Experts

James Feigenbaum studies economic history, labor economics, and political economy. His research interests include inequality, intergenerational mobility, health and mortality, and labor markets in the 19th and early 20th century US, spanning cities during the Age of Mass Migration and the epidemiological transition to the postbellum South. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER in the Development of the American Economy program.

John Fernald is the Schroders Chair in European Competitiveness and Reform and a Professor of Economics at INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France. Mr. Fernald’s research has been regularly cited in the business and academic press. The Economist called Mr. Fernald “…the foremost authority on American productivity figures,” and The Wall Street Journal referred to Mr. Fernald as “the Fed’s point man on productivity.” Mr. Fernald’s research focuses primarily on applied

Alan Fernihough is an economic historian with research interests in demography, economic growth, and trade.

Andy Ferrara is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. His research lies at the intersection of economic history, labour economics, and political economy with a focus on discrimination, internal and forced migration, and the consequences of violent conflicts, using state-of-the-art data science and causal inference methods.

Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. He is also affiliated with the Department of Social Policy and the Latin America and Caribbean Centre at LSE. Francisco, who is also a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn), is an economist working on the measurement, causes and consequences of inequality and poverty, with an emphasis on developing countries in general and Latin America in

Andrea Ferrero is a CEPR Research Fellow. Before joining Oxford, he was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He held visiting positions at various central banks, and is currently a consultant for the Bank of England and the Bank of Finland. His research focuses on low real interest rates, on the international transmission of credit shocks, and on the interaction between monetary policy and macro-prudential policy.