School of Economics

PhD Projects

We have a number of research students in the school. You can view their profiles below. You can also view our PhD students' career destinations to see where our students have worked since completing their PhDs.

Current research students
NameProject title
Year one
Luke Abolins Stopping at the top: How prior maximum profit levels shape behaviour in online poker
Jose Arcaya Caycho Labour cost and export dynamics in a developing economy: The impact of minimum wage increase on trade margins in Peru
Thomas Barnes Investigating the relationship between the “Social Value Orientation” metric and Social Preference models in Economics
Adrian Brown An object stays at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force: How pension auto-enrolment and the force of inertia cause debt
Yujie Jia Democracy in unequal times: How economic inequality influences democratic backsliding
Yunchao Jiang The role of social closeness in pure coordination games
Jingwei Li Do you keep your promise because you want to keep it or you just want to do what you have promised?
Joseph McDonnell Somebody’s watching me? Examining the effects of surveillance on deceptive behaviour inside the lab and beyond
Rishita Mehra Does industrial policy impact capital flows?
Glory Okutue Litigation risk and innovation portfolio: Analysing firms’ direction of innovation
Xue Wang Decision of self-promotion: Theory and experiment
Year two
Emily Barnes Identifying latent MPC heterogeneity using a classifier-Lasso
Taejun Kim Estimating crash regime change points under time varying volatility
Junggie Lee Economic growth by idea diffusion and the self-employment
Yanfriti Pakpahan Intangible capital and firm-level productivity
Sagarika Sengupta Impact of the 2004 tsunami on household consumption expenditure
Mirsad Sipahioglu Growth, trade and wealth inequality in China
Kieran Stockley The emergence of pluralistic ignorance
Shipei Zhang Bank discrimination and the dual-track interest rate system in the Chinese economy
Hengxi Zhu Trade shocks and market concentration
Year three
Malena Arcidiacono Tax cuts at the ballot box: Exploring the impact of an income tax holiday on voting behaviour
Fabrizio Ardiles Decker To form or not to form a currency union for South-American countries
Taufiq Bid Mohd Zin The interaction of domestic bank loans with exchange rand foreign interest rate
Lucas Braga de Melo Intergovernmental transfer spillovers on the labour market
Selim Elbadri Divergent transformation paths: An anatomy of the Baumol Cost Disease
Tong Fang The role of payoffs in repeated prisoner’s dilemma games
Pierce Gately Rule following and cooperation
Yifan Li The role of advice: An experimental study of inertia and reinforcement heuristic in decision making
Andres Martignano Mass migration in Argentina: A study on the effects of migrants on Argentine politics
Jesus Rodriguez Evaluating tax expenditures in advanced and emerging economies: Using Text Data and Machine Learning tools
Juan Siachoque The wage growth penalty of informal employment
Year four
Matias Golman The value of personality
Guido Lamarmora Structural change and innovation
Hyunkang Lim How do capital controls and Macroprudential Policy interact with monetary policy in a small open economy?
Sungwon Moon On-the-job search, precautionary savings and the progressivity of income taxes
Cleopatra Ngoma Bank heterogeneity and monetary policy pass-through in Zambia
Miquel Oliver i Vert Customer base and the advertising sector
Maria Agustina Sampaolesi Heterogeneous firms, monetary policy and growth
Marcelo Woo Deliberate avoidance of information in groups: Experimental evidence
Lanlan Wu Global supply chain and the comparative advantage of firms
Writing up
Georg Sator Morality and social norms in economic decision-making
Sam van de Schootbrugge UK fiscal multipliers: A macro- and micro-perspective 
Benjamin Tatlow Exploring explosive asset behaviour in high-frequency data

 

 

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