The Economics Department has a well-established tradition of research in applied economics, particularly in the areas of labour economics and energy economics. There are also research interests in macroeconomics, the economics of health and wellbeing, environmental economics and experimental economics.
Research Expertise
- Labour Economics
- Energy Economics
- Macroeconomics
- The Economics of Health and Wellbeing
- Environmental Economics
- Experimental Economics
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There are especially strong links between the Economics Department and Health Economics Research Unit, one of the leading centres in health economics in Europe.
The Department of Economics is also home to the Scottish Experimental Economics Laboratory (SEEL), the Centre for Labour Market Research (CeLMR), and the Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance (ACREEF).
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In February 2014, the department established EPAKE: the Economics Policy and Knowledge Exchange Steering Committee. The aim of this committee is to facilitate inter- and multi- disciplinary research collaborations with other parts of the university, increase impact and generate grant income. Its primary function is as a point of contact for other parts of the university when they seek economics input, and to build research capacity. Please feel free to contact us if you are seeking Economics input to your project.
The committee at present comprises:
- Professor Keith Bender - Health Economics
- Professor W David McCausland - Macroeconomics
- Professor Catia Montagna - International Trade and Globalisation
- Professor Euan Phimister - Energy and Environmental Economics
- Professor Ioannis Theodossiou - Labour Economics
Current Economics PGRs
| PhD Student | Project Title | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| Adebola Akinsanpe | Investigating Gendered Language Use in Job Advertisements: A Discrete Choice Experiment Approach | Dr Mauro Papi Professor Keith Bender |
| Saad Alobaid | Unemployment - Vacancy relationship across Saudi regions: What do vacancy data tell us | Professor Keith Bender Professor Ioannis Theodossiou |
| Lusiean Chapman | The Resource Curse Hypothesis: The Case of Petroleum Producing Developing Countries | Professor Alex Kemp Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam |
| Yitna Gebreab | Climate Change and Sustainable Watershed Management Practices amongst agricultural communities: the case of Small Holder Farmers in Southern Region, Ethiopia | Professor Euan Phimister Dr Agathe Rouaix |
| Paul Goetz | The Economics of Anaerobic Digestion | Professor Euan Phimister Dr Jing Cai |
| Gopnauth Gossai | TBC | Professor Alex Kemp Dr Nikos Vlassis |
| Jessica Hood | The Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Tax Policies | Professor Frans de Vries Dr Takahiko Kiso |
| Chaitram Mohamed | EV Adoption and Public Chargers: The Case for United Kingdom | Dr Takahiko Kiso Dr Prachi Singh |
| Zejun Mou | How COVID-19 influenced retirement decisions in the UK | Dr Harminder Battu Professor Alexandros Zangelidis |
| Kehinde Onanubi | Energy Financing: Accelerating Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa | Professor Alex Kemp Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam |
| Taiwo Onanubi | Economic Analysis of Oil Field Decommissioning in West Africa: Lessons from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) | Professor Alex Kemp Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam |
| Jesus Regalado Ruiz De Chavez | TBC | Professor Alex Kemp Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam |
Economics Research Seminar Series
- External Guest Seminars
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Speaker Affiliation Topic Date Dr Vinicius Pecanha Institute of Health Policy Studies: IEPS The Effects of Urban Violence on Primary Health Care Services: Evidence from Poor Neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro
04/06/2025 Dr Panagiotis Karavitis University of Glasgow E-government and corporate tax planning: International evidence
30/04/2025 Dr Ammu George Queen's University, Belfast Ascending the quality ladder: Does FDI inflows improve export sophistication?
16/04/2025 Dr Tugce Cuhadaroglu University of St Andrews Does Partial Randomization Encourage or Discourage Participation? Theory And Evidence
12/03/2025 Professor Sonia Oreffice University of Exeter Strangulation Laws and Intimate Partner Homicides
20/11/2024 Professor Nicholas Hanley University of Glasgow Estimating time, risk, social and environmental preferences under relative poverty changes 13/11/2024 Dr Miguel Ángel Meléndez Jiménez University of Málaga, Spain The sharing paradox 02/10/2024 Dr Roweno Heijmans
Norwegian School of Economics
Global Policy Design
24/04/2024
Dr Yonas Alem
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
The Impact of a Major Shock on Input Use: Exploring the Mechanisms
21/03/2024
Dr Shrathinth Venkatesh
University of Kent
The long-term benefits of addressing early year disadvantages in Bradford and the UK up to age 17
13/03/2024
Dr Valeria Rueda
University of Nottingham
The death of King Coal: Industrial decline during childhood and living standards over lifetime
28/02/2024
Professor Richard Neilson
UK National Decommissioning Centre
Engineering of Offshore Oil and Gas Decommissioning
28/02/2024
Dr Akshar Saxena
Nanyang Technological University
The Administrator and the Administered: Does Gender Matter for Education?
21/02/2024
Dr Marco Alfano
University of Lancaster
Weather shocks, migration, and in-place adaptation
07/02/2024
Dr Cynthia Bansak
St. Lawrence University
The Gendered Impact of In-State Tuition Policies on Undocumented Immigrants' College Enrolment, Graduation, and Employment
27/11/2023
Dr Habtamu Beshir
University of Bath
Impacts of Low Emission Zones on Population Health: Evidence From Hospital Episode Statistics and English Prescribing Dataset
08/11/2023
Dr Hedieh Tajali
University of Edinburgh
How do late donors respond to early donors in crowdfunding?
