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Staff Profile

Dr Tom Lane

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Background

I joined Newcastle University Business School in September 2023 as a senior lecturer specialising mostly in behavioural and experimental economics. Previously, I was assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China from 2018-2023. I was awarded a PhD in behavioural economics in 2017 by the University of Nottingham, where I conducted my research within the world-leading behavioural economics research centre CeDEx, of which I also became local director for its China branch from 2019-2023. I maintain a position as an external Senior Fellow at CeDEx China.


My research has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Economics and Oxford Economic Papers. I use a variety of experimental and non-experimental methods to study a range of topics across economics and touching upon related social sciences. Findings have been covered by media organisations, including the BBC, the Independent and the Daily Mirror.


Note for prospective PhD students: I am interested in supervising projects in any area of research for which I have appropriate expertise. Please feel free to contact me so that we can see whether there's a good potential match.


You can find my Google Scholar page here, and full CV here.

Research

My research has tended to fall broadly within the fields of behavioural and experimental economics, but I have a wide range of interests, which include topics in economic discrimination, social norms, the economics of information, inequality, happiness, political economy, the effects of culture and religion on economic behaviour, and experimental methodology. I am potentially interested in research questions from all areas of economics and social science more generally.


My research uses a variety of methods, including lab experiments, online experiments, natural field experiments, discrete choice experiments, micro-econometrics, meta-analysis and systematic literature review.


Teaching

In the 2023-24 academic year, I am convening ECO2011 Economics of Regulation, and also teaching on ECO1118 Economic Applications, ECO2015 Applied Economics, ECO2101 Microeconomic Analysis and ECO2102 Macroeconomic Analysis.


Before joining Newcastle, I have convened courses in behavioural and experimental economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics and statistics. I have taught extracurricular courses and summer schools in experimental economics at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China.

Publications