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Research Grants

Recent grants

• "Inference Regarding Multiple Structural Changes in Macroeconomic Models, with Applications to Monetary Policy". Alastair Hall and Denise Osborn. ESRC, £518k, October 2008 – September 2011.
  

Past grants

• "International Aspects of Macroeconomic Volatility". Denise R. Osborn, Ser-Huang Poon, Stuart Hyde and Marianne Sensier. Bank of England funded project, £10,000, September 2006 - August 2007.
• "International and cross assets volatility dynamics and Investment implications". Stuart Hyde, Ser-Huang Poon, Denise R. Osborn and Marianne Sensier. Inquire UK Project, £10,000, December 2006 - August 2007.
• "Corruption and Development". Keith Blackburn and M. Emran Haque. ESRC, £44,840, September 2004 - August 2005.
• "Monetary Policy, Business Cycles and Economic Growth".  Denise R. Osborn, Keith Blackburn and Paul Madden. ESRC, Understanding the Evolving Macroeconomy Research Programme, Phase II,  £161,024, July 2001 - June 2004.
• "Geographical Specialisation in the UK and the EU" (NEG). Rob Elliott, Federico Trionfetti, Marianne Sensier and Marius Brülhart. ESRC, Understanding the Evolving Macroeconomy Programme, Phase I, £103,082, January 2000 - June 2002.
• "International growth and business cycles" (IGBC). Denise R. Osborn, Keith Blackburn, Michael J. Artis and Elena Andreou. Leverhulme Trust, £77,588, January 1999-December 2001.
• "International growth and business cycles". Keith Blackburn, Denise R. Osborn and M.J. Artis. Bank of England, June 1997, £5,000.
• "Information, Learning and Growth" (ILG). Keith Blackburn and Niloy Bose. ESRC £23,485, 1/1/99, 12 months.
• "Financial variables and the business cycle" (FVBC). Denise R. Osborn and Elena Andreou. ESRC, £38,800, November 1997-December 1998.
• "Applying neural network techniques to investigate lead-lag structures in industrial short-term indicators and investigate turning points in the business cycle". Denise R. Osborn and C.R. Birchenhall. Funded by EuroStat through a sub-contract with ERA Technology Ltd; 82,652 ECU, February 1996-January 1997.
• "Artificial neural nets and business cycle turning points". Denise R. Osborn and C.R. Birchenhall. ESRC, £30,980, September 1995-August 1996.
• "Leading indicators: forecast performance, turning points and policy". M.J. Artis, R.C. Bladen-Hovell, Denise R. Osborn and G.W. Smith. ESRC, £53,000, December 1991-November 1993.