{"id":2817,"date":"2022-03-07T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/?page_id=2817"},"modified":"2024-11-29T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:55:11","slug":"gear-research-areas-and-phd-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/group-for-economic-analysis-at-reading-gear\/gear-research-areas-and-phd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"GEAR Research Areas and PhD Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3062\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2022\/06\/B28127-GEAR-Logo-SINGLE-COLOUR-221x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2022\/06\/B28127-GEAR-Logo-SINGLE-COLOUR-221x300.png 221w, 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dimensions<\/li>\n<li>Internal rationality and learning in small open economies<\/li>\n<li>Monetary policy, labor market institutions, unemployment, and gender gaps<\/li>\n<li>Cryptocurrencies and community currencies: possible uses and failures<\/li>\n<li>Equilibrium determinacy and optimal policy in New Keynesian models of small open economies with credit-constrained consumers<\/li>\n<li>Analysis of &#8216;big data&#8217; from social media from a microeconomic and macroeconomic perspective<\/li>\n<li>Better use of qualitative data to gain a fuller understanding of economic events<\/li>\n<li>Efficiency of banks in an international context<\/li>\n<li>Modelling inflation and monetary policy design: international perspectives<\/li>\n<li>Formulation, estimation and simulation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models<\/li>\n<li>Political macroeconomics and socio-economic dynamics<\/li>\n<li>Bounded nonstationarity: theory and applications to financial markets<\/li>\n<li>Forecasting in sport<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Earlier research areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>History of econometric thought<\/li>\n<li>Economic analysis of the National Health Service<\/li>\n<li>Household decisions on debt and default<\/li>\n<li>Determinants of illegal immigration<\/li>\n<li>Econometric analysis of non-stationary time series<\/li>\n<li>Implications of different banking structures for economic growth and credit rationing<\/li>\n<li>Empirical support for the small open-economy New Keynesian Phillips curve<\/li>\n<li>Alternative methods to estimate exchange-rate pass-through on prices in macrodata<\/li>\n<li>Economic growth in the very long run<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Current PhD students affiliated with GEAR and their topics<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Weaam Amira: Analysis of energy consumption and economic growth in Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Jack Green: Sovereign default risk and banking crises in an endogenous regime-switching framework<\/li>\n<li>Alwyn Jordan: Currency union convergence measures and prospects in the Caribbean region<\/li>\n<li>Liuwa Liuwa: Fiscal consolidation in a commodity-export dependent small open economy<\/li>\n<li>Minko Markovski: Stock-market prices by sector and monetary and fiscal policies during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/li>\n<li>Jose Raisey-Skeats: The green bond market in Nordic countries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Recent PhD students affiliated with GEAR, their first post-PhD job and their PhD topics<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hamed Alaidarus, Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Exchange-rate pass-through into domestic prices in Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Dr Edward Anyaeji, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, United Kingdom: Modelling and forecasting the energy mix<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/seyhanaygul\/\">Dr Seyhan Aygul<\/a>, Department of Economics, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University (BEU), Turkey: Imported inputs and exporters&#8217; optimal choice of invoicing currency<\/li>\n<li>Dr Andrew Clark, Monitaur &#8211; Cofounder and CEO: Exchange rates in a historical perspective and the role of digital currencies<\/li>\n<li>Dr Abdulaleem Isiaka, Lecturer, Kingstom University, London, United Kingdom: Debt-neutral inequality reduction in middle-income countries<\/li>\n<li>Dr Remmy Kampamba, Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Lusaka, Zambia: Monetary policy transmission in three post-liberalisation Sub-Saharan African economies<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/hharunnasir\/\"><u>Dr Harun Nasir<\/u><\/a>, Department of Economics, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University (BEU), Turkey: Optimal international reserves for small open economies<\/li>\n<li>Dr Kaelo Ntwaepelo, Central Bank of Botswana: Interactions between monetary and macroprudential policies<\/li>\n<li>Dr Stephen Opata, Central Bank of Ghana: Modelling of monetary policy and forecasting inflation in African inflation targeters<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lums\/people\/alina-spiru\"><u>Dr Alina Spiru<\/u><\/a>, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom: Inflation convergence in the new EU member states<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/universitynigeriansukka.academia.edu\/NathanielUrama\"><u>Dr Nathaniel Urama<\/u><\/a> (visiting), University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria: Quantifying the macroeconomic effects of sizeable international remittances in a DSGE framework<\/li>\n<li>Dr Duo Xu: Modelling the determinants and effects of sovereign credit default swap spreads<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/zhe-wang\">Dr Zhe Wang<\/a>, School of Economics, University of Surrey: Monetary policy, labour market institutions, and the unemployment gender gap in the Euro Area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Taking your PhD in Economics<\/h3>\n<p>Please see further information on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/economics\/pg-research\/econ-pgr-about.aspx\" name=\"econ-pgr-about\">postgraduate research opportunities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" 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