Experts

Manuel is a member of the Trade, Investment and Productivity team of NIESR. His interest lies in International Trade and his research focuses on export dynamics at the country, industry and firm level, and the role of trade shocks like trade liberalisation or Brexit in shaping export and investment decisions. Manuel holds a PhD in Economics from University of Sussex, with a focus on multi-product firm export dynamics and trade liberalisation. Manuel has gained expertise in applied

Mirco Tonin is an applied economist with research interests in public, behavioural and experimental economics, dealing with issues such as charitable giving, motivation of employees, consumer behaviour, economics of education and economics of crime. He got his PhD from Stockholm University, Sweden, and before joining the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton and UniCredit Fellow at the Central European University, Budapest.

Quite a lot of my current research is focused around families of children with an intellectual disability: family support for child mental health and family relationships, understanding the early years of development and children’s future outcomes, understanding school-related outcomes and child well-being.  A lot of this research also includes autistic children and their families, in particular autistic children with an intellectual disability. Over the years I have been maintaining an active

Ruth Towse specialises in cultural economics and the economics of copyright and has published widely on both fields in academic journals and books, including A Textbook of Cultural Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2019) now in its 2nd edition; she recently edited a 3rd edition of a Handbook of Cultural Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020). She was Joint Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics from 1993-2002; she was President of the Society for Economic Research in Copyright Issues

Flavio Toxvaerd has fifteen years’ research experience in the economics of infectious diseases. His focus is on behavioural responses to epidemics, to better understand how people behave when facing disease risks. He has also researched optimal management of diseases through different policies such as voluntary social distancing, lockdowns, vaccination, treatment and testing. He has published on economic epidemiology in biology and economics journals and served as Senior Economic Advisor to

Karen is a Peruvian economist, currently student at the MSc programme in Global Health Policy at LSE. She holds a Master in Public Policy and Development from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). She was previously an economic and policy analyst across several Ministries in Peru, such as Economy and Finance, Education and Production. Her research interests include economic valuation methods in health care policies, mental health and, regulatory impact analysis.