Economics

Economics is an exciting field of study, forever changing and adapting to the modern world while retaining scientific objectivity. The School of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School is a leader in research and teaching in most areas of economics.

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PhD Candidates on Job Market: 2017-2018

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PASS leader applications

We need bright, enthusiastic and responsible students to run PASS groups in the Quant courses ECON1202 , ECON1203, ECON2206 and similar postgraduate courses and in the Economics courses ECON1101 and ECON1102 in 2018.

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2017 PhD Awards

John McMillan Prize for the Best Paper in Economics by a PhD Student: Johannes Hoelzemann, for his paper Bandits in the Lab, with Nicolas Klein (U de Montréal).

The 2017 Best PhD Presentation Award: Asha Gul, for her presentation Women Favor Women: Evidence from Local Community Organizations in Rural Pakistan, in the Empirical Micro Workshop.

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Our academics and staff at the School of Economics are highly qualified with a broad range of skills, expertise and interests.

Research

The School of Economics always ranks in the top 3 positions in Australia within a variety of research performance criteria.

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News

AGSM ranked Australia’s top Executive Education program in Financial Times 2018 global rankings

AGSM Executive Education Open Program ranks in the top 50 among the world’s best in the Financial Times 2018 Executive Education Rankings.

UNSW academics give their analysis of the 2018 Budget

Experts from UNSW Australia Business School have given their independent analysis of the Federal Budget 2018 in a lively roundtable discussion in Sydney's CBD.