PhD Economics
Our four-year integrated PhD Economics follows the MRes Economics programme for year 1 before beginning the PhD study programme within the department in year 2. Our four-year pathway in the Department of Economics for the PhD economics degree provides you with training to develop the research mind-set for PhD studies and gives you the chance to ask difficult questions, break intellectual boundaries and create new solutions to issues of global concern. You work closely with our creative and committed academics - researchers who are pioneering new solutions to these issues, inspiring your own research.
We are renowned for our research expertise in a number of areas of economics, including the following:
- Behavioural economics
- Experimental economics
- Industrial organisation, market structure and firm behaviour
- Political economy
- Social networks
- Economic theory
- Financial economics and economics of banking
- International economics
- Macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy
- Public finance
- Search and matching
- Development economics
- Family and health economics including gender, population, and migration
- Labour economics including inequality and the economics of crime
- Microeconometrics
- Spatial econometrics and cross-sectional dependence
- Semi and nonparametric econometrics
- Time series econometrics
We are 4th in UK for research power in economics and econometrics (Times Higher Education research power measure, Research Excellence Framework 2021).
You receive training in research methods and tools starting with the modules offered in the MRes Economics programme, followed by advanced research training and expert supervision to reach your full potential, as well as access to top quality research facilities. We also guarantee office space for you from the second year of your PhD studies in our PhD Research Centre, giving you the space and tools to work.
We work with you to teach you how to look at the world through an economist's lens, taking a critical approach to dismantle a proposition, working robust methodologies to build an argument based on rigorous theoretical reasoning and sound empirical evidence.
Our PhD includes advanced economic methods and analysis, with links to research programmes in our Institute for Economic and Social and Economic Research, the UK Data Archive and other departments at Essex.
Our four-year integrated PhD Economics follows the MRes Economics programme for year 1 before beginning the PhD study programme within the department in year 2. Our four-year pathway in the Department of Economics for the PhD economics degree provides you with training to develop the research mind-set for PhD studies and gives you the chance to ask difficult questions, break intellectual boundaries and create new solutions to issues of global concern. You work closely with our creative and committed academics - researchers who are pioneering new solutions to these issues, inspiring your own research.
We are renowned for our research expertise in a number of areas of economics, including the following:
- Behavioural economics
- Experimental economics
- Industrial organisation, market structure and firm behaviour
- Political economy
- Social networks
- Economic theory
- Financial economics and economics of banking
- International economics
- Macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy
- Public finance
- Search and matching
- Development economics
- Family and health economics including gender, population, and migration
- Labour economics including inequality and the economics of crime
- Microeconometrics
- Spatial econometrics and cross-sectional dependence
- Semi and nonparametric econometrics
- Time series econometrics
We are 4th in UK for research power in economics and econometrics (Times Higher Education research power measure, Research Excellence Framework 2021).
You receive training in research methods and tools starting with the modules offered in the MRes Economics programme, followed by advanced research training and expert supervision to reach your full potential, as well as access to top quality research facilities. We also guarantee office space for you from the second year of your PhD studies in our PhD Research Centre, giving you the space and tools to work.
We work with you to teach you how to look at the world through an economist's lens, taking a critical approach to dismantle a proposition, working robust methodologies to build an argument based on rigorous theoretical reasoning and sound empirical evidence.
Our PhD includes advanced economic methods and analysis, with links to research programmes in our Institute for Economic and Social and Economic Research, the UK Data Archive and other departments at Essex.
