Below is a list of some of the recent publications and working papers of our faculty members. If you would like to have more information on a faculty member's research interests, working papers and publications, you can visit his/her website by clicking on the name.

• Dan Anderberg: Labour Economics, Economics of Education
  • "Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence”
  • "A Dynamic Model of the Black Economy”

• Jesper Bagger: Labour Economics
  • "An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting”
  • "Tenure, Experience, Human Capital and Wages: A Tractable Equilibrium Search Model of Wage Dynamics”

• Tomohiro Hirano: Macroeconomics
  • "Asset Bubbles, Endogenous Growth and Financial Frictions”
  • "Recurrent Bubbles and Economic Growth”

• Arnaud Chevalier: Labour Economics, Economics of Education, Econometrics
  • "Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection and Children’s Educational Outcomes”
  • "Is There a Taste for Racial Discrimination Amongst Employers?”

• Francesco Feri: Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Social and Economic Networks
  • "Ties that bind: Network redistributive pressure and economic decisions in village economies"
  • "Social preferences in childhood and adolescence. A large-scale experiment to estimate primary and secondary motivations"

• Manolis Galenianos: Macroeconomics, Applied Theory, Search Theory
  • "The Challenge of Trade Adjustment in Greece”
  • "A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs”

• Ahu Gemici: Labour Economics, Family Economics, Economics of Education
  • "Marriage and Cohabitation”
  • "College Major Choices"

• Melanie Luhrmann: Public Economics, Financial Literacy, Consumption, Health, Nutrition
  • "Assortative Matching and Social Interaction: A Field Experiment on Adolescents’ Risky Choices”
  • "Gluttony and Sloth? Calories, Labor Market Activity and the Rise of Obesity"

• Andrew Mountford : Macroeconomics, Development and Finance
  • "International Trade and Growth Miracles”
  • "Fiscal Policy Institutions and History"

• Michael Naef: Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics
  • "Testosterone and androgen receptor gene polymorphism are associated with confidence and competitiveness in men"
  • "Combining Behavioral Endocrinology and Experimental Economics: Testosterone and Social Decision Making"

• Michael Mandler: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Decision Theory
  • "Convex Preferences: A New Definition"
  • "Mechanism design with budget constraints and a population of agents"

• Nicolas Roys : Macroeconomics, Labour Economics
  • "Optimal investment policy with fixed adjustment costs and complete irreversibility"
  • "Size-dependent regulations, firm size distribution, and reallocation"

• Juan Pablo Rud: Development Economics
  • "Resource shocks, employment, and gender: Evidence from the collapse of the UK coal industry"
  • "Electricity provision and industrial development: Evidence from India"

• Alessio Sancetta: Empirical Finance, forecastiing asset prices, estimation and inference for high frequency financial data, market manipulation and abuse.
  • "Intraday End-of-Day Volume Prediction"
  • "Price Drift before U.S. Macroeconomic News: Private Information about Public Announcements?"

• Andrew Seltzer: Economic History, Labour Economics
  • "The Functions of Australian Banks’ Branch Networks: The Diversification of Risks and Spatial Allocation of Capital"
  • "The Impact of the 1896 Factory and Shops Act on the Labor Market of Victoria, Australia"

• Michael Spagat: Economics of Conflict
  • "The Decline of War since 1950: New Evidence"
  • "Patterns in Terrorism and Insurgency: From real events and online extremism to a generative mathematical model"

• Ija Trapeznikova: Labour Economics, Search and Matching
  • "Reallocation of Labor Resources: Evidence from Danish Firm Data"
  • "Ethnic and parental effects on schooling outcomes before and during the transition: evidence from the Baltic countries"

• Jonathan Wadsworth: Labour Economics, Immigration Economics, Health Economics
  • "Off EU Go? Brexit, Immigration and the UK Labour Market"
  • "The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages in Britain: Theory and Evidence from Britain"

 

DISSERTATION TITLES OF FORMER DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Below are the dissertation titles of some of our former doctoral students. If you would like to have more information on a former student's research interests and where they are right now, you can visit his/her website by clicking on the name.

 

• Sefi Roth (PhD Economics 2016): Environmental Economics
  • Supervisor: Prof. Arnaud Chevalier
  • Dissertation: "Essays in Environmental Economics and Human Capital"
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics

 

• Annika Johnson (PhD Economics 2019): Theory
  • Supervisor: Prof. Sophie Bade
  • Dissertation: "Essays in Matching and Information Acquisition"
  • Current Position: Lecturer, University of Bristol

 

• Francisco Oteiza (PhD Economics 2017): Development Economics
  • Supervisor: Juan Pablo Rud
  • Dissertation: "Essays on Development Economics"
  • Current Position: Project Research Officer, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

 

• Lena Hassani Nezhad (PhD Economics 2018): Labour Economics, Family Economics, Applied Microeconomics
  • Supervisor: Dr. Ahu Gemici
  • Dissertation: "Female Employment and Child Care"
  • Current Position: British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RHUL, currently visiting UCL

 

• Tanya Wilson (PhD Economics 2015): Labour Economics, Family Economics, Applied Microeconomics
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dan Anderberg
  • Dissertation: "Empirical Essays on Family Economics"
  • Current Position: Lecturer at the University of Glasgow

 

• Amairisa Kouki (PhD Economics 2019): Labour Economics
  • Supervisor: Prof. Rob Sauer
  • Dissertation: "Essays on Female Labour Supply and Flexible Working Arrangements"
  • Current Position: Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University

 

• Kazuhiko Sumiya (PhD Economics 2018): Labour Economics
  • Supervisor: Dr. Jesper Bagger
  • Dissertation: "Essays on Income Taxation and Labour Market Outcomes"
  • Current Position: Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)