Project: The Economy, TL’Économie
Yann Algan's research focuses on digital economy, political economy, social capital and wellbeing, and incorporates methods from psychology, sociology, and economics, including randomized evaluations of public policies. He is a member of the OECD High Level Expert Group on Wellbeing. He was awarded Best French Young Economist (2009), and his books on trust and French society have been awarded Best French Economics Book and French Essay (2009) and Best French Economics Book, Prix Lycéen (2013). He is a senior editor of Economic Policy and a member of the French Economic Advisory Board.
Personal website: http://www.yann-algan.com/en/
Project: The Economy, TL’Économie
Yann Algan's research focuses on digital economy, political economy, social capital and wellbeing, and incorporates methods from psychology, sociology, and economics, including randomized evaluations of public policies. He is a member of the OECD High Level Expert Group on Wellbeing. He was awarded Best French Young Economist (2009), and his books on trust and French society have been awarded Best French Economics Book and French Essay (2009) and Best French Economics Book, Prix Lycéen (2013). He is a senior editor of Economic Policy and a member of the French Economic Advisory Board.
Personal website: http://www.yann-algan.com/en/
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Peter is an applied macroeconomist with interests in gender, philanthropic behaviour and redistributive preferences. He got his PhD at the University of Warwick in 2011 after which he worked at the University of Barcelona for two years before moving to Manchester in 2013. He started using elements of Core Economics website in the 2015/16 academic year and has been evangelical about it ever since.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/peterbackus/
Executive Director, Creative economy and data analytics
Personal website: https://www.nesta.org.uk/users/hasan-bakhshi
Project: Doing Economics
Lucy is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at University College London. Her research background and interests are in political economy, including the way the general public understand and form opinions on the economy and economic policy. Her teaching interests centre on comparative politics and the teaching of quantitative content, methods, and reasoning to sometimes-reluctant politics students.
Personal website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/people/academic/lucy-barnes
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Peter is an applied macroeconomist with interests in gender, philanthropic behaviour and redistributive preferences. He got his PhD at the University of Warwick in 2011 after which he worked at the University of Barcelona for two years before moving to Manchester in 2013. He started using elements of Core Economics website in the 2015/16 academic year and has been evangelical about it ever since.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/peterbackus/
Executive Director, Creative economy and data analytics
Personal website: https://www.nesta.org.uk/users/hasan-bakhshi
Project: Doing Economics
Lucy is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at University College London. Her research background and interests are in political economy, including the way the general public understand and form opinions on the economy and economic policy. Her teaching interests centre on comparative politics and the teaching of quantitative content, methods, and reasoning to sometimes-reluctant politics students.
Personal website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/people/academic/lucy-barnes
Project: Doing Economics
Ralf received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the Johannis Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) and his PhD degree from Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia). He now works at The University of Manchester. He is a time-series econometrician with interest in volatility modelling and forecasting as well as electricity price modelling. He is passionate about teaching with a particular interest in encouraging students to get their hands dirty and apply the statistical methods they use to real-life problems.
Department’s personal page: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/Ralf.Becker.html
You can see many of his teaching videos here: http://www.youtube.com/c/RalfBecker
Support materials for statistical computing in R and MATLAB: http://eclr.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Page
Project: Doing Economics
Ralf received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the Johannis Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) and his PhD degree from Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia). He now works at The University of Manchester. He is a time-series econometrician with interest in volatility modelling and forecasting as well as electricity price modelling. He is passionate about teaching with a particular interest in encouraging students to get their hands dirty and apply the statistical methods they use to real-life problems.
Department’s personal page: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/Ralf.Becker.html
You can see many of his teaching videos here: http://www.youtube.com/c/RalfBecker
Support materials for statistical computing in R and MATLAB: http://eclr.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Page
Project: The Economy
Project: The Economy
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Sam Bowles has taught economics at Harvard, at the University of Massachusetts and University of Siena. His books include Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution (2005) The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution (2012). He has also served as an economic advisor to Nelson Mandela and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
Personal website: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/
Project: The Economy, ESPP
Antonio Cabrales the executive vice president of the European Economic Association and associate editor at the Journal of Economic Theory. He has worked in a wide range of topics: the economics of networks, mechanism design, evolutionary games, experimental and behavioral economics. He has published at the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, Physical Review Letters and other journals.
Personal website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpcab/
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Sam Bowles has taught economics at Harvard, at the University of Massachusetts and University of Siena. His books include Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution (2005) The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution (2012). He has also served as an economic advisor to Nelson Mandela and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
Personal website: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/
Project: The Economy, ESPP
Antonio Cabrales the executive vice president of the European Economic Association and associate editor at the Journal of Economic Theory. He has worked in a wide range of topics: the economics of networks, mechanism design, evolutionary games, experimental and behavioral economics. He has published at the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, Physical Review Letters and other journals.
Personal website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpcab/
Project: The Economy
Juan-Camilo Cardenas gained his Ph.D. Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1999) and did post-doctoral work with Elinor Ostrom at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (Indiana). He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Massachusetts Amherst, Harvard, UCL, and Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He received the Elsevier-Scopus Award Colombia in the humanities for the highest number of citations in the country. His 2009 book Dilemas de lo Colectivo won the Alejandro Angel Escobar prize in his country.
