Richard Melson

THE LEVERHULME CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON
GLOBALISATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy was established in the School of Economics in 2001. It subsumes the research programmes and activities of the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Labour Markets. The Centre's core funding exceeds £4million. The majority derives from two Programme Grants to the value of over £3million awarded by the Leverhulme Trust and this is supplemented by support from the University of Nottingham as well as research grants from other sources. Researchers in GEP have also received funding from the ESRC, European Union and British Academy. The Centre is under the Directorship of Professor David Greenaway.

GEP's research, dissemination and user engagement activities are structured around three Research Programmes, linked by the common theme of the economic analysis of globalisation:

1. Globalisation and Labour Markets (GLM)
2. The Internationalisation of Economic Policy (IEP)
3. Globalisation, Productivity and Technology (GPT)

The Programme Co-ordinators for each are Dr Peter Wright, Professor Rod Falvey and Dr Holger Görg respectively.

The Centre supports basic scientific and policy-focused research. Its core staff comprises a group of Internal Research Fellows based at Nottingham and a network of External Research Fellows from a number of Universities in Western Europe, North America and Australia. GEP publishes a regular GEP Newsletter and around 50 papers annually appear in the GEP Research Papers series. The Centre sponsors three Leverhulme Globalisation Lectures each year and hosts The World Economy Annual Lecture. There is a weekly seminar in GEP and three major Conferences each year. Full details of all of these activities can be found on this web site.

What's new as of March 2005:

Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor, to present a Leverhulme Globalisation Lecture on 'What do we do, when China makes everything?' on 18th April

GEP and Tulane University to host Conference on 'Political Economy of Fairness and Globalisation', 1st and 2nd April 2005, at Tulane University

4th GEP Postgraduate Conference to be held on 11th April, 2005. Call for papers available here

Professor Daniel Bernhofen appointed to new Chair in International Economics

GEP Annual Report for 2004 available here

Martin Wolf (The Financial Times) presentation on 'Why Globalisation Works', Leverhulme Globalisation Lecture on 17th February

Jonathan Eaton's Nottingham Lectures in International Economics, December 2004

GEP will host its annual conference on 24th and 25th June 2005. The topic will be Globalisation and Firm Level Adjustment.

GEP Research Papers 2004/42 to 2005/04 now available for download

THE LEVERHULME CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON GLOBALISATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY

THE LEVERHULME CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON
GLOBALISATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY