Teaching Staff
Thanks to the collaborative nature of the programme, the Programme is able to appoint teachers who are experts in their respective field. As a result, the quality of teaching expertise employed on the MSc Programme is of a very high calibre. For example Professor John Hardman Moore who teaches the core microeconomics course, is President of the Econometrics Society and is generally recognised to be one of the leading micro-theorists of his generation whilst he and other teachers such as Ed Hopkins and Jonathan Thomas regularly publish in the American Economic Review and Econometrica, the profession's two "flagship" journals. Besides a presence in these and other leading journals, SGPE teachers also have affiliations and advisory roles with institutions such as the IMF and National Governments. For example, since 1991 Ronnie MacDonald, who is a leading expert in the area of International Money and Finance, has been a Visiting Scholar in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund on 15 separate occasions, has regularly taught a course on The Economics of Exchange Rates at the IMF Institute and has also been a consultant to a number of central banks, including the European Central Bank, and leading financial institutions in the City of London. Similarly, Mark Schaffer, a world authority in Transition Economics , has acted as advisor and/or consultant to International Financial Organisations working in the East European region, including the World Bank, IMF, EBRD, UNEDE, EU and OECD, as has Paul Hare.
One attractive feature of our programme is the wide range of elective courses on offer in the second term ranging from development to environmental economics. Again these are taught by experts in each respective field.
Teaching staff on the MSc vary from year to year as some take annual or sabbatical leave or, in the longer term, as courses are reviewed and changed. The table below gives details on a selection of the teaching staff in post during the 2009/10 academic year together with the courses they taught. Click on any name to find out more about any particular staff member.
Robin Alpine - Quantitative Methods
Ahmed Anwar - Microeconomics
Tim Barmby– Personnel Economics
Arnab Battacharjee - Quantitative Methods
Sascha Becker- Advanced Topics in Quantitative Methods
Yu Fu Chen - Pre-sessional Mathematics, Financial Economics
Atanas Christev - Economics of Eastern Europe
Miguel Costa-Gomes – Experimental Economics
Rod Cross - Development of Economic Thought and Methodology
Julia Darby - Quantitative Methods, Economic Policy
Bernard Fingleton Economic Policy
Nick FeltovichMicroeconomics and Experimental Economics
Nick Hanley – Environment and Natural Resource Economics
John Hardman Moore - Microeconomics
Paul Hare - Economics of Eastern Europe
Ric Holt – Macroeconomics
Ed Hopkins – Topics in Advanced Microeconomics
Hans Hvide – Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance
Tatiana Kornienko - Advanced Topics in Microeconomics
Laurence Lasselle- Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics
Campbell Leith – Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics
Phillipe LeMay Boucher – Development Economics
Rod McCrorie – Quantitative Methods
Jaques Melitz - International Money and Finance
Hassan Molana - Quantitative Methods, Macroeconomics
Catia Montagna - International Trade
Roger Perman – Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Jozsef Sakovics - Advanced Topics in Microeconomics
Mark Schaffer - Advanced Topics in Quantitative Methods, Economics of Eastern Europe
Andy Snell – Asset Pricing, Economic Policy
David Ulph - Industrial Organisation, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Ian Wooton - International Trade
Yin Zhang - Development Economics