The Cambridge-INET Institute

About the Institute

The Cambridge-INET Institute has been set up to support fundamental research in economics at the University of Cambridge.

New Postdocs 2020-21

George Charlson, Miguel Ferreira, Juan Carlos Ruiz Garcia and Eduard Talamàs will be joining Cambridge-INET as Postdocs in September 2020. You can view their profiles on the Postdocs page.

The COVID-19 Economic Research website has published a Special Feature about Christopher Rauh's Cambridge-INET working paper (joint with Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, and Marta Golin). This paper looks at which workers are most likely to be furloughed and observes that not everyone was furloughed on equal terms.

Economic Aspects of the COVID-19 Crisis in the UK

Vasco Carvalho and Flavio Toxvaerd are among the authors of a Royal Society DELVE Initiative Report "Economic Aspects of the COVID-19 Crisis in the UK", which looks at the new challenges for the economy and public health that the COVID-19 Pandemic will bring over the coming years.

Forecasting Coronavirus with Time Series

Andrew Harvey and Paul Kattuman have published a Special Feature on The COVID-19 Economic Research website about "Time Series Models Based on Growth Curves with Applications to Forecasting Coronavirus", which looks at the importance of having quick access to reliable estimates to help plot the future course of new cases and deaths.

Latest News

Local Lockdowns - Flavio Toxvaerd
Published on - Tuesday 20th October 2020

Economic Consequences of Covid-19 - Kamiar Mohaddes
Published on - Tuesday 20th October 2020

Economic Impact From Covid - Christopher Rauh
Published on - Tuesday 13th October 2020

Economics of Brexit and COVID-19

Meredith Crowley took part in a live webinar on "Economics of Brexit and Covid-19" organised by academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe, on 12th June 2020. You can watch a video of the webinar on their YouTube channel.