Academic and Teaching Staff

Antonio Guarino

Head of Department and Professor

Antionio's research interests are in finance, economic theory and experimental economics.

Room: 103, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5862 (x25862)

Email: economics.hod@ucl.ac.uk

Website: homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpagu

Office hours: Tuesdays, 10am-12pm and by appointment

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Beatriz Armendariz

Associate Professor and Affiliates & Year Abroad (L102) Tutor

Beatriz has expertise in Development Economics, Microfinance and International Finance.

Room: 101, Drayton House

Tel: +44(0)20 7679 4516 (x24516)

Email: b.armendariz@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ucl.ac.uk/economics/people/armendariz

Office hours: Wednesdays, 3-6pm, Room 101 | or by email appointment.

Mark Armstrong

Professor of Economics

Mark currently works mostly on theoretical models of firm and consumer behaviour, with a focus on oligopoly theory, computer search and other information frictions, and pricing decisions by platforms and other multi-product firms.

Room: 113, Drayton House

Email: mark-armstrong@ucl.ac.uk

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mark-armstrong/home

Orazio Attanasio

Jeremy Bentham Professor of Economics

Orazio's research interests are in consumption, household behaviour, development economics and macroeconomics.

Room: 222, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5880 (x25880)

Email: o.attanasio@ucl.ac.uk

Website: orazioattanasio.org

Office hours: By email appointment

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Saleem Bahaj

Associate Professor

Saleem's research is at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance with a particular focus on international financial policies, corporate behaviour and bank capital regulation.

Room: 204 Drayton House
Email: s.bahaj@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/site/saleembahaj/home

Richard Blundell

Ricardo Professor of Political Economy

Richard's research focuses on microeconometrics, labour supply, savings and consumption, household behaviour, taxation, public economics.

Room: 210, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5863 (x25863)

Email: r.blundell@ucl.ac.uk

Website: homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctp39a/

Kirill Borusyak

Lecturer

Kirill's research focuses on international trade and microeconomics.

Room: 307, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 25833 (x25833)

Email: k.borusyak@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/view/borusyak/home

Office hours: Please email for appointment

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Antonio Cabrales

Professor

Antonio has expertise in game theory, experimental economics and social networks.

Room: G25, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3108 5229 (x55229)

Email: a.cabrales@ucl.ac.uk

Website: eco.uc3m.es/~acabrales/

Office hours: Tuesdays, 2pm-3pm

Wendy Carlin

Professor

Wendy's research interests are in transition, macro and institutions.

Room: 216, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5858 (x25858)

Email: w.carlin@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/wendycarlinucl/

Office hours: by Zoom, Thursdays 4:30pm-6pm. Link is on the ECON0002 & ECON0016 Moodle pages; or email me from your UCL email address for the link.

Pedro Carneiro

Professor

Pedro's research focuses on labour economics, economics of education, and microeconometrics.

Room: 233, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5361 (x65361)

Email: p.carneiro@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ucl.ac.uk/~uctppca

Office hours: Thursdays, 11:30am-12:30pm

Parama Chaudhury

Professor (Teaching) and Director of CTaLE

Room: G23, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5366 (x63566)

Email: p.chaudhury@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/paramachaudhury

Andrew Chesher

WS Jevons Professor of Economics and Economic Measurement

Andrew's expertise is in econometric theory and methods and practice.

Room: 211, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5857 (x25857)

Email: andrew.chesher@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ucl.ac.uk/economics/people/chesher

Office Hours: By email appointment

Timothy Christensen

Professor

Tim's interests lie broadly in econometric theory and methods, and financial econometrics.

Room: 304, Drayton House

Email: t .christensen@ucl.ac.uk

Website: t mchristensen.com

Gabriella Conti

Professor and Chair of the Athena Swan Committee

Gabriella's research focuses on health economics and the economics of human development.

Room: 302, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4696 (x24696)

Email: gabriella.conti@ucl.ac.uk

Website: gabriellaconti.org

Martin Cripps

Professor

Martin's expertise is in repeated games, auctions and learning.

Room: 122, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7598 (x27598)

Email: m.cripps@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/mwcrippsucl/home

Office hours: Fridays, 1pm-2pm

Wei Cui

Lecturer

Wei research interests are in macroeconomics and finance and time series.

Room: 305, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3108 5807

Email: w.cui@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/weicuiweb

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Silvia Dal Bianco

Lecturer (Teaching)

Silvia's research focuses on growth empirics, development economics and macroeconomics.

