Experts

Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He focuses on the intersections of finance, poverty, and inequality. His research ranges from RCTs and natural experiments to closely-observed diaries of families living with scarcity. He’s written especially on microfinance and on people’s financial lives. He’s a founder of and Executive Director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative.

My research interests revolve around the theory, policy and practice of place-based innovation; the role of cities and regions in multilevel governance systems; sustainable food systems, especially with respect to public food systems; foundational economy studies. In addition to my academic work I have worked with the OECD, the European Commission and urban and regional governments and development agencies throughout Europe.

Edgar Morgenroth FAcSS FeRSA is full Professor of Economics in DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, and an independent member of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC). He has carried out extensive research in a very broad set of areas including Brexit, trade patterns, infrastructure investment, taxation, demographics and regional development. He is particularly interested in public policy analysis especially relating to spatial phenomena.

I am an Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Economics, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling. ?In my research, I focus on how individual decision making, health and wellbeing are affected by public policies, and environmental changes. I am interested in employing quasi-experimental designs on survey and administrative data to infer causal patterns.

Giuseppe Moscelli is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Surrey. His research covers health economics, labour economics, applied microeconometrics and causal inference.  He has addressed questions concerning the effect of patient choice and competition on healthcare outcomes; the effect of socio-economic status on access to healthcare, in particular waiting times and the effect of waiting times on patients’ outcomes (e.g. mortality, readmissions). Since 2019 he has led The

Professor John Muellbauer is a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society. He is best known for his work on household economics, housing markets and on finance-real economy interactions. He has worked with many central banks and the OECD and is a frequent contributor to CEPR’s VoxEU columns.