Industrial Economics - Research

The Division made a strong contribution to the Business School's excellent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) performance in 2008. We produced a significant number of world leading and internationally excellent publications and a very high proportion of our staff were included.

Our research expertise is extensive and covers a variety of themes within the broad areas of industrial economics, industrial policy, and risk. Our main aim is to bring together theoretically grounded and rigorous economics, business and policy.

Our research includes work on the economics of:

• Innovation and policy
• Public policy (civil and criminal justice systems, taxation, gambling and betting
• Market regulation
• Behavioural and experimental economics
• Insurance and banking
• Corporate governance and executive remuneration
• Public and private sector risk management

A number of significant research grants support our work in these areas (Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Leverhulme Trust, Department of Health, Ministry of Justice, Business Industry and Skills Department (former Department of Trade and Industry)The Division made a strong contribution to the Business School's excellent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) performance in 2008. We produced a significant number of world leading and internationally excellent publications and a very high proportion of our staff were included.


We welcome Doctoral students in any of the above areas of Industrial Economics.
Students interested I perusuing a PhD should contact the individual members of staff or the divisional research director. For PhD scholarships and funding opportunities are available.


Research activities

We publish work in progress by members of the Division in our Occasional Paper Series

We run a seminar series at divisional level as well as more specialised study groups such as the Economics of Innovation Research Group (EIRG) or The International Centre for Behavioral Business Research (ICBBR)
We supervise a number of PhD students in various areas of industrial and applied economics. Most of our past students now work in governmental and private organizations, while others have joined leading universities.

Members of the Division are active in the following research centres at the Business School:

• The Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies (CRIS)
• The Financial Services Research Forum
• International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR)
• The International Centre for Behavioral Business Research (ICBBR)

We also host a research group with interests in the economics of innovation, industrial dynamics and policy.

Economics of Innovation Research Group (EIRG)