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Economics and Finance

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Professor Ray Barrell Role: Professor Phone: +44 (0)1895 265430 Email: Ray.Barrell@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ253	Professor Barrell has recently worked on financial regulation, the causes of financial crises, bank behaviour and risk taking, the determinants of output and growth, fiscal consolidation, monetary policy, European integration and expansion, and on the implications of aging and pension reform.
Professor John Bennett Role: Professor of Economics Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266649 Email: john.bennett@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 257	Current interests include informality and small firms in developing and transition economies; privatization; public-private partnerships.
Professor Nauro Campos Role: Professor of Economics and Finance Phone: +44 1895 267115 Email: nauro.campos@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ263	Development Economics and Political Economy
Dr Alessandra Canepa Role: Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies Phone: +44 (0) 189 5266207 Email: alessandra.canepa@brunel.ac.uk Office: M247	Time Series, Sovereign Debt Management, Simulations Methods
Professor Guglielmo Maria Caporale Role: Professor of Economics and Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 266713 Email: guglielmo-maria.caporale@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ251	International Finance, Monetary and Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Dr Qiwei Chen Role: Lecturer in Accounting and Finance Phone: +44 (0)1895 267763 Email: qiwei.chen@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ248	Behavioural finance, esp. momentum and disposition. Credit Default Swap.
Dr Ioana Chioveanu Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267863 Email: ioana.chioveanu@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ269	Industrial Organisation, Competition Policy, Applied Microeconomics Theory
Dr Mauro Costantini Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267958 Email: mauro.costantini@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ260	Econometrics of panel data Time series econometrics Econometrics and statistics of financial markets Time series forecasting
Dr Javier Coto-Martinez Role: Lecturer Phone: + 44 (0)1895 267724 Email: javier.coto-martinez@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Johoda 262
Dr Evangelos Dioikitopoulos Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267862 Email: evangelos.dioikitopoulos@brunel.ac.uk Office: Room 244, Marie Jahoda	Growth Theory, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Optimal Taxation, Demographics
Dr Jan Fidrmuc Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: + 44 (0)1895 266528 Email: jan.fidrmuc@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ255	Political Economy, Economics of Transition, Institutional Economics, Economics of Languages, and Migration.
Professor Sugata Ghosh Role: Professor Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266887 Email: sugata.ghosh@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ261	Growth Theory and Empirics, Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Development Economics, and International Finance.
Dr Charles Grant Role: Lecturer Phone: 01895 265393 Email: charles.grant@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 259	Applied Microeconometrics
Dr Andros Gregoriou Role: Visiting Professor Phone: +44-1895 266637 Email: Andros.Gregoriou@brunel.ac.uk Office:	Market microstructure, financial econometrics, asset pricing under market frictions
Dr Omaima Hassan Role: Lecturer in Accounting Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267680 Email: omaima.hassan@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 246a	Market-based accounting research, determinants and implications of financial reporting in emerging markets.
Dr John Hunter Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266648 Email: john.hunter@ brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ257	Arbitrage and Dynamic Specification (Smith, R.P and Hunter, J, Cross, (1985). `Arbitrage and Specification in Exchange Rate Models', Economics Letters, 18, 375-376.), Monitering and Market Definition in Economics and Finance, Multivariate Time Series, Cointegrating Exogeneity ("Cointegrating Exogeneity", Economics Letters, 34, 1990), Econometric Identification and Simulation. Classification, specification and testing of Discrete Data using Neural Networks, Semi-parametric and Parametric Methods.
Professor Menelaos Karanasos Role: Professor in Financial Economics Phone: +44 (0) 1895 265284 Email: menelaos.karanasos@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 243	Mathematical Finance, Empirical Finance, Financial Development, Financial Econometrics, Applied Macreoconomics, Financial Economics,
Dr Dilruba Karim Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265955 Email: dilruba.karim@brunel.ac.uk Office: GB008	Early Warning Systems Banking Crises Financial Regulation
Dr Aris Kartsaklas Role: Lecturer of Economics Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267259 Email: aris.kartsaklas@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ270/Marie Jahoda Building	Financial Econometrics, Market Microstructure and Asset Pricing Forecasting, Applied Macroeconomics Aris is working on the joint distribution of asset returns and trading volume implied by various market microstructure frameworks. He is also working on the economic and financial forecasting in the presence of structural breaks and long memory.
