Research highlights
Can robots and migration help address the challenges of ageing?
Research by Southampton demographers has explored strategies to best address the skills shortages caused by ageing and whether migration and the use of robotics can help alleviate some of the resulting pressures.
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The Debt Dilemma: How Rising Debt Levels May Widen Inequality in the UK
Debt and inequality are two issues that increasingly dominate discussions across Western Europe.
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Mergers and innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Professor Carmine Ornaghi led research into the potential detrimental effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on research and development expenditure and innovation output in the pharmaceutical industry.
Research institutes, centres and groups
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Applied Economics
The Applied Economics group produces innovative research that furthers and deepens our understanding of economic behaviour and global economic challenges, that informs and influences economic policy. -
Centre for Behavioural Experimental Action and Research (C-BEAR)
We utilise, develop, and apply experimental methods to study key questions in the behavioural and social sciences. -
Centre for Digital Finance
The Centre for Digital Finance aspires to be a global leader in understanding the complex interrelationship between finance and emerging transformational technologies. -
Centre for Population Change
We examine the impact of population change on people, communities and government. -
Econometrics
The Econometrics group produces research in both econometric theory and applied econometrics with particular emphasis on methods and applications designed to deepen our understanding of economic and financial problems. -
Economic Theory and Experimental Economics
Economic theory provides a framework for understanding how people make decisions about allocating resources. We test and refine these theories in controlled experiments to better understand economic behaviour and inform policy makers to improve the well-being of society. -
Gender and Inequalities Centre (GAIN)
GAIN is an interdisciplinary community of scholars studying gender and inequalities at Southampton. -
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics at Southampton spans a variety of research directions, and emphasises building models of aggregate behaviour by adding up the behaviour of individual economic agents. -
Southampton Health Economics
We aim to produce evidence to help allocate resources in a way that promotes health and effective health care.