Personal website: http://economia.uniandes.edu.co/cardenas
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Wendy Carlin directs the Core Economics website project. She is a Research Fellow of the CEPR, and is on the Expert Advisory Panel, Office for Budget Responsibility in the UK. With David Soskice she has co-authored three books:
Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain (1990),
Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006) and
Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (2015).
For more than a decade she was co-managing editor of Economics of Transition. In 2016 Wendy was awarded the CBE for services to economics and public finance.
Personal website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/people/fellows/wendy-carlin
Project: The Economy
Juan-Camilo Cardenas gained his Ph.D. Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1999) and did post-doctoral work with Elinor Ostrom at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (Indiana). He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Massachusetts Amherst, Harvard, UCL, and Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He received the Elsevier-Scopus Award Colombia in the humanities for the highest number of citations in the country. His 2009 book Dilemas de lo Colectivo won the Alejandro Angel Escobar prize in his country.
Personal website: http://economia.uniandes.edu.co/cardenas
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Wendy Carlin directs the Core Economics website project. She is a Research Fellow of the CEPR, and is on the Expert Advisory Panel, Office for Budget Responsibility in the UK. With David Soskice she has co-authored three books:
Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain (1990),
Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006) and
Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (2015).
For more than a decade she was co-managing editor of Economics of Transition. In 2016 Wendy was awarded the CBE for services to economics and public finance.
Personal website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/people/fellows/wendy-carlin
Project: Doing Economics
Personal website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/q-step/team/cols/wing-chan
Project: The Economy, L’Économie
Project: Doing Economics
Personal website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/q-step/team/cols/wing-chan
Project: The Economy, L’Économie
I studied economics at the University of Manchester where I was deeply dissatisfied with the narrow and highly theoretical curriculum. With some fellow students, I co-founded the Post-Crash Economics Society (PCE) to campaign for a better economics education. We later sourced funding and established ourselves as a national charity. In 2015 PCE merged with Rethinking Economics (RE), another student-led campaign for curriculum reform. Three years on, we have a dedicated staff team support student groups across the globe to lobby their university departments for change. After graduating, I remained a trustee at RE whilst working for the Institute for Public Policy Research. I joined RE as director in 2017.
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Carlos is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Head of the Economics Department at the University of Exeter Business School. He has published a number of articles, working papers, a statistics textbook and a book on applied economics. He has also written and co-written two chapters for the Handbook of Economic Lecturers, which is published by the Economics Network. Carlos is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an Associate of the Economics Network and a member of the Executive Group of the British Council of Undergraduate Research.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/cjfcortinhas/
I studied economics at the University of Manchester where I was deeply dissatisfied with the narrow and highly theoretical curriculum. With some fellow students, I co-founded the Post-Crash Economics Society (PCE) to campaign for a better economics education. We later sourced funding and established ourselves as a national charity. In 2015 PCE merged with Rethinking Economics (RE), another student-led campaign for curriculum reform. Three years on, we have a dedicated staff team support student groups across the globe to lobby their university departments for change. After graduating, I remained a trustee at RE whilst working for the Institute for Public Policy Research. I joined RE as director in 2017.
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Carlos is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Head of the Economics Department at the University of Exeter Business School. He has published a number of articles, working papers, a statistics textbook and a book on applied economics. He has also written and co-written two chapters for the Handbook of Economic Lecturers, which is published by the Economics Network. Carlos is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an Associate of the Economics Network and a member of the Executive Group of the British Council of Undergraduate Research.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/cjfcortinhas/
Project: The Economy
Diane Coyle is founder of Enlightenment Economics, Co-Director of [email protected], a member of the Natural Capital Committee and also a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics and researcher at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. She specializes in the economics of new technologies, markets and competition. Diane was a BBC Trustee for more than eight years, was formerly a member of the Migration Advisory Committee and the Competition Commission. Until 2001 she was Economics Editor of The Independent. Diane was awarded the OBE in January 2009.
Personal website: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/Diane.Coyle.html
Project: The Economy
Diane Coyle is founder of Enlightenment Economics, Co-Director of [email protected], a member of the Natural Capital Committee and also a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics and researcher at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. She specializes in the economics of new technologies, markets and competition. Diane was a BBC Trustee for more than eight years, was formerly a member of the Migration Advisory Committee and the Competition Commission. Until 2001 she was Economics Editor of The Independent. Diane was awarded the OBE in January 2009.
Personal website: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/Diane.Coyle.html
Richard Davies has held various roles in economic policy, research, journalism and the voluntary sector. Between 2015 and 2016 he was economics advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at HM Treasury, and before that he was economics editor of The Economist. He edited The Economist's guide to economics—Making Sense of the Modern Economy (2015). His research has been published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the Journal of Financial Stability, and he previously taught macroeconomics, and money and banking at the University of Oxford.
Personal website: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/staff/person.asp?id=10318
As Head of External Engagement and Capability for Economic Statistics at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I am responsible for the management of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (a collaboration between academia and ONS to provide analysis of emerging and future issues in the measurement of the modern economy) and leading on the identification and promotion of engagement opportunities more widely across academia and economic statistics users. My professional background is as a Government Social Researcher.
Richard Davies has held various roles in economic policy, research, journalism and the voluntary sector. Between 2015 and 2016 he was economics advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at HM Treasury, and before that he was economics editor of The Economist. He edited The Economist's guide to economics—Making Sense of the Modern Economy (2015). His research has been published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the Journal of Financial Stability, and he previously taught macroeconomics, and money and banking at the University of Oxford.
