Questions and answers about
the economy.

Experts

Filter by surname

UCL

Wendy Carlin

Wendy Carlin is Research Fellow of the CEPR and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research is on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, the economics of transition, and evolution of economic research and education. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the Office for Budget Responsibility. She leads the CORE project, which is changing economics education www.core-econ.org. In 2015, she was awarded the CBE for services to economics and public finance.

University of Antwerp

Joel Carr

Joel Carr is a PhD student in Applied Economics and researcher at the University of Antwerp since 2018. Joel’s research expertise and dissertation focus on the impact of significant social events on the expression of prejudice, such as hate crimes, discrimination, etc. In addition, he researches the relationship between economics and crime, particularly the effect of labour market policies on criminal activity.

University of Cambridge

Vasco Carvalho

Vasco M. Carvalho is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge. His research in macroeconomics focuses on production networks and supply chains. He was awarded the 2014 Wiley Prize in Economics by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Prize. He was also the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council grant ‘MacroNets: Production Networks in Macroeconomics’.

University College Dublin (UCD)

Ciarán Casey

Ciarán Casey is an economic historian specialising in Irish economic policy. He is author of ‘Policy Failures and the Irish Economic Crisis’ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) and holds a DPhil from Oxford, where he was awarded a Clarendon Scholarship. In 2019 he was appointed Department of Finance Research Fellow, and is working on a history of the Department, spanning the period 1959 to 1999.

Cass Business School, City, University of London

Barbara Casu

Barbara Casu is the Director of the Centre for Banking Research at Cass Business School, where she is a Professor of Banking and Finance. She is also the Director of the Cass Executive PhD Programme. Her main research interests are in financial regulation, structured finance, financial innovation, and corporate governance, with a focus on the European banking sector. Her current research agenda considers the impact of regulatory reforms on banks’ strategies, structures, operations, and governance.

NIESR

Benjamin Caswell

Benjamin is a Senior Economist working in the macroeconomic team at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. His research interests include structural change, labour economics and optimal taxation.