Room: G24, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5369

Email: s.dalbianco@ucl.ac.uk

Office hours: Tuesday 10am-12pm. No booking needed.

Ben Deaner

Lecturer

Ben's research interests are econometrics, particularly casual interference, non parametrics, and panel data methods.

Room: 209, Drayton House

Email: b .deaner@ucl.ac.uk

Website: b endeaner.com

Aureo De Paula

Professor and BSc Economics Programme Co-Director

Room: 228, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5854 (x65854)

Email: a.paula@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ucl.ac.uk/~uctpand

Office hours: Thursdays, 2:30pm-3:30pm

Christian Dustmann

Professor and Director of CReAM

Christian's research interests are in population economics (migration, economics of the family), labour economics (education, wage structures, and earnings mobility), and microeconometrics.

Room: 323B, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5356 (x65356)

Email: c.dustmann@ucl.ac.uk

Website: christiandustmann.com

Office hours: Wednesdays, 3pm-4pm

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Raffaella Giacomini

Professor

Raffaella researches, time series econometrics and forecasting with an emphasis on applications to macroeconomic data.

Room: 229, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5898 (x25898)

Email: r.giacomini@ucl.ac.uk

Website: raffaellagiacomini.wix.com/research

Office Hours: By email appointment.

Duarte Goncalves

Lecturer

Duarte's research interests are in game theory, learning, behavioral and experimental economics.

Email: duarte.goncalves@ucl.ac.uk

Office Hours: By appointment

Hugh Goodacre

Teaching Fellow

Hugh researchers the history of economic thought.

Room: G21, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5370 (x65370)

Email: h.goodacre@ucl.ac.uk

Website: homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpvhg/index.htm

Alex Gorbenko

Associate Professor

Email: a.gorbenko@ucl.ac.uk

Joao Granja

Lecturer

Joao's research focuses on empirical industrial organization and applied microeconomics.

Room: 126, Drayton House
Email: joao.granja@ucl.ac.uk
Website: www.joaogranja.net
Office hours: by appointment

Rodrigo Guimaraes

Teaching Fellow

Room: G21, Drayton House

Email: r.guimaraes@ucl.ac.uk

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Jonas Hjort

Professor

Jonas is a development economist whose research overlaps with labor and organizational economics.

Room: 227, Drayton House
Email: j.hjort@ucl.ac.uk
Website: jonashjort.com

Steffen Huck

Professor

Steffen's research focuses on behavioural and experimental economics, game theory and IO.

Room: 113, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5895 (x25895)

Email: s.huck@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ucl.ac.uk/~uctpshu/

Office hours: Tuesdays, 3pm-4pm

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Philippe Jehiel

Professor

Room: 107, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5878 (x25878)

Email: p.jehiel@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ideas.repec.org/e/pje39.html

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Deniz Kattwinkel

Lecturer

Room: 111, Drayton House

Email: d.kattwinkel@ucl.ac.uk

Toru Kitagawa

Professor

Toru's expertise is in econometrics, causal inference and applied econometrics.

Room: 202, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5866 (x25866)

Email: t.kitagawa@ucl.ac.uk

Website: homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctptk0

Office hours: Fridays, 1:30pm-3pm

Terri Kneeland

Lecturer

Room: 102, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5864 (x25864)

Email: t.kneeland@ucl.ac.uk

Dennis Kristensen

Professor

Room: 225, Drayton House,

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5846

Email: d.kristensen@ucl.ac.uk

Office hours: Term 1 - Mon and Thu 5:145pm-6pm

Term 2 and 3 - By appointment only

Hyejin Ku

Lecturer

Hyejin has expertise in labour economics, applied microeconomics and economic development.

Room: 327, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5344
Email: h.ku@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/site/hyejku

Office hours: Wednesdays 4pm-5pm

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Guy Laroque

Professor

Guy's research focuses on public economics, economic theory, finance, microeconometrics of the household and political economy.

Room: 226, Drayton House

Tel:+44 (0)20 7679 5484 (x25484)

Email: g.laroque@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ideas.repec.org/f/pla208.html

Valerie Lechene

Reader

Valerie is the Joint Faculty Teaching Committee representative.

Room: 206, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1013 (x21013)

Email: v.lechene@ucl.ac.uk

Website: valerie.lechene.googlepages.com/

Office Hours: By email appointment

Daniel Lewis

Lecturer

Daniel's research interests are time series econometrics and empirical macroeconomics.

