Experts

William Quinn is an economic and financial historian and Lecturer in Finance at Queen’s Management School, Belfast. His research focuses on market manipulation, corners, and financial bubbles, particularly in historical stock markets. He is the author of Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, co-authored with John Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. Boom and Bust has been critically acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal, The Critic, and the Irish Times, and was named

Simon Quinn is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, working on applied microeconometrics and development. His research uses field experiments and other methods to study firms and labour markets in low-income countries.

Climent Quintana-Domeque is a research fellow at IZA and a network member of the HCEO Family Inequality working group. He earned his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2008 under the supervision of Alan Krueger. His current research focuses on human capital, inequality and wellbeing. He currently serves in the editorial board of Economics and Human Biology and is one of the editors of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Edika is a Career Development Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on behavioural household finance, particularly on consumers’ attitudes towards saving, borrowing, and spending. Her most recent projects use mass transaction data to understand how patterns in credit card expenditure can help to predict consumer default behaviour, how investors pay selective attention to their portfolios, and what are the psychological determinants of investment success.

Birgitta Rabe is Reader in Economics at the University of Essex and Co-Investigator of Understanding Society and of the ESRC Centre on Micro Social Change. Birgitta is interested in human capital development, specifically the role of parental and public investments into children and how these investments interact. Areas of expertise include childhood obesity, childcare, school quality and maternal labour supply.

Tabassum Rahman is a PhD student. She is conducting her research on Indigenous Australian women’s smoking and quitting behaviour including smoking relapse in the context of pregnancy and postpartum periods to inform culturally sensitive smoking cessation interventions for Indigenous Australian women. Tabassum has experience of working in the field of violence against women, and with Indigenous communities, and early childhood development in Bangladesh.