Economics

Professor Gareth Austin became the Director of Research at King's in April 2025.

Seda Basihos' primary research fields are Political Economy and Economic Growth, with a focus on technology and firm dynamics. She is also interested in Economic History and Development, particularly from the unified growth theory perspective.

Economic Theory, Market Design

Elisa Faraglia (PHD New York University, BA Bocconi University) is a Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge and a fellow at King’s college. Her research focuses on macroeconomics with particular interest in international finance, optimal fiscal policy, debt management, asset pricing and numerical methods. She is a research fellow at the Center of Economic Policy Research (CEPR) a member of the Money, Macro and Finance (MMF). She is a Director of Studies at King’s and a supervisor and King’s and has published in top economics journals. She has been fellow of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance and the Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN) coordinator.

Macroeconomic dynamics, fiscal Policy, growth and human capital, adaptive learning, networks in macroeconomics, asset pricing.

Christoph’s research specialises in the economic history of early modern China and East Asia. For his doctoral work, he reconstructed the institutional framework of inheritance in pre-industrial China through thousands of documents gathered from rural household collections in China. He is currently turning the findings from his doctoral dissertation into his first book, which examines how inheritance interacted with other institutions regulating marriage, migration, and the land market, to limit long-term capital accumulation. His main project as the Mervyn King Research Fellow at King’s will be a comprehensive study of living standards and wealth inequality in China between 1650 and 1950. He is especially interested in the effect of changes in wealth on broad measures of human welfare, such as nutrition, housing quality, and education. Christoph’s other interests include the rise of intellectual pragmatism in late imperial China, servantship and slavery, and rural entrepreneurship in post-reform China.

Christoph received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, he read for an MPhil in Cambridge and a BA in Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Other stations included Zhejiang University, Keio University, the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Demographic Research.

Research

Kamiar Mohaddes is an expert in the macroeconomics of climate change and sustainability at Cambridge University, where he is the Co-Director of the climaTRACES Lab, a new interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Cambridge focusing on climate, nature, and sustainability. He is also the Deputy Director of the Cambridge Executive MBA programme and Fellow in Economics at King’s College, Cambridge, where he co-founded and directs the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab.

In addition to climate change and sustainability, Kamiar's research covers energy economics, economics of the Middle East, and applied macroeconomics more broadly. He is among the top 1% authors globally in IDEAS/RePEc (based on last 10 years of publications). His articles have been published in a number of edited volumes (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Routledge) as well as in leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of International Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has also been covered in major international news outlets including the BBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Kamiar’s work has been cited extensively by policymakers, including by more than 25 members of the United States Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, and the White House.

Kamiar has worked extensively on issues related to climate change and sustainability with both the public (including the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, IDB) and the private sector (BCG, BNP Paribas, KPMG and many others). He is a regular visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and has previously served as a Departmental Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada. He has worked closely with colleagues at these institutions to, for instance, develop tools to help examine and disentangle the size and speed of the transmission of different global, regional, and national macroeconomic shocks. 

Kamiar obtained his PhD in economics from Cambridge as a Bill and Melinda GatesScholar.

You can find Kamiar on Twitter and LinkedIn. His publications are available on Google Scholar.

Research: Economic growth, employment and inequality; economics of the family. 

Research

Recent research projects include: apprentice discontent and collective action in twentieth century British metalworking industry; contemporary apprenticeship training in large British companies; financial attributes of apprenticeship in Britain, Germany and Switzerland; and the Apprentice Movement of 1968-75 in Germany.

Selected publications

1980    ‘The costs of training for a transferable skill,’ British Journal of Industrial Relations, November; 18(3), 334‑352.

1991    The Problem of Youth: the Regulation of Youth Employment and Training in Advanced Economies (ed. with P. Garonna and R.C. Edwards), Macmillan, London.

1995    ‘Trade union policies towards the Youth Training Scheme: patterns and causes,’ British Journal of Industrial Relations, March; 33(1), 1-33.

2001    ‘The school-to-work transition: a cross-national perspective’, Journal of Economic Literature, March; 39(1); 34-92.

2004    ‘Apprentice strikes in the twentieth century UK engineering and shipbuilding industries’, Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, Autumn; 18, 1-63.

2007    ‘Large employers and apprenticeship training in Britain’ (with H. Gospel and P. Lewis), British Journal of Industrial Relations, March; 45(1), 127-53.

2009    ‘The role of external inspection in the public services: the case of the UK training market’ (with P. Lewis), Public Administration, 87(4), 791-817.

2011    Financial aspects of apprenticeship training in Germany, Great Britain and Switzerland (with K. Wagner, S. Teuber and U. Backes-Gellner), Arbeitspapier 241. Dusseldorf: Hans-Böckler Stiftung.

2013  ‘Monopsony power, pay structure, and training’ (with S. Mühlemann and S.C. Wolter), Industrial and Labour Relations Review, Oct; 66(5), 1095-1112.

2025   The Apprentice Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany: Aufstand der Stifte, 1968-1975, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland. 

Research: Economic Theory and Game Theory: in particular Asset Prices with Asymmetric Information; Bargaining; Bounded Rationality and Complexity; Evolutionary Game Theory; Implementation and Mechanism Design; Market Games; Repeated Games; Social Learning and Herd Behaviour, Voting.