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Curriculum Vitae Randolph Luca Bruno

Nationality: Italian and British Associate Professor in Economics University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Economics and Business Area 16 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW, London, United Kingdom Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/randolph-bruno IZA: https://www.iza.org/person/3235/randolph-luca-bruno Google: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wtRP9OYAAAAJ&hl=en Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/1290357/randolph-luca-bruno/peer-review/

Education / Qualifications 2011–2012 Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education (Level II),

University of Birmingham, UK 2010–2011 Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education (Level I),

University of Birmingham, UK 2002–2006 Ph.D. Economics and Management, Three Essays on Economic Development and

Institutional Change, Laboratory of Economics and Management, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

1997–1998 M.Sc. Economics, Department of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy 1991–1997 B.Sc. in Economics with Social Sciences (5-year degree), Department of Economics,

Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Academic Appointments 2016–present Associate Professor in Economics, UCL School of Slavonic and East European

Studies, UK

2012–2016 Lecturer in Economics, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK

2010–2012 Lecturer in Business Economics, Department of Management, University of

Birmingham, UK

2009–2010 Teaching Fellow in Economics of Industrial Change and Innovation, UCL School of

Slavonic and East European Studies, UK

2006–2009 Research Fellow in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy

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Other Academic Appointments 2019–present Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department

of Geography and Environment 2009-2018 Adjunct Lecturer, Panel Econometrics Summer School, Department of Management,

Calabria University, Italy (one-week intense module, https://www.facebook.com/SummerSchoolUniCal/)

2018 April Visiting Professor in Economics (SECS P01), Universita’ degli Studi Aldo Moro, Bari 2014–2016 Head of Teaching Resources, member of the Management Committee, UCL School of

Slavonic and East European Studies, UK 2014–2016 Secretary of the Management Board, European Association of Comparative Economic

Studies (http://www.eaces.eu/) 2007 Fall Adjunct Lecturer, Growth Theory, Department of Economics, University of Siena, Italy 2007 Spring Adjunct Lecturer, Economics of Transition, Department of Economics, University of

Bologna, Italy 2004 Summer Intern, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, UK

Other extra-academic Professional History 2001–2002 Quantitative Analyst, research department, Fideuram Capital, Milan, Italy 1999–2000 Economist, research department, FIAT Holding Inc., Turin, Italy 1999–2000 Labour Economist, Institute for Social Research (www.irsonline.it/en), Milan, Italy 1998–1999 Conscientious Objector (social service), Cooperative for Social Work, Verona, Italy

Other Appointments and Affiliations

2018–2024 “Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale”, Professore Seconda fascia 13/A2, Economia

Politica (Qualified Associate Professor in Economic Policy in Italy) 2018–2024 “Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale”, Professore Seconda fascia 13/A4, Economia

Applicata (Qualified Associate Professor in Applied Economics in Italy) 2019–present

Editorial Board, Eurasian Business Review: A Journal in Industrial Organization, Innovation and Management Science https://link.springer.com/journal/40821

2016–present

Editorial Board, Economic Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/economic-systems/editorial-board

2007–present Research Fellow, Institute of Labor, IZA (www.iza.org)

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2002–present Research Fellow, Rodolfo De Benedetti Foundation, FRDB (www.frdb.org) May 2019: UCL Training Module on “Complex Project Management”

Teaching

Siena University, Italy, Adjunct Lecturer, module taught: o BSc Students in Finance

“Emerging Markets and Growth Theory” (in Italian)

University of Bologna, Italy, Adjunct Lecturer, modules taught: o MSc students in Development Economics

“Economics of Transition” (in English) o BSc students in Economics

“Development Economics” (in Italian) “Macroeconomics” (in Italian)

University of Calabria, Department of Management, module taught: o PhDs, Post-Doc and Professors attending the Summer School

“Econometrics of Longitudinal Data (Panel)” (in Italian)