Personal website: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/staff/person.asp?id=10318
As Head of External Engagement and Capability for Economic Statistics at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I am responsible for the management of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (a collaboration between academia and ONS to provide analysis of emerging and future issues in the measurement of the modern economy) and leading on the identification and promotion of engagement opportunities more widely across academia and economic statistics users. My professional background is as a Government Social Researcher.
Project: Doing Economics
Project: Doing Economics
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Ian Goldin is the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School. Ian previously was World Bank Vice President and the Group’s Director of Policy, after serving as Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Economic Advisor to President Nelson Mandela. Ian has served as Principal Economist at the EBRD and Director of Programmes at the OECD Development Centre. Ian has been knighted by the French Government and has published 20 books.
Personal website: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/1
I lead the Government Economic and Social Research (GESR) team, based in the HM Treasury, which is responsible for supporting the Government Economics Service (GES) and the Government Social Research (GSR) professions across all analytical departments. This involves everything from recruitment and talent management, to delivering a suite of 50+ training events each year. These include a set of mini-conferences, where we ask leading academics to come in to tell us about their research and how it relates to policy. I first joined the Civil Service in 2006 to work at the Office for National Statistics, on health analysis. I moved to HM Treasury in 2015. Before joining the Civil Service, I worked as an academic researcher at the University of Bristol, where I also completed my MSc and PhD.
Ian Goldin is the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School. Ian previously was World Bank Vice President and the Group’s Director of Policy, after serving as Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Economic Advisor to President Nelson Mandela. Ian has served as Principal Economist at the EBRD and Director of Programmes at the OECD Development Centre. Ian has been knighted by the French Government and has published 20 books.
Personal website: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/1
I lead the Government Economic and Social Research (GESR) team, based in the HM Treasury, which is responsible for supporting the Government Economics Service (GES) and the Government Social Research (GSR) professions across all analytical departments. This involves everything from recruitment and talent management, to delivering a suite of 50+ training events each year. These include a set of mini-conferences, where we ask leading academics to come in to tell us about their research and how it relates to policy. I first joined the Civil Service in 2006 to work at the Office for National Statistics, on health analysis. I moved to HM Treasury in 2015. Before joining the Civil Service, I worked as an academic researcher at the University of Bristol, where I also completed my MSc and PhD.
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Professor Arthur Grimes holds the Chair of Wellbeing and Public Policy at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Government. He is also a Senior Fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, and is a member of the World Wellbeing Panel. Prior positions include Chairman and Chief Economist of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (where he founded inflation targeting), and Board Member of the Financial Markets Authority. He has a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSocSc(Hons) from University of Waikato. His current research focuses on the economics of wellbeing and public policy, and on urban economics.
Personal website: https://motu.nz/about-us/people/arthur-grimes/
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
I love economics, helping students to discover and nurture their potential and developing, as well as implementing new ideas. I'm fascinated by different ideas and approaches and broadly an optimist when it comes to the future development of our civilisation. I think we are underestimating greatly the potential for higher social competence and exciting new technologies.
More down to earth, I teach primarily macroeconomics, monetary economics and behavioural finance. My current research interest lies in international behavioural finance, specifically the Euro crisis.
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Professor Arthur Grimes holds the Chair of Wellbeing and Public Policy at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Government. He is also a Senior Fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, and is a member of the World Wellbeing Panel. Prior positions include Chairman and Chief Economist of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (where he founded inflation targeting), and Board Member of the Financial Markets Authority. He has a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSocSc(Hons) from University of Waikato. His current research focuses on the economics of wellbeing and public policy, and on urban economics.
Personal website: https://motu.nz/about-us/people/arthur-grimes/
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
I love economics, helping students to discover and nurture their potential and developing, as well as implementing new ideas. I'm fascinated by different ideas and approaches and broadly an optimist when it comes to the future development of our civilisation. I think we are underestimating greatly the potential for higher social competence and exciting new technologies.
More down to earth, I teach primarily macroeconomics, monetary economics and behavioural finance. My current research interest lies in international behavioural finance, specifically the Euro crisis.
Project: L’Économie, L’Économie for highschools
Project: L’Économie, L’Économie for highschools
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Professor Cameron Hepburn is an expert in environmental, resource and energy economics and also a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and a Fellow at New College, Oxford. He has also had an entrepreneurial career, co- founding three successful businesses, including Aurora Energy Research, and investing in several other start-ups.
Personal website: http://www.cameronhepburn.com/
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
David worked as the Economics Editor for the Core Economics website Project between October 2013 and March 2015. He researches at the intersection of macroeconomics and political science and is especially interested in inequality and redistribution, economic growth, macroeconomic imbalances and varieties of capitalism.
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Professor Cameron Hepburn is an expert in environmental, resource and energy economics and also a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and a Fellow at New College, Oxford. He has also had an entrepreneurial career, co- founding three successful businesses, including Aurora Energy Research, and investing in several other start-ups.
Personal website: http://www.cameronhepburn.com/
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
David worked as the Economics Editor for the Core Economics website Project between October 2013 and March 2015. He researches at the intersection of macroeconomics and political science and is especially interested in inequality and redistribution, economic growth, macroeconomic imbalances and varieties of capitalism.
