This annual training school, provides advanced training to enhance the understanding of current economic issues. This year’s school topic: Urban Economics. The Easter Training School brings together and encourages interactions among advanced postgraduate students doing doctoral research, (but...

David Craig spent most of his career selling for some of the world’s best and worst management consultancies. After writing two whistleblowing books, Rip-Off and Plundering the Public Sector, about how consultants take millions from businesses and government departments while delivering little...

The three Titans this year are influential alumni from the top three economics departments in the UK (Cambridge, LSE and Oxford), and will each be giving their predictions for how the UK economy will fare in 2014. - Kevin Daly is a senior economist on the Global Economics, Commodities and...

The Roundtable will offer a forum for postgraduate students in economic history to deliver a paper to an audience of fellow research students in a friendly and informal atmosphere. It is intended for participants to receive valuable feedback upon their work whilst meeting the next generation of...

Sessions of interest to economists include: - The limitations of evidence based policy - Measuring individual expectations in surveys - Methodological issues in analyzing place - Half-day workshop on propensity score matching, Barbara Sianesi, UCL

The 2005 OXONIA Inaugural Lecture is organised in cooperation with the Economics Department, University of Oxford. Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial...