Research

Publications:

"Naivety about hidden information: An experimental investigation", with Maria Montero. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021. Vol. 192, Pg. 92-116

"Disclosure of information under competition: An experimental study". Solo-authored. Games and Economic Behavior, 2021. Vol. 129, Pg. 158-180

Policy papers and short pieces:

"Responsible investment as a motivator of pension engagement", Nest Insight, November 2021

"The impact of Covid-19 on low and moderate income savers", Nest Insight, May 2021

“The sound of silence” & “I can’t get no satisfaction” with Jenny Robinson & Yuwei Zhang. Banking Standards Board, September 2020

"Banking Standards Board Annual Review 2018-2019". Banking Standards Board, April 2019.

"Banking Standards Board: Consumer Framework". Banking Standards Board, July 2019.

“Gold, Silver, and Crude oil: The Trinity of India”, with Cledwyn Fernandez. Mercantile Exchange Nepal Ltd. Year Book 2013

Working papers:

"Mistrust, Injustice, and Managerial Disengagement: Organizational Roadblocks to Employee Wellbeing in UK" with Daniel Beunza and Aurelie Cnop (draft available)

Organizational scholars have voiced increasing concerns over the aims, mechanisms, and effects of employee wellbeing in organizations, calling for a better understanding of how the organizational context shapes the impact of wellbeing policies. Our study responds to this call with an analysis of wellbeing in the British financial industry. Our mixed-methods research design combines a large-scale employee survey with a grounded-theory qualitative content analysis of group interviews, bringing back the organizational context and its role in limiting, qualifying, and in some cases reversing the individual-level effects of organizational autonomy and flexibility posited by the organizational behavior literature. Our study contributes to the critical wellbeing literature by highlighting the role of organizational mistrust, perceptions of injustice, and managerial disengagement. It also posits a complementary, rather than substitutive, relationship between wellbeing policies and organizational stability, pointing to organizational alternatives to dominant wellbeing policies.

Research in progress:

"Auto-enrolment into retirement savings and consumer indebtedness in the UK" with John Beshears, James Choi, Chris Firth, John Gathergood, David Laibson, and Neil Stewart

"Auto-enrolment into retirement savings and wage setting" with Chris Firth, John Gathergood, David Laibson, and Neil Stewart

"Auto-enrolment into retirement savings and household savings" with Chris Firth, John Gathergood and Neil Stewart

Other papers:

“Crowding-out effect in the United States: A Co-Integration Analysis” 2015 (available upon request)