Ellis Farrar

Researcher

Ellis is skilled in detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis and since joining the Metro Dynamics has supported in developing an economic business case for the UK Space Agency, drafting the economic baseline study for the Royal Academy of Engineering and producing research on devolution.

Ellis is interested in urban economics, housing and regeneration, and local government finance and taxation, and he joined Metro Dynamics after completing a degree in Economics at the University of Leeds. His dissertation focused on the interaction between location and affordability and the impact of this on house price appreciation across London boroughs. This included a literature review on how authors measured the decline of affordability in inner London over time and the ‘suburbanisation of poverty’ towards outer London.

Ellis has also worked as an economic research intern at the Centre for Cities, a thinktank specialising in economic geography. He conducted a research project analysing whether new housing had been located near transport links in UK cities, arguing that the planning system should incentivise more extensive housebuilding near transport to increase the effective size of labour markets.