The Economics & Banking Group are engaged in research that covers a wide range of topics, including:

Economics of Organisational Performance

  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Modelling cost and profit efficiency
  • Regulatory reforms
  • Environmental and natural resource economics
  • Environmental regulation
  • Ownership structure of the firm
  • Housing and mortgage finance markets
  • Banking industry

Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy

  • Country situational assessments
  • Government economic policy
  • Central bank independence and inflation
  • Global financial crisis
  • Growth and supply-side economics
  • Foreign direct investment
  • Global drivers of change
  • Currency and banking crises.