Research interests of staff

As one of the top Economics departments in the UK, we are highly respected worldwide, and internationally recognised in many fields.

The specific research interests of individual members of staff are listed below, within our three research groups – Information economics; Productivity, policy and macroeconomic performance; and Econometric methods.

Information economics

Spyros Galanis - Microeconomic theory, decision theory, game theory, political economy.

David Gill - Applied microeconomic theory, industrial organisation, psychology & economics

Antonella Ianni - Microeconomic theory, in particular, game theory , learning and evolutionary dynamics, bounded rationality.

Larry Karp - International trade policy; imperfectly competitive markets; industrial organization; natural resources; dynamic games.

Maksymilian Kwiek - Microeconomics, Repeated Games, Auction Theory 

Carmine Ornaghi - Empirical Industrial Organization, Economics of Innovation, Competition Policy.

Giulio Seccia - Economic theory, financial economics.

Geoff Stewart - Industrial economics; oligopoly; strategic behaviour; theory of the firm; the labour-managed enterprise. Environmental economics: amenities and regional quality of life.

Jian Tong - Industrial Organization, Technological Change, Economic Growth.

Juuso Valimaki - Microeconomic Theory, Industrial organization, Economics of Information, Game Theory.

Michael Vlassopoulos - Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, Development Economics.

Productivity, policy and macroeconomic performance

John Bluedorn - International Finance, Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Development.

Hector Calvo Pardo - Primary: International Trade and Finance; Secondary: Learning and Coordination, Macroeconomics of Uncertainty, Choice and Expectations.

Martin Gervais - Macroeconomics; optimal policy; life-cycle models; public finance; risk sharing and inequality.

John Knowles - Macroeconomics, family decision-making, fertility, marriage, savings, labour-supply.

Xavier Mateos-Planas - Macroeconomics, Heterogeneous Agents and Incomplete Markets, Growth and Development, Labour, Political Economy, Population Economics.

Alice Schoonbroodt - Macroeconomics, Demographic Economics, Economics of the Family, Labour Economics.

Mirco Tonin - Labour, public finance.

Thierry Verdier - International Trade, Economic Sociology, Growth and Development, Political Economy.

Econometric methods

John Aldrich - History of economics, econometrics and statistics.

Grant Hillier - Inference in structural models; theory of hypothesis testing; multivariate models; hypothesis testing in finance.

Maozu Lu - Econometric theory, empirical finance, Chinese stock market.

Grayham E. Mizon - Econometrics; model selection, hypothesis testing, model evaluation; and encompassing. Analysis of time series. Applied econometric modelling, especially of macro-economic time series.

Raymond O'Brien - Econometric theory; Bayesian econometrics; numerical analysis and computing.

Helen Paul - Economic History: Early Modern Joint-stock companies (the South Sea and Royal African Companies); the South Sea Bubble; slaving history; the interaction of trading companies and the Royal Navy.

Jean-Yves Pitarakis - Threshold Models in Econometrics and Finance, Econometrics of Investment Strategies. Model Selection

Jan Podivinsky - Econometric theory: time series, testing and small sample methods; Applied econometrics; Financial econometrics and empirical finance.

Christian Schluter -  Applied econometrics: Statistical and empirical topics in income distributions (inequality, poverty, mobility); the consequences of moderate sample sizes and data dependence for inferential procedures; testing for outliers. My recent empirical work has focused on child poverty, testing for parental altruism in Mexico (based on Progresa), and evaluations of subjective expectations data.

Peter Smith - Economics of less-developed countries; poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa, measurement of levels of living; socio-economic accounting; transportation policy in ASEAN; structural change in LDC's. Editor of Economic Review.

Jackie Wahba - Development economics, mainly labour markets in developing countries. Areas of focus: (i) human capital investment, schooling and child labour,(ii) international migration, and remittances, (iii) internal migration, (iv) impact of economic reforms on LDCs labour markets.