His academic research concentrates on how firms respond strategically to uncertainty and, more broadly, the incentives faced by economic agents in situations when they have imperfect information about their environment. Professor Mason has published his work in journals, including the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association and the International Journal of Industrial Organization. He has also acted as advisor to a number of regulators, in both the UK and internationally, to the Prime Minister of Mauritius on competition policy and to a number of private-sector companies. Professor Steve McCorriston Professor of Agricultural Economics Professor Steve McCorriston has acted as a consultant to the OECD, the UN FAO and DEFRA as well as private organisations. He is currently coordinating the Transparency of Food Pricing (TRANSFOP) project, a €1 million EU-wide project funded by the European Commission. Professor McCorriston has also recently been involved in a large research project funded by the Australian government on food security and market reforms in India. His research interests focus on commodity and food markets, with a particular emphasis on trade and competition issues. Related research covers FDI and taxation issues and the links between environmental policy and trade. His research has been published widely and in 2008 was awarded the “Quality of Policy Contribution” prize, with Donald MacLaren (University of
Melbourne), for his paper on state trading published in the European Economic Review. Professor Tigran Melkonyan Director of MSc Economics Programmes Professor Tigran Melkonyan joined the academic staff in 2011 and is currently the Director of MSc Economics Programmes. Prior to joining the Business School he held faculty positions at the Universities of Maryland and Nevada and he has also worked as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund. His research program covers a number of broad areas including decisions under risk and ambiguity and applied game theory. He has published in, amongst other journals, Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Theory and Decision, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Review of International Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Studies and the Journal of Regulatory Economics.
Professor Christos Kotsogiannis.
Professor Robin Mason.
Dr Sushama Murty Senior Lecturer in Economics Dr Sushama Murty joined the Department of Economics in 2010, prior to which she held faculty positions at the University of Warwick. Dr Murty’s recent work is on taxation issues and the problem of externalities, analysed with a general
Professor Steve McCorriston.
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