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A study by Giulio Fella, Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary and Giovanni Gallipoli of the University of British Columbia has shown that increasing funding to make sure more students graduate from high school is more effective at reducing property crime than increasing prison sentences. Improving high school graduation rates boosts the future incomes, taxes and spending power of future graduates says the study, Education and Crime over the Life Cycle. The results of the study caught the attention of the Canadian press and the main results fo the research and an interview with the authors was reported in the Montreal Gazette.
Post date: 10th January 2012
Dr Francesca Cornaglia, a lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance, and Andrew Leigh, formerly a professor of economics at the Australian National University, have examined the link between crime and mental well-being in Australia and their research has been brought to the attention of the wider public through an article in the Sidney Morning Herald. Dr Cornaglia and Prof. Leigh find that victims of burglary of properties tend to be slightly better educated, whereas victims of violent crimes are less well educated. Being a victim of crime, particularly violent crime, is ''strongly and significantly related'' to experiencing a deterioration in mental well-being, with victims who are already suffering poor mental health more likely to react strongly to crime than others. Interestegly, Dr Cornaglia and Prof. Leigh also find that the rest of us also suffer a decrease in our mental well-being as a result of an increase in violent crime. The effect on our social functioning is nearly half the effect experienced by the actual victims.
So the study finds strong evidence that the costs of crime are mental as well as physical and monetary. It also finds that the cost of violent crime in reducing our mental well-being extends well beyond the victims to the whole of the community.
Dr Francesca Cornaglia is a Lecturer in Economics within the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary. Her main interests are in labour and health economics, and applied microeconomics. Her current work agenda is related to crime, addictive behaviour and mental health issues.
Post date: 28th July 2011
Congratulations to our PhD students who have successfully completed their PhDs and have been offered academic positions to continue their research. We are sorry to see you go and wish you every success with your new jobs!
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Leicester
Maria Chiara Iannino: Assistant Professor, University of Vienna
Post date: 14th June 2011
The School has been successful in its funding bid for the development of a project that will help to enhance student's employability.
The School is to receive £12,000 through the University "Student Enhancement Investment Fund" to develop a web-based software that will provide students with information about the various types of careers that graduates in economics, finance and management can pursue at the end of their studies. The software will also allow students to uderstand the specific skills required by each career and students will be able to search for the careers that suit best their skills. The software will also include a number of video interviews with alumni. We hope to have most of the software available for use by the start of the 2011/12 academic year.
The School will develop this project in collaboration with the Careers Office our IT team and other Schools who have some expertise in this area. We also hope to hire one of our current students who can help us with the project. Wait for an email from us!
We hope you will all share our enthusiasm and excitement for this project and for this new resource! If you have any comments or suggestions please contact Guglielmo Volpe at g.volpe@qmul.ac.uk.
Post date: 5th April 2011
Queen Mary alumnus Socrates Lazaridis who was awarded an MSc in Econometrics 1986 (then known as Economics 4) has been made Chairman of the Athens Exchange.
He has has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Greek financial firm HELEX.
Post date: 28th October 2010
Queen Mary School of Economics and Finance alumnus Isariya Kuhapremkit was recently interviewed about his path to becoming CEO of Royal Motors, the authorised distributor in Thailand for RUF products from Germany. He won the distrubution deal by impressing RUF's CEO with his marketing plan, his ideas for market development and his negotiation skills. RUF uses Porsche chassis and builds their own parts to manufacture their products.
Isariya used his economist background in founding the business: ''Last year, in the run-up to getting Royal Motors incorporated, I knew that my timing was perfect. The global economy [from the auto industry's perspective] hadn't yet peaked and not too many new models were being introduced. 'I knew that I'd have the time to build good business fundamentals so that in two years hence I'd have a solid customer base with good sales opportunities.''
Isariya graduated from Queen Mary last year with a degree in BSc Economics, Finance and Management.
The full story is here.
Post date: 23rd July 2010