Overview
Economic, technological, regulatory and institutional environments are changing rapidly and being reshaped the world over, creating complex challenges for business managers and policy-makers. These challenges open up new windows of opportunity for business economists to carry out deeply engaged and practically relevant research into business and public policy questions.
The Economics and Policy group at Cambridge Judge Business School is energised and motivated by these opportunities. Current research by group members spans, inter-alia, business performance, industrial organisation, innovation, technology, energy, environment, regulation and managerial decision-making under ambiguity, risk and uncertainty.
The pathway
To start on the Business Economics pathway you must take one of the following 9-month masters programmes:
in exceptional cases, the Cambridge MPhil in Economic Research
Essential reading
Download detailed information about the 9-month + 4-year programme structure and content.
What we expect from you
You will need to have a masters degree with significant economics content from a highly regarded university, and to have performed within the top 5% of your class. See the Master of Research (MRes) academic requirements for more details. Your masters training will be benchmarked against the MPhil in Economic Research at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Economics.
We will want to see evidence of the quality of your training and your potential to conduct original research, as well as your commitment to an academic research career. You will be ambitious and highly motivated to make significant contributions to knowledge in the broad areas of economics and policy as they relate to business and management.
For more details, please see the academic requirements for the:
