School of Economics

PhD Students

Profiles of PhD students currently enrolled at the School of Economics, including supervisors and research interests.

Name (sorted in ascending order) Email Research Interests
Stuart Breslin Stuart.Breslin@ed.ac.uk
  • On-the-Job Training and Human Capital
  • Firm Heterogeneity
  • Labour Market outcomes and Sorting
  • Macro-Theory
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
  • Applied Microeconometrics
  • Labour Economics  
  • Public Policy
Alex Kostylev s1332880@sms.ed.ac.uk
  • Applied Political Economy
  • Quality of Political Governance
  • Principal-Agent Relationship in Political Economy
  • Text Analysis 
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
  • Growth;
  • Economic Transformation;
  • Public Policy

 

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
  • Macroeconomics
  • Labor markets
  • firm size
Enric Martorell enric.martorell@ed.ac.uk
  • Macroeconomics
  • Finance
  • Growth and Development
  • Computational Economics

 

David Mesa-Ruiz D.Mesa@ed.ac.uk (student email) / dmesa@ed.ac.uk (staff email)
Jenny Peters Jenny.Peters@ed.ac.uk
  • Macro Labour Models
  • Applied Labour Economics
  • Gender discrimination and differentials
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.