I am a researcher at the Brandenburg University of Technology, working on the project MOTION-CB with Charlotte Gerling. This project uses mechanism design tools together we with insights from discrete choice experiments to propose cost-effective policies conserving biodiversity. In the past I have enjoyed studying problems relating to international environmental agreements, corruption, and inequality measurement. 

My CV contains details of my education, previous employment, awards, conference presentations, teaching and professional service. 

Below you can find the most up-to-date list of my working papers and publications.

Research

Works in progress

• Red or Gold (with Andrew Clausen and John Moore, funded by the BME Research Fellowship Programme).

• Coordinated and Results-based Payments for Ecosystem Services (with Charlotte Gerling).

Working Papers

• Turning Bribes into Lemons: an Optimal Mechanism (with Andrew Clausen, funded by the BME Research Fellowship Programme). Play Scotch Hold'em Poker! Slides.

• Efficient, Fair and Stable Agreements for Abating Marine Plastic Pollution (with Sreoshi Banerjee, funded by the Sustainable Development and Technologies National Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Code. Transport Matrix.

• Random-Proposer Deferred Acceptance and Possibility-based Strategy-proofness (with József Pínter and Regina Stangl).

• Two Stage Mechanisms for Matching Students and Supervisors (with Fatma Aslan and Vivien Surman). 

Publications

• Bethlendi A. and Stapenhurst C. (2025) Growth or stability? Using social risk preferences to guide industrial policy. Journal of Economic Policy Reform. Code.

• Beaumont, N., Börger, T., Clark, J., Hanley, N., Johnston, R., Meginnis, K., Stapenhurst, C. and de Vries, F. (2025) Cooperative agreement between countries of the North Atlantic Ocean reduces marine plastic pollution but with unequal economic benefits Nature Communications: Earth and Environment. Code. 

• Abul Naga, R., Stapenhurst, C. and Yalonetzky, G. (2024) Inferring Inequality: Testing for Median-Preserving Spreads in Ordinal Data.  Econometric Reviews. Code: functions, results

• Abul Naga, R., Stapenhurst, C. and Yalonetzky, G. (2020) Asymptotic Versus Bootstrap Inference for Inequality Indices of the Cumulative Distribution Function, Econometrics 8. 

• Abul Naga, R. and Stapenhurst, C. (2015) Estimation of inequality indices of the cumulative distribution function, Economics Letters 130.

Old

• Lemons by Design: Sowing Secrets to Curb Corruption (with Andrew Clausen)

• Forecasting Interest and Inflation with a Bayesian Vector Error Correction Model

• Double Monitoring: A negative result. (Funded by the BME Research Fellowship Programme).

Other

• Reintroducing Wolves to Scotland