The Department of Economics is delighted to announce that Dan Anderberg won an ESRC grant to study Intimate Partner Violence. The project explores how exposure of children to intimate partner violence affects their cognitive and socio-emotional development in the early years.

Ines Viela and her co-authors published the paper, “Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique” in the American Economic Review. Natural resources can have a negative impact on the economy through corruption and civil conflict. Her work tests whether information can counteract the political resource curse by implementing a large-scale field experiment following the dissemination of information about a substantial natural gas discovery in Mozambique. 

Evan Piermont published his work, “Unforeseen evidence” in the Journal of Economic Theory, proposing a normative updating rule, extended Bayesianism, for the incorporation of probabilistic information arising from the process of becoming more aware.

Alessio Sancetta’s paper, “Intraday Trades Profile Estimation: An Intensity Approach”, was published in the Journal of Financial Econometrics. More information about his proposed framework can be found here.