Economics staff in the School of Social Sciences

Teaching and research staff within Economics

Prof Pierre-Richard Agenor
Hallsworth Professor

Interests: development macroeconomics, monetary policy and international finance, labour economics
PhD University of Paris

Prof Martyn Andrews
Professor of Econometrics

Interests: applied microeconometrics, labour economics
PhD London School of Economics

Dr Peter Backus
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Interests: applied microeconomics, public economics, charitable giving
PhD University of Warwick

Dr Prasenjit Banerjee
Lecturer in Environmental Economics

Interests: environmental economics, behavioural and experimental economics, development
PhD University of Wyoming

Prof James Banks
Professor of Economics

Interests: applied microeconometrics, consumer behaviour, the economics of ageing
PhD University College London

Prof Ralf Becker
Professor of Economics

Interests: econometrics, financial econometrics
PhD Queensland University of Technology

Dr Michele Berardi
Reader in Economics

Interests: expectations, learning, information, macroeconomics
PhD Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

Dr Guillaume Blanc
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: economic history, growth and development, political economy, cultural economics
PhD Brown University

Dr George J Bratsiotis
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Interests: macroeconomics, monetary policy
PhD Queen Mary College, University of London

Dr Caitlin Brown
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: development, applied microeconomics, poverty, intra-household inequality, health, gender
PhD Georgetown University

Dr Shomak Chakrabarti
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: health economics, game theory, social networks, microeconomics
PhD Pennsylvania State University

Dr Abhishek Chakravarty
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Interests: applied microeconomics, development economics
PhD University College London

Prof Karim Chalak
Professor of Econometrics

Interests: econometric theory, applied econometrics, causal inference
PhD University of California, San Diego

Dr Ron Chan
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics

Interests: environmental and energy economics, empirical industrial organization, international trade
PhD University of Maryland

Dr David Delacretaz
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: applied microeconomic theory, market design, matching theory, mechanism design
PhD University of Melbourne

Dr Indranil Dutta
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Interests: development economics, poverty, inequality, governance, conflict
PhD University of California, Riverside

Dr Omer Edhan
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Interests: learning and AI in macroeconomics, learning and evolution, markets with indivisible goods
PhD Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof Igor Evstigneev
Professor of Mathematical Economics

Interests: mathematical finance, random dynamical systems, stochastic optimisation and games
PhD Economics and Mathematics Institute

Dr Nahid Farnaz
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: financial development, income inequality, development economics
PhD Global Development Institute, University of Manchester

Dr Jasmin Fliegner
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: econometrics of programme evaluation
PhD Toulouse School of Economics & Technische Universität

Prof Rachel Griffith
Professor of Economics

Interests: public economics
PhD Keele University

Dr Judith Guo
Lecturer in Econometrics

Interests: time series analysis, theoretical econometrics, statistical inference, robust regression
DPhil University of Oxford

Prof Alastair Hall
Professor of Econometrics

Interests: theoretical econometrics, statistical inference, moment-based estimation methods
PhD University of Warwick

Dr M Emranul Haque
Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics

Interests: macroeconomics, economic development, growth
PhD University of Manchester

Dr Katsushi Imai
Reader in Economics

Interests: nutrition and health in Asia, microeconometrics, panel data
DPhil University of Oxford

Dr Sofia Izquierdo Sanchez
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Interests: applied microeconomics, industry studies, cultural economics
PhD Lancaster University

Dr Alessia Isopi
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: development economics, asymmetries in information, experimental economics
PhD Tor Vergata University of Rome

Dr Ekaterina Kazak
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: applied econometrics, financial econometrics, causal inference
PhD University of Konstanz

Prof Tatiana Komarova
Professor of Econometrics

Interests: econometric theory, applied econometrics
PhD Northwestern University

Dr Leonidas Koutsougeras
Reader in Economics

Interests: general equilibrium, incomplete asset markets, asymmetric information
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr Agnes Kovacs
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: applied microeconomics, behavioural economics, macroeconomics
PhD Norwegian School of Economics

