People
Meet our team and discover our research interests.
Our team
Dr Claudia Cerrone (Research Group Lead)
Claudia is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer). Her fields of research are Experimental Economics and Game Theory. She is interested in researching how non-standard preferences and cognitive biases affect strategic interaction. She is also interested in market design experiments, with a focus on school choice.
Dr Xiaogang Che
Xiaogang is a Reader. He is an applied micro-economist with research interests in Auctions, Business Economics, Digital Economy, Industrial Organization.
Dr Maria Cubel
Maria Cubel is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer). She 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 Xeni Dassiou
Xeni's research is in the field of Microeconomic Theory, specifically Industrial Economics, competition policy, as well as more recently working in the interface between market structure and finance.
Dr Zahra Gambarova
Zahra is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) and the Associate Dean Student Experience in the School of Policy and Global Affairs. Her research fields are game theory, experimental economics and mechanism design, with a focus on coordination games.
Dr Sotiris Georganas
Sotiris' primary area of research until now has been in auction experiments, models of bounded rationality and applied game theory. In general Sotiris is interested in many, quite diverse areas of economics, ranging from experimental economics, game theory and bounded rationality to political economy, urban economics and trade.
Caroline Liqui Lung
Caroline is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics, working in Behavioural Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and Experimental Economics. She primarily studies how bounded rationality and social factors, such as social identity and gender, shape decision-making and contribute to wider social and economic outcomes.
Dr Arina Nikandrova
Arina is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer). Her research interests lie in the field of microeconomic theory and applications, focusing on information acquisition in selling mechanisms, dynamic learning and competition economics.
Itzhak Rasooly
Itzhak is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer). His research interests include behavioural economics, experimental economics, and microeconomic theory.
Dr Alessandro Sontuoso
Alessandro’s work produces both theoretical and empirical results, which are readily applicable to policy analysis. Specifically, it explores the epistemic conditions that influence decision-making processes, and the effects of information transmission on strategic behaviour. Alessandro’s research methods include game-theoretic modelling, experimentation, statistical and machine learning tools.
Dr Sergiu Ungureanu
Sergiu's main focus is microeconomic theory, with interests in decision theory and behavioural economics. He worked extensively on a classical rational decision theory account of behavioural observations like loss aversion and probability weightings, which are summarised in prospect theory. The goal is to use a bounded rationality mechanism which, when paired with other regular/classical assumptions, predicts the experimental biases observed.
Professor Klaus G. Zauner
Klaus' research focuses on explaining the observed behaviour in experiments that is at odds with standard economic theory using noisy payoffs and other-regarding preferences in classical strategic situations like ultimatum bargaining games or dynamic versions of the prisoners' dilemma. Recently, puzzled about issues of corporate asset stripping and tunnelling in transitional economies, he has started to investigate the impact of private benefits of control of managers on the investment behaviour of firms.