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Lockdown compliance in the UK

Background In March 2020, the UK imposed lockdown measures because of the coronavirus pandemic. These measures have been of unprecedented scope in the context of UK governance. These rules were developed over a series of weeks, culminating in the Prime… Continue Reading →

How Economics Can Be Used to Understand the Poverty Trap and How to Overcome It

In the week where we celebrate our latest cohort of economics graduates we are announcing the top entries in this year’s IAESV blogpost competition. And the winner is (cue the drum-roll), second year undergraduate, Niamh Underhill. Here is the blog… Continue Reading →

Organ donation, the societal issue solved by behavioural economics?

In the week where we celebrate our latest cohort of economics graduates, we are also releasing the results of this years IAESV Economics Blogpost Competition. This year’s runner up is Charlotte Cracknell, a final year undergraduate. Here is her submission:… Continue Reading →

Does board gender diversity affect renewable energy consumption?

Samsul Alam has recently published a paper in the Journal of Corporate Finance, with Muhammad Atif, Mohammed Hossain and Marc Goergen, showing that gender diversity on the board is positively related with renewable energy consumption. The paper examines the effect… Continue Reading →

Terrorism and Global Business Performance

Godwin Okafor and colleagues have a paper recently accepted in the International Journal of Finance and Economics. The paper contributes to the literature on business performance by investigating the relationship between terrorism and global business performance at country level.  A measure… Continue Reading →

The Economic impact of COVID-19 in the UK

by Tuan Luong and Zenas Azuma The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked concerns among economist, policymakers, labour force, students and quite frankly the general population. To fully comprehend the gravity of the situation pertaining to the national… Continue Reading →

Trust after Barnard Castle

On the 19th and 20th May we ran a survey on coronavirus attitudes and beliefs, which included questions on trust. Given the recent furor around Dominic Cummings seemingly breaking the lockdown rules we reran the survey on the 27th May… Continue Reading →

Coronavirus survey

On 19th and 20th May, IAESV together with CURA (the Center for Urban Research on Austerity) ran a survey on attitudes and beliefs around the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 1001 people were surveyed from across the UK on a… Continue Reading →

ADRELO: Advancing Resilience in Low Income Housing Using Climate-Change Science and Big Data Analytics

IAESV member Wangari Wang’ombe is a co-investigator on an EPSRC funded project. The project, which began in March 2020, will last 3 years and is led in DMU by George Onyango Okeyo. The project brings together an international consortium including… Continue Reading →

Digital Innovations for Transitioning to a Circular plastic Economy- (DITCh Plastic)

IAESV member Seun Kolade is co-investigator on a 12 month project funded by the EPSRC under their ‘Digital Innovations for Development in Africa’ call. The project began in May 2020 and is led by Muyiwa Oyinlola in the Institute for… Continue Reading →

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