Dr Sonya Krutikova
Reader in Economics

Interests: education, labour economics, development economics
DPhil University of Oxford

Dr Yizhou Kuang
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: Bayesian econometrics, partial identification, information economics
PhD Cornell University

Dr Patrick Macnamara
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: quantitative macroeconomics, firm dynamics, inequality, heterogeneity
PhD University of Rochester

Prof Paul Madden
Emeritus Professor

Dr Edward Manderson
Lecturer in Environmental Economics

Interests: energy economics, environmental economics
PhD University of Nottingham

Dr Paul Middleditch
Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics

Interests: macroeconomics, monetary policy, DSGE Models, bayesian estimation, pedagogy
PhD University of Surrey

Dr Aruni Mitra
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: macroeconomics, labour economics, household finance
PhD University of British Columbia

Dr Manuel Mosquera Tarrio
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: macroeconomics, monetary economics, inflation dynamics, expectations, learning
PhD University of Manchester

Dr Kyriakos Neanidis
Reader in Macroeconomics

Interests: macroeconomics, development economics, financial economics
PhD University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Prof Antonio Nicolo
Professor of Economics

Interests: social choice, mechanism design, political economy, matching theory
PhD Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Prof Chris Orme
Emeritus Professor

Interests: specification/misspecification testing
PhD University of York

Prof Denise Osborn
Emeritus Professor

Interests: econometrics
PhD London School of Economics

Prof Nuno Palma
Professor of Economics

Interests: economic history, growth and development, macroeconomics, monetary economics
PhD London School of Economics

Dr Simon Peters
Lecturer in Econometrics

Interests: applied microeconometrics, specification testing, labour economics

Prof Mario Pezzino
Professor of Economics

Interests: applied microeconomic theory, industrial economics

Dr Carlo Reggiani
Lecturer in Microeconomics

Interests: industrial organization, competition policy and regulation, digital economy
PhD University of York

Prof Daniel Rigby
Professor of Economics

Interests: applied microeconomics, food, agriculture, environment, health

Dr Alejandro Saporiti
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Interests: microeconomic theory, collective decision-making
PhD Queen Mary University of London

Prof Klaus Schenk-Hoppé
Professor of Financial Economics

Interests: computational economics, dynamic economic theory, random dynamical systems
PhD University of Bremen

Dr Sebastian Seitz
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: public economics, labour economics, health economics
PhD University of Mannheim

Dr Arthur Sinko
Lecturer in Financial Econometrics

Interests: econometrics and financial econometrics, methods for high-frequency data
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr Panagiotis Sousounis
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Interests: labour economics, human capital, economics of education
PhD Keele University

Dr Alexander Squires
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: applied microeconometrics, public economics
PhD University of Manchester

Prof Alistair Ulph
Emeritus Professor

Prof Akos Valentinyi
Professor of Macroeconomics

Interests: macroeconomics, growth and development, structural transformation
PhD European University Institute

Dr Matheus Vianna
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: growth, stability, development, agent-based computer simulation models
PhD Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Prof Chris Wallace
Professor of Economics & Head of Department

Interests: game theory and information
DPhil Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Dr Xiaobing Wang
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Interests: growth and development, economics of China, labour economics
PhD King's College London

Dr Mazhar Waseem
Reader in Economics

Interests: public finance
PhD London School of Economics

Mr Nicholas Weaver
Lecturer in Economics

Interests: applied development economics, political economy

Dr Craig Webb
Senior Lecturer of Microeconomic Theory

Interests: microeconomics, individual choice under risk and uncertainty
PhD University of Manchester

Prof Ada Wossink
Professor of Environmental Economics

Interests: environmental, behavioural and public economics
PhD Wageningen University

Prof Horst Zank
Professor of Economics

Interests: individual choice under risk and ambiguity, experimental and behavioural economics
PhD Maastricht University

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