I am a PhD student in Economics at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Christos Genakos, Michael Pollitt, and Kamiar Mohaddes. My research interests are in empirical IO and I am currently researching the effect of quality ratings on consumer search in the healthcare sector. Future research ideas intend to investigate the application and effect of vertical restraints.
As a Director of the Workshop Series at the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab, an ecosystem designed to educate and inform future entrepreneurs, I am involved in organising and facilitating workshops covering a range of entrepreneurial skills such as developing a pitch, marketing, hiring a team and exit options.
I have over 5 years experience working in an economics consultancy, advising the EU, UK Government, and other organisations on matters of public policy. In particular, I was heavily involved in the EU DG Comp’s evaluation of the Vertical Block Exemptions Regulation, taking an empirical look at the effects of resale price maintenance in the book sector and, building a theoretical framework to consider the state of competition in the professional business services sector.
PhD in Economics, 2027 (Expected)
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
MRes in Economics, 2023
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Postgraduate Certificate in Econometrics, 2020
Faculty of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of Cambridge
MPhil in Economics, 2018
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
BA (Hons) in Economics, 2017
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
A large and increasing proportion of teaching in UK universities is being fulfilled by staff on casual, rather than permanent, contracts. This paper examines how the proportion of teaching by casual staff affected student satisfaction in 2014–15. We find that an increased proportion of casual teaching leads to lower student satisfaction, even when controlling for respondent’s subject, university and faculty. This suggests a trade-off between increasing casualisation and student satisfaction, which could have implications for future student demand. These results can be generalised to the rest of the economy and highlight potential perverse effects arising from casual contracts.
This paper investigates the “adaptive investment effect”, a redirection of investment towards adaptive capital in order to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. We find that the impact of investment on economic growth is reduced by between 27% and 37% in Chinese provinces investing more in adaptive capital. This implies that the benefits from mitigation policies are greater than existing studies suggest.
This paper investigates the effects of resale price maintenance (RPM) agreements in Europe by studying a legally-permitted form of RPM in the book market. In particular, we study the effects of such agreements on prices and sales, finding that countries which have Fixed Book Prices witness higher book sales with no noticeable effect on the average price of books. Whilst these results are limited to the book sector, they highlight that RPM agreements have the ability to confer positive competition effects and absolute prohibition of such agreements may not always be warranted.
TA: Michaelmas 2023
TA: Michaelmas 2023
College Supervisor: 2022-2023