Experts

Ed Cornforth is an Associate Economist at NIESR. His research interests include macroeconomic modelling, fiscal policy, inequality, money creation, and the impacts of climate change on economic growth. He currently works on the use and development of the National Institute’s global econometric model (NiGEM).

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.

Andrea holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a master’s degree in public administration from the London School of Economics (LSE), specializing in economic policy. She has served as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), evaluating the impacts of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and the effects of climate change and natural disasters on several economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Andrea has contributed to

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.