Oxford Economics Undergraduates

Looks like tech oligopoly is consolidating in the US despite the Congressional hearings last year or two..

Price inflation is not just a blip: its impacts are here to stay. Covid no longer makes a good scapegoat.

The Ghost of Arthur Burns | by Stephen S. Roach - Project Syndicate The US Federal Reserve is insisting that recent increases in the price of food, construction materials, used cars, personal health products, gasoline, and appliances reflect transitory factors that will quickly fade with post-pandemic normalization. But what if they are a harbinger, not a "noisy" de...

Hello all! A friendly reminder that we have a fantastic event on Post-Pandemic Economics: Latin America, with Alonso Segura, former Finance Minister of Peru starting in an hour, at 7pm! The zoom link is below.

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, confer...

Research out this week from the DPIR department finds 'consistent
evidence from the UK, Sweden and Denmark – as well as at the European regional level – ... that local wealth and population density increase social distancing'.
Furthermore, '[L]ocalities that predominantly support populist parties or movements were less likely to reduce their physical mobility during the pandemic.'

(PDF) Social distancing, politics and wealth PDF | Since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, governments across Europe have attempted to prevent the spread of the disease by limiting the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Effective approaches to global poverty? Check. Poor Economics is a must-read for econ scholars in a more socially conscious world. It won the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Here's a PDF:

https://warwick.ac.uk/study/summer-with-warwick/warwick-summer-school/courses/macroeconomics/poor_economics.pdf

Many outlets have written on the illegitimacy of cryptocurrencies over the past few months, as their gains have blown past traditional asset classes. Perhaps this latest pullback is part of a broader microshock.

Bitcoin turmoil seeps into traditional financial markets US stock-index and oil futures pull back as cryptocurrency prices plunge this week

Beef imported en masse from Australia? Seems that a lot of the post-Brexit trade deals being worked out involve relationships with far-flung countries rather than those on our doorstep. Prices may be lower but there are glaring issues surrounding the environmental impact and the sheer commonsensicality of it, surely.

City executives raise concerns over hidden costs to trade deals FT City Network members question environmental impact of encouraging deals with faraway countries

We are currently organising an event with an influential government figure in the fields of economics and finance so stay tuned! We can't wait to be hosting.

Update: we've heard your queries about the new Probability and Stats paper for first-year PPEists and this was the faculty response:

"The solutions to the recent collection paper will be released on Canvas in week seven so that students have two weeks of revision time with it. Students also have the specimen paper from Canvas. In future, past papers from earlier years will build up."

Public talk on what China's economic power means for debt and borrowing - a really important topic given the huge amounts of additional debt accrued recently due to Covid. Wednesday 2nd of June!

Borrowing in the Shadow of China Written with Astghik Mkhitaryan, University of Notre Dame, and Cesar Sosa-Padilla, University of Notre Dame and NBER