Biographies

Professor John Muellbauer (email) is an Official Fellow in Economics, Nuffield College and Professor of Economics, University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Economics at Birkbeck College, London University. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and University of California, Berkeley.

He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1976, a Fellow of the British Academy since 1998 and is currently a Council Member of the Royal Economic Society and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He was a member of the last Retail Price Index Advisory Committee and in 1989 a member of the then Chancellor's 'group of outside economists'.

He is perhaps best known in the profession for his 1980 book with Angus Deaton, Economics and Consumer Behaviour, Cambridge University Press. He has researched and written on the housing market and its wider economic interactions since 1986 when, in several FT articles, he warned of the inflationary and other consequences of what later became known as the 'Lawson Boom'.

Dr Gavin Cameron (email) is an Official Fellow and Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall and University Lecturer, University of Oxford. He was previously a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and before that he was an economist at the Department of Trade and Industry. He holds degrees from the Universities of Lancaster, Bristol, and Oxford.

As well as housing markets and labour markets, his research has also looked at international economic growth. In 1997 he worked with James Proudman and Stephen Redding at the Bank of England on a project which was subsequently published as Openness and Growth. You can order this book from Amazon.co.uk, where you can also order Options for Britain, a book on UK policy that he co-edited.

Dr Anthony Murphy (email) is a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Before that is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at University College, Dublin. He holds degrees from the Trinity College Dublin, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. In addition to his research on housing and related topics in both the UK and Ireland, he works on applied econometrics, financial economics and labour economics.