School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK, Teaching Fellow in Economics of Industrial Change and Innovation, modules taught:

o BA students Economics and Business with East European Studies “Introduction to Economics” (in English) “European Macroeconomics” (in English) “Industrial and Corporate Change” (in English)

o MA students in Comparative Business Economics “Economics of Transition” (in English)

University of Birmingham, UK, Lecturer in Business Economics, modules taught: o BA students Economics and Management

“Labour Economics” (in English) o MA students in Management and International Business:

“The Global Shift” (in English) “Labour Relations and Global Enterprise” (in English)

Lecturer in Economics/ Associate Professor at the University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, modules taught:

o BA students Economics and Business with East European Studies “Applied Game Theory for Economics and Business” (in English) “European Macroeconomics” (in English) “Emerging Market Economies” (in English)

o MA students in Comparative Business Economics and PhD candidates at SSEES “Quantitative Methods” (in English) “Corporate Governance: An Organisational Economics Perspective” (in

English).

Publications

Refereed Journal articles (sole-authored)

2019 Tax Enforcement, Tax Compliance and Tax Morale in Transition Economies: A

Theoretical Model, European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 56, pages 193-211

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2015 New firms entry, Institutions and Labour in Transition IZA World of Labour Evidence-Based policy making, Bonn Germany, pages 1-10

2006 Optimal Speed of Transition with a Shrinking Labor Force and under Uncertainty, Economics of Transition, Volume 14, Issue 1, pages 69-100

Refereed Journal articles (co-authored)

2019 (with L. Magazzini and M. Stampini) Exploiting information from singletons in

panel data analysis: A GMM approach, Economics Letters

2018 (with N. Campos and S. Estrin) Taking stock of firm-level and country-level benefits from foreign direct investment, Multinational Business Review, Vol. 26 (2) pages 126-144

2017 (with M. Cipollina), A Meta-Analysis of the indirect impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Old and New EU Member States: Understanding Productivity Spillovers, The World Economy, Vol. 41 (5), pages1342-1377

2016 (with A. Lanza and G. Simone) Resource orchestration in the context of

knowledge resources acquisition and divestment. The empirical evidence from the Italian “Serie A” football, European Management Journal, Vol. 34 (2), pages 145-157

2015 (with E. Douarin J. Korosteleva and S. Radosevic) Technology Choices and Growth: Testing New Structural Economics in Transition Economies, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pages 131-152

2015 (with S. Dal Bianco and M. Signorelli) The Joint Impact of Labour Policies and

the "Great Recession" on Unemployment in Europe, Economic Systems, Vol. 39, Issue 1, pages 3-26

2013 (with M. Bytchkova and S. Estrin) Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry

in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 95, Issue 5, pages 1740-1749

2010 (with R. Rovelli) Labor Market Policies and Outcomes in the Enlarged

European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 48(3), pages 661-685

2009 (with M. Stampini) Joining Longitudinal and Cross-Section Data for Efficiency Gains, Economists’ Journal (Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia), Vol. 68, Issue 1, pages 149-173

Under Review

2019 (with M. Petrakou and N. Phelps) Foreign Direct Investment spillovers and

channels of transmission in the EU: The role of regional financial markets, Revise and Resubmit

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2019 (with N. Campos and S. Estrin) The Effects of European Union Membership on Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade, submitted

Book chapters

2017, November (with N. Campos, S. Estrin and M. Tian), ‘Foreign Direct Investment and the Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union’ in The Economics of UK-EU Relations: From the Treaty of Rome to the Vote for Brexit, N. Campos and F. Coricelli (ed. s), Palgrave Macmillan, pages 228-250

2014 (with M. Cipollina) The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Performance in the Enlarged Europe: A Meta-Regression Analysis, in International Business and Institutions after the Crisis, Yama Temouri and Chris Jones (ed. s), Palgrave Macmillan, pages 228-250

