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Department of Economics
City's Department of Economics is committed to excellence in research and education, with a strong research portfolio, highly-regarded undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses, and a growing community of PhD students. It takes particular pride in a very strong graduate employment track record.
The department has developed wide-ranging but focused research programmes, with an emphasis on rigorous economic and econometric modelling. Among other topics, the research covers health economics, competition and regulation, financial economics, macroeconomics, the economics of migration and behavioural economics.
City, University of London is ranked 16th in the UK for Economics (QS World University Rankings 2016).
Study
The department offers a range of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate taught and research degree level.
See which course is right for you:
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Research degrees
Applications for 2018/19 entry are now open. Scholarship opportunities are available. In order to be considered for a scholarship, the application needs to be submitted by 20 January 2019. Please indicate whether you would like to be considered for a scholarship. You can apply for both SASS and SeNSS scholarships (subject to meeting the eligibility criteria). If you have any questions about the application process or scholarships, please contact the Director of PhD Programme Agne Suziedelyte.
We have a wide-ranging but focused research programme, with an emphasis on rigorous economic and econometric modelling, but also a concern for practical applications in both private and public sectors.
PhD students have access to all the opportunities in our Doctoral Training Programme and can benefit from the City Graduate School.
Research
Research in the department is structured around six main research groups, including two Research Centers, however we cover a wider array of research topics.
Main Research Groups
Main Research Topics
- Development Economics
Key Staff: Saqib Jafarey, Alice Mesnard, and Tommaso Gabrieli (Visiting) - Economic History
Key Staff: Claudia Jefferies - Econometrics
Key Staff: Alev Atak, and Yang Zu - History and Philosophy of Economics
Key Staff: Andy Denis - Labour Economics
Key Staff: Javier Ortega and Firat Yaman - Microeconomics/Theory
Key Staff: Bruno Biais, Xeni Dassiou, Laura Delaney, Sotiis Georganas, Neelam Jain, Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Sergiu Ungureanu, Klaus Zauner, Tommaso Gabrieli (Visiting) and Dionysius Glycopantis (Emeritus) - Political Economy
Key Staff: Javier Ortega and Tommaso Gabrieli (Visiting).
Find out more about our courses in PhD/MPhil Economics which welcome applications in any of the above research topics.
Department of Economics Published Papers
Research Students
Research Seminar Series
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23rd January 2019 | Spatial Competition and Negotiated Prices | Prof. Howard Smith | D427, Rhind Building |
30th January 2019 | Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Producation | Dr Johannes Boehm | D427, Rhind Building |
6th February 2019 | Do recessions worsen babies’ health? A tale of siblings, maternal behaviour and selection | Dr Elisabetta De Cao | D427, Rhind Building |
13th February 2019 | TBC | Dr David Rahman | D111, Rhind Building |
20th February 2019 | TBC | Dr Yonatan Berman | D427, Rhind Building |
27th February 2019 | Are Weak Ties Strong? How Information on Social Search Affects Job Finding – a Field Experiment | Dr Patrick Arni | D427, Rhind Building |
6th March 2019 | TBC | Dr Davide Castellani | D427, Rhind Building |
13th March 2019 | TBC | Dr Ruijun Bu | D427, Rhind Building |
20th March 2019 | TBC | Dr Subhasish M. Chowdhury | D427, Rhind Building |
Past events
Department of Economics Seminar Series 2018-19 Autumn Term
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26th September 2018 | The transmission of partners’ mental health to individual life satisfaction: estimates from a longitudinal survey | Dr Silvia Mendolia (University of Wollongong) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 3rd October 2018 | Matching with single-peaked preferences | Prof Sophie Bade (Royal Holloway, University of London) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 10th October 2018 | Nonparametric Identification of First-Price Auction with Unobserved Competition: A Density Discontinuity Framework | Prof Emmanuel Guerre (Queen Mary University of London) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 17th October 2018 | When is Posted Pricing Near-Optimal? | Dr Paul Duetting (LSE) | D111, Rhind Building |
