Three projects involving researchers from The University of Queensland School of Economics have secured more than $500,000 as part of the Australian Research Council’s latest funding announcement.
University of Queensland researcher Professor Claudio Mezzetti has been appointed a fellow of The Econometric Society – considered to be one of the world’s most prestigious international society of academic economists.
The complexities of human decision-making were placed under the microscope at the 28th Colin Clark Memorial Lecture, hosted by The University of Queensland’s School of Economics.
A model developed by researchers at The University of Queensland could address soil problems that cost Australia’s wheat producers almost $2 billion a year.
Bosses with exorbitant pay packets are seen as less effective leaders than their counterparts on lower incomes, and less able to influence those they seek to lead, according to University of Queensland research.
Emily Dahl shares her learnings and experiences from the Crawford Fund’s 2018 annual agricultural and food security conference, held at Parliament House, Canberra.
Four women in economics reflect on the challenges they’ve faced, and share how they’re working to inspire the next generation of leaders and change the game for the benefit of the profession and society.
Dr Brendan Markey-Towler (School of Economics) dives into the theory of 'loss aversion' - a core idea in behavioural economics - in an explainer piece for The Conversation.
That new technologies could actually be bad for us, by sapping our attention or ruining our memories, is an argument that goes back to Socrates. It’s tempting to summarily dismiss these concerns, but such tech-doomsaying is actually an important part of economic discovery.
