Economics
Economics is a discipline that encompasses individual, firm and country-level interactions that drive our integrated economic systems.
Economics at Newcastle
Established in the early 1900s our vibrant department consists of over 30 academics researching across all main applied and theoretical areas of modern micro-, macro- and quantitative economics. We are currently headed by the Sir David Dale Chair of Economics, Professor John Sessions.
Our research
Our faculty is shaping current economic debates by engaging with policymakers and practitioners. Our research encompasses worldwide collaborations and is being published in top journals.
Our Newcastle Economics Discussion Paper series showcases some of our recent research outputs.
We host an international PhD student community. If you’re interested in pursuing a PhD, explore the Economics faculty staff page for potential supervisors and their research interests, or visit the scholarships page for funding opportunities.
Study with us
Our undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are shaped by our research expertise and give our students the best possible start in their careers.
Our mathematically rigorous programmes allow our students to develop analytical and problem-solving skills, which are valued in the workplace across a wide range of sectors.
Through our wide range of optional modules, our students engage with the current challenges facing society today and develop a deeper understanding of more specialist areas of economics.
Our facilities
We offer a range of facilities including our Experimental and Behavioural Economics Lab and our Bloomberg Lab.
Economics seminar series
Our seminar series invites scholars in all areas of economics to present their current research. These seminars are open to staff and students and allow us to engage with current academic debates in a friendly and constructive environment.
Upcoming events
View our upcoming seminars below and book a place.
2022/2023
ADHD, Prison Healthcare, and Crime
1 March 2023
Presented by Randi Hjalmarsson, Professor of Economics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Milestones and feedback in dynamic voluntary contribution games
15 February 2023
Presented by Dr Boon Han Koh, Lecturer in Economics at University of East Anglia, UK
Discounting and the social cost of carbon
8 February 2023
Presented by Professor Mark Freeman, Professor of Finance at University of York, UK
Engaging or avoiding the state: how empowerment affects citizen payments for public services
30 November 2022
Presented by Dr Soeren Henn, Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University Business School, UK
Knocking it down and mixing it up: spillover effects of public housing regenerations
23 November 2022
Presented by Dr Lorenzo Neri, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Economics and Finance at University of St Andrews, UK
Innovation and the Great Divergence
16 November 2022
Presented by Stephen Broadberry, Professorial fellow and Professor of Economic History at Oxford University, UK
Newcastle Experimental Economics Workshop
10 November 2022
Presented by Dr Matteo M Galizzi, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Co-Director of Executive MSc in Behavioural Science at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Professor Friederike Mengel, Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Essex, UK
When non-native speakers compete for top schools: displacement and peer effects in primary education
26 October 2022
Presented by Elisa Facchetti, Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK
Long-run impacts of in-utero Ramadan exposure: evidence from administrative tax records
19 October 2022
Presented by Mazhar Waseem, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, UK
Expected benefits and costs of migration for rural youth: experimental evidence from India
12 October 2022
Presented by Apurav Bhatiya, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at University of Birmingham, UK
Private provision of public goods: the case of the UK private security sector
5 October 2022
Presented by Dr Matteo Pazzona, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics at Brunel University London, UK
Perceptions of intergroup conflict
29 September 2022
Presented by Dr Ori Weisel, Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Executive compensation in the UK: a structural estimation approach
28 September 2022
Presented by Dr Ian Gregory-Smith, Reader in Economics at Newcastle University Business School, UK
2021/2022
Productivity and Teamwork: Crew Size Effects in Policing
4 May 2022
Presented by Dr Matteo Sandi, Research Economist at Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, UK and CESifo Research Affiliate
Same-sex role models in Education: a meta-analysis and a super study
27 April 2022
Presented by Ulf Zoelitz, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland
Environmental/behavioural economics grant-writing workshop
22 April 2022
Presented by colleagues from School of Natural and Environmental Sciences and Newcastle University Business School, UK
Subjective expectations and demand for contraception
23 March 2022
Presented by Professor Christine Valente, Associate Professor of Economics at University of Bristol, UK
Cheap talk to multiple receivers with implications for central bank communication
16 March 2022
Presented by Professor Diemo Dietrich, Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School, UK
International bribery: results from an on-line, cross-country, behavioural experiment
9 March 2022
Presented by Professor Abigail Barr, Professor of Economics at University of Nottingham, UK
On the family origins of human capital formation: evidence from donor children
2 March 2022
Presented by Professor Petter Lundborg, Professor of Economics at Lund University, Sweden
Forced displacement, mental health, and child development: evidence from the Rohingya refugees
9 February 2022
Presented by Dr Abu Siddique, Assistant Professor of Economics and Policy at the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, UK
Adaptive importance sampling for DSGE models
2 February 2022
Presented by Stefano Grassi, Associate Professor in Econometrics and Business Statistics at University of Rome, Italy
A Firm of One's Own: Experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice
15 December 2021
Presented by Pamela Jakiela, Associate Professor of Economics at Williams College, USA & Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development.
