pathway: Economics Alumni

I am interested in investigating whether there exist spill-over effects between individuals’ mental health, particularly within the household context and in the workplace. Besides, the Internet has become part of our life. I am also interested in exploring the relationship of internet use to mental illness.

I am interested in the effect of pro-environmental attitudes on governments, firms and other individuals, and modelling the progress towards social tipping points. Fake news, in-group identification, and social echo chambers all play a role in shaping social norms. This is an inter-disciplinary undertaking and I am looking for input from economics, psychology and other disciplines in producing and testing my models.

Very interested to hear about people and organisations working in similar or related areas.

I work on decision making under ambiguity, that is I study behaviour of decision makers whose preferences cannot be modelled within Savage’s subjective expected utility theory. In one of my projects “Hierarchy of Ambiguity Aversion” I aim to unify two leading definitions of ambiguity aversion. A by-product is the axiomatization of so called exact capacities. In another project “A Definition of Perceived Ambiguity” I propose a new way of measuring perceived ambiguity in the multiple prior model and I apply my theory to normal-form games.

I have analysed topics on immigration, both theoretically and empirically. In my dissertation, I have analysed topics on immigration, both theoretically and empirically. In the theoretical paper, we show how an institution which is initially favourable to workers, later benefits only a narrow economic and political elite and we show this using the European Union’s Free Movement of Persons. In the empirical paper, we try to analyse whether the introduction of the Academies Act in 2010 has had any effect on immigration to England (we specifically consider the North West region of England) as opposed to Wales where the Act was not introduced.