• Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

    Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024


Introductions & Foreword


A Welcome from the Outgoing Director

A Welcome from the Outgoing Director

Phineas Godfrey

2024-09-29 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

A Note from the New Director

A Note from the New Director

Emily Glezer

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

Explore Econ Research Papers


Examining the Impact of Digital Microcredit Programs on Borrower Poverty: Evidence from the M-Shwari Program in Kenya 

Examining the Impact of Digital Microcredit Programs on Borrower Poverty: Evidence from the M-Shwari Program in Kenya 

Shriya Rastogi, Anandi Pal, Joe Hswen Lim and Shyam Patra

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

UCL Research Papers


Paddy Politics: Is there an Electoral Cycle in India's Agricultural Policy

Paddy Politics: Is there an Electoral Cycle in India's Agricultural Policy

Aadesh Gupta

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

Effect of Response to Stock Price Changes on the Persistence of Reputation-Based Herding

Effect of Response to Stock Price Changes on the Persistence of Reputation-Based Herding

Hao Zheng

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

The popularity of economic ideologies: The case of monetarism

The popularity of economic ideologies: The case of monetarism

Konstantinos Paschalis

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

Minimisation of Environmental Impact of Commercial Aviation in Europe: Hydrogen-Powered Aircrafts

Minimisation of Environmental Impact of Commercial Aviation in Europe: Hydrogen-Powered Aircrafts

Pavel Sizov, Denton Philtjens, Jamie Yuen, Kunjam and Joe Bryant

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

Britain’s shift towards financial capitalism: How financialisation is altering individual economic behaviour, paving the way for a new regime of risk-taking-driven growth in the United Kingdom

Britain’s shift towards financial capitalism: How financialisation is altering individual economic behaviour, paving the way for a new regime of risk-taking-driven growth in the United Kingdom

Louis Flamencourt

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

Non-UCL Research Papers


Planes, Trucks, and Ferris Wheels: Impacts of Market Developments on Industry Structure and Profitability

Planes, Trucks, and Ferris Wheels: Impacts of Market Developments on Industry Structure and Profitability

Brayden Orpello-McCoy

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

Heterogeneous Impacts of Climate Conditions on Conflict

Heterogeneous Impacts of Climate Conditions on Conflict

Finn Marten

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

Beyond Congregations: Impacts of Apostolic Concentration on Non-Apostolic Child Marriage Rates in Zimbabwe

Beyond Congregations: Impacts of Apostolic Concentration on Non-Apostolic Child Marriage Rates in Zimbabwe

Shandukurai Chiuswa

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024

Graduate Research Papers


Wealth Inequality and Income Risk in the UK: A Two-Asset Heterogeneous Agent Model

Wealth Inequality and Income Risk in the UK: A Two-Asset Heterogeneous Agent Model

Adam Butlin

2024-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • September 2024