Pathway 4

Pathway 4: Economics, Finance & the World Economy (EFWE)

Pathway Leads

King’s College: Dr. David Chilosi

Queen Mary University: Prof Emmanuel Guerre

Imperial College: Dr Ralf Martin

Student Pathway Representative

Felix Kempf: felix.kempf@kcl.ac.uk

Pathway mailing list

To contact students on this LISS DTP pathway please email:

liss-efwe@qmul.ac.uk

Research Area:

Economics & Business

Pathway 4: Economics, Finance & the World Economy

Pathway 5: Work, Organisations & Business Management

The Economics, Finance & the World Economy pathway builds on the collective strengths of the three LISS DTP partner institutions in the area of Economics and cognate disciplines, including on the regulation of the international economy, and integrates the research expertise and training provision at Queen Mary’s School of Economics and Finance (SEF) and School of Business and Management (SBM), Imperial College Business School (ICBS), and King’s Business School, Department of European and International Studies (EIS) and Department of Political Economy (DPE). EFWE works at the intersection of economics and political economy to research priority areas of economic performance and sustainable growth.

Training in this thematic pathway is structured around 5 sub-pathways:

A. Global Macroeconomic Stability & Risk

Provides tools to understand how individual risky decisions on the part of economic actors and institutions aggregate at a systemic level, affecting the stability and economic performance of the macroeconomic system.

King’s College London
MA International Political Economy

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Economics & Econometrics 

Imperial College
Economics pathway within MRes Business

B. Global Financial Markets in Theory & Practice

The functioning of financial markets is essential for economic activity. This sub-pathway aims to provide students with a thorough understanding, both at a theoretical and at an empirical level, of the way financial markets operate.

King’s College London
MSc Banking & Finance

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Finance & Econometrics
MRes International Financial Management 

Imperial College
Economics pathway within MRes Business

C. Econometrics of Large Datasets for Statistical & Policy Analysis

Large datasets are increasingly available in a variety of disciplines and provide a new viewpoint for many policy issues. This sub-pathway provides advanced training on statistical and econometric methods for analysing both structured (time series) and unstructured large datasets.

King’s College London
MSc Banking & Finance

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Economics & Econometrics

Imperial College
Economics pathway within MRes Business

D. Political Economy, Behaviour Economics & Welfare

focuses on recent developments in the theory of political economy and microeconomics.

King’s College London
MA International Political Economy
MA Political Economy

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Economics & Econometrics

E. Governance of the World Economy – Trade, Investment & Finance

provides training on legal, economic and financial interdisciplinary issues related to trade, investment and finance.

Queen Mary University of London
MRes International Financial Management
MRes International Economic Law
MRes International Business

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Global Public Health & Policy

Imperial
MPH Public Health: Global Health Stream

Pathway students