Experts

Thorsten Beck is professor of banking and finance at Cass Business School and CEPR research fellow. His research and policy work have focused, among other issues, on bank resolution, macroprudential policies, SME finance, competition in banking, household access to finance and cross-border banking. He has worked as consultant for central banks and international financial institutions and has ample policy experience across advanced and emerging countries.

Ralf has been teaching mathematics, statistics and econometrics at all levels at the University of Manchester since 2005. His research interest is in time-series and financial econometrics and also in the pedagogy of teaching economics, and quantitative skills in particular. He has particular expertise in helping students to learn coding skills as well as in the use of online clips and discussion boards as part of a blended learning offer.

Sascha O. Becker is Professor of Economics & Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, and part-time Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He studied Economics at the Universities of Bonn, Germany, and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, France. He obtained his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 2001. He works on forced displacement in historic and modern

Paula Bejarano Carbo is an Associate Economist in the Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting team at NIESR, contributing primarily to the quarterly UK and Global Economic Outlooks and the monthly NIESR trackers. Paula joined NIESR after completing her MPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford.  Her research interests lie in monetary policy, wealth inequality and political economy.

Professor of Economics, University of Stirling. Areas of expertise: social care, health economics, wellbeing, labour economics – hours of work, youth unemployment, migration, fiscal federalism.

Brian Bell is Professor of Economics and Head of Department, Economics at King’s Business School. Brian joined King’s College London in January 2017. Previous to his appointment at King’s, he was Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Oxford (2012-2016) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (2009-2012) – where he remains a Research Associate. He has spent a significant part of his career outside of academia. He