Dr Panagiotis Konstantinou Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265036 Email: Panagiotis.Konstantinou@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 252	Open Economy Macroeconomics; Dynamics of the Current Account; External Adjustment; International Finance; Development Economics; Corruption and Growth; Finance and Growth; Voter Participation and Political Campaign Expenditures.
Dr Kyriacos Kyriacou Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266656 Email: kyriacos.kyriacou@Brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ267	My research concerns the interaction between derivative and underlying markets. As well as modelling the relationship between volume and volatility in derivative markets I have also examined the impact of short-selling restrictions on underlying and option markets. My current interests lie in the area of insider trading with particular focus on the the information content of managerial stock option transactions.
Professor Guy Liu Role: Professor Phone: +44 (0)1895 266650 Email: guy.liu@Brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ259	Research interests cover any topic related to industry organization, mergers & acquisition, internationalization of enterprises, strategic behaviour of firms, life insurance business, comparative corporate governance, China’s enterprise development and privatization, and China’s economy and industry.
Dr Bryan Mase Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266647 Email: bryan.mase@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda 256	Corporate finance, including IPOs, mergers and corporate capital structure. Behavioural finance. The interaction of corporate finance with executive trading decisions. The impact of market and index listing.
Dr Tomoe Moore Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267531 Email: tomoe.moore@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ250	Stock market, exchange rates, international finance, corporate finance and macroeconomics in the context of emerging and developing economies.
Dr Russ Moro Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 66058 Email: russ.moro@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 266	Company rating, risk evaluation, bankruptcy analysis, robust event forecasting; Decision making under bounded rationality, behavioural finance, estimation of preferences and risk perception, neuroeconomics; The propagation of shocks, macroeconomic analysis in frequency domain; Non-parametric and semi-parametric statistical techniques esp. support vector machines, ensemble methods, boosting;
Dr Sarmistha Pal Role: Reader Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266645 Email: sarmistha.pal@brunel.acuk Office: MJ252	Development Economics and Finance - economics and politics of public goods provision, allocation of public spending, corporate finance, FDI and institutions, governance, culture and development.
Dr Matthew Rablen Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267848 Email: matthew.rablen@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ265	Behavioural Economics (wellbeing and non-expected utility theory), Public Economics (tax compliance and saving policy), Voting Theory (reform of the United Nations).
Dr Anja Shortland Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267091 Email: anja.shortland@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ267	Economics of Conflict, Economic and Financial Development, Piracy, Governance
Dr Fabio Spagnolo Role: Reader Phone: +44 1895 265637 Email: fabio.spagnolo@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 264	Econometrics, International Finance.
Dr Nicola Spagnolo Role: Reader in Economics and Finance Phone: +44 (0) 1895 266636 Email: nicola.spagnolo@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ 245	Research interests include Financial Economics, International Finance, Macroeconomics and Time Series Analysis. Professor Spagnolo has published papers in numerous books and leading academic journals, such as Economics Letters, Emerging Market Review, Empirical Economics, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Journal of Economics and Behavioural Organization, Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Review of International Economics, Studies of Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. He is a member of professional bodies and an active referee for several academic journals, a regular speaker at international conferences, and a consultant to leading companies.
Dr Elisa Tosetti Role: Lecturer Phone: Email: Elisa.Tosetti@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ263	Econometrics (panel data, spatial econometrics), and Health Economics (cross-country comparisons of health expenditure)
Dr Alexia Ventouri Role: Lecturer in Accounting and Finance Phone: Email: alexia.ventouri@brunel.ac.uk Office:	Current research interests focuses on the following areas of Bank Performance: Modelling efficiency and productivity of financial institutions Integration in banking and financial markets Structure and performance in Europe and US banking Competition issues in banking Regulation and bank performance in European Finance and Growth Bank efficiency and business cycle fluctuations The role of political, legal and regulatory systems in facilitating the well-functioning of banks in the post-crisis period. Macroeconomic environment and changes in the risk profile of banks.