May's Bank Underground blog posts
When banks say ‘No’: how the credit crunch lowered UK productivity - February 2016
A lifecycle story of housing debt in Blighty - September 2015
May is a Research Manager at the Bank and a PhD student at University College London. Her primary supervisor is Orazio Attanasio.
May's current research interests are in household consumption, saving and debt behaviours. She is also interested in consumer finance—in particular how households make mortgage choices. In the past, May has worked on labour supply and productivity issues at the household and firm levels. Her research predominantly uses applied microeconometrics and panel data techniques.
May is a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics and the Central Bank Research Association.
May's selected academic publications
Household debt and spending in the UK, with P Bunn, Vox EU (2015)
The Banks that Said No: Banking relationships, credit supply and productivity in the UK, with J Franklin and G Thwaites, CFM Discussion Paper Series (2015)