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Fabien Postel-Vinay 

Professor and Head of Department

Fabien's research interests are labor economics, search and matching, applied microeconometrics and macroeconomics.
 
Room: G25, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5856 (x25856)

Postel-Vinay

 


 

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Beatriz Armendariz 

Associate Professor

Beatriz has expertise in Development Economics, Microfinance and International Finance.
 
Room: 101, Drayton House                                                                                  
Tel: +44(0)20 7679 4516 (x24516)
 
Office hours: Wednesdays, 2-4pm. Room 101, Drayton House

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Mark Armstrong

Professor of Economics and Graduate Tutor

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: 209, Drayton House                                                                                  

Mark Armstrong
 

 

Orazio Attanasio 

Jeremy Bentham Professor of Economics

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

 

Orazio Attanasio

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Saleem Bahaj

Associate Professor and Programme Director of the MRes/PhD Financial Economics 

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

Saleem Bahaj

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)

Richard Blundell

 

 

Wendy Carlin

Professor

Wendy's research interests are in macroeconomics, institutions as an influence on economic performance, economics of transition, and paradigm shifts in economic theory and instruction.

Room: 216, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5858 (x25858)
 

Office hours:(ECON0002 priority) Mondays 430-530 except Reading Week.

For a chat about other matters, please email to set up a meeting.

Wendy Carlin

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

Pedro Carneiro

Parama Chaudhury

Professor (Teaching), Director of CTaLE and Undergraduate Further Study Tutor 

Room: G23, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5366 (x63566)

Chaudhury

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)
 
Office Hours: By email appointment

chesher

Timothy Christensen

Professor and Junior Recruitment Lead

Tim's interests lie broadly in econometric theory and methods, and financial econometrics.
 
Room: 304, Drayton House

Timothy Christensen

 


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)

conti

Lucas Conwell

Lecturer

Lucas is a development and spatial economist whose research focuses on informal urban markets and infrastructure provision.

Room: 328, Drayton House

Lucas Conwell

 


 

Martin Cripps

Professor

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

Room: 122, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7598 (x27598)
 
Office hours: Fridays, 1pm-2pm

Martin Cripps

Wei Cui

Professor and International Relations Lead

Wei research interests are in macroeconomics and finance and time series.
 
Room: 305, Drayton House                          
Tel: +44 (0)20 3108 5807 

wei

Silvia Dal Bianco

Associate Professor of Economics (Teaching)

Silvia's research focuses on growth empirics, development economics and macroeconomics.
 
Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5369
 
bianco

 

Ben Deaner

Lecturer

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

Room: 113, Drayton House
Website: bendeaner.com

Ben Deaner

 


 

Aureo De Paula 

Professor

Room: 228, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5854 (x65854)
 
Office hours: By appointment

Aureo De Paula

 

 


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)
 
Office hours: Wednesdays, 3pm-4pm

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Francois Gerard

Professor

Francois’ research interests lie at the intersection of public economics and development.

Room: 324, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5898 (x25898)
 
Office Hours: Tuesdays 13:30-14:30

Francois Gerard

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)
 
Office Hours: By email appointment.

Giacomini

Duarte Goncalves

Lecturer

Duarte's research interests are in game theory, learning, behavioral and experimental economics.
 
Office Hours: By appointment

Duarte Goncalves

 


Hugh Goodacre 

Lecturer (Teaching)

Hugh researchers the history of economic thought.
 
Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5370 (x65370)

Hugh Goodacre

Alex Gorbenko

Professor of Economics and Finance

 

 


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

Joao Granja

 


Rodrigo Guimaraes 

Lecturer (Teaching)

 


Antonio Guarino

Professor

Antonio's research interest's are in finance, economic theory and experimental economics.

Room: 103, Drayton House
Email: a.guarino@ucl.ac.uk
Websitehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpagu
Office hours: by appointment

Antonio Guarino

 


 

Stephen Hansen

Professor and Director of Research 

Stephen's research uses unstructured data to build new measures of economic activity and behaviour.

Room: 117, Drayton House
Email: stephen.hansen@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sekhansen.github.io

Stephen Hansen

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

Jonas Hjort

 


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Philippe Jehiel 

Professor

 
Room: 107, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5878 (x25878)

Philippe Jehiel

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Deniz Kattwinkel 

Lecturer and PGTA Lead

 
Room: 111, Drayton House

 

 

Terri Kneeland

Associate Professor

Room: 102, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5864 (x25864)

Terri Kneeland

Dennis Kristensen 

Professor

Room: 225, Drayton House,
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5846
 
Office hours: Thursdays 3-5pm

Dennis Kristensen

Hyejin Ku 

Associate Professor and EDI Lead

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

Hyejin Ku

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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)

Guy Laroque

Valerie Lechene 

Professor

Valerie is the Joint Faculty Teaching Committee representative.