| 24th October 2018 | Sparse demand systems: corners and complements | Dr Lars Nesheim (UCL) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 7th November 2018 | Job Creation and Wages in Least Developed Countries: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africas | Dr Ija Trapeznikova (Royal Holloway, University of London) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 14th November 2018 | Price Setting on Peer-to-Peer Sharing Platforms | Mr Peter Schmidt (Bocconi University) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 21st November 2018 | Time varying cointegration and the UK Great Ratios | Prof Simon Price (Essex Business School) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 28th November 2018 | The exorbitant privilege of high tax countries | Dr Vincent Vicard (University Paris-Dauphine) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 5th December 2018 | What do almost 20 years of micro data and two crises say about the relationship betweencentral bank and interbank market liquidity? Evidence from Italy | Dr Massimiliano Affinito (Bank of Italy) | D427, Rhind Building |
Department of Economics Seminar Series 2018-19 Winter Term
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31st January 2018 | Refugee Resettlement | Dr Alexander Teytelboym (University of Oxford) | D112, Rhind Building |
| 7th February 2018 | Economic incentives, home production and gender norms | Prof Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University of London) | D112, Rhind Building |
| 14th February 2018 | The Hidden Side of Dynamic Pricing: evidence from the airline market | Prof Claudio Piga (Keele University) | D112, Rhind Building |
| 21st February 2018 | All Gone Belly Up. Immigration and the Rise in Caesarean Sections in the UK | Prof Jonathan Wadsworth (Royal Holloway University of London) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 28th February 2018 | Border Policies and Unauthorized Flows: Evidence from the Refugee Crisis in Europe | Dr Francesco Fasani (Queen Mary University of London) | D112, Rhind Building |
| 7th March 2018 | Twin Peaks | Dr Alejandro Riano (University of Nottingham) | D112, Rhind Building |
| 14th March 2018 | A fixed-effect panel data model with double endogeneity and cross-sectional dependence | Dr Jia Chen (University of York) | AG07B |
| 21st March 2018 | Semiparametric Estimation of Ascending Auctions | Dr Sorawoot (Tang) Srisuma (University of Surrey) | D112, Rhind Building |
| 28th March 2018 | Measuring Skill and Chance in Games | Prof Jörg Oechssler (University of Heidelberg) | D112, Rhind Building |
| 4th April 2018 | Bait and Ditch: Consumer Naïveté and Salesforce Incentives | Dr Antonio Rosato (University of Cambridge) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 11th April 2018 | The effect of parental language barriers on children’s health care utilisation | Dr Nicole Black (Monash University) | D112, Rhind Building |
| 18th April 2018 | Is love written in the stars? Beliefs in astrology and marriage outcomes | Dr Francesca Cornaglia (Queen Mary University of London) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 25th April 2018 | Expectations, conjectures and beliefs: The legacy of Marshall, Kahn and Keynes | Prof Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Sapienza, Università di Roma) | D427, Rhind Building |
| 9th May 2018 | Local Product Space and Firm Level Churning in Exported Products | Prof Flora Bellone (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) | D427, Rhind Building |
Department of Economics Seminar Series 2017-18: Autumn Term
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue |
| 4 October 2017 | From Final Goods to Inputs: the Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin | Professor Paola Conconi (Université Libre de Bruxelles) |
DLG09 Rhind Building |
| 11 October 2017 | Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China | Dr Marlon Seror (Paris School of Economics) | DLG09, Rhind Building |
| 18 October 2017 | The Private Finance Initiative: Do we patch it up or tear it down? | Dr Mark Hellowell (University of Edinburgh) | DLG09, Rhind Building |
| 25 October 2017 | Unlawful media consumption: A controlled experiment with a representative sample | Professor Daniel Zizzo (Newcastle University) | DLG09, Rhind Building |
| 1 November 2017 | The Design of Teacher Assignment: Theory and Evidence | Dr Julien Combe (University College London) | DLG09, Rhind Building |
| 8 November 2017 | Financial Literacy Externalities | Professor Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt) | D111, Rhind Building |
| 15 November 2017 | Unequal Productivity Gains in Urban China | Professor Sylvie Démurger (CNRS, GATE-LSE) | DLG09, Rhind Building |
| 22 November 2017 | The Spatial Impacts of a Massive Rail Disinvestment Program: The Beeching Axe | Professor Steve Gibbons (LSE) | DLG09, Rhind Building |
| 13 December 2017 | Strategising and attention in games | Prof Giorgio Coricelli | D111, Rhind Building |
Department of Economics Seminar Series 2016-17: Spring Term
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue |
| 25 January 2017 | Infant Health Care and Long-Term Outcomes | Dr Aline Butikofer (Norwegian School of Economics) |
DLG19 Rhind Building |
| 1 February 2017 | Default Cycles | Dr Wei Cui |
D221 Rhind Building |
| 8 February 2017 | The Innovation Dilemma: Uncertainty and Economic Policy | Professor Yakov Ben-Haim (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) |
