Bobby is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute. He has worked across most public policy areas in 25 years in policy research and evaluation, and has been seconded to the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. His work on Covid-19 has focused on how public misperceptions and expectations interact with attitudes and behaviour. This draws on his book, The Perils of Perception – why we’re wrong about nearly everything, focused on how people misperceive key social
The Policy Institute, King’s College London
Bobby Duffy
University of Kent
Alfred Duncan
Alfred is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Kent. Alfred studies the theory and empirics of risk sharing. Alfred’s research focuses on the interactions between individual specific and wider macroeconomic risks. The primary applications of this research relate to the design of financial stability policy. The research also has wider implications for fiscal policy.
Harvard University
Karen Dynan
Karen Dynan has been a Professor of the Practice in the Harvard University Economics Department and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics since 2017. Her previous roles include Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the US Department of the Treasury (2014-2017), vice president for Economic Studies at Brookings (2009-2013), and various positions at the Federal Reserve Board. Dynan researches macroeconomic policy, consumer behavior, and household finances. She has
University of Warwick, UCLA
Roger E. A. Farmer
Roger Farmer is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Economics at UCLA. His primary interest is the connection between market psychology and macroeconomics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the NBER, Research Fellow of the CEPR, and Fellow Commoner of Cambridge University. His articles appear in leading academic journals and his books have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese and Hungarian.
RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Cara Ebert
Cara is a senior researcher at the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Goettingen. Her research focusses on how family dynamics interact with gender and health outcomes both in Germany and low- and middle-income countries. As part of her work Cara collects primary data and runs randomized experiments.
University of California, San Diego
Fabian Eckert
Fabian Eckert is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics at University College London and his PhD from Yale University. His research focusses mainly on International Trade, Macroeconomics, Economic Geography, and Urban Economics. Topics he is interested in are the geographical organisation of economies, increasing income inequality, the rise of the service economy, skill-biased technological progress, and work from
