Applied economics: development economics, environmental and energy economics, microeconomics of growth, political economy, public economics, labor economics
Elected 2016
The economics of health and health care; the role for markets, pseudo-market mechanisms and financial incentives in the delivery of public services
Time series analysis: forecasting and seasonal adjustment; analysis of forecast surveys and forecast uncertainty; density forecast evaluation. Macroeconometric modelling: comparative studies and policy evaluation in national-economy and multicountry models.
The political economics of economic policy; applications to inequality & growth, public debt, central-bank independence, constitutions, development, state capacity, violent conflict & reforms of economic & political institutions.