Project: The Economy
Project: The Economy
Project: The Economy
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Personal website: https://www.victoria.ac.nz/sog/about/staff/girol-karacaoglu
Project: The Economy
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Personal website: https://www.victoria.ac.nz/sog/about/staff/girol-karacaoglu
I lead the Government Economic and Social Research (GESR) team, based in the HM Treasury, which is responsible for supporting the Government Economics Service (GES) and the Government Social Research (GSR) professions across all analytical departments. This involves everything from recruitment, including delivering the first Degree Level Economic Apprenticeship in the UK, to progression and development of more than 3,000 professional analysts. The GES and GSR professions work closely with the academic community, including on a series of lecture programmes where we showcase the academic literature to the wider policy community. I am an economist, with more than twenty years professional experience working in Government; and have worked across several departments (BEIS, HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, Competition authority) on a wide range of policy areas (economic growth, productivity, regional policy, enterprise, energy, shareholder value, regulatory burden, labour markets, sustainable development, global conflict, global health systems, competition policy)
I lead the Government Economic and Social Research (GESR) team, based in the HM Treasury, which is responsible for supporting the Government Economics Service (GES) and the Government Social Research (GSR) professions across all analytical departments. This involves everything from recruitment, including delivering the first Degree Level Economic Apprenticeship in the UK, to progression and development of more than 3,000 professional analysts. The GES and GSR professions work closely with the academic community, including on a series of lecture programmes where we showcase the academic literature to the wider policy community. I am an economist, with more than twenty years professional experience working in Government; and have worked across several departments (BEIS, HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, Competition authority) on a wide range of policy areas (economic growth, productivity, regional policy, enterprise, energy, shareholder value, regulatory burden, labour markets, sustainable development, global conflict, global health systems, competition policy)
Oscar Landerretche is Chairman of Board of Directors of Codelco, Chile's mining SOE and the world's largest copper mining company. He is also professor at the Economics and Business School of the University of Chile. He studied economics at Universidad de Chile where he earned a BSc in Economics and later earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He teaches and conducts research in Macroeconomics, Labour Economics and Political Economy. He was Director of the School of Economics and Business at the University de Chile (2012-2014) and previously founding director of the Masters in Public Policy of the same university (2004-2010).
Oscar has been interested in Core Economics website since the inception of this project. He believes that undergraduate teaching in economics has been in a protracted methodological and content stagnation, and hence, must undergo a profound reform to remain relevant to contemporary economics, business, policy and ethical questions that students bring to campuses around the world. Core Economics website is a significant effort in that direction that must be supported.
Oscar Landerretche is Chairman of Board of Directors of Codelco, Chile's mining SOE and the world's largest copper mining company. He is also professor at the Economics and Business School of the University of Chile. He studied economics at Universidad de Chile where he earned a BSc in Economics and later earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He teaches and conducts research in Macroeconomics, Labour Economics and Political Economy. He was Director of the School of Economics and Business at the University de Chile (2012-2014) and previously founding director of the Masters in Public Policy of the same university (2004-2010).
Oscar has been interested in Core Economics website since the inception of this project. He believes that undergraduate teaching in economics has been in a protracted methodological and content stagnation, and hence, must undergo a profound reform to remain relevant to contemporary economics, business, policy and ethical questions that students bring to campuses around the world. Core Economics website is a significant effort in that direction that must be supported.
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Dr Dunli Li is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at UCL and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the UK. Her areas of interest are human capital and economic growth. Her research has been included in the NBER working paper and IZA discussion paper series, and appears in the Journal of Human Capital published by the University of Chicago Press.
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Dr Dunli Li is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at UCL and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the UK. Her areas of interest are human capital and economic growth. Her research has been included in the NBER working paper and IZA discussion paper series, and appears in the Journal of Human Capital published by the University of Chicago Press.
Project: Doing Economics
James was an econometrician with interests in panel data models and moment based estimation. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Mathematics from the Open University and his PhD degree from University of Manchester. He worked at the University of Manchester as a lecturer in econometrics. He was passionate about teaching and was an ardent supporter of using computer software and technology to make econometrics more accessible for his students.
In August 2019 James passed away after an accident.
Humberto Llavador works in the economics of climate change, political economy and welfare economics, with publications in Harvard University Press, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Public Economics, Theoretical Economics, and Climatic Change, among others. He has taught economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Barcelona GSE, Yale University, the University of California-Davis, Korea University and INSEAD. He has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, and a senior visiting fellow of the Grantham Research Institute at LSE. He has received the Recognition Jaume Vicens-Vives for teaching quality and innovation from the Catalan Government.
Personal website:
https://www.upf.edu/web/humberto-llavador
Project: Doing Economics
James was an econometrician with interests in panel data models and moment based estimation. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Mathematics from the Open University and his PhD degree from University of Manchester. He worked at the University of Manchester as a lecturer in econometrics. He was passionate about teaching and was an ardent supporter of using computer software and technology to make econometrics more accessible for his students.
In August 2019 James passed away after an accident.
Humberto Llavador works in the economics of climate change, political economy and welfare economics, with publications in Harvard University Press, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Public Economics, Theoretical Economics, and Climatic Change, among others. He has taught economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Barcelona GSE, Yale University, the University of California-Davis, Korea University and INSEAD. He has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, and a senior visiting fellow of the Grantham Research Institute at LSE. He has received the Recognition Jaume Vicens-Vives for teaching quality and innovation from the Catalan Government.
