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Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge was recently interviewed by Emma Vigeland on The Majority Report, a popular YouTube political talk show that has over two million subscribers. Dr Hauge discusses great power rivalries in light of the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, arguing that the USA's traditional allies have turned toward…

Following a competitive process including more than 200 applicants, Development Studies PhD student Biagio Rosso has been selected for a PhD Traineeship at the European Central Bank (ECB). This traineeship will include work on a macroeconomics research project/paper in DSGE & HANK modelling and sequence space solution methods at the Forecasting and…

The Centre of Development Studies is happy to announce that Dr Ilias Alami has won 2025's International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize for his co-authored work The Spectre of State Capitalism. Praising Dr Alami and Professor Adam D. Dixon's work, the prize committee stated 'this is an agenda-setting book across a number of fields, inclu…

Dr Marthe Achtnich has published a new contribution for the American Ethnologist website, titled 'A Necroeconomy of Mobility'. It is part of a collection on 'Bordering and the War on Migration' and can be read here: https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/a-necroeconomy-of-mobility-by-marthe-achtnich/

Titled ''Notes on inflationary news and the equity premium puzzle in a two-asset incomplete-markets model'', Development Studies PhD student Biagio Rosso's latest article has been published by The Economics Bulletin. Abstract: The paper develops a "Catch-22" model of optimal consumption and portfolio allocations in continuous time in the absence of…

Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge has made a guest appearance on the Sinica Podcast in which he discussed industrial policy in China, US-China trade relations, and growing Sinophobia. The Sinica Podcast publishes weekly episodes on Chinese current affairs. Previous guests include Adam Tooze and Jeremy Garlick. Listen to the Podcas…

New Political Economy has published an article by Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge titled 'A progressive framework for green industrial policy'. Co-authored with Professor Jason Hickel, this article argues that 'existing frameworks for green industrial policy fail to address unsustainable growth in energy and resource use in high…

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce the 2025 Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching has been awarded to Dr Ilias Alami.Each year, the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) awards a prize based on student feedback to the individual who has best informed students' education…

Development Studies PhD student Shidai Zhang has won the Elsevier China Economic Review 2024 Best Paper Award for his work ‘One System, Two Shadows’: A local public finance perspective on China's shadow banking system. Shidai's paper, co-authored with Kellee Tsai, investigates the systemic financial risks posed by the interdependence between Chines…

Incoming Development Studies PhD Student Donari Yahzid is among the 95 outstanding scholars receiving a 2025 Gates scholarship. This scholarship will cover the full cost of Donari's studies, including university fees and maintenance. The Centre of Development Studies extends its heartiest congratulations to Donari for her outstanding achievement an…

Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge gave a talk this week at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government.The talk was entitled “World of War: The Global Battle for Industrial Supremacy”. Dr Hauge shed light on increasing economic competition between China, the United States and the European Union, and discussed the glo…

Development Studies PhD student Biagio Rosso has received a prestigious 2025 Ph.D. Internship at the Bank of England, Monetary Policy Division, to work on a project in frontier DSGE and HANK modelling, drawing from his doctoral research on macroeconomics and development.

Development Studies PhD student Biagio Rosso has been awarded one of the two £5000 research grants offered by King’s College London in partnership with the ETERON institute for developing a research project on the nexus between industrial policy and taxation.The grant is part of a research initiative titled “Reclaiming Europe’s Industrial Policy Th…

Development Studies PhD student Biagio Rosso has co-authored a new paper with Matteo Gatto, titled Occasionally Binding Constraints in DSGE Models with Heterogeneous Agents: a Generalised Nonlinear Framework and Applications to Inequality and Monetary Policy at the ZLB. The paper has been published in the working paper series of the Post-Keynesian …

Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge was recently interviewed by Michael Walker on Novara Media's YouTube channel. Dr Hauge discussed the escalating trade war between the USA and China, speaking to its global economic ramifications. Watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKFdyx7Agg