In recent years, the mental health of PhD students has garnered significant attention, with calls for urgent policy interventions to…
Democracy promotes economic development (Naidu et al. 2014, Acemoglu et al. 2019). However, a rising internal threat is spreading across…
The extent to which geographic distance is a barrier to technological knowledge transfer is of interest to governments of countries…
One of the classic insights from international economics is that there are winners and losers from trade. Recent research has…
As we approach COP29, modelling the relationship between climate variables – such as temperature and precipitation – and economic output…
In September 1433, Cosimo de’ Medici, the founder of the Medici dynasty, was summoned to appear before the Signoria, the…
It is well understood that real estate lending booms can cause financial crises and weak recoveries (Schularick et al. 2014).…
The economics of space is no longer the province of science fiction. However, the economics profession has paid little attention…
Some of Donald Trump’s policy proposals could have profound macroeconomic implications, but there is large uncertainty around the (net) economic…
Climate-related risks are now a recognised factor in financial decision-making and therefore in the prices of assets. Two types of…