Beyond dividing the pie: multi-issue bargaining in the laboratory
24 November 2021
Presented by Simon Siegenthaler, Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Dynamics in switching economic regimes
17 November 2021
Presented by Dr Pascal Stiefenhofer, Senior Lecturer, Director of Studies (UG),PhD Convenor (Department of Economics) & NEPS Mentor at Newcastle University Business School, UK
The Zoom City: Working from home and urban land structure
8 November 2021
Presented by Efi Kyriakopoulou, Assistant Professor at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
A theoretical and experimental investigation into the horizontal effects of late payments
3 November 2021
Presented by Dr Matt Walker, Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University Business School, UK
Economics funding sessions (for ECRs and new starters)
29 October 2021
Presented by Lorraine Smith, Senior Research Funding Development Manager, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at Newcastle University, UK; Professor Susan Chilton, Professor of Economics at Newcastle University Business School, UK; and Professor John Wildman, Professor of Health Economics in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University, UK
The long-run spillover effects of pollution: how exposure to lead affects everyone in the classroom
27 October 2021
Presented by Ludovica Gazze, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Warwick, UK
Bartering Bureaucrats: Foreign direct investment and political rent-seeking in India
20 October 2021
Presented by Sheetal Sekhri, Associate Professor of Economics at University of Virginia, USA
The role of environmental, social and governance rating on corporate debt structure
13 October 2021
Presented by Dr Stylianos Asimakopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of Bath, UK
2020/2021
Speculative and precautionary demand for liquidity in competitive banking economics
17 March 2021
Presented by Professor Diemo Dietrich, Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School, UK
Gender and leadership in organizations: promotions, demotions and angry workers
27 February 2021
Presented by Danila Serra, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, USA
Forecasting the exchange rate with the Taylor Rule Model during times of non-traditional monetary policies
24 February 2021
Presented by Dr Bruce Morley, Lecturer, Department of Economics at University of Bath, UK
Let the Villeins Go: an economic analysis of the emancipation of serfs through pestilence and technological change
16 December 2020
Presented by Professor John Skatun, University of Aberdeen, UK
The effects of physician-hospital integration on health care spending and use
9 December 2020
Presented by Professor Anne Royalty, Associate Professor of Economics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Do compulsory schooling laws always work? Evidence from youth crime in Brazil
2 December 2020
Presented by Professor Sarmistha Pal, Professor of Financial Economics at University of Surrey, UK
2019/2020
House price convergence across Europe
25 March 2020
Presented by Dr Bruce Morley, Lecturer in Economics at University of Bath, UK
The effects of multi-specialty group practice on health care spending and use
18 March 2020
Presented by Anne Royalty, Associate Professor of Economics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Democratisation under diversity: theory and evidence from Indonesian communities
4 March 2020
Presented by Professor Sarmistha Pal, Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Surrey, UK
Forecast evaluation tests in the presence of heteroskedasticity
26 February 2020
Presented by David Harvey, Professor of Econometrics at University of Nottingham, UK
Labour income share dynamics with variable elasticity of substitution
19 February 2020
Presented by Dr Saumik Paul, Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University London, UK
Gender differences in self-promotion: understanding the female modesty constraint
12 February 2020
Presented by Joseph Vecci, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at University of Gotheburg, Sweden
Labour supply specifications in whole-economy models: a demonstration assessing the impacts on the West Bank economy of the employment of Palestinian labour in Israel
5 February 2020
Presented by Scott MacDonald, Visiting Professor of International Agricultural Trade and Development at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Married by the Rev. Bayes? An experiment testing joint reasoning within married couples
17 December 2019
Presented by Alistair Munro, Professor, Executive Advisor to the President & Director of Policy Analysis Program at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan
Contagion from the Euro crisis
11 December 2019
Presented by Professor Eric Pentecost, Professor of Economics, Head of Economics Discipline Group at Loughborough University, UK
Banking on informational gravy: base wages, bonus spreads and noise
27 November 2019
Presented by Professor John Skatun, Chair in Economics at University of Aberdeen, UK
Social promotion and learning outcomes: evidence from India
20 November 2019
Presented by Dr Rakesh Banerjee, Lecturer in Economics at University of Exeter, UK
The current UK productivity slowdown in historical perspective
13 November 2019
Presented by Professor Nicholas Crafts, Professor of Economic History at University of Sussex, UK
Can asset management improve the financial well-being of older age groups? Evidence from Europe
6 November 2019
Presented by Dr Jong Kook Shin, Associate Professor at Korea University Sejong Campus, Korea
School quality improvements and behavioural responses: evidence from Peru’s school day expansion policy
30 October 2019
Presented by Catherine Porter, Professor in Development Economics at Lancaster University Management School, UK
Household debt and labour supply
16 October 2019
Presented by Stephen Millard, Senior Research Manager at Bank of England, UK
Approximate Bayesian forecasting
9 October 2019
Presented by Brendan McCabe, Professor of Econometrics, University of Liverpool Management School, UK
Violence and female labour supply
2 October 2019
Presented by Dr Zahra Siddique, Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bristol, UK
Our seminar series invites scholars in all areas of economics to present their current research. These seminars are open to staff and students and allow us to engage with current academic debates in a friendly and constructive environment.