Personal website:
https://www.upf.edu/web/humberto-llavador
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
John MacInnes is Associate Dean (Quantitative Methods) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Strategic Advisor to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on quantitative methods training overseeing the genesis and launch of the Q-Step programme. From 2015 he has been Strategic Advisor to the British Academy on Quantitative skills and a member of the British Academy’s High Level Strategy group on Quantitative Skills. He is a Chartered Statistician and member of the RSS Professional Affairs Committee. His current research focuses on population ageing and the measurement of age structures of populations. He has held research grants from the European Commission, ESRC, British Academy, The Leverhulme Trust and British, Spanish and Catalan government departments. His latest book is An Introduction to Secondary Data Analysis, Sage 2017.
Nick Macpherson was Permanent Secretary of the Treasury for over ten years, leading the Treasury through the financial and wider economic crisis which began in 2007. Nick joined the Treasury in 1985, after training as an economist at Oxford University and University College, London, and working at the Confederation of British Industry and Peat Marwick consulting. He was Principal Private Secretary to Ken Clarke and Gordon Brown in the mid 1990s, and went on to head the public spending and tax sides of the Treasury. Nick is Chairman of Hoare's Bank, a Director of the Scottish American Investment Trust and a Visiting Professor at King's College, London.
Anthony W. Marx is President of The New York Public Library, the nation's largest library system, with 88 neighborhood libraries and four scholarly research centers that receive about 17.4 million physical visits each year. Since arriving in 2011, Marx has strengthened the Library’s role as an essential provider of educational resources and opportunities for all ages through new early literacy and after-school programs, increased adult English language classes and immigrant support, and improved research services for scholars and students. In addition to facilitating landmark Library renovations and record increases in City funding, Marx has also helped bridge the digital divide by championing increased access to e-books and expanded computer training. Previously, Marx served as president of Amherst College, a professor and director of undergraduate studies at Columbia University, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Marx has a BA from Yale, and an MPA and PhD from Princeton.
John MacInnes is Associate Dean (Quantitative Methods) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Strategic Advisor to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on quantitative methods training overseeing the genesis and launch of the Q-Step programme. From 2015 he has been Strategic Advisor to the British Academy on Quantitative skills and a member of the British Academy’s High Level Strategy group on Quantitative Skills. He is a Chartered Statistician and member of the RSS Professional Affairs Committee. His current research focuses on population ageing and the measurement of age structures of populations. He has held research grants from the European Commission, ESRC, British Academy, The Leverhulme Trust and British, Spanish and Catalan government departments. His latest book is An Introduction to Secondary Data Analysis, Sage 2017.
Nick Macpherson was Permanent Secretary of the Treasury for over ten years, leading the Treasury through the financial and wider economic crisis which began in 2007. Nick joined the Treasury in 1985, after training as an economist at Oxford University and University College, London, and working at the Confederation of British Industry and Peat Marwick consulting. He was Principal Private Secretary to Ken Clarke and Gordon Brown in the mid 1990s, and went on to head the public spending and tax sides of the Treasury. Nick is Chairman of Hoare's Bank, a Director of the Scottish American Investment Trust and a Visiting Professor at King's College, London.
Anthony W. Marx is President of The New York Public Library, the nation's largest library system, with 88 neighborhood libraries and four scholarly research centers that receive about 17.4 million physical visits each year. Since arriving in 2011, Marx has strengthened the Library’s role as an essential provider of educational resources and opportunities for all ages through new early literacy and after-school programs, increased adult English language classes and immigrant support, and improved research services for scholars and students. In addition to facilitating landmark Library renovations and record increases in City funding, Marx has also helped bridge the digital divide by championing increased access to e-books and expanded computer training. Previously, Marx served as president of Amherst College, a professor and director of undergraduate studies at Columbia University, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Marx has a BA from Yale, and an MPA and PhD from Princeton.
Helen is an Associate Director and head of the tax research sector at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London (IFS). IFS is an independent and impartial research institute that aims to inform public debates on economics in order to promote the development of effective public policy. Helen’s main research interests are the effects of the tax system on individuals' and firms' behaviour and the design of tax policy. Her recent research also includes work on the drivers of firm investment and the UK productivity puzzle.
Personal website: https://www.ifs.org.uk/people/profile/329
Project: ESSP, Doing Economics
Michael is an Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics, Research Associate of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Affiliate of the Yale Applied Cooperation Team, Affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at STICERD, and Technical Director of The Database of Religious History. His research draws on theoretical and empirical tools from biology, psychology, and economics to understand how cultures and societies change over time.
Personal website: michael.muthukrishna.com
Project: The Economy
Suresh works in political economy, economic history, and development economics, and is focused on the political organization of labour markets from historical slavery through modern migration. His work has been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He also writes occasionally for Jacobin magazine.
Helen is an Associate Director and head of the tax research sector at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London (IFS). IFS is an independent and impartial research institute that aims to inform public debates on economics in order to promote the development of effective public policy. Helen’s main research interests are the effects of the tax system on individuals' and firms' behaviour and the design of tax policy. Her recent research also includes work on the drivers of firm investment and the UK productivity puzzle.
Personal website: https://www.ifs.org.uk/people/profile/329
Project: ESSP, Doing Economics
Michael is an Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics, Research Associate of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Affiliate of the Yale Applied Cooperation Team, Affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at STICERD, and Technical Director of The Database of Religious History. His research draws on theoretical and empirical tools from biology, psychology, and economics to understand how cultures and societies change over time.
