Here are some topics current and previous research students have been engaged in.

  • Experimental analysis of incentive schemes
  • Fashion and coordination games
  • Returns to education in the UK
  • Microeconomics of residential location
  • Mortgage equity withdrawal in the UK
  • Competition in intermediated markets
  • Essays in behavioural economics
  • Identifying structural characteristics of collusive agreements
  • Co-ordination failure and inter-cultural value systems
  • Water tariff reform in the UK
  • Reference-dependent preferences
  • Efficient tax collection systems
  • Essays in competition economics
  • Income tax non-compliance in Malaysia
  • Chain-store pricing and market structure
  • Tacit collusion and EU mergers
  • Market turbulence and its implications for market structure
  • Focal points and coordination games
  • The demand for health and healthcare
  • Product complexity and markets
  • Cooperation and we-rationality
  • Happiness and economic policies
  • Poverty in Vietnam
  • Economics of the retail sector
  • Job search and matching in the modern Chinese labour market
  • Expectations and monetary policy