Martin O’Connell
Contact details:
[email protected]
http://www.ifs.org.uk/people/profile/415
+44 (0) 20 7291 4800
Mailing address:
Institute for Fiscal Studies
7 Ridgmount Street
WC1E 7AE
Employment:
2016–
2011–2015
2008–2011
Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Education:
2009–2015
2007–2008
2003–2007
PhD Economics, University College London
Title: xxxxxxxxx Essays in applied microeconometrics
Supervisors: xxx Richard Blundell and Rachel Griffith
Examiners: xxxx Orazio Attanasio (UCL) and Arial Pakes (Harvard University)
MSc Economics (Distinction), London School of Economics and Political Science
MA (Hons) Financial Economics (First), University of St. Andrews
Research visits:
Sept-Dec
2012
Tolouse School of Economics
Research grants:
2016
2015
(Principal investigator) “Regulating product characteristic space in food markets”, British
Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, £325,831
(Co-investigator) “Empirical evidence on the formation of habits, self-control and nonseparabilities in food choice”, ERC, A
C994,772
(Co-investigator) “Food consumer, Advertising and Dynamics”, ESRC-ORA, £404,705
Peer-reviewed academic publications:
2017
2016
2015
2014
2010
2009
Dubois, Griffith and O’Connell “The effects of banning advertising in junk food markets”,
forthcoming Review of Economic Studies
Griffith, Nesheim and O’Connell “Income effects and the welfare consequences of tax in
differentiated product oligopoly”, forthcoming Quantitative Economics
Griffith, O’Connell and Smith “The importance of product reformulation versus consumer
choice in improving diet quality” Economica 84, 333, 34-53
Griffith, O’Connell and Smith “Shopping around? How households adjusted food spending
over the Great Recession”, Economica 83, 330, 247-280
Griffith, Miller and O’Connell “Ownership of intellectual property and corporate taxation”,
Journal of Public Economics, 112, 12-23
Griffith and O’Connell “Public policy towards for consumption”, Fiscal Studies, 31, 481-507
Griffith and O’Connell “The use of scanner data for research into nutrition”, Fiscal Studies,
30, 339-365
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Working papers:
2017
Griffith, O’Connell and Smith “Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market”,
CEPR Discussion Paper DP11820
Selected other publications:
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
Griffith, O’Connell, and Smith “Sweetening the sugar tax?” IFS Observation
“Griffith, Luhrmann, O’Connell and Smith “Using taxation to reduce sugar consumption”
IFS Briefing Note, No. 180
Levell, O’Connell and Smith “Sugary drinks tax: response from the Institute for Fiscal
Studies” in The Lancet, 387, 10031, 1907-1908
Levell, O’Connell and Smith “Excise Duties” in The Green Budget 2016 (eds.) Emmersen,
Johnson and Joyce
O’Connell “What are the best policies to tackle excessive alcohol consumption?”Britain in
2016
Griffith, O’Connell and Smith, “Relative prices, consumer preferences and the demand for
food” Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Griffith, O’Connell and Smith “What are the most effective ways to reduce adults’ salt
intake?”Britain in 2015
Griffith, O’Connell and Smith, “Product reformulation effective in reducing dietary salt
intake” IFS Observation
Griffith, O’Connell and Smith “Food expenditure over the Great Recession” Britain in 2014
Griffith, O’Connell and Smith “Food spending and nutritional quality over the Great Recession”, IFS Briefing Note, No. 143
O’Connell “How can people be eating less but getting heavier?”, Yorkshire Post
Griffith, Leicester and O’Connell “Price-based measures to reduce alcohol consumption”
IFS Briefing Note, No. 138
Leicester and O’Connell “What is the impact of a 45p minimum unit price for alcohol?”
IFS Observation
Leicester and O’Connell “How significant is a minimum unit price for alcohol of 40p?” IFS
Observation
O’Connell “Dynamic Pricing: What are the consequences of regulation?” Economic Review
Griffith and O’Connell “A fat tax in the UK?” IFS Observation
Griffith, Miller and O’Connell “Corporate taxes and intellectual property: simulating the
effect of Patent Boxes” IFS Briefing Note, No. 112
Griffith, Miller and O’Connell “The UK will introduce a Patent Box, but to whose benefit?”
IFS Observation
Griffith, Miller and O’Connell “Business Taxation” in the IFS Green Budget 2010, (eds.)
Chote, Emmerson, Miles and Shaw
O’Connell “Introducing a ‘Fat Tax”’ Britain in 2010
O’Connell “Tackling the British love for fat” Economic Review
Awards and prizes:
April 2013
June 2007
June 2007
June 2007
June 2006
Economic Journal Referee Prize
Bell Prize in Arts, University of St. Andrews
Zawadzki Prize in Financial Economics, University of St. Andrews
Nisbet Prize in Economics, University of St. Andrews
KPMG Prize in Finance, University of St. Andrews
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June 2006
Sept 2003
Nisbet Prize in Economics, University of St. Andrews
Prize for top mark in Scottish Advanced Higher Mathematics exam
Selected seminars and conference presentations:
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
Applied Microeconomics Seminar, University of Oxford
CEMMAP workshop on Heterogeneity in Supply and Demand, Boston; International Institute of Public Finance, Lake Tahoe, Nevada; CREST, Applied seminar, Paris; Scottish
Government Economics Seminar Series, Edinburgh
CEMMAP workshop on Empirical Models of Differentiated Products, London; Workshop
on the Economics of Advertising and Marketing, Oxford; EEA Congress, Mannheim
Econometric Society European Winter Meeting, Madrid; Econometric Society European
Meeting, Toulouse; CEMMAP workshop on Nonparametric Demand, London; Economics
Departmental Seminar, University of St. Andrews; Internal Seminar, Department of Economics, University of Leicester; Workshop on Understanding Changes in Income Inequality
in the Austerity Period, Essex
CEPR Conference on Applied IO, Bologna; Barcelona Graduate School of Economics summer forum, Barcelona; EEA Congress, Gothenburg
NBER Summer Institute, Boston; Workshop on Econometrics and IO of food and nutrition,
Toulouse; Internal Seminar, Department of Economics, TSE; CEMMAP workshop on Resource Allocation Within Households, London; RES Conference, University of Cambridge;
Applied Microeconometrics and Public Policy Conference, Galway
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics Annual Conference, Stockholm
EEA Congress, Glasgow; European Association for Research in Industrial Economics Annual Conference, Istanbul; CEMMAP workshop on Econometric Analysis of Scanner Data,
London; Agricultural Economics Society Annual Conference, Edinburgh
CEMMAP workshop on Novel Measurement Methods for Understanding Economic Behaviour, London; EEA Congress, Barcelona; European Association for Research in Industrial Economics Annual Conference, Ljubljana; RES Conference, University of Surrey;
Departmental Seminar, Department of Agricultural of Agricultural and Food Economics,
University of Reading
Refereeing:
Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Food Policy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Public Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of
Industrial Organization
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