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 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

• Relative performance payments: improving result-based compensation for biodiversity conservation in uncertain times (with Charlotte Gerling, funded by the Postdoc Network Brandenburg).

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

Working Papers

• Turning Bribes into Lemons: an Optimal Mechanism (with Andrew Clausen). Play Scotch Hold'em Poker! Slides.

• Efficient, Fair and Stable Agreements for Abating Marine Plastic Pollution (with Sreoshi Banerjee). Code. Transport Matrix.

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

Publications

• Aslan, A., Surman, V. and Stapenhurst, C. (forthcoming) Two Stage Mechanisms for Matching Students and Supervisors. Operations Research Letters.

• 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. 

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

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. 

Other

• Reintroducing Wolves to Scotland