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Over 65 people work in the Department, including departmental staff, and embedded Faculty Colleagues.

Find contact details and explore who does what.

 

 

Dr Peter Achim

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Microeconomic theory
  • Game theory
  • Mechanism design
  • Industrial organisation
  • Financial economics

Dr Asif Ahmad

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Applied macroeconomics
  • Macroeconomic policy
  • Business cycles

Michelle Barton

Student Services Manager

Research interests:

  • Game theory
  • Political economy
  • Microeconomic issues of less developed economies

Research interests:

  • Econometric and statistical theory.

Research interests:

  • Labour economics and the economics of education.

Research interests:

  • Dynamic general equilibrium.

Dr James Choy

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Development economics.

Emma Cooke

Student Services Coordinator

Research interests:

  • Econometrics
  • Empirical finance
  • Macro-finance

Catherine Craston

Student Services Administrator

Selina Crowther

Assessments Coordinator

Dr Bipasa Datta

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Industrial organization theory
  • Microeconomic theory
  • Regulation and contract theory
  • Public and environmental economics

Dr Theodoros Diasakos

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

Economic Theory
Financial Economics

Dr Matthias Flueckiger

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Development health
  • Political economics

Rosie Furness

General Administrator

Dr Maria Garcia Reyes

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Income polarisation
  • Inequality
  • Poverty
  • Income distribution
  • Criminology

Dr Adam Golinski

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Financial econometrics
  • Financial economics
  • Asset pricing
  • Term structure models
  • Long memory processes

Dr Mark Hallam

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Empirical macro-finance
  • Financial economics
  • Financial and time series econometrics

Michelle Hickman

Administration Coordinator

Paul Hodgson

Technical Services Manager

Research interests:

  • Economic history
  • Economic geography
  • Political economy

Research interests:

  • Population ageing
  • Public sector economics

Annette Johnson

Executive Assistant to Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Health economics
  • Applied microeconomics

Professor Yuan Ju

Professor

Research interests:

  • Game theory
  • Microeconomics
  • Social choice

Dr Jorgen Kratz

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Microeconomic theory
  • Mechanism design
  • Matching

Dr James Lomas

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Applied microeconometrics
  • Health economics
  • Economic evaluation of health care technologies

Sarah Maynard

Head of Faculty Operations, Department of Economics and Related Studies, York Law School and Department of Sociology. 

Vin Mc Dermott

Administration Manager

Research interests:

  • Economic history and international finance, in particular monetary and financial history, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a special focus on exchange rate regimes.

Dr Suzanna Nesom

Research Associate

Professor Cheti Nicoletti

Deputy Head of Department, Research

Research interests:

  • Child development
  • Education
  • Gender economics
  • Social network

Research interests:

  • Economic history
  • Macroeconomics
  • Political economy

Dr Tho Pham

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • The intersection between applied economics and data science with a special interest in gender economics and financial economics.

Hannah Phillips

General Administrator (currently on secondment until March 2026)

Research interests:

  • Political economics
  • Applied macroeconomics
  • Environmental and natural resource economics

Dr Mathilde Péron

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Health economics
  • Applied microeconometrics
  • Economic evaluation of health care technologies

Research interests:

  • Macroeconomics
  • Monetary theory

Jane Rawlings

Administrator for Distance Learning Programmes and MSc Health Economics

Research interests:

  • Health and health care
  • Applied microeconometrics
  • Health and labour

Megan Rose

Research Facilitator

Research interests:

  • Macroeconomics
  • Applied econometrics

Maigen Savory

Student Services and PGR Administrator

Dr Douglas Scott

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Development Economics
  • Child Development

Dr Michael Shallcross

Teaching Allocation, Workload & GTA Coordinator

Research interests:

  • Applied and theoretical econometrics

Research interests:

  • Health economics
  • Industrial organisation
  • Public economics
  • Applied microeconometrics

Research interests:

  • Macroeconomics
  • Finance
  • Applied econometrics

Dr Vanessa Smith

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Panel data econometrics
  • Macro/financial econometrics
  • Time series econometrics

Kim Snedden

Student Services Assistant

Research interests:

  • Family economics
  • Consumption analysis
  • Revealed preference methods

Dr Yaprak Tavman

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Macroeconomic analysis and modelling
  • Financial markets and crises
  • Financial stability and regulation
  • Macroeconomic policy
  • Inequality

Professor Michael A Thornton

Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Time series econometrics

Samantha Tod

Student Services and Assessments Administrator

Research interests:

  • Labour economics
  • Applied econometrics

Dr Liqiong Wang

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Econometrics
  • Stochastic processes

Ning Xue

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Public economics
  • Macroeconomics

Research interests:

  • Panel data econometrics
  • Microeconometrics
  • Applied macro/micro financial econometrics
  • Statistics

Research interests:

  • Microeconomics
  • Mechanism design
  • Auction theory
  • Game theory
  • Financial economics

Dr Paola Zerilli

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Derivative securities
  • Consumption-portfolio choice
  • Asset pricing and market frictions
  • Applied financial econometrics
  • Retirement research
  • Term structure of interest rates