Personal website: michael.muthukrishna.com
Project: The Economy
Suresh works in political economy, economic history, and development economics, and is focused on the political organization of labour markets from historical slavery through modern migration. His work has been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He also writes occasionally for Jacobin magazine.
Project: The Economy
Professor Robin Naylor has taught and researched at the University of Warwick since 1986. His research focuses on the economic analysis of education, labour markets and socio-economic mobility. Robin has acted as a scientific adviser to the European Commission and as an expert adviser on UK Government panels, and is currently the Deputy Secretary General of the Royal Economic Society. His publications include the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Personal website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/robinnaylor
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Mary O’Mahony joined King’s College London in 2013 and was previously professor at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests are in the areas of measuring and explaining international differences in productivity, technology and growth; human capital formation and its impacts on productivity, and measuring performance in public services, including health and education. She has co-ordinated a number of EC funded projects. She was a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, until April 2017, and currently is on the management team of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE). She is also a Research associate of ZEW and a Visiting Fellow at NIESR. In 2016 she was elected to serve on the Council of the International Association of Research on Income and Wealth.
Personal website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/business/people/mary-omahony.aspx
Project: The Economy
Professor Robin Naylor has taught and researched at the University of Warwick since 1986. His research focuses on the economic analysis of education, labour markets and socio-economic mobility. Robin has acted as a scientific adviser to the European Commission and as an expert adviser on UK Government panels, and is currently the Deputy Secretary General of the Royal Economic Society. His publications include the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Personal website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/robinnaylor
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Mary O’Mahony joined King’s College London in 2013 and was previously professor at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests are in the areas of measuring and explaining international differences in productivity, technology and growth; human capital formation and its impacts on productivity, and measuring performance in public services, including health and education. She has co-ordinated a number of EC funded projects. She was a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, until April 2017, and currently is on the management team of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE). She is also a Research associate of ZEW and a Visiting Fellow at NIESR. In 2016 she was elected to serve on the Council of the International Association of Research on Income and Wealth.
Personal website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/business/people/mary-omahony.aspx
Project: The Economy
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke has taught at Columbia, Harvard, University College Dublin, Sciences Po Paris and Trinity College Dublin. He has written extensively on the history of globalization, and his Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey G. Williamson) won the 1999 American Association of Publishers/PSP Award for the best scholarly book in economics. He is the Research Director of CEPR. Kevin is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a Research Associate of the NBER.
Personal website: https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/Academic/kevin-o-rourke
Project: The Economy
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke has taught at Columbia, Harvard, University College Dublin, Sciences Po Paris and Trinity College Dublin. He has written extensively on the history of globalization, and his Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey G. Williamson) won the 1999 American Association of Publishers/PSP Award for the best scholarly book in economics. He is the Research Director of CEPR. Kevin is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a Research Associate of the NBER.
Personal website: https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/Academic/kevin-o-rourke
Alfredo’s priority is working for quality and conscious education as a critical step towards facing humanity’s social and technical challenges. He has worked on multiple research projects developing statistical analysis and software for behavioural experiments and field data collecting processes. He currently works for the Faculty of Economics Teaching Committee designing human-cantered innovation. Alfredo is also a voluntary occasional "Education in museums" reviewer for the "El Itinerante" virtual diary from the Museums Enforcement Program of the Colombian Culture Ministry.
Personal website: www.alfredo-orozco.co
Emily is studying for an Economic and Social Policy BSc. In June 2018 she starts an internship at the Bank of England where she will work on financial stability. She is interested in widening public engagement in economic ideas and debates, especially with regard to increasing the participation of women.
Alfredo’s priority is working for quality and conscious education as a critical step towards facing humanity’s social and technical challenges. He has worked on multiple research projects developing statistical analysis and software for behavioural experiments and field data collecting processes. He currently works for the Faculty of Economics Teaching Committee designing human-cantered innovation. Alfredo is also a voluntary occasional "Education in museums" reviewer for the "El Itinerante" virtual diary from the Museums Enforcement Program of the Colombian Culture Ministry.
Personal website: www.alfredo-orozco.co
Emily is studying for an Economic and Social Policy BSc. In June 2018 she starts an internship at the Bank of England where she will work on financial stability. She is interested in widening public engagement in economic ideas and debates, especially with regard to increasing the participation of women.
Project: The Economy
Malcolm Pemberton is co-author of Mathematics for Economists: An Introductory Textbook (2016), which is the mathematical reference for Core Economics website's Leibniz supplements. His main research interests are centred around mathematical and econometric modelling in economics. Dr Pemberton has acted as a consultant to many firms and international organizations including the World Bank and the Bank of England.
Personal website: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=MPEMB43
Born in Rochester, Kent and attended Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Rochester between 1967 and 1974. Degrees in Economics from Warwick University (MA, 1978) and University of London (Queen Mary College, PhD, 1984). Economics Analyst in the Bank of England 1985-87, responsible for the analysis, forecasting and modelling of the exchange rate, international capital flows and money supply externals. Moved to Loughborough University in 1987 and promoted to Professor of Economics in 2002. Has written four books, on Monetary and Macroeconomics and published over 70 academic papers, including work on currency substitution, exchange rate modelling, financial repression and regional economic convergence. Currently visiting research professor at the University of Antwerp, Chairman of CHUDE (the Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Royal Economic Society. Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2015.
