“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
We seek to provide high-quality training at both postgraduate research - leading to MPhil and PhD - and taught Masters and Diploma. We enhance this by participating actively in the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics and in the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics which provide complementary training schemes.
We are located centrally on the main University campus. Extensive postgraduate facilities - offices, networked computers, seminar rooms - are all housed in the building. There are two regular series of research seminars; a workshop meeting of our postgraduate students chaired by the Research Director of Ecomomic Studies; a weekly staff and postgraduate research seminar at which speakers from outwith and within the University present papers.
Outputs from our research, including joint works by research students and their supervisor, are regularly presented in various conferences and appear as articles in both mainstream and specialised academic journals.
2001 RAE Grading: 3A
Globalisation and the welfare state; effective macroeconomic policies in the presence of market distortions; role of hiring and firing costs in causing unemployment; capital adjustment and employment decisions under stochastic markov switching processes; the long-run effect of uncertainty on growth and business cycles; modelling the inflation process in an uncertain world; numerical simulations methods in macroeconomics; applications of real options in macroeconomics; policy analysis using the Computable General Equilibrium methodology.
Industrial location and FDI; outsourcing; labour standards, trade and FD; the relationships between regional size, regional specialisation, inter-regional trade and regional policy; convergence and catching up; use of regional input-output tables and regional economic convergence.
Economics of information and incentives; economics of health and contracts for health services.
Economics of education and training; education and the labour market; trade unions and labour contracts in modern economies; public sector pay; evolution of the wage hierarchy in multi-racial labour markets.
Decision theory and experimental economics; the cultural determinants of behaviour in the ultimatum game experiment; the methodology of experimentation with particular interest in understanding the autonomy of experiments.
Asian economies; political economy of India; foreign debt and economic performance.
The economics of transactions costs; the economic history of cartels and retailing; institutional, business and economic history after 1945; child poverty and inequality; the distribution of agricultural support and the welfare of the farming communities.
University and School Scholarships and teaching Assistantships; British Council; ESRC; Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme (ORS).
For enquires regarding the MPhil and PhD, contact:
Professor Hassan Molana
Tel: 01382 384 375 / +44 1382 384 375
Fax: 01382 384 691 / +44 1382 384 691
Email: h.h.molana@dundee.ac.uk
Professor Catia Montagna Laurea (summa cum laude), MPhil, PhD
Professor Monojit Chatterji BA, MA, PhD
Professor John H L Dewhurst BA, MA, PhD, CStat
Professor Hassan Molana BA, MA, PhD
Professor Martin J Chalkley BSc, MA, PhD
Name: Mrs June Campbell
Tel: 01382 384 443 / +44 1382 384 443
Fax: 01382 384 691 / +44 1382 384 691
Email: j.m.campbell@dundee.ac.uk
Website: Visit the Economic Studies website
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