2026 Shortlisted Submissions
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Posters
How can Ricardo’s theory of technological immiseration of labour explain the rise in youth unemployment in the UK?
By Kavan S. Dehal
Can Happiness be Measured? Subjective Wellbeing, the Challenge of Welfare Measurement and The Future of Welfare Policy
By Octavian Marinas & Ian Mitocaru
The Economics of AI Use Among UCL First-Year Students: Benefits, Dependence, and Optimal Usage
By Alfie Greenfield, Martin Feffet & Takacs Zsombor
What are the main obstacles preventing China from internationalising the Renminbi?
By Akshita Bansal, Weile Lyu & Mrinalini Raghavendra
Explaining Singapore’s trade success using old and new trade theory
By Skyler Shen & Jeff Xia
Research Papers
The Wealth Trap: How Collateral Requirements Exclude Talented Entrepreneurs
By Anjali Sanga
Valuation and Behaviour in Climate Mitigation: Modelling the Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) Gap
By Hoachen Ni
Nonlinear Temperature Effects on Public Transport Demand: Evidence from London
By Luqa Ismail-Keyes
Heterogeneous Green Premiums and Flat Penalties under Credit Constraints and Macroeconomic Shocks: Evidence from London
By Yuxuan Matt Ma
Why Markets Shut Down: Leverage, Opacity, and Higher-Order Beliefs in the 2022 LME Nickel Crisis
By Melisa Bozyel
Control over Resources and Women’s Political Empowerment: Evidence from Brazil’s Bolsa Família Programme
By Charyl Kong
When Risk Metrics Create Risk: Recursive Centrality and Model Induced Fragility in Financial Networks
By Felipe Barone Stervid
Did branch banking restrictions impede the growth of manufacturing industries in early 20th-century U.S. states?
By Benjamin King
The Organisation of Trade under Instability: The Ottoman-Safavid Silk Economy, 1580-1650
By Safeena Khan
What is the effect of oil dependence on banking sector development in the MENA economies since 1970s?
By Ryan Karaan
How Did State Policies Drive Finland’s Structural Transformation from an Agrarian to Industrial Economy, 1955–1975?
By Fiona Blair