Project: The Economy
Malcolm Pemberton is co-author of Mathematics for Economists: An Introductory Textbook (2016), which is the mathematical reference for Core Economics website's Leibniz supplements. His main research interests are centred around mathematical and econometric modelling in economics. Dr Pemberton has acted as a consultant to many firms and international organizations including the World Bank and the Bank of England.
Personal website: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=MPEMB43
Born in Rochester, Kent and attended Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Rochester between 1967 and 1974. Degrees in Economics from Warwick University (MA, 1978) and University of London (Queen Mary College, PhD, 1984). Economics Analyst in the Bank of England 1985-87, responsible for the analysis, forecasting and modelling of the exchange rate, international capital flows and money supply externals. Moved to Loughborough University in 1987 and promoted to Professor of Economics in 2002. Has written four books, on Monetary and Macroeconomics and published over 70 academic papers, including work on currency substitution, exchange rate modelling, financial repression and regional economic convergence. Currently visiting research professor at the University of Antwerp, Chairman of CHUDE (the Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Royal Economic Society. Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2015.
Project: L’Économie, L’Économie for highschools
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Project: L’Économie, L’Économie for highschools
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
My research focuses on the pedagogies of engaging and training students in quantitative methodologies and techniques (see Scott Jones, J and Goldring, J 2015, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13645579.2015.1062623?journalCode=tsrm20 and Scott Jones, J and Goldring, J, 2017, http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ16(1)_Jones.pdf ). I am director of Manchester Metropolitan University’s Q-Step centre, one of 15 centres funded by the ESRC-HEFCE-Nuffield Foundation. I was awarded an ESRC RDI (2011-2014) grant to upskill staff in quants and I produced a report (2015) for the HEA on maths anxiety and transition to university amongst sociology students (see https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/skills-mathematics-and-statistics-sociology-and-tackling-transition). I am particularly interested in pedagogic strategies to upskill students who come from diverse educational backgrounds, with low levels of maths confidence; relatedly I am interested in statistical literacy.
My research focuses on the pedagogies of engaging and training students in quantitative methodologies and techniques (see Scott Jones, J and Goldring, J 2015, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13645579.2015.1062623?journalCode=tsrm20 and Scott Jones, J and Goldring, J, 2017, http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ16(1)_Jones.pdf ). I am director of Manchester Metropolitan University’s Q-Step centre, one of 15 centres funded by the ESRC-HEFCE-Nuffield Foundation. I was awarded an ESRC RDI (2011-2014) grant to upskill staff in quants and I produced a report (2015) for the HEA on maths anxiety and transition to university amongst sociology students (see https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/skills-mathematics-and-statistics-sociology-and-tackling-transition). I am particularly interested in pedagogic strategies to upskill students who come from diverse educational backgrounds, with low levels of maths confidence; relatedly I am interested in statistical literacy.
Project: The Economy, ESPP
Paul Segal studied economics at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been a Research Fellow at Harvard University and at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Sussex, and a Consultant Economist at the United Nations Development Programme. His current research focuses on inequality. He pioneered the use of the new top incomes data in analysing the global distribution of income, and is currently working on inequality within developing countries, and new interdisciplinary approaches to economic inequality as a Leverhulme Research Fellow.
Personal website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/idi/People/Academic-staff/Paul-Segal/Index.aspx
Project: The Economy, ESPP
Paul Segal studied economics at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been a Research Fellow at Harvard University and at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Sussex, and a Consultant Economist at the United Nations Development Programme. His current research focuses on inequality. He pioneered the use of the new top incomes data in analysing the global distribution of income, and is currently working on inequality within developing countries, and new interdisciplinary approaches to economic inequality as a Leverhulme Research Fellow.
Personal website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/idi/People/Academic-staff/Paul-Segal/Index.aspx
Project: The Economy, Core Economics website USA
Rajiv Sethi' s research areas include microeconomics and game theory, with applications to inequality, crime, and communication. In recent research, he has examined segregation in neighborhoods and social networks, stereotyping in economic interactions, disparities across groups in crime victimization and incarceration, and the intergenerational transmission of inequality. He is on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and Economics and Philosophy, and is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Personal website: http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/
Project: The Economy, Core Economics website USA
Rajiv Sethi' s research areas include microeconomics and game theory, with applications to inequality, crime, and communication. In recent research, he has examined segregation in neighborhoods and social networks, stereotyping in economic interactions, disparities across groups in crime victimization and incarceration, and the intergenerational transmission of inequality. He is on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and Economics and Philosophy, and is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Personal website: http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/
Ratidzo Starkey is Head of Outreach and Education at the Bank of England, whose aim is to make the Bank more accessible to the wider public. He is responsible for driving the Bank’s public engagement activities, the development of the Bank’s education programme and the Bank’s Museum. Ratidzo began her career at the Bank of England before moving to the private sector where she worked as an Economist in a number of risk functions at Barclays Capital and Lloyds Banking Group. She has a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Finance from the University of York and an MSc in Finance, Economics and Econometrics from Cass Business School.
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Having taught a wide variety of economics courses to undergraduates studying PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), she is enthusiastic about Core Economics website’s mission to teach economics in a social and political context, and to make economic modelling accessible to students with different interests and backgrounds. Margaret Stevens has taught at the University of Oxford since 1993, having been a schoolteacher earlier in her career. Her research interests are in labour economics and public economics, including theoretical models of labour markets and public policy issues relating to health, education and vocational training.
