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The Department provides a focus for a very diverse and internationally renowned group of academic economists, many of whom have made major recent contributions to modern economic analysis. With 78.5 full-time equivalent researchers, Oxford Economics was by far the largest group of economists submitted to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise conducted jointly by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils. Within a large group, 95 percent of all research activities were classified as internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour (3* or better), with 40 percent of activities regarded as world leading (4*). This places Oxford with more 4* research activities in total than any other UK Economics Department, see RAE viewer. Research Fortnight also ranks Oxford Economics first for research power, a measure that takes into account of both the quality and the quantity of research submitted.

The Department is committed to excellence in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level. For the second consecutive year, Oxford Economics is ranked first in the UK for the study of economics by the Guardian University Guide, the Complete University Guide and the Times Good University Guide.

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#		Episode Title	Description	Duration	People	Date
1	Creative Commons	7. Is public housing a public bad? Externalities of Chicago's public housing demolitions	Danielle H Sandler (UC Davis) provides a summary of the paper she presented during the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:06:59	Danielle H sandler	25 Jun 2012
2	Creative Commons	6. Housing policy in Latin America: Ten myths	Alan Gilbert (University College, London) provides a summary of the paper he presented at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:10:05	Alan Gilbert	25 Jun 2012
3	Creative Commons	5. Scaling up housing finance in Africa	Maria Hoek-Smit (Wharton) provides a summary of her presentation at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:07:08	Maria Hoek-Smit	25 Jun 2012
4	Creative Commons	4. Living conditions, rents and their determinants in the slums of Nairobi and Dakar	Sumila Gulyani (World Bank) provides a summary of the paper she presented during the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:09:51	Sumila Gulyani	25 Jun 2012
5	Creative Commons	3. What can we learn from history?	Dr Tim Leunig (Department of Economic History, London School of Economics) provides a summary of his presentation at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:08:55	Tim Leunig	25 Jun 2012
6	Creative Commons	2. Housing the Kenyan urban population: Challenges and policy options	Eric Aligula (Kenyan Institute for Public Policy Research) provides a summary of the paper he presented at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:04:23	Eric Aligula	25 Jun 2012
7	Creative Commons	1. Research on Urban Mass Housing	Paul Collier (Director, CSAE) provides a general background and aims for the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:06:13	Paul Collier	25 Jun 2012
8	Creative Commons	Taming the Casino Banks	In this podcast the experts discuss whether the 'casino' banks that are considered too big to fail are simply too big, and explain the arguments for and against splitting them up.	0:29:16	Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater, Linda Yueh	15 Mar 2010
9	Creative Commons	Bank bonuses, breakups and regulation	In the first podcast of 2010, the experts discuss bank bonuses, proposed break-ups and tighter regulation of the banking and financial sectors.	0:28:43	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater	28 Jan 2010
10	Creative Commons	Institute of Fiscal Studies - Current Issues in the Taxation of Land and Income: Part Two	Paul Johnson from the Institute of Fiscal Studies talks about current issues within land tax as part of the 1909 People's Budget Symposium.	0:16:49	Paul Johnson	12 Jan 2010
11	Creative Commons	Institute of Fiscal Studies - Current Issues in the Taxation of Land and Income: Part One	Stuart Adam from the Institute of Fiscal Studies gives a talk for the 1909 People's Budget Symposium in which he talks about the current conflicts in land and income tax.	0:21:40	Stuart Adam	12 Jan 2010
12	Creative Commons	Lloyd George and his Special Advisers and the Unionist Reaction to the Budget	Iain McLean gives a talk in which he talks about Lloyd George's strategy to get the People's Budget through Parliament and past his main adversaries; his advisers and his parliamentary colleagues.	0:17:19	Iain McLean	12 Jan 2010
13	Creative Commons	The Irish Dimension of the 1909 Budget	Alvin Jackson talks about the relationship between Ireland and Britain at the time of the 1909 budget. Looking at the home rule question and other potential reforms.	0:17:20	Alvin Jackson	12 Jan 2010
14	Creative Commons	The Free Trade Versus Protectionism Debate	Frank Trentmann talks about the relationship between free trade and the budget and how the conflict between the ideas of free trade and protectionism shaped the 1909 budget.	0:17:27	Frank Trentmann	12 Jan 2010
15	Creative Commons	Paying for Social Protection	Jose Harris gives a talk on social protection, that is, social welfare and as Lloyd George saw it, the creation of development policies which would increase employment and give wider social protection to people.	0:12:33	Jose Harris	12 Jan 2010
16	Creative Commons	The Public Finances of 1909 and the Key Proposals of the 1909 Budget	Ian Packer gives a presentation on the state of public finances in Britain in 1909 and what the key proposals of the 1909 budget were.	0:13:11	Ian Packer	12 Jan 2010
17	Creative Commons	Introduction to the 1909 People's Budget	Lord Morgan of Aberdyfi introduces the symposium on Lloyd George's People's Budget, a series of lectures looking at the historic People's Budget of 1909.	0:30:27	Kenneth O. Morgan	12 Jan 2010
18	Creative Commons	Challenging Macroeconomics	In part 6, our experts examine new models for monetary and fiscal policy, global financial markets and a world economy characterised by global imbalances.	0:52:03	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater	11 Aug 2009
19	Creative Commons	UK Budget and Global Recovery Plans	In Part 5, our experts examine the British economy in light of the recent Budget, and assess whether a global recovery may be on the horizon.	0:47:30	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater	04 Jun 2009
20	Creative Commons	G20: Solutions to Global Depression?	In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF.	0:26:39	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie	31 Mar 2009
21	Creative Commons	Credit Crunch Live	Economics students of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford pose questions to a panel of experts about the credit crunch and global recession.	1:09:10	Linda Yueh, Martin Slater, Outi Aarnio, John Knight	25 Feb 2009
22	Creative Commons	Bank Bail-outs and Obama's Green New Deal	In this second podcast, Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss President Obama's Green New Deal, banking bail-outs, quantitative easing and whether we can spend our way out of the economic crisis.	0:31:12	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie	28 Jan 2009
23	Creative Commons	Global Recession: How Did it Happen?	Linda Yueh talks to Jonathan Michie about the credit crunch and looming global recession, the effect it has had on both banks and businesses, and how a Green New Deal may provide a solution to the crisis.	0:36:46	Linda Yueh, Jonathan Michie	22 Dec 2008

