Experts

Maria’s research focuses on the economics of crime, organized crime and corruption. Together with her co-authors, she has investigated the joint effect of organised crime and corruption on economic growth. Mara has published the following papers on the topic: a theory of organized crime, corruption and economic growth, and an empirical analysis of organized crime, corruption and economic growth. In another piece of empirical research she has investigated the determinants of crime versus organised crime in Italy. More recently, Maria has co-authored a piece, on the effects of the lockdowns on crimes in England.

Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London, co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Research Programme Director in the Firms portfolio, at the International Growth Centre. His research interests include labor, development and public economics and his work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica and the Review of Economic Studies.

Christopher Rauh’s fields are Labor Economics and Political Economy. He works with complex datasets and applied methodologies, including machine learning and structural modelling. During the Covid19 outbreak he has been using repeated large geographically representative surveys to document the large and unequal impact of the pandemic on workers in the UK, the US, and Germany.

Charles Read lectures, examines and supervises for the Faculty of History, where he is a postdoctoral fellow, and the Faculty of Economics, where he is an affiliated lecturer, at the University of Cambridge. His research and teaching interests focus on the economic causes and consequences of famines, financial crises and pandemics in Great Britain and Ireland over the past two centuries. His next book, entitled “Ireland’s Great Famine: Britain’s Biggest Economic-Policy Disaster Re-Examined”, about public policy during the Irish Famine, is out soon.

I am an applied economist, specialising in the area of sport, an area which is characterised by a relative abundance of freely available data to investigate questions of economic interest – why do particular outcomes occur for a given set of inputs? I’ve looked at questions relating to the interest in sporting contests, the efficiency of markets, the impact of regulations and policy interventions, and the nature of forecasts, using sport data.

Daniel Reck is Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan. He is a public economist with particular interests in tax evasion and the application of behavioural economics in policymaking.