Ruth Waitzberg is a researcher at the Department of Healthcare Management at the Technical University of Berlin and is involved in projects with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. In 2019, Ruth acts as assistant editor at the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research and associate and managing editor at the Health Policy Open Journal. Her research interests include: payment to health providers and financial incentives, health insurance, policy evaluation, health and long-term
WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Systems Research and Management Berlin University of Technology
Ruth Waitzberg
University of Minnesota, NBER, ZEW
Joel Waldfogel
Joel Waldfogel does empirical research on industrial organisation. He has studied price advertising, media markets, pricing, the operation of differentiated product markets, and the effects of digitisation on media and creative industries. His book Digital Renaissance (Princeton) appeared in 2018. His previous books are the Tyranny of the Market (Harvard, 2007) and Scroogenomics (Princeton 2009). Prior to coming to Minnesota, he was on the faculties of Wharton and Yale.
Queen’s University Belfast
Clive Walker
Clive Walker is Assistant Professor of finance at Queen’s University Belfast. He researches financial markets, both historic and contemporary. His research interests include asset pricing, behavioural finance, information efficiency and initial public offerings. He is currently utilising a digitised archive of Financial Times articles published from 1888-2021 in his research of applied empirical finance.
LSE
Patrick Wallis
Patrick Wallis is editor of the Economic History Review. His work explores the economic history of Europe before industrialization, with a particular focus on human capital and apprenticeship, and guilds and economic organization. He has a long-standing interest in health, medicine and epidemics, from plague to SARS.
IFS, University of Oxford
Ben Waltmann
Ben is a Research Economist in the Education and Skills sector and a PhD student at the University of Oxford. His main research areas are the returns to education, higher education funding, the transition from school to work, and the estimation of dynamic discrete choice models.
Queen’s University Belfast
Rebecca Walton
Rebecca is a pre-doctoral research assistant at Queen’s University Belfast, where she works at the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH). She has been awarded NINE DTP funding and will begin her PhD studies in October 2024. Rebecca is interested in the impact of regulation and public policy on social welfare, with a focus on the role and treatment of women. Rebecca uses economic history to learn lessons from the past with an eye to the future.