Experts

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.

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’.

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.

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

Sarah is an Associate Director in the Education and Skills sector. She joined the IFS in 2012 and currently holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to study child development and household behaviour in developed and developing countries. Sarah’s research interests include the origins of inequality and the role of human capital played in driving inequalities within and across generations. In the recent past, she has conducted projects looking at the determinants of early childhood

Chiara is a Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at The London School of Economics, where she joined the Centre for Vocational Education Research in 2016. She works on projects on education and skills, particularly on vocational education and training. Chiara has written about returns to apprenticeships and about the impact of the skills devolution on apprenticeships. Chiara obtained her PhD in economics at the University of Essex in 2017.