DLG19 Rhind Building |
| 22 February 2017 | 'How Malleable Are Choice Brackets? The Case of Myopic Loss Aversion’ | Dr Matthias Wibral, Maastricht University |
D221 Rhind Building |
| 8 March 2017 | Diasporas and Conflict | Dr Marion Mercier (Université Catholique de Louvain) |
D221 Rhind Building |
| 15 March 2017 | Eliciting temptation and self-control through menu choices: a lab experiment | Dr Severine Toussaert, LSE |
D221 Rhind Building |
| 22 March 2017 | Religious Co-option in Autocracy: A Theory Inspired by History | Professor Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse School of Economics) |
D221 Rhind Building |
| 29 March 2017 | Financial Complexity and Trade | Dr Spyros Galanis, University of Southampton |
D221 Rhind Building |
| 26 April 2017 | TBC | Professor Renate Pieper (University of Graz) |
D104 Rhind Building |
Department of Economics Seminar Series 2016-17: Autumn Term
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue |
| 28 September 2016 | The Demand for Season of Birth |
Professor Climent Quintana-Domeque (University of Oxford) |
D220 Rhind Building |
| 5 October 2016 | Team Stability and Performance: Evidence from Private Equity |
Professor Francesca Cornelli (London Business School) |
D220 Rhind Building |
| 12 October 2016 | Surprised by the Gambler's and Hot Hand Fallacies? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers (with Joshua Miller) |
Professor Adam Sanjurjo (University of Alicante) |
D111 Rhind Building |
| 19 October 2016 | Using Minimum Wages to Identify the Labour Market Effects of Immigration | Professor Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics) |
D220 Rhind Building |
| 26 October 2016 | Alcohol Tax Design |
Professor Rachel Griffith (University of Manchester and Institute for Fiscal Studies) |
D111 Rhind Building |
| 2 November 2016 | Modern Family? Paternity Leave and Marital Stability |
Dr Daniel Avdic (University of Duisburg-Essen) |
D111 Rhind Building |
| 9 November 2016 | Insurance Between Firms: The Role of Internal Labour Markets |
Dr Giacinta Cestone (Cass Business School) |
D220 Rhind Building |
| 23 November | Survey Design and Forecast Accuracy |
Professor Raffaella Giacomini (UCL) |
D111 Rhind Building |
| 30 November 2016 | Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany |
Professor Steffen Altmann (University of Copenhagen) |
D111 Rhind Building |
| 7 December 2016 | Cutthroats or Comrades: Information Sharing Among Competing Fund Managers |
Dr Bernhard Ganglmair (University of Texas at Dallas) |
D220 Rhind Building |
Spring Evening Seminars in Sectoral Regulation and Competition 2015
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
29 January 2015 5:30-8:00 | Energy Regulation since Privatization | Tim Tutton (Imperial College) | DLG19, Social Sciences Building |
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05 February 2015 6:00-8:30 | Water Regulation | Gordon Hughes (University of Edinburgh) | DLG19, Social Sciences Building |
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12 February 2015 5:30-8:00 | Airport Regulation and Competition | Ian Alexander (CEPA & CRRP Associate) | DLG19, Social Sciences Building |
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19 February 2015 5:30-8:00 | Broadcast Competition & Regulation | Helen Weeds (University of Essex) | DLG19, Social Sciences Building |
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26 February 2015 5:30-8:00 | UK and International Regulatory Approaches to Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) - the Theory and Practice | Ian Alexander (CEPA & CCRP Associate) | DLG19, Social Sciences Building |
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05 March 2015 5:30-8:00 | Rail Regulation | John Larkinson (Office of Rail Regulation) | DLG19, Social Sciences Building |
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12 March 2015 5:30-8:00 | The UK's Concurrency Regime and the Use of Competition Powers by Sector Regulators | Jon Stern (City, University of London) and Michael Grenfell (Competition and Markets Authority) | DLG19, Social Sciences Building |
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19 March 2015 6:00-8:30 | On the use of Economics in the UK Financial Regulation; Current Themes | Peter Andrews (Financial Conduct Authority) | DLG19, Social Sciences Building |
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26 March 2015 5:30-8:30 | The Regulation of Medicines in the EU; a Networked Model | Sir Kent Woods (European Medicines Agency) | DLG19, Social Sciences Building |
Department of Economics Seminar Series 2015-16: Autumn Term
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue |
| 30 September 2015 |
Was Sarbanes-Oxley Costly? Evidence from Optimal Contracting on CEO Compensation |
Professor Robert A. Miller (Carnegie Mellon University) |
D220 Rhind Building |
| 7 October 2015 |
Productivity and Wage Dispersion: Heterogeneity or Misallocation? |
Dr Jesper Bagger (Royal Holloway, University of London) |
D220 Rhind Building |
| 14 October 2015 |
Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium: A level-k analysis |