Conference Papers/ Proceedings Series

2013 (with V. Almenar-i-Llongo and F. Hernandez-Sancho) One Excel Application for

Macroeconomics: an IS-LM Model for Teaching in Today’s Spanish Economy, International Technology, Education and Development Conference 2013 Proceedings, digital scholarly resource, pages 1244-1251

Reports

2012 (with M. Falk) Theories of Foreign Investment and Host Country effects of Foreign Direct investment, Background Report, Chapter 4 – Foreign Direct Investment Flows and EU Industrial Competitiveness, European Competitiveness Report 2012, pages 119-172

2011 (with N. Campos) A Systematic Review of the Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in Low Income Countries: A Meta-Regression-Analysis, Department for International Development of the UK Government, Systematic Analysis Report, pages 1-65

2010 (with N. Campos) Capital Flows to Converging European Economies: Crises, Reforms and Foreign Direct Investment, European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Proceedings, pages 33-65

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2006 (with S. Commander) Institutions of the Kenyan Labour Market and their Consequences, background paper, World Bank Report on 'Jobs in Kenya’, pages 1-30

2005 (with S. Commander and J. Svejnar) The Performance of Firms in Transition, Transition Report, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Chapter 4, pages 82-92

1997 (with T. Boeri) A Short Note on the Characteristics of Labor Turnover in Eastern and Central Europe, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-Centre for Cooperation with Economies in Transition Proceedings, pages 151-161

Peer Reviewer Activity Books and Grants Elements Cambridge, Routledge Publisher – Business and Management; Routledge Publisher Economics; The National Science Centre, Poland, Leverhulme Trust; Emerald Publishing – Business, Finance and Social Science. Referee Small Business Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, The World Economy, Research Policy (04/2018 Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer), The European Journal of Political Economy, Economic Systems (also member of the Board), Economics (open source) Journal, Empirical Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Population Economics, Regional Studies, Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics (Economia Politica), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Transition

Consultancies

2018-19 World Bank, Short Term Consultant 2004 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, UK 2005 World Bank, Short Term Consultant 2011 European Commission, Brussels, Belgium 2011 Department for International Development (DFID), UK Research Assistantship (early career)

2004–2005 London Business School, London, UK 1996 Summer Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France

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Prizes, Awards and Other Honours 2018 The Regional Studies Association Award for the Best Conference Paper, Lugano Universita’

della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland 2003 Bursary, Econometric School for Ph.D. candidates, Econometrics Centre, Bertinoro, Italy 2001 Bursary, Macroeconomics Summer School; University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 1998 Bursary, Labour Economics Summer School, University of Rome III, Italy

Grants/Projects Coordination and Participation

2019-2021 Co-Investigator € 3 million, external (founder: Horizon H2020-Tranformations-

14-2018, European Union Level competitive bid). Collaborative project with 14 European institutions, including UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Title: Growth Welfare Innovation Productivity (acronym GROWINPRO https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/218765/factsheet/en). EU contribution to UCL, 240 000 €.

2016-2018 Co-Investigator € 1 million, external (founder: Horizon H2020-TWINN-2015 call,

European Union Level competitive bid). Collaborative project with four European institutions, including UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Title: Strengthening scientific and research capacity of the Institute of Economics Zagreb as a cornerstone for Croatian socioeconomic growth through the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy (acronym SmartEIZ, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/199973/factsheet/en). EU contribution to UCL SSEES, 167 608,75 €.

