Research

My research agenda has two main programmes. The first aims to study the redistributive effects of behavioural public policy interventions that have heterogeneous effects across people with different levels of literacy (normally under spatial concentration). The second is on game theoretical models of strategic market behaviour and how to incorporate the results of current psychological and behavioural research into the characterisation of best responses.

Main research papers

• The effect of weather on the willingness to pay for residential energy-efficiency. Working paper.
  
  
• The simpler the better? Threshold effects of energy labels on property prices and energy-efficiency investments [first author] (with M. Moro and T. Stowasser). Forthcoming at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
  
  
• The role of simplified information in market learning. Currently presenting at various conferences.
  
  
• Costly disclosure with information intermediaries.
  
  

Work in-progress

• On the redistributive effects of behavioural public policy interventions with heterogeneous effects. Funding received.
  
  
• On real estate markets and wealth redistribution.
  
  
• Inference and estimation of moderation effects with a regression kink design.
  
  

Other research

• Balancing perspectives on performance: ”Measurement from the inside” and ”measurement from the outside” (with B. Lee and I. Fraser). Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 2023, 34(1), 13–34.
  
  
• How can home energy efficiency improvements help us reach net zero? (with E. Benoit and M. Moro). Economics Observatory, 2023.
  
  
• Leveraging the motivational effects of labels: Lessons from retrofitting (with D. A. Comerford, M. Moro and T. Stowasser). Behavioral Science & Policy, 2021, 7(2), 17–25.