Experts

Hande Küçük is the Deputy Director for Macroeconomics, Modelling and Forecasting at NIESR. She holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and previously worked as Deputy Director at the Central Bank of Turkey in the Research and Monetary Policy Department. She is experienced in central banking, macroeconomic modelling, forecasting and policy analysis. Her research areas are international macroeconomics and finance, monetary economics, applied econometrics.

Margaret Kyle (MINES ParisTech and CEPR) currently holds the Chair in Intellectual Property and Markets for Technology at MINES ParisTech. Her research concerns innovation, productivity and competition. She has a number of papers examining R&D productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically the role of geographic and academic spillovers; the firm-specific and policy determinants of the diffusion of new products; generic competition; and the use of markets for technology. Recent work

Jennifer L. Castle is an Official Fellow in Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, an Associate Member of Climate Econometrics, Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. She previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford. Her research interests lie in the fields of model selection and forecasting, in which she has published widely.

François Lafond is a senior research officer at the Mathematical Institute and deputy director of the Complexity Economics group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, and an associate member of Nuffield college. His main areas of research are in the economics of innovation and productivity, environmental economics, networks and complex systems, applied econometrics and forecasting.

Ashley is the former Research Editor at the Economics Observatory. She led on both regional work and editorial output on the website and ECO magazine. She is also the Centre Manager at the Economics Network, an organisation that supports learning and teaching in higher education economics.

Camille Landais is Professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Director of the Public Economics Programme of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In addition to his academic position, he maintains affiliations with the Institut des politiques publiques, Institute for Fiscal Studies, STICERD, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and the European Economic Association, on whose council he sits. His research focuses on public finance and labour economics