PhD Students

• On-the-Job Training and Human Capital
• Firm Heterogeneity
• Labour Market outcomes and Sorting
• Macro-Theory

Kezhen's current research interests lie in microeconomic theory. He has particular interests in the functioning of scientific peer review and topics of corruption.

Tuocheng's main research areas are microeconomic theory, game theory, information design, mechanism design.

Mory’s current research will focus on the impacts of migration, human capital formation and the impacts on global inequality, using micro founded macroeconomics to model these effects. Mory hopes his research will shed more light on the true economic impact of migration and how individual’s behaviour is affected in the presence of the possibility of migration.  

Supervisors: Sevi Mora & Andy Snell

Adolfo's primary research interest lies between labor economics and macroeconomics. Specifically on how frictions affect the labor market and how labor outcomes, such as wages, informality, and unemployment, can be affected by changes in the minimum wage, changes in the skill composition of workers, and increases in social security contributions. 

As a secondary interest, Adolfo is interested in how people's social capital influences different aspects of life, such as labor market outcomes, health, and voting behavior, and how some environmental aspects, such as inequality, can ameliorate these relationships.

Kavisha's research interest lies in the area of macroeconomics with a focus on the effect of unconditional transfers and other human & social development policies on intergenerational mobility and inequality in a developing country context. Her current work focusses on understanding the role of education related policies in reducing child labour and informality, using quantitative macroeconomic models. 

Macroeconomics

Heterogenous agents and inequality

• Applied Microeconometrics, especially Difference-in-Differences Methods
• Labour Economics  
• Public Policy

• Applied Political Economy
• Quality of Political Governance
• Principal-Agent Relationship in Political Economy
• Text Analysis 

Kevin’s primary research interests are in the economics of science and R&D and knowledge based technologies, initially from macro and econometric perspectives. He will sooner or later likely find himself trying to understand search and matching of PhD graduates.

• Economic Transformation;
• Public Policy;
• Urban Economics

Development Economics

Game Theory, Behavioural Economics, Searching and Matching

• Macroeconomics and labor economics
• Vacancy and hiring process

• Macroeconomics
• Finance
• Growth and Development
• Computational Economics

Alex's research interests are labor-macro and the economics of technological change, with a focus on modeling heterogeneity of assets and the distribution of wealth and inequality.

• WP: Did low-skilled men crowd low-skilled women out of the UK labour market? 
• Hidden figures behind two-vehicle crashes: An assessment of the risk and external costs of drunk driving in Spain (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457519302726)

Labour economics (Gender Wage Gap), Applied Econometrics, Microeconometrics

• Macro Labour Models
• Applied Labour Economics
• Gender Differentials in the Labour Market

Macroeconomics

Intergenerational mobility

Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Financial Economics

Yating is interested in (evolutionary) game theory, behavioural and experimental economics.

Macroeconomics; Intergenerational mobility

Yiqi's current research interests lie in the areas of macroeconomic theories about inflation and wage determination. She is also interested in certain topics in financial economics, such as leverage and credit cycles. Additonally, she also would like to make developments on numerical methods for macroeconomic models.