The Department of Economics at Birmingham has a long and distinguished history of research, with important advances in mathematical economics and econometrics being made here.
Members of the department are active in research in a broad range of topics in Economics. We actively collaborate with researchers in other schools of the university (including the Business School, Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Public Policy and Public Health) and with economists in other universities in the UK (including Warwick, Nottingham, York) and in other countries (USA, France, India to name a few). We have recently obtained research funding from funding bodies such as the British Academy, the Department of Education and Skills, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the European Union, the Leverhulme Trust and the World Bank.
Research in the department is organised into three research clusters: