I am a DPhil student in Economics at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Petr Sedláček. I work on the economic impact of automation, with a specific interest in firms and the labour market.
I am also a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kent with Professor Anthony Savagar. Our research investigates scale economies in the UK, to better understand productivity and market power.
I completed my undergraduate studies at St Hilda’s College in Oxford, before working at data analytics consultancy dunnhumby. I embarked on graduate study at UCL, taking courses in statistics and machine learning, before returning to Oxford to train as an economist. I have taught undergraduate economics throughout my studies, and I am particularly interested in various approaches to changing the economics syllabus.
DPhil Economics, 2018 - present
University of Oxford
MPhil Economics, 2018
University of Oxford
MRes Financial Computing & Analytics, 2016
UCL
BA Economics & Management, 2014
University of Oxford
This paper endogenises returns to scale and highlights a more complicated relationship between scale economies and productivity. We empirically investigate this relationship at the firm-level, across industries, and the aggregate. Changing business dynamism can reconcile the paradoxical results.
This paper investigates returns to scale in the UK, and the role of computer software in affecting scale economies.
This paper investigates the adoption of automation technologies at a firm level using a novel dataset. I build a strucutral model of firm dynamics to better understand the implications of these findings for the macroeconomy. I reconcile the finding that automating firms grow, but on aggregate, such technologies seem to reduce employment.
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