Professor Kevin O’Rourke, from Sciences Po Paris and CNRS, has been announced as the recipient of the prestigious Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Award. This award, presented by the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH) at Trinity College Dublin, recognizes an economic historian whose work significantly contributes to the discipline. 

When I was an undergraduate student and took my first economics class, I was hooked. But, rather than major in economics, I chose to major in business. That’s because I wanted to understand how the economy worked at its “smallest” unit, which I surmised was the individual business.Economics can of course study individuals and their decision-making too, but at least on the supply side, I thought that a single business could be considered the smallest unit of the economy.Economic theory can tell us how firms behave in a perfectly theoretical world…but how do they actually function? This was a question that captured my attention, and I decided to major in business (with a concentration in management consulting) to understand the working world as much as I could.

Lund University announces Professor Thomas M. Cooney from Technological University Dublin as recipient of the 2026 European Entrepreneurship Education Award for his contributions to inclusive entrepreneurship education.

Professor Hanna Hottenrott from ZEW Mannheim has been selected for the prestigious DG GROW Fellowship Programme, aimed at enhancing EU policy-making with expert insights on innovation and industrial dynamics.

The Banque de France has awarded the 2025 prize for young researchers in green finance to Dr. Adrien Fabre and Prof. Dr. Thomas Giroux during the Green Finance Research Advances conference.

The American Economic Association has announced the winners of its awards during the 2026 ASSA Meeting. Key recognitions include the Distinguished Service Award for Elizabeth Asiedu, the Distinguished Economic Education Award for KimMarie McGoldrick, and multiple awards focusing on diversity, gender, and inclusion in economics.

Prominent economist Graeme Blackett has been appointed the new chair of Prosper, the Scottish membership organisation and think-tank. The appointment was announced in a press-release on the Prosper website. He takes over from Joanna Boag-Thomson.

Abdolnasser Hemmati has officially been reappointed as the governor of the Central Bank of Iran, replacing Mohammadreza Farzin. Hemmati has a prominent background in both economic and political fields, having previously served in various significant roles during different administrations.

Regression analysis is a key topic in economics, data science, and computer science, but its roots go further back than these disciplines. Sir Francis Galton is credited with the term, after studying the heights of parents and their children, and noticing that those heights tended to “regress” back towards the mean. That name became associated with this type of analysis, and has stuck, even though a more accurate name might have been something like “variance analysis”.We’ve written previously about what a regression analysis is. If you’re completely new to the idea of a regression, that’s a good place to start. In this article, we’ll look more closely at this tool in the data scientist’s, economist’s and statistician’s toolbox, to understand exactly what’s happening when we run one.

Soka University's Faculty of Economics won the 'Breakout Prize' at the 2025 ISFJ Policy Forum for their proposal on promoting women's participation in the workforce through enhanced paternity leave for men.

The UK government has reached an agreement with the EU for the UK to join the Erasmus+ programme in 2027, expanding educational opportunities for young people. The initiative promises to support over 100,000 participants in its first year, with a focus on inclusivity for disadvantaged groups.