Professor David Gill (University of Oxford) |
D220 Rhind Building |
| 21 October 2015 |
Corporate Policies with Temporary and Permanent Shocks |
Professor Sebastian Gryglewicz (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
D220 Rhind Building |
| 28 October 2015 | Financial crises in England over two centuries |
Professor Forrest Capie (Cass Business School, City, University of London) |
D220 Rhind Building |
| 11 November 2015 | Unanimous Rules in the Laboratory |
Dr Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary University of London) |
D220 Rhind Building |
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25 November 2015 3:00-4:30 | Multi-Variety Durable Good Monopoly: A Revisited Coase Conjecture and Product Design |
Dr Francesco Nava (The London School of Economics and Political Science) |
D220, Rhind Building |
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2 December 2015 3:00-4:30 | Competing for Loyalty: The Dynamics of Rallying Support |
Dr Santiago Oliveros (University of Essex) |
Room D220, Rhind Building |
| 9 December 2015 | Short-term Migration, Rural Workfare Programs and Urban Labour Markets: Evidence from India |
Professor Clément Imbert (University of Warwick). |
Room D220, Rhind Building |
Department of Economics Seminar Series 2014-15: Spring Term
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue |
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4 March 2015 5:00 - 6:30 | N/A |
Dr Pasquale Schiraldi (London School of Economics) |
D111, Rhind Building |
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18 March 2015 5:00 - 6:30 | The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa |
Dr Elias Papaioannou (London Business School) |
D111, Rhind Building |
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25 March 2015 5:00 - 6:30 | Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House: Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement |
Professor Erich Battistin (Queen Mary University of London) |
D111, Rhind Building |
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8 April 2015 5:00 - 6:30 | N/A |
Dr Pedro Mira (CEMFI) | D111, Rhind Building |
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13 May 2015 5:00 - 6:30 | In-Utero Social Interaction of Twins |
Dr Susumu Imai (University of Technology Sydney) |
AG11, College Building |
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3 June 2015 5:00 - 6:30 | A Financial Conditions Index Using Targeted Data Reduction |
Professor Simon Price (Bank of England) |
AG11, College Building |
Featured profile
Dr Alice Mesnard
Academic Staff
Here is a list of the academic staff who work in the Department of Economics. You can find out more about each member of staff, including their latest publications and their contact details by following the links below
Head of the Department Professor Giulia Iori
- Dr Alev Atak, Lecturer
- Professor Albert Banal-Estañol
- Professor Michael Ben-Gad,
- Dr Fulvio Corsi, Reader
- Dr Xeni Dassiou, Reader, Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Dr Fabrice Defever, Reader, Director of Research
- Dr Laura Delaney, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Giulia Faggio, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Spyros Galanis, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Sotiris Georganas, Reader
- Professor Saqib Jafarey, Director of Postgraduate Studies
- Professor Neelam Jain
- Dr Claudia Jefferies, Senior Lecturer, Student Matters Mediator
- Professor Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Deputy Head of the Department
- Dr Alice Mesnard, Reader
- Professor Joseph Pearlman, Director MSc Economics and MSc Development Economics
- Dr Edward Pinchbeck, Lecturer
- Professor Keith Pilbeam, Director MSc Business Economics / MSc International Business Economics
- Dr Jan Christoph Schlegel, Lecturer
- Dr Victoria Serra-Sastre, Senior Lecturer, Director MSc Health Economics and MSc Economic Evaluation in Healthcare
- Dr Daniel Silva Junior, Lecturer
- Dr Agne Suziedelyte, Senior Lecturer, Director PhD Programme
- Dr Sergiu Ungureanu, Lecturer, Co-Director MSc Behavioural Economics
- Dr Weining Wang, Reader, Director of MSc Financial Economics
- Dr Firat Yaman, Lecturer
- Professor Klaus Zauner
Visiting, Honorary and Emeritus academic staff
Fellow Emeritus
- Dr Andy Denis, Fellow Emeritus
- Professor Dionysius Glycopantis, Professor Emeritus
Honorary appointment
- Dr Patricia Cubi Molla, Honorary Senior Research Fellow
- Professor Nancy Devlin, Honorary Visiting Professor
- Dr Mohammed Khaled, Honorary Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Olivier Massol, Honorary Research Fellow
- Professor Gabriel Montes-Rojas, Honorary Research Fellow
- Professor David Parkin, Honorary Visiting Professor
- Dr William Pouliot, Honorary Research Fellow
- Professor Jon Stern, Honorary Visiting Professor
Visiting Scholar
- Pietro Vassallo, Visiting Scholar
Featured profile
Professor Mireia Jofre-Bonet
Facilities & Resources
Bloomberg and Datastream
The department has a subscription to Bloomberg and Datastream, both of which are available in the Northampton Square Library.
