PhD Students

We supervise PhD research in Empirical Macroeconomics, Econometrics and Forecasting. All formers students are graduates of the WBS PhD programme in Finance and Econometrics. We are currently accepting PhD students via the MRes/PhD Finance and Economics. We provide students with support to develop their individual research skills and pursue academic and research positions in economic institutions. Our current and former students are listed below.

Taohen Zhao
Supervisor: Professor Anthony Garratt

Danilo Cascaldi Garcia
Supervisors: Professor Ana Galvao and Professor Anthony Garratt.
Project title: 'Empirical Evaluation of News and Uncertainty Shocks as Sources of Business Cycles'
Graduated in July 2018. Placement: Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Bank, Washington.

Yunyi Zhang 
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Garratt and Professor Shaun Vahey
Project title: 'Proposal for measuring and evaluating uncertainty behind density forecasts'
Graduated in November 2019. Placement: Post-doc at Sun Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou.

Anastasia Allayioti
Supervisors: Professor Shaun Vahey and Professor Anthony Garratt.
Project title: 'Essays in Density Forecasting'
Graduated in March 2021. Placement: Post-doc at Kings College Business School. Economist at European Central Bank

Andrea De Polis 
Supervisors: Professor Ana Galvao and Professor Ivan Petrella.
Project title: 'Financial Asymmetries in Volatility Models'.
Placement: Senior Research Economist, Banco de España

Francesco Saverio Gaudio
Supervisors: Professor Ivan Petrella and Professor Shaun Vahey
Project title: 'Labour Market Frictions, Imperfect Rationality and Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy'
Placement: Post-doc at Aix-Marseille School of Economics

Giulia Mantoan
Supervisors Professor Ana Galvao and Professor James Mitchell
Project title: 'Bayesian combination and calibration of Density Forecasts'
Graduated in 2021. Placement: Research Economist at Bank of England

Luis Hernandez Roman
Supervisors: Professor Ana Galvao and Professor Ivan Petrella
Project Title: 'Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics'
Graduated in 2024. Placement: Research Economist at the Central Bank of Mexico