Anna Maffioletti normally teaches Principles of Microeconomics, Industrial Economics and Public Policy, Economic Behaviour under Risk and Uncertainty. Her research interests are experimental investigation of individual attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, experimental test of Choquet Expected Utility and application of decision making models under uncertainty to the political business cycle models. Jo McHardy is a microeconomist. His research interests include industrial organisation and transport economics. He has recently published in Economic Letters on the measurement of monopoly welfare losses.
Current research is centred in two areas.
His recent publications include articles on perceptions of community in the nineteenth century city, and on nineteenth century fire insurance markets. Current research projects include fire insurance during the Industrial Revolution, and the history of reinsurance in the international economy. His research projects include articles on work discipline in urban England utilising patterns of marriage periodicity, on the development of railway excursions in Britain, and a book on leisure in the nineteenth century city. His general research field is African trade and the development of the North Atlantic economy 1650-1850. Within this general field, he is particularly interested in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the labour flows and their impact on Britain, West Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.