Lecturers
Federico Masera
Federico Masera is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Economics of the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His research has focused on the economic and cultural determinants of anti-social behaviour. His works include analysis of how state policies can affect anti-social behaviour like crime, religious extremism, support for terrorist organizations and violence. His most recent research studies the determinants of racially conservative politics and how political organizations help to spread and maintain these ideologies.
His work has been published in the best economics (Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics) and political science journals (Journal of Conflict Resolution). He is also the Cofounder of the UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab to promote and support theoretical and empirical research on the robustness of democratic institutions.
Bruce Preston
Bruce Preston is a Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School. Prior to that he was on faculty at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Columbia University. He has a MA and PhD in Economics from Princeton University.
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia, Research Committee Member of the e61 Institute, and former Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council. Professor Preston has published in leading general interest and field journals, such as the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy, primarily in the fields of macroeconomics and monetary economics.
