Dr Andrew Jackson

Andrew is an economist who specialises in the macroeconomic impacts of a transition to a low carbon economy, monetary and banking systems, and fiscal and monetary policy. His current projects include building a large scale SFC-IO model to investigate macroeconomic, sectoral and financial dynamics in energy transitions, and investigating the potential for monetary and fiscal policies to work together to address longer term economic challenges including the transition to net zero.

Andrew’s has previously built three stock-flow consistent (SFC) input-output (IO) models to investigate the economic effects of: i) a reduction in energy return on energy invested (EROI) during a net zero transition; ii) a variety of potential shocks associated with a net zero transition, including carbon taxes, divestment campaigns, changes in consumer preferences, and changes in credit conditions; and iii) the interactions between financial transition risks, green investment and reductions in EROI during different net zero transitions. He has also worked on building an agent based SFC model which was used to investigate stranded assets and transition risks. Outside of building macroeconomic models, Andrew has also published papers on EROI and fiscal and monetary cooperation.

Andrew is currently a co-investigator on the EU Horizon funded project Models, Assessment and Policies for Sustainability (MAPS). He was previously a co-investigator on the ESRC funded Rebuilding Macroeconomics project ‘Modelling transition risk: developing an agent-based, stock-flow consistent, input-output macroeconomic framework’

Prior to completing his PhD and starting work at CUSP, Andrew spent several years working as Head of Research for a think tank that specialises in research into monetary and banking systems. During this period he authored several research papers and co-authored two books: “Where does money come from? A guide to the UK banking system”, and “Modernising Money. Why our monetary system is broken and how it can be fixed”. Andrew also has a degree in economics and a master’s degree in development economics, both from the  University of Sussex.

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