Below is a brief overview of the supervision interests of individual staff. More detailed information on supervision interests can be found on their staff pages which can be accessed by clicking on the staff member's name, and also in this PDF document.

Fabrizio Adriani

• Information Economics
• Evolution of Preferences and Social Norms
• Theory of Corporate Finance
• The evolution of social norms. I am particularly interested in the co-evolution of norms and institutions and intergenerational transmission of values/norms

Ali Al-Nowaihi

• Economic Theory
• Behavioural Economics
• Oligopoly Theory
• Mathematical Economics
• Macroeconomic Theory
• Spatial Economics
• Illicit Activity
• Political Business Cycles
• Club Goods

Svetlana Andrianova

• Banking and financial development
• Contract theory
• Game theory
• Poverty and development
• Development economics with application to formerly planned economies

Subir Bose

• Mechanism Design with non-EU preferences
• Online Trading (and Online Auctions)

Wojciech Charemza

• Simulation and Monte Carlo methods in empirical economics and finance
• Empirical models based on the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
• Micro-foundations and empirical models of inflation

Panicos Demetriades

• Finance and growth
• Financial development
• Financial liberalisation
• Economic growth
• Monetary policy in emerging market economies

Vincenzo Denicolo

• Innovation and intellectual property rights
• Competition policy
• Social choice theory

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner

• Applied microeconometrics
• Economics of education
• Health economics

Gianni De Fraja

• A search model for the university labour market
• Co-operation and voluntary environment standard
• University imports and exports
• Peer group effects in tertiary education
• Tracking and Segregation

Sanjit Dhami

• Behavioral economics
• Public economic theory
• Political economy
• Behavioral economics

Clive D Fraser

• Political economy and public good provision
• Tax evasion and the hidden economy
• Fiscal federalism
• The economics of the arts
• Industrial organisation
• Globalisation and poverty
• Public economics
• Applied economic theory

Gaia Garino

Applied microeconomic theory such as contract theory, intertemporal consumer choice, applied general equilibrium, labour microfoundations and personal sector finance.

Maria Gil-Molto

• Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation
• Economics of Technology, R&D and Competition Policy, mostly from a theoretical Perspective
• Enviromental Economics

Martin Hoskins

• The economics of skill training
• The effects of trade and technological change on occupational and skill structure

Abbi M. Kedir

• Development Economics
• Trade Liberalisation and Poverty
• Labour, education and health economics

Dan Ladley

• Understanding the rules governing financial markets
• Trader behaviour in financial markets
• The design and analysis of financial regulation within the economy

Sara Lemos

• Economic effects of migration
• Fiscal effects of migration

Curro Martínez Mora

• Education and development
• Segregation and ability tracking
• Political economics of education

Jesse Matheson

• Economics of Health
• Peer/Social Effects

Emi Mise

• Time series econometrics
• Econometric theory
• Applied macroeconomics

James Mitchell

• Applied economic and econometric topics
• Using and developing time-series and panel data econometric models and methods to address a variety of issues, principally in macroeconomics and finance.
• Density forecasting in macro and finance (“fan charts”)
• Short-term forecasting and business cycle analysis
• Panel data, including panel qualitative survey data
• Migration

Suresh Mutuswami

• Mechanism Design related problems
• Network and Coalition formation
• Cooperative Game Theory
• Public Economics

Jim O'Hare

• Models for predicting corporate failure
• Asset replacement decisions
• The impact of the introduction of international accounting standards on the information content of company financial statements

Tania Oliveria

• Higher Education Reforms
• Fiscal effects of migration
• Peer group effects in tertiary education

Matthew Polisson

• Applied microeconomics
• Consumer theory
• Health economics

Stephen Pollock

• Time-Series Analysis and Econometric Theory
• Theory of wavelets, which can be used in the analysis of time series that are undergoing structural evolution
• Techniques for filtering short non-stationary econometric data series

Ludovic Renou

• Game theory and its applications to social science

Javier Rivas

• Microeconomics
• Game Theory
• Public Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Social Networks

Barbara Roberts

• Empirical industrial organisation
• Foreign direct investment
• Transition in Eastern Europe
• Globalisation and Firm-level Adjustment
• Privatisation and Performance

James Rockey

• Political Economics
• Economic Growth
• Applied Econometrics
• Econometric and theoretical comparisions of different political systems
• Long-run determinants of income levels and other socioeconomic outcomes.

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

• Labour Economics with emphasis on empirical analysis using Microeconometrics.
• The role of labour market institutions on economic behaviour and labor market dynamics
• The evaluation of labour market policies

Dimitrios Varvarigos

• Patents and growth
• Demographic transition and environmental quality

Chris Wallace

• Game theory

Piercarlo Zanchettin

• Patents and growth
• Demographic transition and environmental quality
• Vertical relations and adoption of “greener” manufacturing technologies

Qiang Zhang

• Macroeconomics and applied econometrics, especially in consumption/saving, asset pricing, and related fields
• Understanding Human Capital Return
• Frictions and Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption
• Estimating Panel Simultaneous Equations