Economics

Robin is an economic historian of modern Ireland and, separately, the careers of business elites. He is currently working on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project called 'The great elevator: military service and social mobility, 1900-1980'.

Daniel is an applied microeconomist researching policy-relevant topics within the area of public economics. His main interests are in education, housing, and tax/welfare policy. 

Graham's research interests include economic history, business history, institutional economics, business economics, and economic communication. He teaches the economics of corporate strategy and the political economy of devolution at undergraduate level. He also teaches economics in the MBA programme.

Subhadip is a microeconomic theorist, with a particular focus on networks, industrial organisation, and both cooperative and non-cooperative game theory. He is also interested in other areas of microeconomics, including advertising, cartels, and telecommunications policy. Subhadip teaches game theory and introductory macroeconomics.

Chris combines economics and history to better understand the performance of firms, industries, economies and societies. He is particularly interested in learning from historical policy mistakes. He has published widely in the field of economic history. He also conducts pedagogical research on ways to integrate economic history into the economics curriculum.

Heather's research interests are primarily in labour economics and regional economics. She is particularly interested in the areas of inequality, labour mobility, migration and integration, and policy evaluation. She teaches introductory economics at undergraduate level, and labour economics and social policy at postgraduate level.

Arcangelo's main research interests are in modern development economics, with broad applications to labour, political economy, education, gender and family. He is also interested in economic history. Arcangelo teaches quantitative business economics and principles of economics at undergraduate level.

Ruth Donaldson is a Research Associate at the Northern Ireland Productivity Forum, part of The Productivity Institute. Her research is focused on regional productivity and explores the reasons for low productivity in Northern Ireland.

Aldo is an applied economist with a particular focus on development economics and economic history. Specifically, his expertise is understanding why and how societies differ in their income levels, using cutting-edge quantitative methods and historical approaches. He teaches statistical methods at undergraduate level.

Alan conducts research into economic history, with a specific interest in Irish economic history, demography, trade, and applied econometrics. Alan teaches econometrics at undergraduate level.

Chirantan is an economic theorist, with expertise in strategic information transmission using different mediated and unmediated communication mechanisms. He teaches introductory microeconomics and quantitative methods at undergraduate level.

Rob's research interests are microeconomic theory, game theory, the theory of the social division of labour, collective goods, social and economic networks, production networks, and supply chain networks. He teaches microeconomics, game theory, the economics of markets, and networks and institutions.

Luís is a macroeconomist. His research concentrates on the macroeconomic analysis of the labour market. He teaches macroeconomics to both undergraduates and postgraduates.

Babak is an applied economist. His expertise is the implementation of econometric and statistical analysis methods for identifying and measuring causal effects. He makes use of regression discontinuity design, instrument variable analysis, triple differences analysis, and synthetic control methods. Babak typically works with large administrative datasets.

David's research focuses on regional and public economics, alongside economic and financial history. He is particularly interested in the economics of devolution, the long-run performance of Northern Ireland’s economy, and the UK productivity gap. David teaches topics in applied economics and economic communication to undergraduates.

Rajnish is a microeconomic theorist. He works on problems of distributive justice, cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, mechanism design, welfare economics, and network economics. He teaches industrial organisation and public economics at undergraduate level.

Sinong is interested in behavioural economics, ethical decision making and social choice theory. His research explores the moral motives in human behaviours, and the governance of personal data. He teaches statistics and econometrics to undergraduates and postgraduates.

Lloyd is an economic historian of Africa, focusing on the history of capitalism in the Cape Colony during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has expertise in using archival sources, including colonial records from Southern Rhodesia and the Cape Colony. Lloyd's work is part of the Government of Ireland-funded Centre for Economics, Policy and History.

Christopher is a health economist with over 30 years of experience in both the UK and Canada. He specialises in the field of health technology assessment. He has a joint appointment between Queen's Business School and the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences.

Chloe’s research focuses on agricultural and experimental economics. She is particularly interested in decision making under risk and uncertainty for consumers’ and farmers’ decisions.  

Duncan is a labour, health and social policy economist. He has an extensive publication record in economics and wider social science, and a track record of leading and contributing to successful research projects funded by a wide range of funders both within the UK and internationally. His teaching expertise is in labour economics and applied econometrics.

Ana Corina is an applied microeconomist, with research interest in areas of welfare economics, labour market and health economics (including epidemiology). She mostly works with large administrative data and takes a keen interest in policy advocacy issues surrounding disability, economic inactivity, and maternal employment. She has taught introductory economics at undergraduate level and applied econometrics at postgraduate level.

Josué conducts research into economic theory, algorithmic game theory, experimental economics, behavioral economics, and the economics of education. He teaches introductory economics, and the economics of networks and institutions, both at undergraduate level.

Anh's research interests centre around microeconomics theory, applied game theory, contest theory, and fair division. She teaches introductory economics at the undergraduate level.

Kyle is an applied economist, specialising in economic history and industrial organisation. Kyle teaches industrial organisation and corporate finance at undergraduate level.

Neil is an applied economist. He is carrying out research to understand the health and mortality impacts of outdoor air pollution in Northern Ireland using a variety of linked administrative datasets. He is also interested in the impact of exclusions on educational attainment and labour market outcomes.

Nikita's research focuses on gender-differentiated labour impacts of climatic shocks and the role of social safety nets. She recently worked on a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) in Delhi, India to understand how lowering job search costs and harnessing social networks can stem social constraints to women’s employment.

Sonali's research interests lie in the areas of applied game theory, applied microeconomic theory, environmental economics, public economics and pricing theory. In particular, she is interested in understanding how mediation and increased commitment in a strategic situation could help achieve fairer, more efficient outcomes that lead to improved social welfare. Sonali teaches intermediate microeconomics and international economics to undergraduate students.

Anthony is a behavioural economist. His research focuses on incorporating empirically sound assumptions into applicable formal economic theory. His main topic of interest is social learning. He teaches mathematical techniques at undergraduate level, and economic decision making at postgraduate level.