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Research Supervisors |
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Dr Raslan Alzuabi
raslan.alzuabi@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research Interests: Raslan’s research interests lie in the field of household finance. His work focuses on linking households’ financial behaviour to the macroeconomic environment and on exploring the drivers of household financial decisions at the micro level. Raslan's current research explores the relationship between trust in the financial system and households' financial decision making. More broadly he is interested in factors that influence household financial portfolio allocations. In addition, Raslan's work on households’ financial behaviour has developed to consider the implications of housing affordability and whether it should be extended beyond objective economic criteria and include households’ subjective dimensions. |
Professor Sarah Brown
sarah.brown@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Sarah's research interests lie in the area of applied microeconometrics focusing on labour economics, the economics of education and, more recently, household financial decision-making. Her research has focused on individual, household and firm-level data as well as matched workplace-employee data. Examples of research projects include empirical analysis of the reservation wages of the unemployed (funded by the ESRC) and empirical analysis of wage growth, human capital and risk aversion (funded by the Leverhulme Trust). Her current research focuses on household financial decision-making and attitudes towards risk. Sarah is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics. |
Dr Mark Bryan
m.l.bryan@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Mark is interested in supervising PhD students in variety of topics in empirical labour studies including:
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Dr Andrew Burlinson
a.c.burlinson@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Dr Andrew Burlinson joined University of 91直播’s Department of Economics as Lecturer in September 2023, and is a member of the 91直播 Urban, International Trade and Environmental Economics (SUITE) group and the Centre for Competition Policy (CCP). Andrew joined 91直播 following his Lectureship in Energy Economics at the University of East Anglia (NBS). Before joining UEA he returned to the University of Warwick as a teaching fellow in the Department of Economics, following postdoctoral research associate roles in Loughborough University's School of Business and Economics. Andrew holds a PhD at Warwick Business School (Economic Modelling and Forecasting Group) - funded by Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network Fund. He was awarded a distinction in Economics (MSc) at the University of Nottingham and a first-class hons degree in Economics (BSc) at Newcastle University/University of Groningen. Dr Andrew Burlinson has published in international peer-reviewed journals including, Research Policy, Social Science and Medicine, and Energy Economics. He has worked on several projects funded by UKERC, Ofgem, EPSRC and CERRE. Andrew is embedded in the current policy and research areas of consumer decision-making on the adoption of energy efficient and renewable technologies, and inequality within energy markets, with a focus on the deleterious effects of poverty on health, wellbeing, and healthy eating, as well as the resilience of households to high energy prices. Andrew has contributed to policy discussions and roundtables with leading experts and practitioners, including the APPG on Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency, the Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum, Ofgem and National Energy Action. His findings have received national (e.g., BBC Radio, Daily Mail, ITV, The Sun) and global interest (Africa, Asia, Europe, and America), as well as featured in Understanding Society's Insights Report, National Energy Action's 2023 Fuel Poverty Monitor, and Nottingham City Council’s Fuel Poverty Strategy (2018-2025). |
Professor Andrew Dickerson
a.p.dickerson@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Andy's research interests are mainly applied, and are focussed on the operation and functioning of labour markets, the interaction between financial and product markets and the labour market, and the analysis of micro and longitudinal data, including matched datasets. Recent research has been funded by the Low Pay Commission, DfES, DEFRA, DCFS, Department for Food and Rural Affairs, and the Scottish Executive. His current research includes: examining variations in returns to qualifications of various kinds in the UK; the incidence and intensity of workplace training; on child poverty; and the measurement of subjective expectations using survey data. |
Dr Georgios Efthyvoulou
g.efthyvoulou@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Georgios' research interests lie in the areas of political economics, international industrial economics, and applied econometrics. In particular, his research focuses on:
Georgios is actively involved in presenting his work to the academic and policymaking community through seminars, policy workshops, and world-leading international conferences. |
Dr Daniel Gray
d.j.gray@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Daniel’s research interests include the area of subjective well-being with a particular focus on the role of the household’s financial position. In addition, he is currently interested in household financial portfolio allocation and the effects of education on financial decision making. More generally he is interested in applied microeconometrics and, in future, he would like to further explore these areas in addition to developing new research interests. Daniel is looking to supervise PhD students in the area of household finances and applied microeconometrics. |
Dr Pamela Lenton
p.lenton@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Pamela's research interests lie in the economics of education, labour economics and health. Pamela's primary interest is education economics. More recently Pamela has focused on the areas of household debt and health and the problems faced by the financially excluded. This is joint work with Paul Mosley and a book of the empirical research undertaken in UK cities will be published later this year. Pamela has also just completed an economic analysis of the Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (with Jenny Roberts and John Brazier) which was funded by the National Institute for Health Research. |
