Dr Stephen Nei
Lecturer in Economics
S.M.Nei@exeter.ac.uk
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Streatham Court 0.48
Streatham Court, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK
Overview
Stephen joined UEBS in 2020 after completing a three-year position as a postdoctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College/University of Oxford. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2017.
Stephen’s research focuses on the application of network science to economics with a particular emphasis on applied microeconomic theory. He is also interested in other areas of applied micro theory such as matching and in behavioral and experimental economics.
Qualifications
- PhD (Stanford University)
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Research
Research interests
- Applied Microeconomic Theory
- Networks
- Behavioral and experimental
Stephen’s main research interest is social and economic networks, particularly as a means for modelling social learning. He is also interested into the insights of behavioral economics for learning and into the use of experimental and empirical methods to refine theories and motivate modelling.
Research projects
Stephen is currently working on a theoretical model of how individuals choose from whom to learn in the presence of real-world frictions to the communication of information. To test the validity of this theory, he is working on a collaboration to analyze network data from a field experiment in Nepal. In addition, he is developing a lab experiment to test for how well individuals anticipate the economic choices of others when evaluating the claims they make.