Upcoming events
View our upcoming seminars below and book a place.
2022/2023
ADHD, Prison Healthcare, and Crime
1 March 2023
Presented by Randi Hjalmarsson, Professor of Economics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Milestones and feedback in dynamic voluntary contribution games
15 February 2023
Presented by Dr Boon Han Koh, Lecturer in Economics at University of East Anglia, UK
Discounting and the social cost of carbon
8 February 2023
Presented by Professor Mark Freeman, Professor of Finance at University of York, UK
Engaging or avoiding the state: how empowerment affects citizen payments for public services
30 November 2022
Presented by Dr Soeren Henn, Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University Business School, UK
Knocking it down and mixing it up: spillover effects of public housing regenerations
23 November 2022
Presented by Dr Lorenzo Neri, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Economics and Finance at University of St Andrews, UK
Innovation and the Great Divergence
16 November 2022
Presented by Stephen Broadberry, Professorial fellow and Professor of Economic History at Oxford University, UK
Newcastle Experimental Economics Workshop
10 November 2022
Presented by Dr Matteo M Galizzi, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Co-Director of Executive MSc in Behavioural Science at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Professor Friederike Mengel, Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Essex, UK
When non-native speakers compete for top schools: displacement and peer effects in primary education
26 October 2022
Presented by Elisa Facchetti, Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK
Long-run impacts of in-utero Ramadan exposure: evidence from administrative tax records
19 October 2022
Presented by Mazhar Waseem, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, UK
Expected benefits and costs of migration for rural youth: experimental evidence from India
12 October 2022
Presented by Apurav Bhatiya, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at University of Birmingham, UK
Private provision of public goods: the case of the UK private security sector
5 October 2022
Presented by Dr Matteo Pazzona, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics at Brunel University London, UK
Perceptions of intergroup conflict
29 September 2022
Presented by Dr Ori Weisel, Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Executive compensation in the UK: a structural estimation approach
28 September 2022
Presented by Dr Ian Gregory-Smith, Reader in Economics at Newcastle University Business School, UK
2021/2022
Productivity and Teamwork: Crew Size Effects in Policing
4 May 2022
Presented by Dr Matteo Sandi, Research Economist at Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, UK and CESifo Research Affiliate
Same-sex role models in Education: a meta-analysis and a super study
27 April 2022
Presented by Ulf Zoelitz, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland
Environmental/behavioural economics grant-writing workshop
22 April 2022
Presented by colleagues from School of Natural and Environmental Sciences and Newcastle University Business School, UK
Subjective expectations and demand for contraception
23 March 2022
Presented by Professor Christine Valente, Associate Professor of Economics at University of Bristol, UK
Cheap talk to multiple receivers with implications for central bank communication
16 March 2022
Presented by Professor Diemo Dietrich, Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School, UK
International bribery: results from an on-line, cross-country, behavioural experiment
9 March 2022
Presented by Professor Abigail Barr, Professor of Economics at University of Nottingham, UK
On the family origins of human capital formation: evidence from donor children
2 March 2022
Presented by Professor Petter Lundborg, Professor of Economics at Lund University, Sweden
Forced displacement, mental health, and child development: evidence from the Rohingya refugees
9 February 2022
Presented by Dr Abu Siddique, Assistant Professor of Economics and Policy at the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, UK
Adaptive importance sampling for DSGE models
2 February 2022
Presented by Stefano Grassi, Associate Professor in Econometrics and Business Statistics at University of Rome, Italy
A Firm of One's Own: Experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice
15 December 2021
Presented by Pamela Jakiela, Associate Professor of Economics at Williams College, USA & Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development.