Dr Aidas Masiliunas
a.masiliunas@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research Interests Aidas is an experimental economist who uses laboratory, online and field experiments, as well as game theory, to understand human behaviour. Aidas is interested in understanding how boundedly rational decisions depend on the framing, information or feedback in the game. To address these questions, Aidas compares the predictions of agent-based models to experimental data in games where convergence is slow or there are multiple equilibria to which choices could converge. Results from this research shed some light on whether behaviour is driven by beliefs, preferences or bounded rationality, and how the policymakers could use information design to shift behaviour in a desirable manner. Aidas is also interested in using experimental methods to address problems such as climate change, income inequality and collusion in oligopolies. Some aspects of each problem can be modelled by appropriately designed games and the consequences of potential policy interventions can be investigated using both behavioural game theory and laboratory experiments. Specifically, his recent research explores whether exposure to income inequality has a negative effect on productivity, whether the outcomes of climate change negotiations depend on historical responsibility and whether collusion is more likely in more concentrated markets. |
Professor Jesse Matheson
j.matheson@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Jesse’s research focuses in applied micro-econometrics, with contributions to public, labour and health economics. His research agenda focuses on understanding, and empirically identifying, the influence that economic and social environment have on individual choice. Recent examples include a large randomised field experiment, run with a UK Police Force, which found that improving the access to public support services for victims of domestic violence leads to more efficient use of police resources. He also has a series of projects that measure the effect of social environment on individual decision making in the context of smoking, marital decisions, and raising children. Jesse is interested in supervising PhD students working in applied micro-econometrics. Specifically, he is interested in three areas: estimating social interactions and social spill-overs; the economics of health, particularly with respect to individual choice; and urban sorting and amenities. |
Dr Jolian McHardy
j.mchardy@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Jolian´s research interests lie primarily in the area of theoretical economics. He is currently working on oligopoly theory especially with applications in networks, corruption, regulation, uncertainty and welfare. He is interested in supervising doctoral work in network theory, regulation and welfare loss due to the exercise of monopoly power. |
Professor Steven McIntosh
s.mcintosh@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Steve researches in the areas of Labour Economics and the Economics of Education. Much of his research examines the labour market outcomes of education, considering for example the wage returns to particular qualifications, and the incidence and implications of mismatch between the demand for and the supply of skills. Steve´s current research projects involve a study of the wage returns to apprenticeships, an examination of the relationship between vocational qualification subjects and job tasks, the effects of the polarisation of the labour market on worker transitions, and an evaluation of a government training provision policy. Steve is interested in supervising any applied microeconometric PhD in the areas of labour or education. |
Dr Subhasish Modak Chowdhury
subhasish.chowdhury@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research Interests Subhasish M. Chowdhury joined 91直播 as Professor of Economics in 2022. His areas of research interest cover both theoretical and applied investigations of problems in Conflict, Industrial Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Political Economy. Subhasish serves as a Co-Editor of the journals ‘Frontiers in Behavioral Economics’, and ‘Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy’ and is an editorial board member of ‘Studies in Microeconomics’. He has also served as a guest-editor for ‘Economic Inquiry’ and the ‘Journal of Economics Psychology’. His research has been published in journals such as the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Theory etc. |
Professor Alberto Montagnoli
a.montagnoli@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Alberto’s research interests lie in the area of financial markets and banking. A central theme of his work has been the interaction between financial markets, monetary policy and the real economy at both a national and regional level. Recently his work has focused on various areas of behavioural finance and macroeconomics. Alberto is interested in supervising PhD students with topics that are in line with the research interests described above. |
Dr Konstantinos Mouratidis
k.mouratidis@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests My research focuses on two areas: Economic forecasting and Monetary Economics. In the area of economic forecasting, I evaluate the forecast performance of forecasters using survey data. Alternatively, in the area of monetary economic, I analyze monetary policy preferences and the policy decision of central banks. I would be interested in supervising PhD students in these areas. |
Dr Kanchana Nadarajah
k.nadarajah@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research Interests Kanchana’s research focuses on time-series Econometrics with applications in economics and finance, semi-parametric and non-parametric statistics, and partial identification and related matters in average treatment effects. Her research interests are directed towards developing new techniques of estimation and inference in linear stationary and non-stationary fractionally integrated models. She investigates the impact of mis-specification in these time series models. Further, her research focuses on developing a new theoretical and methodological framework for estimating the fractional differencing parameter. She is also working on estimation and inference on partial identification-related matters in conjunction with average treatment effects. Kanchana is interested in supervising PhD students willing to work in time series Econometrics inline with her research interests. |