Economics undergraduate and postgraduate students can obtain the Bloomberg certificate, a qualification which will assist you in the job market. The provision of these databases will also enable you to access a huge amount of up-to-date time series data on global equities, corporate and government bonds, credit default swaps, company data and Macroeconomic data on over 200 countries which can be used in your dissertation.
Anyone working in any part of the financial services sector - investment banking, hedge funds, compliance, regulation, etc. - must use the Bloomberg software on a daily basis. Demonstrating a familiarity with Bloomberg via the Bloomberg certificate will be a big advantage if you apply for a job in the financial sector.
Free online subscriptions to the Financial Times and the Economist & Handbooks in Economics
The Department has a full online subscription to Elsevier's extensive Handbooks in Economics series. (Current students can access the series via the Library website).
Free online subscriptions to the Financial Times and The Economist are also available.
University-wide facilities
As a City student you also have access to the university-wide facilities:
- Student Centre
- Library
- Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD)
- The Students' Union, including clubs and societies
- Careers Service
Economics Society
The Economics Society serves as a platform where students can speak about the beloved subject outside of the classroom setting. It doubles as a valuable means for students to network and build relationships with peers, department staff and prospective employers.
One of the key aspects of the Economics Society is our magazine, The Schumpeter, which aims to be a way of transmitting news, and a method whereby students can practise their research and writing skills, which will be very useful in future.
For more information contact theschumpeter@city.ac.uk
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David Osborne
Influencing UK transport policy
Graduate Prospects
How we help you with your career
- City's Careers, Student Development & Outreach, supports you by giving you the tools you need to enhance your employability.
- Find out about the benefits and services available to recent City graduates, including a job vacancy service, and one-to-one guidance from City's Career consultants.
Employment opportunities
There is a range of employment opportunities for economists in economic and management consultancies, multinationals, government agencies and in business and finance, particularly in the City of London.
Here's a selection of what our graduates are doing now
- Operations Director, Petsy Mexico
- Operational Governance Analyst, SagePay
- Senior Associate, Deloitte
- Policy Advisor, HM Treasury
- Strategy and Finance Analyst, The Post Office
- Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Risk Consultant, KPMG UK
- Brand manager, AB restaurants, Kazakhstan
- Financial Services Tax Associate, Grant Thornton UK
- Audit Assistant, KPMG Kazakhstan
- Business Analyst, Arthur.J Gallagher & Co
- Transaction Services Associate, PWC Germany
- M&A Advisory Analyst, Guy Carpenter
- Assistant Economist, Department for Business Innovation and Skills
- Sales Assistant, Morgan Stanley
- Hedge Fund Accountant, Wells Fargo
- Health Economist, University of Liverpool
- Interest rate Trader, Morgan Stanley
- Economist, Department of Transport
- Data analyst, Abacus International
- Human rights specialist, Alpha Bank
- Research economist, Brava
- Accountant, Confederation of British Industry
- Market researcher, Deutsche Bank
- Research executive, Eli-Lilly
- Senior health economist, Fidelity
- Senior health liaison manager, Gallaher Ltd
- Project manager, IM Health
- Commercialist, Johnson and Johnson
- Health economy liaison manager, Kovis d.o.o
Alumni network
The University's Alumni network offers free and lifelong membership to all former students and staff of the University. Find out more about City's Alumni network.
Join the Department of Economics Alumni network on LinkedIn.
Featured profile
David Osborne
Influencing UK transport policy
News, events and recent research
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