Research themes
The School of Economics and Finance has a well-established tradition for interdisciplinary research and is inclusive of all expertise. The School's research programme is summarised and grouped into four themes.
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- Luc Bridet - behavioural economic theory; economics of education; economics of experimentation; mechanism design and contract theory.
- Tugce Cuhadaroglu - behavioural economics; bounded rationality; decision theory; economics of inequality; social choice and welfare.
- Jim Jin - industrial economics and comparative economics; firm/industry study; market performance; competition policy and country comparisons.
- Margherita Negri - game theory; microeconomics; political economics.
- Ian Smith - household behaviour; economics of family and religion.
- David Ulph - design of social benefits systems; economics of climate change; economics of innovation; enforcement of competition and regulation policy.
- Min Zhang - industrial organisation; microeconomic theory; social learning.
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- David Jaeger - labour economics; health economics; immigration; education; causal inference.
- Margaret Leighton - development economics; education economics; labour economics.
- Rod McCrorie - econometrics; financial econometrics; time series analysis.
- Irina Merkurieva - labour and public economics; retirement; search theory.
- Luca Savorelli - field experiments; economics of innovation; health economics; industrial organisation.
- Vibhor Saxena - development economics; applied microeconometrics; inequality and discrimination; demography; impact evaluations.
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- Sapnoti Eswar - empirical corporate finance; innovation; entrepreneurship; venture capital; corporate governance; risk management
- Maria-Chiara Iannino - empirical finance; behavioural finance; banking systemic risk; herding; disagreement
- Peter Macmillan - European monetary union; term structure of interest rates
- Ioannis Psaradellis - empirical asset pricing; international investments; econometrics; computational finance; asset allocation
- Ruslan Tuneshev - empirical asset pricing; options markets; behavioural finance
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- Gosia Mitka - international macroeconomics; policy coordination; monetary, macro-prudential and trade policy; welfare.
- Vivek Prasad - macroeconomics; dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with financial frictions; financial shocks; fiscal policy; quantitative easing.
- Ozge Senay - dynamic general equilibrium models with imperfect competition and nominal rigidities in understanding macroeconomic policy questions; exchange rate regime choice; monetary economics; open economy macroeconomics.
- Alan Sutherland - monetary policy; open economy macroeconomics; international macroeconomics; exchange rate policy; international financial markets.
- Radoslaw Stefanski - environmental economics; growth and development; international trade; natural resource economics; structural transformation.