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University of Warwick
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Economic and Social Research Council
HM Revenue and Customs

 

People

Honorary Members

Tony Atkinson (Oxford) Economics of income distribution and poverty; micro-economics
Partha Dasgupta (Cambridge) Economics of poverty and nutrition; environmental economics; economic measurement; economics of knowledge
Mervyn King (Bank of England) Monetary policy and taxation.
James Mirrlees (Cambridge) Optimal income taxation; policy implications of imperfect rationality; principal/agent situations with multidimensional choice variables
David Newbery (Cambridge) Liberalization, privatisation, competition and regulation in network industries; road pricing and the costs of traffic; reform of tax and policy in transition economies
Alan Peacock (Edinburgh) Public finance and broadcasting.
Nick Stern (LSE) Economic development, economic theory, public policy, and economies in transition

Members

Tim Besley (LSE, IFS and Bank of England) Public economics, development economics, political economy
David Bevan (Oxford) Public economics; optimal taxation; fiscal policy in low-income countries
Nick Bloom (LSE) Innovation, competition and knowledge spillovers; ICT and productivity; Firm management practices and organisational structures; Uncertainty and economic activity
Ian Crawford (Oxford and IFS) Applied microeconomics, nonparametric statistical and economic methods
Gianni De Fraja (Leicester) Economics of education; public provision of private goods; regulation
Norman Gemmell (Nottingham and HMRC) Revenue responsiveness of taxes, modelling fiscal illusion, corporation tax modelling and forecasting, fiscal policy and growth
Rachel Griffith (UCL and IFS) Empirical microeconometrics; supermarket competition, impact of foreign investment on economic performance and productivity; relationship between product market competition, innovation and productivity; factors influencing firms' location choices; design and implementation of technology policy; international tax competition
Clare Leaver (Oxford) Public and organisational economics
Hamish Low (Cambridge and IFS) Life-cycle models, consumption and saving behaviour, labour supply, uncertainty, unemployment insurance, optimal taxation, computational methods
Miltos Makris (Exeter) Public economics, political economy, incentives and organisations
Alistair Munro (UEA) Behavioural and experimental economics and welfare, decision-making within the household, environmental economics, regulation of the information economy
Ian Preston (IFS and UCL) Consumer behaviour; Distribution of living standards; Public spending; Immigration; Sport
Maria Luisa Ratto (CMPO, Bristol) Public economics; Tax compliance; Incentives in organisations
Leslie J. Reinhorn (Durham) Optimal taxation, optimal provision of public goods
Kim Scharf (Warwick and IFS) Public Economics: viable taxation; private provision of public goods; jurisdiction formation; tax competition; and tax evasion
John Van Reenen (LSE) Impact of innovation on jobs, skills, wages and productivity; labour markets, competition policy, industrial economics, health systems and econometrics
John Vickers (OFT and Oxford) Privatization, regulation and competition

 
 
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