#		Episode Title	Description	Duration	People	Date
1	Creative Commons	7. Is public housing a public bad? Externalities of Chicago's public housing demolitions	Danielle H Sandler (UC Davis) provides a summary of the paper she presented during the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:06:59	Danielle H sandler	25 Jun 2012
2	Creative Commons	6. Housing policy in Latin America: Ten myths	Alan Gilbert (University College, London) provides a summary of the paper he presented at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:10:05	Alan Gilbert	25 Jun 2012
3	Creative Commons	5. Scaling up housing finance in Africa	Maria Hoek-Smit (Wharton) provides a summary of her presentation at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:07:08	Maria Hoek-Smit	25 Jun 2012
4	Creative Commons	4. Living conditions, rents and their determinants in the slums of Nairobi and Dakar	Sumila Gulyani (World Bank) provides a summary of the paper she presented during the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:09:51	Sumila Gulyani	25 Jun 2012
5	Creative Commons	3. What can we learn from history?	Dr Tim Leunig (Department of Economic History, London School of Economics) provides a summary of his presentation at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:08:50	Tim Leunig	25 Jun 2012
6	Creative Commons	2. Housing the Kenyan urban population: Challenges and policy options	Eric Aligula (Kenyan Institute for Public Policy Research) provides a summary of the paper he presented at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:04:23	Eric Aligula	25 Jun 2012
7	Creative Commons	1. Research on Urban Mass Housing	Paul Collier (Director, CSAE) provides a general background and aims for the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012.	0:06:13	Paul Collier	25 Jun 2012
8	Creative Commons	Institute of Fiscal Studies - Current Issues in the Taxation of Land and Income Part Two	Paul Johnson from the Institute of Fiscal Studies talks about current issues within land tax as part of the 1909 People's Budget Symposium.	0:16:49	Paul Johnson	12 Jan 2010
9	Creative Commons	Institute of Fiscal Studies - Current Issues in the Taxation of Land and Income: Part One	Stuart Adam from the Institute of Fiscal Studies gives a talk for the 1909 People's Budget Symposium in which he talks about the current conflicts in land and income tax.	0:21:40	Stuart Adam	12 Jan 2010
10	Creative Commons	Lloyd George and his Special Advisers and the Unionist Reaction to the Budget	Iain McLean gives a talk in which he talks about Lloyd George's strategy to get the People's Budget through Parliament and past his main adversaries; his advisers and his parliamentary colleagues.	0:17:19	Iain McLean	12 Jan 2010
11	Creative Commons	The Irish Dimension of the 1909 Budget	Alvin Jackson talks about the relationship between Ireland and Britain at the time of the 1909 budget. Looking at the home rule question and other potential reforms.	0:17:20	Alvin Jackson	12 Jan 2010
12	Creative Commons	The Free Trade Versus Protectionism Debate	Frank Trentmann talks about the relationship between free trade and the budget and how the conflict between the ideas of free trade and protectionism shaped the 1909 budget.	0:17:27	Frank Trentmann	12 Jan 2010
13	Creative Commons	Paying for Social Protection	Jose Harris gives a talk on social protection, that is, social welfare and as Lloyd George saw it, the creation of development policies which would increase employment and give wider social protection to people.	0:12:33	Jose Harris	12 Jan 2010
14	Creative Commons	The Public Finances of 1909 and the Key Proposals of the 1909 Budget	Ian Packer gives a presentation on the state of public finances in Britain in 1909 and what the key proposals of the 1909 budget were.	0:13:11	Ian Packer	12 Jan 2010
15	Creative Commons	Introduction to the 1909 People's Budget	Lord Morgan of Aberdyfi introduces the symposium on Lloyd George's People's Budget, a series of lectures looking at the historic People's Budget of 1909.	0:30:27	Kenneth O. Morgan	12 Jan 2010