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
Prof Tony ATKINSON
Prof Oriana BANDIERA	Development Economics, Organizational Economics
Dr Sanghamitra BANDYOPADHYAY	Development Economics, Measurement of Inequality & Poverty
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.
Dr Gharad BRYAN	Development Economics, Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics
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.
Prof Wouter DEN HAAN	Macroeconomics, the role of frictions in financial and labour markets for business cycles, business cycle models with heterogeneous agents, computational economics
Dr Swati DHINGRA	International Trade, Industrial Development
Dr Christopher DOUGHERTY	Planning of education and training, manpower analysis.
Dr Erik EYSTER	Microeconomic theory, Psychology and economics, Experimental economics
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	Economics of Organizations, Financial System Architecture, Income Inequality, Productivity and Growth, Information Technology, Labour, Law and Economics
Prof Maitreesh GHATAK	Development Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Organizations
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 Oliver HART
Prof Javier HIDALGO	Econometrics
Dr Ethan ILZETZKI	Macroeconomics, International Finance and Fiscal Policy
Dr Radha IYENGAR	Labor Economics, Law and Economics, Economics of Crime and Conflict
Prof Richard JACKMAN	Economics of the labour market, unemployment, wage determination, labour markets in Eastern Europe.
Dr Keyu JIN	International Macroeconomics, International Finance and Trade, the Chinese Economy
Dr Philipp KIRCHER	Labour markets, Unemployment and Mismatch, Search and Matching Theory, Economic Theory
Dr Henrik KLEVEN	Public Economics
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
Dr Matthew LEVY
Prof Alan MANNING	Labour markets, unemployment, minimum wages, monopsony.
Dr Guy MICHAELS	Labour Economics, Economic Development, Economic Geography
Dr Pascal MICHAILLAT	Macroeconomics, labour markets, unemployment
Dr Francesco NAVA	Economic Theory, Social Networks, IO
Dr L. Rachel NGAI	Macroeconomics, Growth and Development, Labour
Prof Gianmarco OTTAVIANO
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.
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	Economic growth and distribution, The global economy, The rise of the East, International relations and economics
Dr Rohit RAHI	Arbitrage in segmented markets; Financial innovation and security design; Asset pricing with asymmetric information; General equilibrium theory; Incomplete markets
Prof Ronny RAZIN	Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy
Prof Peter ROBINSON	Econometrics, time series analysis, nonparametric inference, semiparametric inference, spatial econometrics
Dr Thomas SAMPSON	International Trade, Growth and Development
Dr Marcia SCHAFGANS	Theoretical and applied microeconomics, semiparametric and nonparametric estimation techniques, limited dependent variable models, sample selection models, development economics, spatial econometrics.
Prof Mark SCHANKERMAN	Intellectual property rights, innovation, industrial economics, emerging economies
Dr Pasquale SCHIRALDI	Industrial Organization, Applied micro theory, Applied Econometric
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	Public Economics, Behavioral Economics, Economic Theory
Prof Lord Nicholas STERN
Dr Daniel STURM	International Trade, Economic Geography, Political Economy, Environmental Economics
Prof John SUTTON	Theories of industrial structure and their empirical implementation.
Prof Balazs SZENTES	Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory
Dr Silvana TENREYRO	Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Economics, Growth
Prof John VAN REENEN	Productivity, innovation, public policy, labour, industrial organisation, competition policy
Prof Christine WHITEHEAD	Housing economics, finance and policy; regulation and privatisation; urban economics
Prof Alwyn YOUNG