Expertise in the Department of Economics

Our internationally-renowned research expertise spans all major areas within the field of economics and our ESRC approved PhD programme welcomes high calibre students from all over the world.

Behavioural Economics

Behavioural economics	Dr Marina Della Giusta
Economics of happiness	Mr Colin Ash Dr Marina Della Giusta Dr Sarah Jewell Professor Uma Kambhampati

Econometrics

Applied microeconometrics	Dr Niaz Asadullah Dr Vivien Burrows Dr Alessandra Ferrari Dr Sarah Jewell Professor Uma Kambhampati Dr Samantha Rawlings Dr Zahra Siddique
Financial econometrics	Dr Simon Burke
Performance measurement	Dr Alessandra Ferrari
Spatial econometrics	Professor Geoff Meen
Theory and applications	Professor Nigar Hashimzade
Time series	Dr Simon Burke Professor Kerry Patterson Dr Fang Xu

Economic Development

Applied industrial economics for development	Professor Uma Kambhampati
Child labour and schooling	Dr Niaz Asadullah Professor Uma Kambhampati Dr Samantha Rawlings
Education	Dr Niaz Asadullah Professor Uma Kambhampati
Health	Dr Samantha Rawlings
Industrialisation	Professor Uma Kambhampati
Institutions and development	Dr Niaz Asadullah Dr Marina Della Giusta Professor Uma Kambhampati Dr Christian Nygaard Dr Zahra Siddique

Economic History and Long-Run Change

Archaeology and history of Europe and the Middle East	Dr Ken Dark
Long-term economic, political, cultural and urban change	Professor Mark Casson Dr Ken Dark

Economics of Institutions

Economics of health services	Dr Alessandra Ferrari
Economics of trust	Professor Mark Casson Dr Marina Della Giusta
Gender	Dr Marina Della Giusta Dr Sarah Jewell Prof Giovanni Razzu
Labour Market	Prof Giovanni Razzu
Networks	Professor Mark Casson Dr Pascal Mossay Dr Nigel Wadeson
Socioeconomic dynamics, political economy and institution design	Professor Nigar Hashimzade Dr Alexander Mihailov Prof Giovanni Razzu

Economic Theory

Macroeconomic theory	Dr Mark Guzman Dr Alexander Mihailov
Microeconomic theory	Professor Nigar Hashimzade Dr Pascal Mossay

Emerging Markets

Emerging markets

Professor Uma Kambhampati Dr Christian Nygaard

Energy Economics

Energy economics

Dr Christian Nygaard

International Business

Culture and leadership on MNEs	Professor Mark Casson
Economics of the MNE	Professor Mark Casson Professor Robert Pearce Dr Lynda Porter
Economics of small business and entrepreneurship	Professor Mark Casson Dr Nigel Wadeson
Foreign direct investment
International business and innovation	Professor Mark Casson Professor Robert Pearce

International Economics

International macroeconomics and finance	Dr Alexander Mihailov
International microeconomics and industrial organisation

Macroeconomics and Finance

Applied macroeconomics and finance	Dr Simon Burke Dr Alexander Mihailov Professor Kerry Patterson Dr Fang Xu
Information, learning and asset pricing	Dr Alexander Mihailov Dr Pascal Mossay
Monetary economics, banking and financial markets	Dr Mark Guzman Dr Alexander Mihailov
Theoretical macroeconomics and finance	Dr Mark Guzman Dr Alexander Mihailov

Microeconomics

Applied microeconomics	Dr Vivien Burrows Dr Alessandra Ferrari Dr Sarah Jewell Dr Samantha Rawlings
Decision making with information costs	Dr Nigel Wadeson
Labour Economics	Dr Sarah Jewell
Spatial economics	Dr Pascal Mossay
The theory of the firm	Professor Mark Casson Dr Nigel Wadeson

Public Economics and Public Policy

Environmental policy and climate change	Dr Marina Della Giusta Dr Christian Nygaard
Fiscal policy, debt sustainability and taxation	Dr Mark Guzman Professor Nigar Hashimzade Dr Alexander Mihailov
Housing and regional policy	Professor Geoff Meen Dr Christian Nygaard
Monetary policy, banking and financial regulation	Dr Alessandra Ferrari Dr Mark Guzman Dr Alexander Mihailov
Public economics	Professor Nigar Hashimzade Prof Giovanni Razzu
Poverty, Inequality, Social Mobility	Prof Giovanni Razzu

Urban and Regional Economics

Urban and regional economics

Professor Geoff Meen Dr Christian Nygaard