News and blogs
Co-director Imran Rasul elected Vice-President of the European Economic Association
Co-director Imran Rasul has been elected as Vice-President (President-Elect in 2025 and President in 2026) of the European Economic Association. On behalf of the Stone Centre at UCL, congratulations!
Four grants awarded to academics in the UK and in Italy
Congratulations to Stefano Caria, Erika Deserranno, David Hope, and Clara Martínez-Toledano. They won a Stone Centre External Research Support Grant for research on remote health provision, job insurance, inequality and carbon taxation, and capital markets. Find out more.
The Stone Centre at UCL welcomes the 2023/2024 Stone PhD Scholars
Filippo Pallotti, Damian Phelan, and Linda Wu are the 2023/2024 Stone PhD Scholars. Thanks to their expertise, the Stone Centre at UCL can keep fulfilling its mission on advancing research and teaching on wealth concentration and inequality.
Academics from the Stone Centre at UCL elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
Co-directors Wendy Carlin and Imran Rasul, and Advisory Board member Richard Blundell have been elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. The Stone Centre at UCL congratulates all of them on receiving this professional recognition.
Meet the 2023/2024 Stone Centre Postdocs
Christiane Szerman and Micole De Vera joined the Stone Centre at UCL as the 2023/2024 Postdoctoral Fellows. They share with us what they plan to do during their time at the Stone Centre and afterwards.
Co-director Wendy Carlin elected Fellow of the British Academy
Wendy joins a community of over 1,600 distinguished intellectuals, becoming part of the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations, Wendy!
Watch the Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture
Co-director Wendy Carlin delivered the 2023 Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture: "Capitalism, carbon, and colonies – looking back and looking forward". You can watch it online.
Matias Mäkiranta wins the Stone Centre Explore Econ prize
Matias Mäkiranta, a UCL undergraduate student in economics, won the Stone Centre Explore Econ 2023 prize. His paper investigating the impact of labour market concentration and wages.
