Experts

Emma Tominey is a Professor of Economics at the University of York. She specialises in is child development – evaluating the role of parent behaviours in reaction to unexpected events and of public policy. Recent research explores socio-economic gaps in child cognitive and socio-emotional skills. Emma has expertise in policy analysis and has analysed the effect of youth unemployment, government incentive schemes and currently the effect of universal credit.

Manuel is a member of the Trade, Investment and Productivity team of NIESR. His interest lies in International Trade and his research focuses on export dynamics at the country, industry and firm level, and the role of trade shocks like trade liberalisation or Brexit in shaping export and investment decisions. Manuel holds a PhD in Economics from University of Sussex, with a focus on multi-product firm export dynamics and trade liberalisation. Manuel has gained expertise in applied micro-econometrics by managing both firm-level and customs data on Peruvian exports to the United States. He recently worked at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI-Dublin), where he investigated subjects such as the impact of Brexit uncertainty on FDI attractiveness and employment in the United Kingdom and, more specifically, Northern Ireland. He also participated in a project examining the role of the European Single Market as a source of competitiveness and productivity of European industries, as well as in a study on the main determinants of environmental innovation decisions of Irish firms. For those projects, Manuel made intensive use of datasets from sources like Eurostat, OECD, CompNet, fDi Markets, Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE) and the Innovation in Irish Enterprises survey.

Mirco Tonin is an applied economist with research interests in public, behavioural and experimental economics, dealing with issues such as charitable giving, motivation of employees, consumer behaviour, economics of education and economics of crime. He got his PhD from Stockholm University, Sweden, and before joining the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton and UniCredit Fellow at the Central European University, Budapest.

Ruth Towse specialises in cultural economics and the economics of copyright and has published widely on both fields in academic journals and books, including A Textbook of Cultural Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2019) now in its 2nd edition; she recently edited a 3rd edition of a Handbook of Cultural Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020). She was Joint Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics from 1993-2002; she was President of the Society for Economic Research in Copyright Issues from 2004-6 and President of the Association for Cultural Economic International (ACEI) from 2006-8. In 2016, she was made Distinguished Fellow of the ACEI.

Flavio Toxvaerd has fifteen years’ research experience in the economics of infectious diseases. His focus is on behavioural responses to epidemics, to better understand how people behave when facing disease risks. He has also researched optimal management of diseases through different policies such as voluntary social distancing, lockdowns, vaccination, treatment and testing. He has published on economic epidemiology in biology and economics journals and served as Senior Economic Advisor to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, set up by HM Treasury and the Wellcome Trust.

Karen is a Peruvian economist, currently student at the MSc programme in Global Health Policy at LSE. She holds a Master in Public Policy and Development from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). She was previously an economic and policy analyst across several Ministries in Peru, such as Economy and Finance, Education and Production. Her research interests include economic valuation methods in health care policies, mental health and, regulatory impact analysis.