PhD Students
Profiles of PhD students currently enrolled at the School of Economics, including supervisors and research interests.
Name (sorted in ascending order) | Research Interests | |
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Stuart Breslin | Stuart.Breslin@ed.ac.uk |
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Kezhen Chen | s1935572@ed.ac.uk |
Kezhen's current research interests lie in microeconomic theory, knowledge creation and evaluation. |
Tuocheng Chen | s1924850@ed.ac.uk |
Tuocheng's main research areas are microeconomic theory, game theory, information design, mechanism design. |
Adolfo Fuentes Werlinger | A.I.Fuentes@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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 life satisfaction, and how some environmental aspects, such as inequality, can ameliorate these relationships. |
Kavisha Gupta | Kavisha.gupta@ed.ac.uk |
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. |
Brian Jagusch | brian.jagusch@ed.ac.uk |
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Alex Kostylev | s1332880@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Kevin Le | k.n.le@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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. |
Aubrey Li | S2077662@ed.ac.uk | |
Jiaying Li | s1941036@ed.ac.uk | |
Shunhan Li | s.s.li-1@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Jinge LIU | s2028952@ed.ac.uk |
Development Economics |
Siting (Estée) Lu | s.lu@ed.ac.uk |
Game Theory, Behavioural Economics, Searching and Matching |
Jianxun Lyu | J.Lyu-3@sms.ed.ac.uk |
Jianxun's research interests lie in (evolutionary) game theory and its applications on cultural transmission and evolution. He is also interested in the political economy and gender inequality. |
Tianfei Lyu | s2272869@ed.ac.uk |
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Enric Martorell | enric.martorell@ed.ac.uk |
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David Mesa-Ruiz | D.Mesa@ed.ac.uk (student email) / dmesa@ed.ac.uk (staff email) |
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Jenny Peters | Jenny.Peters@ed.ac.uk |
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Yuhan Shao | yuhan.Shao@ed.ac.uk |
Macroeconomics Labour economics Intergenerational mobility |
Jun Shen | Jun.Shen@ed.ac.uk |
Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Financial Economics |
Yating Shen | s1984430@ed.ac.uk |
Yating is interested in (evolutionary) game theory, behavioral and experimental economics. |
Zijue Wang | zijue.wang@ed.ac.uk |
Macroeconomics; Intergenerational mobility |
Yaoyao Xu | y.xu@ed.ac.uk |
Yaoyao is interested in behavioural and experimental economics.
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