LSE Dept of Econ: Faculty Research

Department of Economics: Faculty Research

In various rankings of departments produced by the profession, based on publications in leading journals, the LSE Economics Department has consistently been in the top twenty worldwide. All mainstream areas are strongly represented; a summary of faculty and their academic interests can be in the table below.

Most research activity is integrated within collaborative programmes organised by LSE research centres. The main economics-related centres are the Suntory and Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines (see Suntory and Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines), the Centre for Economic Performance (see Centre for Economic Performance), and the Financial Markets Group (see Financial Markets Group); these provide a first-class research environment.

Upwards of a dozen seminars and workshops take place weekly throughout term time and we are privileged in having a constant flow of stimulating visitors from all points of the globe. We also have a thriving PhD programme of around 100 students, who make a full contribution to the life of the Department.

Academic	Research Interests
Dr Kosuke AOKI	Monetary economics, Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics.
Prof Tony ATKINSON
Dr Oriana BANDIERA	Development economics, personnel economics, public economics and economic history.
Dr Sanghamitra BANDYOPADHYAY	Development Economics, Measurement of Inequality & Poverty
Prof Nicholas BARR	The welfare state; social insurance; pensions; health finance; higher education finance; post-communist transition.
Dr Gianluca BENIGNO	International Macroeconomics, International Finance and Monetary Economics
Prof Tim BESLEY	Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Dr Margaret BRAY	Portfolio theory; agency problems in financial markets; expectation formation.
Prof Robin BURGESS	Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy, Labor Economics, Environmental Economics
Prof Francesco CASELLI	Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Economic Growth, Economics and Politics
Prof Frank COWELL	Income and wealth distribution, inequality and poverty, issues in taxation.
Dr Christopher DOUGHERTY	Planning of education and training, manpower analysis.
Dr Erik EYSTER	Microeconomic theory; psychology and economics; political economy
Prof Leonardo FELLI	Contract theory, incomplete contracts, learning and matching, firm-specific human capital.
Dr Greg FISCHER	Development Economics, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
Prof Luis GARICANO
Prof Maitreesh GHATAK	Development Economics, Public Organisations
Dr Bernardo GUIMARAES	International Economics, currency and financial crisis.
Dr Vassilis HAJIVASSILIOU	Applied and Theoretical Microeconometrics; Simulation-Based Inference; Inference with Thick Tailed Distributions; Panel Data Analysis; Applied Corporate Finance; Financing Constraints and Firm Behaviour
Prof John HARDMAN MOORE	Economic theory
Prof Javier HIDALGO	Econometrics
Dr Ethan ILZETZKI	Macroeconomics, International Finance and Fiscal Policy
Dr Radha IYENGAR
Prof Richard JACKMAN	Economics of the labour market, unemployment, wage determination, labour markets in Eastern Europe.
Dr Keyu JIN
Dr Henrik KLEVEN
Dr Tatiana KOMAROVA
Dr Jonathan LEAPE	Public economics, tax policy, foreign direct investment, international capital flows, financial liberalisation and financial regulation in developing countries, especially South Africa and Southern Africa.
Prof Gilat LEVY	Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy, Law and Economics
Prof Oliver LINTON	Econometric theory; Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods; Empirical Finance.
Prof Alan MANNING	Labour markets, unemployment, minimum wages, monopsony.
Prof Albert MARCET
Mr Alan MARIN	EU, pollution control, valuation of life, macroeconomic policy, wage differentials by gender,sexual orientation, risk and appearance
Dr Alex MICHAELIDES	Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance
Dr Guy MICHAELS	Labour Economics, Economic Development, Economic Geography
Dr Francesco NAVA
Dr L. Rachel NGAI	Macroeconomics, Growth and Development, Labour
Dr Gerard PADRO I MIQUEL	Economic Development, Conflict, Economics of Institutions, Political Economy
Prof Torsten PERSSON
Prof Martin PESENDORFER	Industrial Organization, Auctions, Information Economics, Strategic Interaction.
Dr Barbara PETRONGOLO	Labour markets, unemployment, search theory, applied econometrics
Prof Michele PICCIONE	Microeconomic theory, game theory, bounded rationality.
Prof Steve PISCHKE	Labour economics, economics of education, applied econometrics
Prof Christopher PISSARIDES	Macroeconomics, especially search theory,unemployment, growth and structural change.
Prof Andrea PRAT	Microeconomic theory: public economics, political economy, game theory, organization theory.
Prof Danny QUAH	Growth. Income inequality. Technology. Intellectual property rights.
Dr Rohit RAHI	Arbitrage in segmented markets; Financial innovation and security design; Asset pricing with asymmetric information; General equilibrium theory; Incomplete markets
Dr Ronny RAZIN	TBA
Prof Stephen REDDING	Theoretical models of endogenous growth and international trade, empirical modelling of income and trade dynamics, theoretical and empirical modelling of foreign direct investment, empirical measurement and econometric modelling of productivity growth.
Prof Peter ROBINSON	Econometrics, time series analysis, nonparametric inference, semiparametric inference.
Dr Marcia SCHAFGANS	Theoretical and applied microeconomics, semiparametric and nonparametric estimation techniques, limited dependent variable models, sample selection models, development economics.
Prof Mark SCHANKERMAN	Transition economics, research and development, patents and intellectual property rights, applied microeconometrics, transition economics after the R&D and intell and property rights.
Dr Pasquale SCHIRALDI	IO, Micro Theory, Applied Econometrics
Dr Philipp SCHMIDT-DENGLER	Industrial Organisation, Applied Econometrics, Technology Adoption
Dr Myung Hwan SEO	Econometrics
Dr Judith SHAPIRO	Economics of Post-Transition and Transition, particularly Russian; Economics of Health and Population
Dr Kevin SHEEDY	Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Macroeconometrics
Dr Johannes SPINNEWIJN
Prof Lord Nicholas STERN
Dr Daniel STURM
Prof John SUTTON	Theories of industrial structure and their empirical implementation.
Prof Balazs SZENTES
Dr Silvana TENREYRO	Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Economics, Growth
Prof Howell TONG	Nonlinear Time Series; Chaos; Dynamical Systems
Prof John VAN REENEN	Productivity, innovation, public policy, labour, industrial organisation, competition policy
Dr Georg WEIZSACKER	Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Applied Microeconomics.
Prof Christine WHITEHEAD	Industrial economics; urban economics, housing economics, finance and policy
Prof Alwyn YOUNG