The Janeway Institute
@janewayinst
'New Directions in Economics' Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
📢 Many congratulations to #KeynesFund @CamEcon Principal Investigator @CSBarnard24 on the latest edition of her book 'The Substantive Law of the EU', published this month. global.oup.com/ukhe/product/t…
Last week the Faculty of Economics welcomed a lively crowd of prospective students and their families to its annual two day Open Day. Read more about the feature packed event, and if you are still interested in studying at the Faculty, get in touch. econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/hund…
Check out our latest work with Tiago (@CamEcon), Hongyu (Shanghai Jiao Tong) & Haitao Yin (@sjtu1896) where we highlight the significant challenges that air pollution has for firms, particularly in terms of human capital accumulation & innovation capacity: ideas.repec.org/p/cam/camdae/2…
Lord Chris Smith has been elected as the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Lord Smith said “To be elected as Chancellor of the University I love is a huge honour. I’m thrilled." Read more about Lord Smith and the Chancellor election 👉 cam.ac.uk/news/new-chanc…
Thank you to the @IMFNews for featuring me in your podcasts series on Women in Economics and for the interesting discussion! imf.org/en/News/Podcas…
📢Registrations for the RES Annual Public Lecture #APL2025 are now open. 🗓️19 November 2025 ⏰10:00-15:30 (approx.) with the lecture closing the event 📍@lborouniversity 🔗 bit.ly/3TSejIj Register today! #EconTwitter #EconEvents #schools
Listen to our Deputy Director @janewayinst Constantine Yannelis @CamEcon who joined from Chicago, talking about what inspires him about working @Cambridge_Uni where he says 'the quality of life is very high' for families & undergrad teaching is 'arguably the best in the world'
Could Cambridge be your next career move? We are delighted to receive funding from @SciTechgovuk's £54million Global Talent Fund, designed to attract top international researchers here to the UK. Explore vacancies on our new website 👉 bit.ly/44yOaV8
'Is there method in Trump's tariff madness?' Listen to @MeredithCrowle1 (starts at 3.00) talking to Chris Horseman about the 'main principles of Trump's trade policy in his 2nd term' including imposing high tariffs on countries with large trade deficits ➡️soundcloud.com/uktpo-tradebit…
The University @Cambridge_Uni has conferred 8 honorary degrees on leading figures from art, music, science, sport, politics and economics. Many congratulations from @janewayinst to economist Sir Oliver Hart @Harvard who rec'd a Doctorate in Science. ➡️cam.ac.uk/stories/cambri…
Quoted in the @ObserverUK the Faculty's Professor @jagjit_chadha argues that the ONS has made a decision to focus on fast indicators, such as retail or footfall, as a way of getting it more noticed by policymakers. econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentions…
NEW JI WP by @KamiarMohaddes @Cambridge_Uni et al: 'The Drivers & Macroeconomic Impacts of Low-Carbon Innovation: A Cross-Country Exploration' ➡️bit.ly/4eWDBPm #econtwitter
Last night the @econ_SPE, @RoyalEconSoc and the @resfoundation held a fantastic event on global trade patterns, 90 days after Liberation Day - with a wonderful panel: David Willetts, Meredith Crowley @MeredithCrowle1 , Sherman Robinson @Srobins65S and Russell Napier…
Today @MeredithCrowle1 @CamEcon was back on Radio 4's The Briefing Room w/ @DAaronovitch discussing Trump's #tariffs & the legal status of a Trump trade deal. Does anything stop Trump or a successor from changing it? ➡️Listen @BBCSounds starting at 8.55 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
It's the Faculty's open day today & tomorrow, and a lovely sunny one too: if you are interested in any of the courses in Economics at Cambridge, or just want to find out what we do, please come along to the foyer of the Marshall Library to find out more.
The Faculty's Prof Sanjeev Goyal @christs_college has been invited to lecture at the Bogotá Summer School of Economics on the economic theory of networks and its applications. He will extensively use illustrative case studies and laboratory experiments. bogotasummerschoolineconomics.co/profesores/san…
NEW JI WP published: 'ETF (Mis)pricing' by Andrei Kirilenko, Wladimir Kraus, Oliver Linton @CamEcon and Mingmei Xiao @CamEcon Read the paper here: ➡️janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/ji…
"To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset." My piece in @TheEconomist this week on how zero-sum thinking arises and why it matters so much for policy and politics. Based on our research at the Social Economics Lab. economist.com/by-invitation/…
You may be interested to read the JI WP 'The Short Lags of Monetary Policy' being discussed next week at the SI 2025 Monetary Economics conference: ➡️ janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/working-paper-…
One of Top Monetary Conferences of the Year …and we will be there .. #NBER Summer Institute (Monetary Economics)… by @JonSteinsson & Emi Nakamura. @BBVAResearch at #NBER-SI (3-out-5 years at #NBER SI)👇nber.org/conferences/si… @CebraOrg @BIS_org @int_mon_econ @Benchimolium…
📢 Only 2 weeks left to submit: 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗺 𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 📝Bonn, December 11-12, 2025 🚨Fantastic keynote speakers: Ellen McGrattan @UMNews and Vasco Carvalho @CamEcon 📅 Application deadline: July 15, 2025
The Faculty's Professor Tiago Cavalcanti @TiagoCavalcan is interviewed in the latest @timsvengali @cepr_org VoxTalks podcast. He tells how they managed to double the productivity of schools in Rio de Janeiro & ended up on national TV as a result. econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentions…