PhD Economics

Our three-year pathway in the Department of Economics for the PhD economics degree 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

The Department of Economics are top 5 in the UK for research, with over 90% of our research rated as “world-leading” or “internationally excellent” (REF 2014).

You receive 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 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.