Economics
Funds economic research across almost every subfield, and a dissertation route for graduate students, with about 110 awards expected.
NSF's Economics programme funds research aimed at better understanding of the processes and institutions of the American economy and of the world system it sits in. It also strengthens empirical and theoretical economic analysis and the methods behind rigorous research on economic behaviour.
Almost every subfield is in scope: econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, indus…
Research on the processes and institutions of the US economy and the world system around it, across econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organisation, international and labour economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics and public finance, plus methods for rigorous research on economic behaviour.
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