Room: 206, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1013 (x21013)
 
Office Hours: By email appointment

Valerie Lechene

 

Daniel Lewis 

Lecturer and IT Lead

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

Room: 202, Drayton House
Website: danjlewis.com
 

Daniel Lewis

 

Dunli Li 

Associate Professor (Teaching) and BSc Economics Programme Director

 
Room: G21, Drayton House
Tel: 44 (0)20 3108 7861 (x57861)

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Attila Lindner 

Professor

Room: 109, Drayton House,
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5485 (x25485)

Attila Lindner
 

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Frederic Malherbe 

Professor of Economics and Finance and MSc Finance Programme Director

Frederic's research focuses on financial intermediation, banking regulation, macroeconomics and political economy.
 
Room: 104, Drayton House
 
Office hours: By email appointment

Fred Malherbe

Marta Morazzoni 

Lecturer

Room: 307, Drayton House
Website: To be updated.

 

 


 

Kalina Manova

Professor

Kalina's research interests are international trade, multinational activity and global value chains.
 
Room: 301, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 8578
 
Office hours: by email appointment.

Manova

 

 

 

 

Ramin Nassehi 

Associate Professor of Economics (Teaching) and Student Engagement Lead

 
Room: 123, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5375 (x55375)
 
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2pm-4pm

Ramin Nassehi

Lars Nesheim

Professor

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5826 (x5826)
 

Lars Nesheim
 
 

Alan Olivi

Lecturer 

Room: 208, Drayton House

 


Duygu Ozdemir

Associate Lecturer (Teaching)

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

Room: G24, Drayton House
Email: d.ozdemir@ucl.ac.uk 
Website: sites.google.com/site/duyguuozdemir

Duygu Ozdemir

 


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Malcolm Pemberton

Associate Professor and BSc Economics and 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

Pemberton

Suphanit Piyapromdee 

Associate Professor

Room: 317, Drayton House

Suphanit Piyapromdee

Franck Portier

Professor and PhD Placement Officer 

Room: 311, Drayton House                                                 
Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5375
 
Office hours: Tuesday 2pm-3pm

Franck Portier

 

Peter Postl

Professor in Economics (Teaching) & Director of Education

Peter's main research interest is in mechanism design (procurement procedures, and auctions) with a special emphasis on mechanisms without money/transferable utility (such as arbitration procedures, voting rules and matching mechanisms).

Room: G22, Drayton House

Peter Postl

 


Fabien Postel-Vinay 

Professor

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)
 
Office Hours: Wednesday, 10am-11am

Postel-Vinay

Ian Preston 

Professor and Graduate Tutor

Room: 207, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5836 (x25836)
 
Office HoursFriday's 3:30pm-4:30pm

Ian Preston

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Lukasz Rachel

Department Careers Tutor/Lecturer

Lukasz's research focuses on macroeconomics, growth and inequality.
 
Room: 223A, Drayton House

Lukasz Rachel

 


Imran Rasul

Professor

Imran's research focuses on labour economics, development economics and public economics.
 
Room: 205, Drayton House
Tel: 020 7679 5853 (x25853)
 
Office Hours: Mondays, 2:30pm-3:30pm

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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)
 
Office Hours: Mondays, 3pm-4pm

Morten

Victor Rios-Rull 

Professor (part-time)

Rios Rull

Nikita Roketskiy

Lecturer, MSc Economics Progamme Director and Admissions Tutor

 
Room: 124, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5344 (x25344)
 
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9am-10am

Roketskiy

 

Uta Schoenberg

Professor and Deputy Director of CReAM

Uta's research interests are in labour economics, family economics, migration economics and public economics.
 
Tel: +44 (0)20 3549 5351 (x65351)
 

Uta Schoenberg

 

 


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)


Vasiliki Skreta

 


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: 309, Drayton House
Tel: 020 7679 5882 (x25882)
 
Office Hours: Mondays, 3:30pm-4:30pm


Smith

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)

Rani Spiegler

 


Vincent Sterk 

Professor 

Vincent researches into macroeconomics, business cycles, housing markets and labour markets.
 
Room: 231, Drayton House
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5877 (x25877)

Sterk

Liyang Sun

Lecturer 

Liyang's research interest are applied econometrics, causal inference, and weak identification.

Room: 230, Drayton House
 


Liyang Sun

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Michael Thaler
Lecturer 

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

Room: 105, Drayton House

Michael Thaler
 

 

 

 


Michela Tincani
Associate Professor

Michela has expertise in labour economics and applied microeconometrics.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4913 (x24913)

Michela Tincani

 


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Gabriel Ulyssea

Professor and MRes/MPhil/PhD Programme Director

Gabriel has expertise in labour economics and development economics.
 
Office: 201, Drayton House
 


Gabriel Ulyssea

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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)
 
Office hours: Mondays 3pm - 4pm


Marcos Vera Hernandez

 

 

 



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Frank Witte 

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)

Witte


 


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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


Ming Yang

 


 

Xiao Yin

Lecturer

Xiaos research interests include Household Finance, Behavioral Economics, Macroeconomics, and Financial Intermediaries.

Room: 303, Drayton House
Website: www.y-xiao.com

Xiao Yin

 


 

 

Ji Hee Yoon

Lecturer

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

Room: 312, Drayton House

Emailjihee.yoon@ucl.ac.uk

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

Ji Hee Yoon

 

 


 

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Andrei Zeleneev

Lecturer

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

Room: 224, Drayton House

Andrei Zeleneev