Oxford Economics Undergraduates

15/09/2026

Enjoy our interview with Sir John Vickers, former Chief Economist of the Bank of England!

Interviewers: Matilda Gettins, Lunchen Song & Matías Vildoso Ocampo.

15/09/2026

Enjoy our interview with Branko Milanović, leading global inequality scholar!

Interviewers: Matías Vildoso Ocampo et al.

15/09/2026

Enjoy our interview with James Robinson, 2024 Economics Nobel Laureate!

Interviewers: Zoe Edwards, Caleb Van Ryneveld, Matías Vildoso Ocampo & Lara Woo.

15/09/2026

Enjoy our interview with Edward Luce, Financial Times US National Editor!

Interviewer: Matías Vildoso Ocampo

15/07/2021

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

27/06/2021

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

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...

01/06/2021

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.

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25/05/2021

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.'

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22/05/2021

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

22/05/2021

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.

US stock-index and oil futures pull back as cryptocurrency prices plunge this week