Ratidzo Starkey is Head of Outreach and Education at the Bank of England, whose aim is to make the Bank more accessible to the wider public. He is responsible for driving the Bank’s public engagement activities, the development of the Bank’s education programme and the Bank’s Museum. Ratidzo began her career at the Bank of England before moving to the private sector where she worked as an Economist in a number of risk functions at Barclays Capital and Lloyds Banking Group. She has a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Finance from the University of York and an MSc in Finance, Economics and Econometrics from Cass Business School.
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Having taught a wide variety of economics courses to undergraduates studying PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), she is enthusiastic about Core Economics website’s mission to teach economics in a social and political context, and to make economic modelling accessible to students with different interests and backgrounds. Margaret Stevens has taught at the University of Oxford since 1993, having been a schoolteacher earlier in her career. Her research interests are in labour economics and public economics, including theoretical models of labour markets and public policy issues relating to health, education and vocational training.
Project: The Economy, ESPP
Since September 2017, Alex Teytelboym is a Tutorial Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford and, since 2014, a Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT in 2013-2014 and a visiting professor at the MIT economics department in 2017. He is interested in market design, the economics of networks, and environmental economics. In 2016, he co-founded Refugees' Say, an organization that develops technology to improve refugees resettlement.
Personal website: http://t8el.com/
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Project: The Economy, ESPP
Since September 2017, Alex Teytelboym is a Tutorial Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford and, since 2014, a Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT in 2013-2014 and a visiting professor at the MIT economics department in 2017. He is interested in market design, the economics of networks, and environmental economics. In 2016, he co-founded Refugees' Say, an organization that develops technology to improve refugees resettlement.
Personal website: http://t8el.com/
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Project: Doing Economics
Guglielmo is a Reader in Economics Education within the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. He received his PhD from Dundee University, his MSc Economics from Glasgow University and his Laurea in Political Economy from the Trento University. His research interests lie in the area of economics education and students achievement. He has recently been involved in a large scale project aimed at investigating the development of ‘sense of belonging’ among first year undergraduate students. An ‘identity economics’ framework is used to investigate the factors affecting a student’s development of belonging to the institution of study and the implications for academic achievement. He is also researching the impact of ‘loss aversion’ in providing incentives to study harder. Guglielmo is also interested in the pedagogical benefits of problem and enquiry based learning. He applies their principles in his teaching and researches its application in economics and is effectiveness in enhancing learning. Guglielmo is a National Teaching Fellow and also an associate of the Economics Network (www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk).
Personal website: http://www.econ.qmul.ac.uk/staff/guglielmovolpe.html
Project: The Economy
Georg's research areas include entrepreneurship, innovation, the economics of intellectual property and of intangible assets. Current research includes analysis of the European patent system, the use of internet search data for the valuation of intangible (knowledge) assets and measuring the returns to R&D and innovation at the firm level. He is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Queen Mary University of London, School of Business and Management. He is an Economics Fellow at the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe) and an associate member of the Center for Competiton Policy at University of East Anglia as well as at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre.
Personal website: http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/staff/vongraevenitzg.html
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Stephen is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck, University of London and Director of the Graduate Diploma Programmes in Economics/Quantitative Economics. Before moving to Birkbeck in 2001 he worked in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge. He had previously worked as a Staff Economist for the Bank of England from 1986 to 1991. His published research spans the fields of macroeconomics, finance and econometrics.
Personal website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ems/faculty/wright
Project: Doing Economics
Guglielmo is a Reader in Economics Education within the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. He received his PhD from Dundee University, his MSc Economics from Glasgow University and his Laurea in Political Economy from the Trento University. His research interests lie in the area of economics education and students achievement. He has recently been involved in a large scale project aimed at investigating the development of ‘sense of belonging’ among first year undergraduate students. An ‘identity economics’ framework is used to investigate the factors affecting a student’s development of belonging to the institution of study and the implications for academic achievement. He is also researching the impact of ‘loss aversion’ in providing incentives to study harder. Guglielmo is also interested in the pedagogical benefits of problem and enquiry based learning. He applies their principles in his teaching and researches its application in economics and is effectiveness in enhancing learning. Guglielmo is a National Teaching Fellow and also an associate of the Economics Network (www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk).
Personal website: http://www.econ.qmul.ac.uk/staff/guglielmovolpe.html
Project: The Economy
Georg's research areas include entrepreneurship, innovation, the economics of intellectual property and of intangible assets. Current research includes analysis of the European patent system, the use of internet search data for the valuation of intangible (knowledge) assets and measuring the returns to R&D and innovation at the firm level. He is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Queen Mary University of London, School of Business and Management. He is an Economics Fellow at the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe) and an associate member of the Center for Competiton Policy at University of East Anglia as well as at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre.
Personal website: http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/staff/vongraevenitzg.html
Project: ESPP, Doing Economics
Stephen is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck, University of London and Director of the Graduate Diploma Programmes in Economics/Quantitative Economics. Before moving to Birkbeck in 2001 he worked in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge. He had previously worked as a Staff Economist for the Bank of England from 1986 to 1991. His published research spans the fields of macroeconomics, finance and econometrics.
Personal website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ems/faculty/wright