Anthony's Bank Underground blog posts
What machines taking over pricing means for central banks - April 2026
Booming entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 pandemic - June 2022
Biography
Anthony's research interests are in macroeconomics and industrial organisation. His work focuses on how firm characteristics and strategic behaviour shape macroeconomic outcomes, such as productivity and the price level. Currently, he is interested in how new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, are reshaping market structures through scale economies, leading to potential productivity gains, and new transmission channels for policy. His methodological expertise includes structural macroeconomic modelling and firm-level data analysis.
Anthony received his PhD from Cardiff University. He is affiliated with the Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM), Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE), and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). Additionally, Anthony is an Associate Professor at the University of Kent and an adviser to the Office for National Statistics (ONS Fellow). In the past, he has worked in advisory roles with the Department for Business (BEIS/DBT), Industrial Strategy Council, and Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Anthony received his PhD from Cardiff University. He is affiliated with the Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM), Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE), and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). Additionally, Anthony is an Associate Professor at the University of Kent and an adviser to the Office for National Statistics (ONS Fellow). In the past, he has worked in advisory roles with the Department for Business (BEIS/DBT), Industrial Strategy Council, and Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Anthony's selected academic publications
Market concentration and productivity: evidence from the UK, with Oluwaseun Aguda, Yannis Galanakis and Jingwei Wu, Fiscal Studies (2024).
Business creation during COVID-19, with Saleem Bahaj and Sophie Piton, Economic Policy (2024).
Firm revenue elasticity and business cycle sensitivity, with Daisoon Kim, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2023).
Measured productivity with endogenous markups and economic profits, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2021).
Labor Responses, Regulation, and Business Churn, with Marta Aloi and Huw Dixon, Journal of Money Credit and Banking (2020).
Firm entry, excess capacity and endogenous productivity, with Huw Dixon, European Economic Review (2019).
This page was last updated 10 July 2026