Tom Allen
Tom Allen's research is in the area of political economy, in particular the political economy of trade policy. His research has dealt with issues such as the choice of trade policy as a source of government revenue in developing countries and the use of informative advertising by interest groups.
Matthew Cole
Globalisation and the environment. More specifically, the impact of trade, economic growth and investment flows on the environment and the role played by differences in environmental regulations. Of particular interest are firm and industry level studies of economy-environment interactions, often in developing countries, together with spatial analyses of pollution patterns.
Corrado Di Maria
Technological change and the environment, exhaustible resource economics, environmental policy, migration and development. The main focus of Corrado’s research is on the interaction between policies and the process of economic development, especially as refers to environmental outcomes. Corrado’s recent work deals with environmental policy and its effects on technological change, with the way climate policy modifies the use of exhaustible resources, with migration policies and the growth performance of developing countries, and with the way economies and firms have responded to the introduction of emissions trading in the EU.
Robert J R Elliott
Economics of globalisation and international business. More specifically empirical international trade, firm heterogeneity, environment, development and labour economics under the broad umbrella of the economics of globalisation. Topics include: Economics of China and East Asia, the environment, pollution, regulations and industrial restructuring, geographical specialisation and spatial economics, conceptual, methodological and empirical analysis of intra-industry trade, the relationship between trade structure and labour market adjustment, multinationals and foreign direct investment, international business and economics of immigration.
Michael Henry
Empirical analyses of productivity and labour market effects of trade and investment liberalisation in developed and developing countries, both at the macro and microeconomic levels. Additionally, the utilisation of household level data to investigate issues such as youth unemployment; poverty and inequality; and the evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer programmes.
Toby Kendall
Toby’s work deals with theoretical aspects of international trade and foreign direct investment. Recent work has focused on the choice between greenfield investment and international mergers and acquisitions, the effects of regional integration on this choice and public policy towards FDI.
Marianna Koli
Marianna's research interests are in applied economics, specifically in development economics, public finance, political economy and the economics of crime. She joined the Department of Economics in January 2011 and currently teaches Applied Economics and IT Skills as well as Quantitative Methods.
David J Maddison
David's work deals with economic valuation especially of climate change impacts; environment and health; transport and the environment; the economics of subjective wellbeing; and applied spatial econometrics.
Tom Murray
Tom is an applied econometrician in the fields of environmental economics and happiness economics. More specifically, his research tests empirically the amenity value of the climate using environmental valuation techniques including self-reported happiness scales. Further research interests include in the potential roles of self-reported happiness in public policy objectives.
Cillian Ryan
Cillian's recent work had focused two key strands; 1. The theory of trade induced mergers and the impact of globalization and the implications for competition regulation and 2. Trade in Financial Services and the influence of the GATS and BASEL II. Cillian also works on Business Cycles in theory and practice.
Iain Staffell
Iain works on the SuperGen FlexNet project, looking at the economic challenges of creating a flexible, 'thinking' electricity network for the UK. He designs models for scheduling the operation of power stations and transmission of electricity around the country, and how these will be affected by investment in intermittent renewables, increasing carbon and fuel prices, and alternative market and pricing rules.
Xiaoyu Tian
Tian works primarily on the determinants and effects of trade and FDI. Her recent research focuses on the dynamics of quantity and quality in international trade. In particular, the mechanisms by which firms break into foreign markets and the impact of “entry” on growth, further entry and exit, as well as the interactive effects between exporting, quality and intermediate goods.