25/10/2023
Dr Tong Zhu
University of Dundee
Employment Effects of Coal Mine Openings in China
11/10/2023
Dr Andreas Gerster
University of Mannheim
Deliberate Ignorance and Moral Behavior
04/10/2023
Dr Shashika Rathnayaka
Rowett Institute, Aberdeen
Transport and communication-Are they complements or substitutes? A Cross-country Study
27/09/2023
Dr Ramses H. Abul Naga
University of Malaga
Measuring Indecisiveness
29/03/2023
Professor Steven Tucker
University of Waikato
Nonspeculative Bubbles Revisited:Speculation Does Matter
22/02/2023
Dr Marco Mello
University of Surrey
Staff Engagement, Coworkers' Complementarity and Employee Retention: Evidence from English NHS Hospitals
25/01/2023
Dr Anna Kochanova
Cardiff University
Natural Disasters and Creative Destruction: Evidence from Indonesian Firms
23/11/2022
Dr Nicole Andelic
University of Aberdeen (Honorary)
Performance-related pay and sorting into stress
09/11/2022
Dr Gunes Gokmen
Lund University
Traditional Norms and Parental Investment in Human Capital
26/09/2022
Dr Wanyu Chung
University of Birmingham
Measuring Brexit Uncertainty: A Machine Learning and Textual Analysis Approach
15/06/2022
Professor Tim Cason
Purdue University
Gender, Beliefs and Coordination with Externalities
31/05/2022
Dr Paul Jackson
National University of Singapore
The Underemployment Trap
25/05/2022
Dr Jessica Pan
National University of Singapore
Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap
18/05/2022
Dr Tomoki Fujii
Singapore Management University
Attendance Information or Cash Transfer? A Randomized Field Experiment in Rural Bangladesh
28/04/2022
Dr Prasenjit Banerjee
University of Manchester
Can political decentralization improve citizen welfare? Evidence clues from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in India
23/03/2022
Professor Israel Waichman
Bard College, Berlin
Self-Nudging vs. Social Nudging in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment
23/02/2022
Cecilia Noboa
Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Nudging healthy food choices
09/02/2022
Professor Thijs van Rens
Warwick University
How Distorted Food Prices Discourage a Healthy Diet
17/11/2021
Professor Nick Hanley
University of Glasgow
Improving the design of Payment for Ecosystem Service schemes: some new results
20/10/2021
Professor Shanjun Li
Cornell University
Attribute-based Subsidies for Energy Efficient Products with Market Power
23/06/2021
Dr Silvia Salazar
Curtin University, Australia
Claim to Fame: The return of self-promotion
09/06/2021
Professor Lindsey MacMillan
University College London
Is it all about school? Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education'
19/05/2021
Dr Hyejin Ku
University College London
Competition and Career Advancement
05/05/2021
Professor Steve Machin
London School of Economics
Labour Market Shocks during the Covid-19 pandemic, Inequalities and Child Outcomes
31/03/2021
- Internal Seminars
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Speaker Topic Date Dr Takahiko Kiso Targeting Corrective Subsidies for Cost-Effectiveness and Equity: A Case for Differentiated Support for New and Existing Homes 07/05/2025 Chaitram Mohamed (PGR) EV Adoption and Public Chargers: Evidence from United Kingdom 23/04/2025 Professor Keith Bender TBC 16/04/2025 Dr Mauro Papi Measuring Indecisiveness 12/03/2025 Professor Frans de Vries Morals in Markets with Network Externalities 19/02/2025 Dr Marco Mello Non-monetary interventions, workforce retention and hospital quality: evidence from the English NHS 05/02/2025 Dr Likun Mao Early Exposure, ICT Use, and Teenage Well-being Outcomes 29/01/2025 Dr Prachi Singh & Dr Takahiko Kiso The Impact of the London Ultra Low Emission Zone on Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Adoption: A Spatial Causal Analysis 30/10/2024 Dr Takahiko Kiso Against the Wind: The Economic Cost of Renewable Intermittency under Transmission Constraints 01/05/2024 Professor Keith Bender Funded Research in Economics (Session 2) 23/04/2024 Dr Yu Aoki The intergenerational mobility of white working-class boys: Are they the most disadvantaged? 20/03/2024 Professor Keith Bender / Professor Catia Montagna / Professor Frans de Vries / Professor Ioannis Theodossiou Funded Research in Economics 13/03/2024 The consumption response to employment contract conversions
22/11/2023
Pareto Improving Reforms in the Presence of Spillovers and Spillbacks
15/11/2023
Hybrid Climate Policies and Industry Transition
08/11/2023
Climate Change, Disasters and Subjective Well-being
18/10/2023
Changing knowledge, preferences, and behaviour to help reduce land degradation: Evidence from multiple interventions in Southern Ethiopia
11/10/2023
Hybrid Working and Union Membership: Does Working from Home Undermine Workplace Social Customs?”
04/10/2023
Digital learning and student achievement: evidence from developed and developing countries
31/05/2023
Decentralisation of bargaining and the size of the gender pay gap: Evidence from alternative wage-setting regimes in Australia
24/05/2023
Religion and Educational Decision: Religiosity and Graduating with a STEM Degree
17/05/2023
Information Campaign on Arsenic Poisoning: Unintended Consequences in Marriage Market
10/05/2023
Targeting of Corrective Subsidies: A Ramsey Approach
03/05/2023
Economic Impact of Under-Investment in the UKCS Due to the Energy Profits Levy: A Computable General Equilibrium Model Analysis
08/03/2023
Inducing heuristics in games: A proposed experimental design
18/01/2023