Dr Panagiotis Nanos
p.nanos@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Panos’ research interests lie in the broad field of labour economics. His work focuses on labour markets characterised by trading frictions. Using both applied theory and applied econometrics, often combined into structural modelling, Panos has examined a range of specific research questions, including the determinants of native-migrant wage differentials, the impact of the minimum wage on labour market outcomes, and the patterns of worker reallocation across firms and local labour markets. Panos is interested in supervising PhD students in labour economics and applied econometrics. |
Dr Antonio Navas
a.navas@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Antonio's research is mainly in two fields: international trade, and growth and economic development. His interests cover a broad variety of research topics in these areas. Others include:
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Dr Chiara Orsini
c.orsini@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Chiara ‘s research is in Applied Microeconometrics and lies at the intersection of Labor Economics, Health Economics, and Public Economics. Chiara studies the behaviour of individuals, firms, and governments, and her research tries to understand intended and unintended effects of public policies, effects of innovation, issues relevant for the design of markets, inequality, consumer response to information, and the transmission of human capital. Chiara is interested in supervising dissertations in Applied Microeconometrics, especially on topics related to the production of health and impact of healthcare policies. |
Dr Juan Paez-Farrell
j.paez-farrell@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Juan's research interests are in the areas of macroeconomics and monetary economics, especially business cycles. His recent research focuses on:
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Dr Indeewara Perera
i.perera@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Indeewara’s research interests include model fitting, estimation, inference and forecasting in non-linear time series models, with special emphasis on statistical analysis of financial data. The concepts and tools used for weak convergence of stochastic processes in metric spaces, bootstrap methods, and goodness-of-fit tests play important roles in most of his research. He has produced several papers in leading journals in the areas of econometric theory, mathematical statistics, and time series analysis. Four of his papers have been published in journals ranked A* by the 2013 Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List. Indeewara is interested in supervising PhD students working in Econometrics (Theoretical or Applied) and Statistics. Specifically, he is interested in the following areas:
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Dr Vito Polito
v.polito@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Quantitative macroeconomics, in particular applications of control theory within reduced-form (VAR) and structural (Dynamic General Equilibrium) models to study macroeconomic policy. Specific research topics include: (i) Fiscal policy sustainability, (ii) optimal monetary policy, (iii) sovereign credit risk, (iv) unemployment and social insurance, (v) optimal macroeconomic policy in heteroskedastic models. Vito is interested in supervising students in quantitative macroeconomics and its intersections with private and public finance, using either VAR, DSGE or OLG models. Specific areas of research he would supervise include: (i) analysis of time-varying volatility models; (ii) monetary and fiscal policy; (iii) sovereign credit risk; (iv) unemployment insurance; (v) ageing and public finances sustainability. |
Dr Gurleen Popli
g.popli@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Gurleen´s primary research interest is in Applied Econometrics. Her research has focused on the effects of economic growth and labour market institutions on the wage structure, distribution of income, and poverty in both the formal and the informal sectors of the economy. An example of a recent project is the effects of free trade on labour market outcomes for women in developing countries. Her current research focuses on the impact of poverty and inequality on early childhood development. Gurleen is interested in supervising students in applied micro- and macro-econometrics. |
Professor Gwilym Pryce
School of Economics |
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Dr Matthew Rablen
School of Economics |
Matthew's research is in public economics and behavioural economics. He focuses on four inter-related areas: understanding the determinants of tax compliance, the link between economic quantities and subjective happiness, explaining decision-making under risk with models of behavioural economics, and designing voting systems for international institutions. Currently he is exploring the role of social networks on compliance behaviour, the role of relative income in the utility function, and the reform of the UN Security Council. Matthew supervises PhD students interested in microeconomic theory and behavioural economics. |
Dr Anita Ratcliffe
a.ratcliffe@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Anita's research interests are in applied microeconomics, with a focus on individual (household) decisions and well-being. Her current research focuses on the links between house prices, consumption and happiness as well as the effect of economic conditions on retirement decisions. She has previously carried out research into fertility decisions and on the role of pro-social behaviour in the delivery of public services. Her research uses individual or household level data, frequently matched with data on local area conditions. She is interested in supervising students in applied microeconomics. |
Professor Jennifer Roberts
j.r.roberts@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Jenny's research interests centre on applied microeconometrics, particularly the interaction of health and labour market outcomes, health-related behaviours, health valuation, the economics of well-being and travel behaviours. She is currently leading a large, innovative, EPSRC-funded project, ': Experienced utility and travel behaviour, a feasibility study', which uses smartphones to gather real-time data on commuting experiences, and to feed this back to them in various ways. The ultimate aim is to influence travel behaviour by encouraging people to reflect on their experience and those of other people. Jenny is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics, especially those with topics that are in line with the research interests described here. |
