Experts

Steve Monroe is an assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale-NUS College. His research explores the political economy of development in the Arab world. Monroe’s book project examines how elites’ social connections structure patterns of trade liberalization in the region, and low and middle-income economies more broadly. He also works on gender and development, corruption, and small states.

Patrick Moran is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). His research spans macroeconomics, household finance, and applied microeconomics, with a focus on the distributional and behavioural consequences of financial innovation and economic policy. His research has been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics and International Economic Review.

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.