Innovating in incentive structures

Duncan is an economics student at Cambridge and a Research Associate at the Adam Smith Institute. His prior research has focused on mechanism design – how to design structures that align incentives by default – and applying this to provide the first estimates in a general equilibrium model of the cost of housing restrictions for the UK, estimates of revenue from visa auctions and paying Russian soldiers to defect. He’ll be exploring modelling further politically tractable policy reforms on housing, speculating about the uses of much more abundant energy and quantifying the degree of technological path dependency.

Board games and battles

In his spare time, Duncan enjoys board games, walking and history. His favourites of the former are Warhammer and Imperial Struggle – for the latter he is particularly interested in the long nineteenth century and WW1.