Beyond dividing the pie: multi-issue bargaining in the laboratory
24 November 2021
Presented by Simon Siegenthaler, Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Dynamics in switching economic regimes
17 November 2021
Presented by Dr Pascal Stiefenhofer, Senior Lecturer, Director of Studies (UG),PhD Convenor (Department of Economics) & NEPS Mentor at Newcastle University Business School, UK
The Zoom City: Working from home and urban land structure
8 November 2021
Presented by Efi Kyriakopoulou, Assistant Professor at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
A theoretical and experimental investigation into the horizontal effects of late payments
3 November 2021
Presented by Dr Matt Walker, Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University Business School, UK
Economics funding sessions (for ECRs and new starters)
29 October 2021
Presented by Lorraine Smith, Senior Research Funding Development Manager, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at Newcastle University, UK; Professor Susan Chilton, Professor of Economics at Newcastle University Business School, UK; and Professor John Wildman, Professor of Health Economics in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University, UK
The long-run spillover effects of pollution: how exposure to lead affects everyone in the classroom
27 October 2021
Presented by Ludovica Gazze, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Warwick, UK
Bartering Bureaucrats: Foreign direct investment and political rent-seeking in India
20 October 2021
Presented by Sheetal Sekhri, Associate Professor of Economics at University of Virginia, USA
The role of environmental, social and governance rating on corporate debt structure
13 October 2021
Presented by Dr Stylianos Asimakopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of Bath, UK
2020/2021
Speculative and precautionary demand for liquidity in competitive banking economics
17 March 2021
Presented by Professor Diemo Dietrich, Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School, UK
Gender and leadership in organizations: promotions, demotions and angry workers
27 February 2021
Presented by Danila Serra, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, USA
Forecasting the exchange rate with the Taylor Rule Model during times of non-traditional monetary policies
24 February 2021
Presented by Dr Bruce Morley, Lecturer, Department of Economics at University of Bath, UK
Let the Villeins Go: an economic analysis of the emancipation of serfs through pestilence and technological change
16 December 2020
Presented by Professor John Skatun, University of Aberdeen, UK
The effects of physician-hospital integration on health care spending and use
9 December 2020
Presented by Professor Anne Royalty, Associate Professor of Economics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Do compulsory schooling laws always work? Evidence from youth crime in Brazil
2 December 2020
Presented by Professor Sarmistha Pal, Professor of Financial Economics at University of Surrey, UK
2019/2020
House price convergence across Europe
25 March 2020
Presented by Dr Bruce Morley, Lecturer in Economics at University of Bath, UK
The effects of multi-specialty group practice on health care spending and use
18 March 2020
Presented by Anne Royalty, Associate Professor of Economics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Democratisation under diversity: theory and evidence from Indonesian communities
4 March 2020
Presented by Professor Sarmistha Pal, Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Surrey, UK
Forecast evaluation tests in the presence of heteroskedasticity
26 February 2020
Presented by David Harvey, Professor of Econometrics at University of Nottingham, UK
Labour income share dynamics with variable elasticity of substitution
19 February 2020
Presented by Dr Saumik Paul, Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University London, UK
Gender differences in self-promotion: understanding the female modesty constraint
12 February 2020
Presented by Joseph Vecci, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at University of Gotheburg, Sweden
Labour supply specifications in whole-economy models: a demonstration assessing the impacts on the West Bank economy of the employment of Palestinian labour in Israel
5 February 2020
Presented by Scott MacDonald, Visiting Professor of International Agricultural Trade and Development at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Married by the Rev. Bayes? An experiment testing joint reasoning within married couples
17 December 2019
Presented by Alistair Munro, Professor, Executive Advisor to the President & Director of Policy Analysis Program at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan
Contagion from the Euro crisis
11 December 2019
Presented by Professor Eric Pentecost, Professor of Economics, Head of Economics Discipline Group at Loughborough University, UK
Banking on informational gravy: base wages, bonus spreads and noise
27 November 2019
Presented by Professor John Skatun, Chair in Economics at University of Aberdeen, UK
Social promotion and learning outcomes: evidence from India
20 November 2019
Presented by Dr Rakesh Banerjee, Lecturer in Economics at University of Exeter, UK
The current UK productivity slowdown in historical perspective
13 November 2019
Presented by Professor Nicholas Crafts, Professor of Economic History at University of Sussex, UK
Can asset management improve the financial well-being of older age groups? Evidence from Europe
6 November 2019
Presented by Dr Jong Kook Shin, Associate Professor at Korea University Sejong Campus, Korea
School quality improvements and behavioural responses: evidence from Peru’s school day expansion policy
30 October 2019
Presented by Catherine Porter, Professor in Development Economics at Lancaster University Management School, UK
Household debt and labour supply
16 October 2019
Presented by Stephen Millard, Senior Research Manager at Bank of England, UK
Approximate Bayesian forecasting
9 October 2019
Presented by Brendan McCabe, Professor of Econometrics, University of Liverpool Management School, UK
Violence and female labour supply
2 October 2019
Presented by Dr Zahra Siddique, Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bristol, UK