VoxTalks Economics : latest episode with Ghazala Azmat

I think economists need to recognise the influence that thinking strategically has had over firms and then incorporate it into its modelling and empirical analysis. We need to understand how firm decisions are made and also how decision-making may help account for the wide heterogeneity that we observe in firm performance.

Ghazala Azmat became the Director of the CEPR Organizational Economics Programme on September 1st.

On this occasion, Tim Philips from VoxTalks Economics interviewed her about a new initiative she would like to develop that aims to deepen knowledge of the economics of organizational strategy.

Organisations don’t just provide employment: they solve, or attempt to solve, important problems in society. Ghazala recognises that organizational economics has made some impressive strides in recent years to show what choices organisations make. But there is much less research on how they come up with the strategies that guide those choices. 

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Ghazala Azmat is Professor of Economics at the Department. She is also a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, a Research Associate at the CEP (LSE), and a Research Fellow at CEPR, CESifo, and IZA. She is currently the Chair of the EEA Standing Committee on Women in Economics (WinE) and previously a committee member of the Standing Committee on Minorities in Economics (MinE). She is a managing editor of Economic Policy, and editorial board member of American Economic Journal: Policy. 

Ghazala’s research interests are in the fields of organizational economics, education, labour, and gender. She was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant, which studies the educational constraints faced by individuals when they are planning their future investments in human capital - project UNEQUALED.

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