Alex McQuitty
- PhD student
- School of Economics
- The University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: Alex.McQuitty@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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School of Economics
4.12, 31 Buccleuch Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JT
Background
Alex completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh in 2021, before completing the MSc in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics in 2022. He is now a first year PhD student studying Labour-Macro and Technological Change.
Qualifications
- BEng (hons) Mechanical Engineering, 2021, University of Edinburgh
- MSc Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, 2022, University of Edinburgh
Undergraduate teaching
- Economic Principles (2023/24)
Research summary
Alex's research interests are labor-macro and the economics of technological change, with a focus on modeling heterogeneity of assets and the distribution of wealth and inequality.