Room: 202, Drayton House

Email: uctpdj0@ucl.ac.uk

Website: d anjlewis.com

Dunli Li

Lecturer (Teaching) and BSc Economics Programme Co-Director

Room: G21, Drayton House

Tel: 44 (0)20 3108 7861 (x57861)

Email: dunli.li@ucl.ac.uk

Yu-Lin Lin

Teaching Fellow

Email: ucakina@ucl.ac.uk

Attila Lindner

Associate Professor

Room: 109, Drayton House,

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5485 (x25485)

Email: a.lindner@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/attilalindner/

Ralph Luetticke

Lecturer

Ralph has expertise in macroeconomics, computational economics, and monetary economics.

Room: 312, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5830 (x25830)

Email: r.luetticke@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/ralphluetticke/

Office hours: Wednesdays 3pm-4pm

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Frederic Malherbe

Professor of Economics and Finance and MSc Finance Scientific Director, and Director of the MRes/PhD Financial Economics

Frederic's research focuses on financial intermediation, banking regulation, macroeconomics and political economy.

Room: 104, Drayton House

Email: f.malherbe@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/view/fredmalherbe/home

Office hours: By email appointment

Kalina Manova

Professor and Deputy Head of Department

Kalina's research interests are international trade, multinational activity and global value chains.

Room: 301, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 8578

Email: k.manova@ucl.ac.uk

Website: kalinamanova.com

Office hours: by email appointment.

Albert Marcet

Professor

Currently on leave.

Room: 304, Drayton House

Email: a.marcet@ucl.ac.uk

CREI Email: albert.marcet@crei.cat

Profile: crei.cat/people/albert-marcet

Office hours: by email appointment

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Ramin Nassehi

Lecturer (Teaching) and Public Engagement

Room: 123, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5375 (x55375)

Email: r.nassehi@ucl.ac.uk

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2pm-4pm

Lars Nesheim

Professor

Room: 230, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5826 (x5826)

Email: l.nesheim@ucl.ac.uk

Website: cemmap.ac.uk/person/id/58

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 1pm-3pm

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Alan Olivi

Lecturer

Room: 208, Drayton House

Email: a.olivi@ucl.ac.uk

Duygu Ozdemir

Associate Lecturer

Duygu's researh interests focus on experimental and behavioral economics, gender economics, applied microeconomics.

Room: G25, Drayton House
Email: d.ozdemir@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/site/duyguuozdemir

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Malcolm Pemberton

Associate Professor and BSc Economics & Maths and Economics and Stats Tutor

Malcolm researches mathematical modelling in economics, nonlinear dynamics and the theory of national income accounting.

Room: 313, Drayton House, UCL
Tel: 020 7679 5867 (x25867)
Email: malcolm.pemberton@ucl.ac.uk

Office Hours: Mondays, 11.30am-12.30pm

Suphanit Piyapromdee

Lecturer

Room: 317, Drayton House

Email: s.piyapromdee@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/suphanitpiyapromdee/

Franck Portier

Professor

Room: 311, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5375

Email: f.portier@ucl.ac.uk

Website: www.fportier.wordpress.com/

Office hours: Tuesday 2pm-3pm

Fabien Postel-Vinay

Professor and MRes/MPhil/PhD Programme Director

Fabien's research interests are labor economics, search and matching, applied microeconometrics and macroeconomics.

Room: 303, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5856 (x25856)

Email: f.postel-vinay@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/fabienpostelvinay/

Office Hours: Wednesday, 10am-11am

Ian Preston

Professor and Graduate Tutor

Room: 207, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5836 (x25836)

Email: i.preston@ucl.ac.uk

Website: www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctp100

Office Hours: Fridays, 3:30pm-4:30pm

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Lukasz Rachel

Lecturer

Lukasz's research focuses on macroeconomics, growth and inequality.

Room: 2223A, Drayton House

Email: l.rachel@ucl.ac.uk

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/lukaszrachel/

Imran Rasul

Professor

Imran's research focuses on labour economics, development economics and public economics.

Room: 205, Drayton House

Tel: 020 7679 5853 (x25853)

Email: i.rasul@ucl.ac.uk

Website: www.imranrasul.com

Office Hours: Mondays, 2:30pm-3:30pm

Morten Ravn

Professor

Morten's research focuses on macroeconomics theory, quantitative macroeconomics, applied macroeconomics and international macroeconomics.

