The UK Independent School Sector; The Chinese Film Industry
Industrial Economics, focusing on pricing and advertising strategies, and the impacts of competition policy.
Economics of Education, particularly business education and the independent school sector.
Undergraduate:
Econ 331 Industrial Organisation
Econ 100 Microeconomics
MSc and PhD supervisions
Associate and Departmental contact for The Economics Network.
Director of the MSc in Economics
BA Oxford, MA, PhD Manchester
Caroline Elliott is a senior lecturer in Economics in the Department of Economics, Management School. She previously worked at the University of Manchester, and has also taught at the University of Kentucky. In 1998 she was awarded the Sir Alastair Pilkington University of Lancaster Teaching Award and in 2001 was one of the first winners of a national economics LTSN lecturing award. She obtained her degree in P.P.E. at Oxford University, her MA and doctorate in Economics from the University of Manchester. Caroline specialises in Industrial Economics. While her early publications investigated the relationship between unemployment and crime, some of her more recent work has focused on game theoretic and empirical models of advertising, and analyses of competition and regulatory issues. She is currently working on applied economics models of the education and entertainment industries.
Theoretical and empirical studies of competition related issues; empirical advertising and signalling models, with application to education and entertainment industries