The four-year integrated PhD Economics follows the MRes Economics programme for year 1 before beginning the PhD study programme within the department in year 2.

University of Essex four-year pathway in the Department of Economics for the PhD economics degree provides students with training to develop the research mind-set for PhD studies and gives them the chance to ask difficult questions, break intellectual boundaries and create new solutions to issues of global concern. Students work closely with our creative and committed academics - researchers who are pioneering new solutions to these issues, inspiring their own research.

The university is renowned for their research expertise in a number of areas of economics, including the following:

• Behavioural economics • Experimental economics • Industrial organisation, market structure and firm behaviour • Political economy • Social networks • Economic theory • Financial economics and economics of banking • International economics • Macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy • Public finance • Search and matching • Development economics • Family and health economics including gender, population, and migration • Labour economics including inequality and the economics of crime • Microeconometrics • Spatial econometrics and cross-sectional dependence • Semi and nonparametric econometrics • Time series econometrics