Researchers in the School published more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed economics journals in 2025/26, in general-interest and field journals alike, many of them among the most respected in the field. Here are some highlights, listed in alphabetical order.
Árpád Ábrahám, with three co-authors, asks how a fund designed to rescue countries in financial trouble should be built, in such a way that both parties are happy to fulfil their obligations and borrowers have enough incentives to reduce the risk of future crises.
Review of Economic Studies 93(4), 2026.
Uta Bolt, with three co-authors, looks at how earnings advantages pass from parents to children.
Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
Monica Costa Dias, with three co-authors, asks whether people are increasingly marrying partners like themselves, shows that different plausible ways of measuring this can point to opposite conclusions, and sets out which can be justified.
Journal of Political Economy 133(10), 2025.
Battal Doğan, with Lars Ehlers, studies markets that match people to places, such as students to schools and doctors to hospitals, where some participants think only one step ahead and others anticipate how everyone else will respond. When do stable arrangements exist?
Econometrica 94(3), 2026. Open access.
Paola Manzini, with Marco Mariotti and Levent Ülkü, looks at how the options a person turns down shape the option they end up choosing.
Review of Economic Studies, advance access.
Iacopo Morchio, with Christian Moser, uses Brazilian data to ask why women are paid less than men. The gap is driven largely by women working at lower-paying employers, and around half of it reflects jobs that trade pay against other things workers value.
American Economic Review 116(5), 2026.
Pietro Spini, sole author, offers a simple way to measure how far a study's findings can be expected to travel to a population that differs from the one actually studied.
Econometrica, forthcoming.
Sami Stouli, with Richard Spady, develops a way to model an entire distribution of outcomes rather than just its average, capturing what is happening at the bottom and the top, not only in the middle.
Econometrica 93(5), 2025.
Stephanie von Hinke, with five co-authors, sets out when economists can credibly use genetic data, and what it takes to separate the influence of genes from the influence of the environment people grow up in.
Review of Economic Studies 93(1), 2026.
Yanos Zylberberg, with three co-authors, studies the long-run effects of early industrialization in China, exploiting a unique historical experiment: the construction of about 150 state-of-the-art factories with Soviet assistance, the lasting legacy of a brief period of Sino-Soviet collaboration in the 1950s.
Review of Economic Studies, advance access.
The full range of the School's published work is on the University's research portal, and the Bristol Economics Discussion Paper series shows what colleagues are working on now.