Francesca Arduini

I am the Economics Fellow at Somerville College, and a member of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford. I am also a Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

My main areas of interest are in microeconomics, including: game theory, household economics, labour economics, public economics, and competition economics.

I am a microeconomist with a policy-oriented research agenda. I am interested in understanding individual, household, and firm decision-making, to the end of informing evidence-based decision-making by institutions including governments, courts and employers. Much of my work is motivated by the goal of uncovering and narrowing inequalities, especially gender inequalities. In order to disentangle mechanisms, and evaluate potential policy responses, it is often valuable to combine a structural approach with empirical analysis. To this end, I draw on microeconomic theory, mostly bargaining and game theory, in my work.

Methodologically, this work has substantial overlaps with my background in competition economics.  I have several years of experience advising on antitrust cases.