Current Position: University Lecturer in Economics; Associate Member of Nuffield College (from January 2008)

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

Work in Progress:

"Undiscounted Bandit Problems" with Sven Rady (2009)

Discussion Papers:

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

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

"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

Notes & Comments:

"Brownian Motion and Normally Distributed Beliefs" (2007)

Publications:

"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

"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

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