Alex Teytelboym
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, where I specialise in market design and network economics. My research interests include how best to run complex auctions and how networks shape the diffusion of innovations. I am also interested in applying economic theory to environmental economics and energy markets. I co-founded Refugees.AI, an international collaboration to develop analytical tools to improve refugee resettlement.
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Market design is the application of rigorous economic theory to redesigning real-world market institutions. Market designers try to create rules and infrastructure for markets to function effectively.
The fact that many countries do not give refugees a straightforward right to work is a complete paradox. I’ve never really understood why a country wouldn’t want all of its residents, whether they’re citizens or not, to participate in economic life.
The initial place to which refugees resettle really matters for their economic outcomes and, most extraordinarily, that of their children