Our staff, Our people, Department of Economics

Academic staff

Neha Agarwal

Lecturer
Email neha.agarwal@otago.ac.nz
Applied microeconomics; development; health; gender; labour.

Nathan Berg

Professor
Email nathan.berg@otago.ac.nz
Behavioural economics.

David Fielding

Professor
Email david.fielding@otago.ac.nz
Trust and altruism; economics of altruism; economics of conflict; economic development in sub-Saharan Africa; pre-industrial economic history.

Murat Genç

Associate Professor
Email murat.genc@otago.ac.nz
Applied microeconometrics.

Honours student adviser
Director of Masters programmes

Peter Gibbard

Lecturer
Email peter.gibbard@otago.ac.nz
Industrial organization and competition economics; discrete-choice econometrics; economics of search; behavioural economics.

Paul Hansen

Professor
Email paul.hansen@otago.ac.nz
Health economics; multi-criteria decision-making; conjoint analysis.

Alfred Haug

Professor
Email alfred.haug@otago.ac.nz
Empirical monetary and fiscal policy; macroeconometrics; C02 emissions and macroeconomic determinants; economic impact of oil-market shocks

Viktoria Kahui

Senior Lecturer
Email viktoria.kahui@otago.ac.nz
Environmental economics; ecological economics.

Stephen Knowles

Professor
Email stephen.knowles@otago.ac.nz
Experimental economics; altruism and charitable giving; applied economic growth and development.

Director of PhD programme

Daniel Neururer

Lecturer
Email daniel.neururer@otago.ac.nz
Trust and trustworthiness; lying and deception; credence goods markets; the effects of mindfulness-based interventions on social preferences.

Dorian Owen

Professor
Email dorian.owen@otago.ac.nz
Applied econometrics; economic growth and development; sports economics.

Arlene Ozanne

Senior lecturer
Email arlene.ozanne@otago.ac.nz
Economic growth and development; labour migration; Asian economies; natural disasters and resilience; other socioeconomic issues.

Ronald Peeters

Professor
Email ronald.peeters@otago.ac.nz
Game theory; behavioural economics; experimental economics; industrial organization.

Head of Department

Trent Smith

Associate Professor
Email trent.smith@otago.ac.nz
Behavioural economics; health economics; industrial organization.

Paul Thorsnes

Senior Lecturer
Email paul.thorsnes@otago.ac.nz
Empirical urban economics and policy.

Murat Üngor

Senior Lecturer
Email murat.ungor@otago.ac.nz
International macroeconomics; macroeconomics; economic growth; structural transformation and technological change.

Associate Professor
Email dennis.wesselbaum@otago.ac.nz
Macroeconomics (especially monetary and fiscal policy); quantitative economics; economic growth; migration; interaction between climate, environment and society.