Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics

Faculty Presentations

Keynote speakers at upcoming and previous SGPE conferences

Previous keynote speakers at the SGPE conference include

  • Jagjit Chadha (National Institute of Economic and Social Research): "Money and Fiscal Interactions Redux"
  • Andrew Clausen and Chris Stapenhurst (University of Edinburgh): "A research case study: Lemons by design"
  • Mairi Spowage (University of Strathclyde): "Making an impact using economics to bring insights"
  • Martin Chick (Professor, University of Edinburgh): "Economics and Changing Times in Britain since 1945"
  • Simon Roberts (Director, Competition and Markets Authority): "Economic theory and practical considerations in CMA's analysis: Some specific cases"
  • Carlo Morelli (Senior Lecturer, University of Dundee): "Beyond neo-classical theories of the firm. Marx, pluralist and hetrodox economic ideas in business history"
  • Stephan Heblich (Reader in Economics, University of Bristol): "East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighbourhood Sorting"
  • Michael King (Senior economist for the Scottish Government): "Using economics analysis to inform policy decisions"
  • Liam Delaney (Professor of Behavioural Economics, University College Dublin): "Using insights from behavioural economics for public policy"
  • David Bell (Professor, University of Stirling): "Economics and Brexit
  • Vania Sena (Professor, University of Essex): "Big Data for Economics"

Along with these keynote presentations, the SGPE conference has included talks from Sheila Dow (Emeritus Professor, Stirling University) on "Pluralism in Economics". A talk on Numerical Methods has also been a regular feature of the conference.