research interests are on tacit and explicit collusion and social identity and its effect on public good provision and bargaining and has obtained research support from the ESRC, the British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation. Dr Fonseca has published his work in the Economic Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organisation and Economic Theory.
Professor James Davidson.
Dr Miguel Fonseca.
Professor Brit Grosskopf Professor of Experimental Economics Professor Grosskopf received her PhD from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona in 2000. After a post-doc with Professor Al Roth at Harvard Business School, she spent 8 years at the Department of Economics Texas A&M University. She joined the Department of Economics in September 2013. Professor Grosskopf’s research is in the area of experimental economics and concerns human decision-making and its effect on economic exchange. Her work incorporates concepts from psychology into economic research. She has worked on issues related to bargaining, cheap talk, contract and market design, expression of emotions, fairness, happiness and reputation. Professor Todd Kaplan Professor of Economics
Professor Todd Kaplan.
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Professor Todd Kaplan received his PhD from University of Minnesota and his BSc from Caltech. He has a diverse range of research interests that vary from running experimental cooperation games to empirically analysing steroid
use in baseball to building mathematical models to explain behaviour in auctions and contests. Professor Kaplan’s work has appeared in many journals, including: American Economic Review, Rand Journal of Economics, Economic Theory and Economic Journal. Professor Christos Kotsogiannis Head of the Department of Economics and Professor of Economics Professor Christos Kotsogiannis joined the academic staff in 2001 and is currently the Head of the Department of Economics. His research is primarily in the field of public economics with publications in journals such as: American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Urban Economics and Economics Letters. Professor Kotsogiannis is also a Research Fellow of CESifo, Germany, and recently held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and a consultant for the World Bank. Professor Robin Mason Dean of the Business School and Professor of Economics Professor Robin Mason is the Dean of the Business School. He joined the Business School as Professor of Economics in 2009, having previously been the Eric Roll Professor of Economics and Head of Economics at the University of Southampton. He is a fellow of the CEPR
and a Reporting Panel Member and a Specialist Member on the Communications Act Panel of the Competition Commission. 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. 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 equilibrium. Her research on externalities is about problems that concern both victims and generators of externalities. Dr Murty has published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Public Economic Theory. Professor Gareth Myles Professor of Economics Professor Gareth Myles obtained his BA from Warwick, his MSc from the London School of Economics, and his DPhil from Oxford University. His first academic position was at the University of Warwick, he moved to the University of Exeter in 1992. Professor Myles’ major research interest is in public economics and his publications include journals such as Journal of Public Economics, International Tax and Public Finance and the Journal
Professor Christos Kotsogiannis.
Professor Robin Mason.
Professor Steve McCorriston.
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