DJ Thornton
Research student
Master of Pre-Doctoral Business Studies (with Excellence) BCom/BSc: Economics & Advanced Mathematics, UNSW Sydney, Honours (Class I), Pure Mathematics
School of Economics
Email: d.thornton@unsw.edu.au
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/djthornton
Supervisors: Prof. Richard Holden, Prof. Gabriele Gratton
I am a microeconomic theorist studying strategic decision-making in networks, especially in environments with externalities. I am also interested in the role of narratives and information in how we learn and make decisions.
- Research topics
- Awards and Fellowships
- Publications
- Network Theory
- Learning
- 2022–2025 - RTP Scholarship, Australian Government
- 2021 - The UNSW Business School Dean's Award for top performance in a Masters Coursework Program
- 2021 - Finalist: Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship
- 2021 - MPDBS Scholarship, UNSW Sydney
- 2018-2019 - UNSW Summer Research Scholarship
- 2018 - The Faculty of Science Dean's List for academic excellence
- The Stochastic Reproduction Number of a Virus (with R. Holden). Preprint available: Covid Economics | Centre for Economic Policy Research, Issue 41