GEAR Research Areas and PhD Students
Key research areas at present
- Monetary and labour market institutions and the environment
- Strategic fiscal/monetary policy interactions in monetary unions
- Optimal (un-)conventional monetary and macroprudential policies and strategic policy interactions
- Theory of economic policy in a strategic context
- Green quantitative easing and intergenerational climate justice: the role of the global network of central banks
- Community inclusion currencies as liquidity provision mechanisms to enhance local trade and alleviate poverty
- Debt-neutral fiscal policy reallocations to reduce inequality in middle-income countries
- The implications of the COVID-19 pandemics: macro, micro, and econometric dimensions
- Internal rationality and learning in small open economies
- Monetary policy, labor market institutions, unemployment, and gender gaps
- Cryptocurrencies and community currencies: possible uses and failures
- Equilibrium determinacy and optimal policy in New Keynesian models of small open economies with credit-constrained consumers
- Analysis of ‘big data’ from social media from a microeconomic and macroeconomic perspective
- Better use of qualitative data to gain a fuller understanding of economic events
- Efficiency of banks in an international context
- Modelling inflation and monetary policy design: international perspectives
- Formulation, estimation and simulation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models
- Political macroeconomics and socio-economic dynamics
- Bounded nonstationarity: theory and applications to financial markets
- Forecasting in sport
Earlier research areas
- History of econometric thought
- Economic analysis of the National Health Service
- Household decisions on debt and default
- Determinants of illegal immigration
- Econometric analysis of non-stationary time series
- Implications of different banking structures for economic growth and credit rationing
- Empirical support for the small open-economy New Keynesian Phillips curve
- Alternative methods to estimate exchange-rate pass-through on prices in macrodata
- Economic growth in the very long run
Current PhD students affiliated with GEAR and their topics
- Hamed Alaidarus: Exchange-rate pass-through into domestic prices in Saudi Arabia
- Weaam Amira: Analysis of energy consumption and economic growth in Jordan
- Jack Green: Sovereign default risk and banking crises in an endogenous regime-switching framework
- Abdulaleem Isiaka: Debt-neutral inequality reduction in middle-income countries
- Minko Markovski: Stock-market prices by sector and monetary and fiscal policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
Recent PhD students affiliated with GEAR, their first post-PhD job and their PhD topics
- Dr Edward Anyaeji, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom: Modelling and forecasting the energy mix
- Dr Seyhan Aygul, Department of Economics, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University (BEU), Turkey: Imported inputs and exporters’ optimal choice of invoicing currency
- Dr Andrew Clark, Monitaur – Cofounder and CEO: Exchange rates in a historical perspective and the role of digital currencies
- Dr Remmy Kampamba, Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Lusaka, Zambia: Monetary policy transmission in three post-liberalisation Sub-Saharan African economies
- Dr Harun Nasir, Department of Economics, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University (BEU), Turkey: Optimal international reserves for small open economies
- Dr Kaelo Ntwaepelo, Central Bank of Botswana: Interactions between monetary and macroprudential policies
- Dr Alina Spiru, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom: Inflation convergence in the new EU member states
- Dr Nathaniel Urama (visiting), University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria: Quantifying the macroeconomic effects of sizeable international remittances in a DSGE framework
- Duo Xu: Modelling the determinants and effects of sovereign credit default swap spreads
- Dr Zhe Wang, School of Economics, University of Surrey: Monetary policy, labour market institutions, and the unemployment gender gap in the Euro Area
Taking your PhD in Economics
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