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Panel 7 – ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (LUSEM)
Relevance. The themes addressed by DE are of high social relevance. Just
to mention some themes, work is undertaken on health related behavior,
financial risk, collective decision making in a democratic society, trust
attitude, econometric methods with applications in various fields, social
networks, cartels, exchange rates and economic development in China.
The relevance is also indicated by the prizes received both by staff and
PhD students.
Vitality and organizational capacity. DE has won a large number of
research projects and has been successful in terms of external research
funds. The renewal indicators in table 3.3 show that only one new
faculty member was appointed in 2003–2007. In the self evaluation it is
mentioned that the new faculty member has “good research possibilities”.
The data in fact show that DE has been able to strengthen a research area
(econometrics), which with microeconomics and macroeconomics form
the core for a good PhD program.
6.4 Collaboration
There is close interaction within the Department between the different
profiles, which collaborate in joint research projects, and interaction
with other Departments of LUSEM (which takes the form of common
participation to the Centre for Economic Demography, joint master
program with other Faculties). The Department is well connected with
the international scientific community as indicated e.g. by the good
number of presentations at international conferences, and memberships /
positions in scientific societies. However, it seems to be attracting only a
small number of incoming research visitors and has only a few international
research collaborations.
6.5 Research activity and teaching
The interaction between research and teaching is good (faculty are both
teachers and active researchers in their respective fields, publications from
researchers are regularly used in various courses).
6.6 Future plans
The design of future plans is convincing. The self evaluation clearly
acknowledges that the main weakness of DE lies in the core area of
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