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News faces: Department of Economics
Eleven new members of staff have joined the Department of
Economics this term. Holger Breinlich, who recently won the European
Economic Association (EEA) Young Economist Award, was featured in the
November issue of Wyvern. Here we meet the rest of the Department’s
new faces.
Gabriella Conti is a past research student of the Department.
She will teach several courses including Introduction to Quantative
Economics and Introduction to Econometric Methods. She will also be
Student Liaison Officer for postgraduate students.
Dr Dudley Cooke joined Essex from the University of Copenhagen
where he worked on an EU proj
ect
looking at the design of macroeconomic policies four countries in monetary
unions.
Dr Cooke was an undergraduate student at Essex in the late 1990s before
studying at the University of Warwick, with a year at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
His research interests include international macroeconomics and
monetary economics. At Essex he will teach macroeconomics to second- and
third-year undergraduates.
Dr Christian Ghiglino has taken up a professorship and the post
if Deputy Director of Graduate Studies (Research Students).
His main areas of research interest are economic theory and economic
growth. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory
and of the International Journal of Economic Theory.
Dr Patrick Nolen will be teaching undergraduate and postgraduate
courses on development economi
cs.
He will also co-organise departmental seminars and serve on the European
Studies committee.
Dr Nolen recently graduated from Cornell University with his PhD, his
focus being Development, Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Prior to
that he studied at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and spent a
year travelling as a Thomas J Watson Fellow.
He has studied racial identity in South Africa and has written two
papers on measuring unemployment.
Hugo Oliveira, a former research student in the Department, has
joined as a Teaching Fellow.
His research interests include the determinants and effects of foreign
direct investment on host countries, the economics of multinational
companies, and applied econometrics using panel data.
He will also teach on the Introduction to Quantative Economics course.
Professor Motty Perry joins the Department on a part-time basis
so that he can continue in the post of Don Patinkin Professor of Economics
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He will teach on the Topics in Game Theory course and on the doctoral
Advanced Microeconomics course.
Dr David Reinstein joined the Department from the University of
California, Berkeley.
His main areas of interest include altruism, social pressure,
psychology, institutions, information and market structure. His current
research uses observational data and laboratory experimentation to examine
the motivation for charitable giving and to measure the extent to which a
donor substitutes one gift for another.
Dr Reinstein will teach on the Microeconomics and Economics of
Organisational Management courses.
Professor João Santos Silva joins the Depart
ment
in January 2007 after spending more than 20 years at the Instituto
Superior de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, where he
taught economics, statistics and econometrics.
His research interests centre on theoretical and applied
microeconometrics.
He is currently co-editor of the Portuguese Economic Journal and
will teach on the Empirical Methods of Economics and Finance course.
Dr Joon Song has joined the Department from the University of
California, Los Angeles.
His interests include general equilibrium theory, game theory, and
industrial organisation. He is currently working on implications of
financial market trades for incentive problems.
He will teach on the Economics Negotiations and doctoral Microeconomics
courses.
Dr Gianluigi Vernasca’s main research interests include
industrial organisation, game theory and intergenerational economics.
He previously taught at the University of York and at the University of
Pavia. He will teach the Methods of Economic Analysis, Mathematical
Economics, and Theory of Monopoly and Regulation courses.
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