Visiting faculty

Peter Eso - University of Oxford

Peter is a University Lecturer (Reader) at the Department of Economics and Tutorial Fellow in Economics at Jesus College, Oxford University. After completing a PhD in Economics at Harvard University, Peter became an Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (USA) in 2001.

He joined Oxford in 2009, and has been teaching Microeconomics and Game Theory at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research focuses on game theory and the economics of information, studying questions such as the role of risk aversion in trading games (e.g., auctions); communication and bargaining when parties may obtain provable information; and what determines the price of advice (how to sell and disclose information). Peter occasionally advises companies on auctions of telecommunication licenses.

Nicholas Fawcett - Bank of England 

Nick is an economist in the Monetary Analysis directorate of the Bank of England. He specialises in economic modelling and forecasting, and produces inflation and growth forecasts for the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee.

He moved to the Bank in 2011 following several years at Oxford, during which time he was a Fellow in Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, and a Syndicate Tutor at OUBEP. Educated at Cambridge and Oxford universities, Nicholas has also acted as a consultant to HM Treasury and the European Commission.


Cameron Hepburn – University of Oxford

 Hepburn is an economist with over a decade’s experience working on environmental and climate change issues, with particular interests in the theory and implementation of emissions trading, the economics and ethics of cost-benefit analysis, and the economics of apparently irrational individual behaviour. He has advised various governments and international institu- tions on environmental and climate policy, and has worked with a range of private sector clients on environmental and climate strategy.

He currently holds Fellowships at Oxford University (New College and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment) and is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (Grantham Research Institute). He is also a member of the UK Defra Academic Panel and the Ofgem Environmental Economists Panel, an Associate Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and is a co-founder and Director of Climate Bridge Ltd and Vivid Economics Ltd.

He holds a D.Phil. and an M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), and first class degrees in Law and Engineering from the University of Melbourne.

Beata Javorcik – University of Oxford

Beata Javorcik is a Reader at the Department of Economics at Oxford, and a Tutor in Economics at Christ Church. She specializes in international trade, economic development and macroeconomics.

Prior to coming to Oxford, Dr Javorcik worked for eight years at the World Bank in Washington DC where she was involved in lending operations and provided policy advice to developing countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Her research interests focus on determinants and consequences of inflows of foreign direct investment, links between exporting and firm performance, and tariff evasion. She holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University and a BA from the University of Rochester.

Robert Joyce - The Institute of Fiscal Studies

Robert Joyce is a Research Economist in the Direct Tax and Welfare sector. His main research interests are in the evolution of living standards, the design of the tax and benefit system, and the relationship between the two. He has been involved in several recent and current projects that attempt to simulate future levels of poverty and average incomes in the UK. Other work has focused on the determinants and consequences of children’s early developmental indicators. Current research looks at whether parental marital status has any causal impact on children’s cognitive and social skills; and whether early mental health problems have significant economic impacts later in life.

Clare Leaver - University of Oxford

Clare is a University Lecturer in the Department of Economics and the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of The Queens College. She moved to Oxford after completing her doctoral studies at the University of Bristol and a postdoctoral fellowship at University College London. Her research focuses on careers and incentives in public sector organisations. In current projects, she is studying how human resource practices in the Superior English Courts impact on the quality of judicial decisions, and how non-state actors can best support the delivery of basic public services in fragile states.

Scott Livermore – Oxford Economics

Scott Livermore oversees the day-to-day running of Oxford Economics’ international macroeconomic forecasting services. This involves supervising Oxford Economics’ team of forecasters and taking a lead role in directing the outlook at a global level, while ensuring consistency between the individual country forecasts.

After completing a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University and a M.Sc. in Economics at University College London, Scott joined Oxford Economic Forecasting in 1997. During his initial five years at Oxford Economic Forecasting, he worked as a country analyst for a number of European countries and participated in numerous consultancy projects for a variety of international organisations (including the World Bank, IMF and EC), governments and multi-national companies using both Oxford Economics’ Global Macromodel and building specialised economic models.

Scott rejoined Oxford Economics in 2005 as a senior economist after spending two years at the Ministry of Finance in the Slovak Republic assisting to prepare the medium-term macroeconomic framework and developing the analytical capacity of the Ministry of Finance to prepare macroeconomic forecasts.

Richard Mash – University of Oxford

Richard Mash is an Official Fellow in economics at New College, Oxford. He holds an MA in economics from Cambridge and an M.Phil and D.Phil in economics from Oxford, and has worked at Oxford since his doctorate.

Richard’s research is in macroeconomics with a strong emphasis on monetary policy. In particular he works on the microeconomic foundations of the macroeconomic models used to guide monetary policy choices. Current work is on the nature of pricing decisions at the level of individual firms and their aggregation to determine inflation, with reference to both the implications for appropriate monetary policy and consistency with firm level and aggregate data.

David Matthew – NERA

David Matthew is an Associate Director at NERA with over 15 years’ experience in the economics of competition policy and regulation, both in the private and public sector. From 1993 to 1999, David was a Senior Economist at the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT), during which time he advised on several hundred competition and merger cases spanning a wide range of markets and with a particular specialism in media and sports issues. From 1999 to 2003, David was Head of Economic Regulation and Competition Policy at the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), where he led the price cap regulatory reviews of BAA plc and NATS Ltd.

Since joining NERA in 2003, David’s work has worked extensively on competition, regulation and intellectual property cases, as well as state aids and trade issues. He has continued to work on aviation, media and sports matters, and has submitted expert reports in litigation before the High Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal and international arbitration tribunals. David was educated at Edinburgh University, where he obtained an MA in economics and economic history (First Class), and at Oxford University, where he obtained an MPhil in economics.

Rana Mitter – University of Oxford

Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford.

His research is on Chinese nationalism, with a particular interest in the Sino-Japanese War of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as questions of contemporary Chinese identity and nationhood. His books include A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford, 2004), and Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2008).

He has won several external research grants, including a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award (2007-12). He is also a presenter for BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas programme Night Waves.

David P Myatt – University of Oxford

David is an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

He was educated at the London School of Economics, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oxford University.

He specialises in game theory: the scientific analysis of strategic decision-making. He applies this work to the fields of microeconomics, industrial economics, the economics of new technologies, political science and evolutionary biology. His current major research topics include the analysis of advertising, marketing, and product design strategies; the role of secondary trading markets such as eBay; analysis of cabinet governance; new theories of leadership; theories and empirical analysis of voter turnout and tactical voting; game-theory applications in macroeconomics; and the study of collective-action problems.

Christophe Spaenjers - HEC Paris

Christophe Spaenjers is an Assistant Professor of Finance at HEC Paris. He received his PhD from Tilburg University. During his PhD, he also visited London Business School, Columbia Business School, and the International Center for Finance at Yale University. His research interests include investments, investor behavior, international finance, empirical corporate finance, and financial history. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, American Economic Review (P&P), and Oxford Economic Papers. Christophe Spaenjers teaches in the MBA programs.

Radek Stefanski – University of Oxford

Radek is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies in the Department of Economics and a Research Fellow at New College, both at the University of Oxford.

In the past he has worked at the Research Department of Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

His research interests include growth and development, international economics as well as macroeconomics. His current focus is on the industrialization of the Asian giants – China and India – and its impact on international trade, growth, emissions and commodity prices.


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