Peers, Schools. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Ian Walker (1 April 2006 to 31 March 2008).
  • Search and the Development of Competition. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Michael Waterson (1 April 2006 to 31 March 2008).
  • Improving Monetary Policy for Macroeconomics. Funded by ESRC. ESRC Fellow: Martin Ellison (1 Jan 2005 to 31 Dec 2007).
  • Dictatorship and Hierarchy in the Soviet Economy. Funded by the European Commission. Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow: Andrei Markevich (15 Dec 2005 to 14 Dec 2007).
  • ESRC Research Seminar: Public Economics. Funded by ESRC. Principal investigator: Kimberley Scharf (1 Dec 2005 to 30 Nov 2007).
  • Debt and Development. Funded by ESRC. ESRC Professorial Fellow: Marcus Miller (1 Oct 2004 to 30 Sept 2007).
 
Working Papers

Constitution of the ERI.

Director: Abhinay Muthoo.

The Bulletin of the ERI is published once a term.

Resources (Restricted Access)

The ERI is an integral part of the Department of Economics. Its members include the academic and research staff and research students of the Department of Economics; visitors attached to the Department of Economics; and scholars from other institutions who are associated with programmes of research administered within the Institute.