Room: 221, Drayton House

Tel:: +44 (0)20 3108 5013 (x25013)

Email: m.ravn@ucl.ac.uk

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mortenoravn/home

Office Hours: Mondays, 3pm-4pm

Victor Rios-Rull

Professor (part-time)

Room: 113, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5879 (x25879)

Email: uctpjri@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sas.upenn.edu/~vr0j

Nikita Roketskiy

Lecturer, MSc Economics Progamme Director and Admissions Tutor

Room: 124, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5344 (x25344)

Email: n.roketskiy@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ucl.ac.uk/~uctpnr1

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9am-10am

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Uta Schoenberg

Professor and Deputy Director of CReAM

Uta's research interests are in labour economics, family economics, migration economics and public economics.

Room: 328, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5351 (x65351)

Email: u.schoenberg@ucl.ac.uk

Website: www.utaschoenberg.com

Office Hours: Thursdays, 11am-12pm

Vasiliki Skreta

Professor (part-time)

Vasiliki's research foucses on microeconomic theory, mechanism design and institutions.

Room: 108, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5817 (x25817)

Email: v.skreta@ucl.ac.uk

Website: vskreta.wixsite.com/vskreta

Stephen Smith

Professor

Stephen has expertise in, public economics (especially VAT, excises, European tax harmonisation) and environmental economics especially environmental taxes, tradeable permits, other market mechanisms).

Room: 117, Drayton House

Tel: 020 7679 5882 (x25882)

Email: stephen.smith@ucl.ac.uk

Website: www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpa15/

Office Hours: Mondays, 3:30pm-4:30pm

Ran Spiegler

Professor

Ran has expertise in microeconomic theory, game theory and bounded rationality.

Room: 106, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7599 (x27599)

Email: r.spiegler@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ranspiegler.sites.tau.ac.il

Vincent Sterk

Professor and Deputy Head of Department

Vincent researches into macroeconomics, business cycles, housing markets and labour markets.

Room: 231, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5877 (x25877)

Email: v.sterk@ucl.ac.uk

Website: homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpvst

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Michael Thaler
Lecturer

Michael's interests are in behavioral economics, experimental economics, and political economy.

Room: 105, Drayton House

Email: zcahmth@ucl.ac.uk

Website: w ww.michaelthaler.com

Michela Tincani
Lecturer

Michela has expertise in labour economics and applied microeconometrics.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4913 (x24913)

Email: m.tincani@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/mtincani/home

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Gabriel Ulyssea

Associate Professor

Gabriel has expertise in labour economics and development economics.

Email: g.ulyssea@ucl.ac.uk

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Marcos Vera Hernandez

Professor and BSc Admissions Tutor

Marcos' research activities focus on health economics in developed and developing countries, empirical contract theory and applied microeconometrics.

Room: 203, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1007 (x21007)

Email: m.vera@ucl.ac.uk

Website: homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpamv

Office hours: Mondays 3pm - 4pm

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Daniel Wilhelm

Associate Professor

Room: 224, Drayton House

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5847 (x25847)

Email: d.wilhelm@ucl.ac.uk

Website: ucl.ac.uk/~uctpdwi/

Office hours: Wednesdays 12:30pm-1:3pm

Frank Witte

Associate Professor (Teaching), Department Tutor and Exam Board Chair

Room: 120, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5347 (x25347)
Email: f.witte@ucl.ac.uk

Office hours:

Economics students: please see Moodle/Departmental and Personal Tutor pages
Others: Tuesdays, 9.30am-10.30am (term time only)

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Ming Yang

Associate Professor of Economics and Finance

Ming's research lies at the intersection of finance and microeconomics. He studies corporate finance, market microstructure, (mis-)coordination, incentive contract and monitoring, etc., from the angle of strategic information acquisition/disclosure.

Room: 306, Drayton House
Email: m-yang@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/mingyang-website

Ji Hee Yoon

Lecturer

Ji Hee's research focuses on market microstructure, finance and microeconomics.

Email: jihee.yoon@ucl.ac.uk

Website: sites.google.com/site/jiyoonmath/home

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Andrei Zeleneev

Lecturer

Andrei's research interests lie broadly in Econometrics and Applied Econometrics.

Room: 223A, Drayton House

Email: a.zeleneev@ucl.ac.uk
Website: azeleneev.com