Dr Cristina Sechel
c.sechel@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research Interests Cristina's research interests are in applied microeconomics and applied econometrics. She is currently working on the causal impact of health status on labour market outcomes as part of the social and economic value of health programme funded by The Health Foundation. She has also worked on urban location choices and gender issues in economics. Her PhD focused on the use of Subjective Well-Being information in Economics. It proposed a methodology for measuring aggregate Subjective Well-Being across nations motivated by Cognitive Dissonance Theory, and examined the evidence for cognitive dissonance in reported life satisfaction data using objective indicators of well-being. She is broadly interested in the economics of well-being and the role of subjective well-being in economic decisions and outcomes. |
Dr Eleni Stathopoulou
e.stathopoulou@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research Interests Eleni is an applied theorist and her main area of expertise lies within the fields of Microeconomics and Environmental Economics. Her work focuses on environmental policy making. She is also interested in the Net Zero energy transition and she has worked as a Work Package leader on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Smart-BEEjS project, to study and support cities and communities in their goal to produce more energy than they use and boost knowledge sharing across stakeholders, exploiting a human-centric and energy-just approach to designing Positive Energy Districts (PEDs). Eleni is interested in supervising PhD students in environmental economics and industrial organisation. |
Professor Karl Taylor
k.b.taylor@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Karl's research interests lie in the area of applied microeconometrics focusing on labour economics, the economics of education and, household financial decision-making. His research has focused on individual, household and firm-level data including matched workplace-employee data. Examples of research projects include empirical analysis of the reservation wages of the unemployed (ESRC) and empirical analysis of wage growth, human capital and risk aversion (Leverhulme Trust). He has been involved in advisory reports for the Home Office and more recently the Department of Health looking at the minimum pricing of alcohol. Karl is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics. |
Professor Christoph Thoenissen
c.thoenissen@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests His research interests are in the areas of open economy macroeconomics, monetary economics, business cycle fluctuations and financial crises. |
Professor Aki Tsuchiya
a.tsuchiya@sheffield.ac.uk Personal Webpage School of Economics School of Medicine and Population Health |
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Dr Bert Van Landeghem
b.vanlandeghem@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
His main research areas include economics and well-being, labour economics, applied microeconometrics and development economics. |
Dr Nicolas Van de Sijpe
n.vandesijpe@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Most of Nicolas’ current research uses cross-country data to study the effectiveness of foreign aid. This includes work on the fungibility of education and health aid, and on a new method to identify the causal effect of aid in a panel data context, used to study the domestic absorption of aid. In addition, he is involved in research on the nexus between child labour and school achievement in Peru. Nicolas would consider supervising PhD students with a focus on applied econometrics in a number of fields, including development economics and political economy. |
Dr Enrico Vanino
e.vanino@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Enrico's research interests are focused on applied microeconometrics, particularly the interaction between international economics and economic geography, regional and urban economics, economic development, firms' innovation and productivity. Specifically, his research looks at firms’ behaviour, and the industrial and spatial analysis of globalization, applying econometric methods and GIS techniques to industrial and trade data at the micro-level, mainly using granular longitudinal data on firms’ characteristics, innovation and internationalization. Research strands include:
Enrico is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics, specifically in topics related to trade and international economics, regional and urban economics, micro-level analysis of firms’ behaviour in terms of internationalization, productivity and innovation, development economics with specific focus on Sub-Saharan Africa or the Chinese economy, and environmental economics. |
Dr Bingsong Wang
bingsong.wang@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Bingsong Wang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of 91直播. Prior to joining 91直播, he had taught at the University of Warwick (2016 - 2021). He received his PhD from the University of Bath in December 2016. His main research interests lie in Macro-Labour, Business Cycles, Inequality, and Macro-Finance. |
Dr Emily Whitehouse
e.whitehouse@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Emily’s research focuses on time series and financial econometrics. Some of her current areas of interest are:
Emily is interested in supervising graduate research in the areas of time series and financial econometrics (both theoretical and applied). |
Professor Peter Wright
p.wright@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Research interests Peter's research interests lie primarily in the area of labour market adjustment, and he has worked in both open and closed economy frameworks. His work has been both theoretical and applied. Examples of his work include: an examination of the wage and employment effects of merger; Corporate governance reforms and executive compensation determination; the unemployment and income consequences for individuals of firm closure. He is particulary interested in supervising doctoral work using matched employer-employee data. |
Dr Mallory Yeromonahos
m.yeromonahos@sheffield.ac.uk School of Economics |
Mallory's research interests lie in the area of macroeconomics, in particular heterogeneous DSGE modelling, household finance, and business cycles. |