Members
Meet the members of the Applied Microeconomics Research Group.
Academic staff
You can find out more about each member of staff, including their latest publications and their contact details by following the links below.
Dr Filippo Boeri
Filippo Boeri's research interests lie at the intersection of urban economics, economic geography, and international trade. His work investigates how technological shocks shape regional economic outcomes and contribute to inequalities across places and socio-economic groups. He is also interested in the evaluation of place-based policies and the historical drivers of spatial inequality.
Dr Dagmara Celik-Katreniak
Dagmara Celik-Katreniak is an applied microeconomist with primary research interests in experimental and development economics, economics of education, and economics of happiness. More specifically, she focuses on the implementation of lab and field experiments in topics related to education, poverty alleviation, discrimination, inequality, and their relation to human psychology, particularly to stress and happiness.
Dr Maria Cubel
Maria Cubel is a behavioural economist with a background as a microeconomic theorist. Her research interests are in the fields of applied microeconomics and experimental economics, with a particular focus on labour and gender economics, public economics, and contest and conflict.
Dr Giulia Faggio
Giulia Faggio is an applied micro-economist with research interests in labour economics, urban economics and local economic development. Her recent work examines co-agglomeration patterns of manufacturing industries in the UK and their link to agglomeration economies; labour market effects of public sector worker relocations (in the UK and Germany); the local impact of urban regeneration policies; and differences in consumption patterns across UK cities.
Dr Lena Hassani-Nezhad
Lena Hassani-Nezhad's research interests are in the fields of empirical microeconomics, labour economics, and economics of the family.
Dr Nicolas Navarrete Hernandez
Nicolas Navarrete Hernandez' areas of research are labour economics, health economics and economics of education.
Professor Neelam Jain
Neelam Jain's research interests are all areas of applied microeconomics focussing particularly on industrial organisation, health and education.
Dr Daniel Silva Junior
Daniel Silva Junior’s research interests include empirical industrial organisation, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, and structural econometrics.
Dr Bansi Malde
Bansi Malde is an applied microeconomist with primary research interests in development economics and health economics. She leverages novel, large scale datasets (including data she has collected) and experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study the adoption of technologies, programmes and practices, the determinants of child health, and the effects of social networks in developing countries.
Dr Brendon McConnell
Brendon McConnell's core research focus is on the economics of crime and criminal sentencing. He also works in the areas of family and environmental economics.
Professor Emmanouil Mentzakis
Emmanouil Mentzakis is an applied economist working with experimental and non-experimental methodologies. His work mainly focuses on micro-econometric applications on health and environment, experimental studies on other-regarding preferences, and the elicitation of preferences through discrete choice experiments.
Professor Alice Mesnard
Alice Mesnard is an applied economist working with experimental and non-experimental methodologies. Specialising in the economics of migration, health and education, her research explores the role of public policies in improving economic and human development.
Dr Clement Minaudier
Clement Minaudier's research interests are in the fields of political economy and organisational economics. His research seeks to understand how the information and evidence used to make political decisions is generated and communicated, and how information affects the behaviour of political agents such as lobbyists, civil servants, or activists.
Dr Alejandro Riaño
Alejandro Riaño's research explores how individuals and firms adjust to globalization. His current work focuses on four areas: the drivers of firms’ global engagement through exports, imports, and foreign direct investment; the impact of export-contingent subsidies and promotion policies on firm-level export performance; the effects of globalisation on firms’ real and financial volatility; and the consequences of trade openness for individuals, including wage inequality, informality, and health outcomes.
Dr Victoria Serra-Sastre
Victoria Serra-Sastre’s main research interests are health economics and applied microeconometrics. Her research focuses on diffusion of health care technologies, including the impact of technology on health outcomes, hospital performance and workforce composition. Her research is also centered around healthcare workforce, especifically on workplace violence, staff retention in the NHS and efficiency.
Dr Agne Suziedelyte
Agne Suziedelyte specialises in the economics of health and media. Her research focuses on the effects of digital technologies on health, human capital development, and labour market outcomes. Agne's other research interests include intended and unintended consequences of public policies and mental health.