Experts

Richard Cookson is a professor at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York. He has helped pioneer “equity-informative” methods of policy analysis, including distributional cost-effectiveness analysis; health equity indicators for healthcare quality assurance; and methods for investigating public concern for reducing health inequality. He has co-chaired international working groups on equity, worked in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and served on various NHS advisory

Francesca Cornaglia is an Associate Professor at Queen Mary University of London. She is an IZA Research Fellow and previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at UCL. Her main research interest is in health economics. Her early work was on smoking behaviour. She has also contributed to the literature on wellbeing and mental health. More recently her research focus has been on socioeconomic inequalities in health.

Laura Coroneo is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of York and executive committee member of the Money, Macro and Finance (MMF) Society. Her primary field of research is applied macro-finance, with a particular focus on econometrics and empirical finance. Her research investigates the yield curve of government bonds and its relation with macroeconomic fundamentals. She also works on forecast evaluation, monetary policy and financial econometrics.

Giancarlo Corsetti is Professor of Macroeconomics at Cambridge University, fellow of Clare College. He previously taught at the European University Institute, Yale and Rome III.Corsetti is a leading scholar in international economics and open macroeconomics, with contributions on currency, financial and sovereign crises, European monetary union and fiscal and monetary policy.Corsetti is fellow of CEPR, a consultant of the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.

Monica is an Associate Director at the IFS and a Research Economist at the Centre for Economics and Finance, University of Porto. Her research interests are mainly on Labour Economics and the Economics of Education, with a focus on the determinants of individual and household choices, including human capital investments, labour supply and intra-household allocation of resources, and their consequences for inequality and the evaluation and design of tax and welfare policies

Joan Costa-Font is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is a CESIfo and IZA Network research fellow. He has been Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting fellow at Boston College, Oxford University, and UCL, and visiting professor at Paris Dauphine University and Universita Cattolica.