Placement Kieran Marray: The University of Manchester
In August, Kieran will join the Department of Economics at the University of Manchester as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor).
Kieran is a PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, supervised by research fellow Michael Konig (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Ozan Candogan (The University of Chicago, United States). He is also a fellow in the POPulation-scale social NETwork analysis project at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Amsterdam.
Kieran's research focuses on how unobserved (network) structure affects economic outcomes and optimal policy. Applications include economic epidemiology, firm-level supply networks, and political economy.
He received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minor Research Grant for "Place-based industrial policy in endogenous production networks" with Xianglong Kong, Kathryn McDonald, Peter Ohlinger, and Ruochen Dai.
Kieran is a Tinbergen Institute research master's alumnus (2022) in Economics and Econometrics (cum laude), and has a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Link to personal website: Kieran Marray.