Current Position: University Lecturer in Economics; Associate Member of Nuffield College

Research Interests:
Microeconomic theory: in particular, experimentation and dynamic learning, organisational structure, reputation and career concerns, information acquisition and aggregation

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Publications:

“Unemployment and Market Size” with Martin Ellison, Kevin Roberts and Margaret Stevens (forthcoming) Economic Journal

“Strategic Experimentation with Poisson Bandits” with Sven Rady (2010) Theoretical Economics, 5, 275–311

“Passive Learning: a critique by example” (2007) Economic Theory, 33, 263–269

“Strategic Experimentation with Exponential Bandits” with Sven Rady and Martin Cripps (2005) Econometrica, 73, 39–68

“Branching Bandits: A Sequential Search Process with Correlated Pay-offs” with Alison Oldale (2003) Journal of Economic Theory, 113, 302–315

“Price Dispersion and Learning in a Dynamic Differentiated-Goods Duopoly” with Sven Rady (2003) RAND Journal of Economics, 34, 138–165

“Optimal Experimentation in a Changing Environment” with Sven Rady (1999) Review of Economic Studies, 66, 475–507

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“The Essential Self-Adjointness of Differential Operators” (1979a) Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. Sect. A, 82, 305–344

“The Essential Self-Adjointness of Differential Operators with Positive Coefficients” (1979b) Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. Sect. A, 82, 345–360

Notes & Comments:

“Brownian Motion and Normally Distributed Beliefs” (2011) [revised]

Work in Progress:

“Breakdowns” with Sven Rady (2012)

“Undiscounted Bandit Problems” with Sven Rady (2010) [revised]

Discussion Papers:

“Unemployment, Participation and Market Size” with Kevin Roberts and Margaret Stevens (2007) DP362, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Oxford

“Strategic Experimentation with Poisson Bandits” with Sven Rady (2009) [revised] DP7270, CEPR

“The (in)appropriate benchmark when beliefs are not the only state variable” (2005) [revision] DP223, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Oxford

“Strategic Experimentation with Exponential Bandits” with Martin Cripps and Sven Rady (2003) DP143, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Oxford

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