2015-2020 Co-Investigator £ 75,000, internal (founder: SSEES, UCL), Centre for

Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (CCSEE https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/comparative-studies-emerging-economies/people), funded by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

2015-2016 Principal-Investigator £ 5,000, internal (founder: SSEES, UCL) Testing the

New Structural Economics theory using micro-data. 2014-2015 Principal-Investigator £ 5,000, internal (founder: SSEES, UCL) Economic

Impact of International capital Flows. 2010-2011 Principal-Investigator £ 28,000, external (founder: Department for International

Development (DFID), UK Government body) How effective is foreign direct investment in supporting economic performance in low-income countries? Co-Investigator Professor Nauro Campos, Brunel University.https://www.gov.uk/dfid-research-outputs/foreign-direct-investment-and-economic-performance-a-systematic-review-of-the-evidence-uncovers-a-new-paradox

Invited Talks

Invited Keynote

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2018 March The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Central European Region: How can the Czech Republic benefit? College of International and Public Relations Prague Keynote Speech (http://vsmvv.cz/en/novinky/prednaska-zahranicniho-hosta-randolph-luca-bruno/)

2015 November Institutional Determinants of Firm’s Entry in Russia: an empirical analysis. Higher

School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, “International Conference “Innovation in Management and Business: Future Global Challenges”, Keynote Speech (https://spb.hse.ru/en/announcements/158813676.html)

2011 November The Euro and Monetary Policy: the role of the European Central Bank, Cordoba,

Eta-Loyola, Spain. Keynote Speech. Event followed by an interview with the local press on the Euro crisis.

2011 September The Effect of Institutions on Enterprise Productivity in Russia, European

Association of Comparative Economic Studies, EACES workshop Market Failures and the Role of Institutions Miločer, Montenegro, September 22-24, 2011 Keynote Speech (https://ozs.vse.cz/eaces-workshop-market-failures-and-the-role-of-institutions-call-for-papers/)

Invited Seminars 2017 November University of Milan, Italy Department of Economics, Management and

Quantitative Methods Seminar Series: ‘Determinants of Productivity in the EU: A Multilevel Perspective’.

2017 October Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, Department of Economics Seminar

Series: ‘Determinants of Productivity in the EU: A Multilevel Perspective’. 2015 May Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics Seminar Series: 'Are

the EU countries benefitting from Foreign Direct Investment? A Meta-Regression Analysis'

2015 February King’s College London, Public Management & Economics Group, Seminar

Series, London, UK: 'Institutional Quality and Multinational Corporation Investment: Evidence from Russia'

2012 December New Economic School, Moscow, Russia: 'Institutional Quality and Multinational

Corporation Investment: Evidence from Russia'

2010 November University of Perugia, Italy: 'The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment in Low

Income Countries' 2008 February SSEES at University College of London, UK: 'Entry of New Firms in Russia: An

Empirical Analysis'

2008 January University of Bologna, Italy, Lunch Seminar: 'Rule of Law, Quality of Institutions

and Information’

2007 December Interdepartmental Centre for Research Training in Economics and Management -

Faculty of Economics (CIFREM) Seminar at University of Trento, Italy, Doctoral Program in Economics and Management: 'Entry of New Firms in Russia: an Empirical Analysis'

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Paper presentations in conferences 2019 September CONCORDi 2019, Industrial Innovation for Transformation, 7th European

Conference on Corporate R&D and Innovation, European Commission ‘Determinants of Productivity Gap in the European Union: A Multilevel Perspective’ European Commission and OCED, Seville, Fundacion Cajasol.

2019 July International Symposium 2019, InSySPO, University of Campinas, Brazil

‘Technology Upgrading in Emerging Economies: Models and Paths’ 2019 July Academy of International Business Global Conference, Copenhagen Business

School, Denmark, ‘The Effects of European Union Membership on Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade’

2019 June Innovation, Firm Dynamics, Employment and Growth: New Developments in

Modelling and Estimation. Workshop Organised jointly by Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre (GPERC) and Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA), University of Greenwich and the Department of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano ‘Determinants of productivity gap in the EU: A multilevel perspective’

2019 June One-day Workshop on Institutions and Culture in Economic Contexts, organised

by The Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (Birkbeck University of London), The Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (University College London R Bruno and E Douarin), and The Institute for International Management (Loughborough University London), United Kingdom, ‘Tax enforcement, tax compliance and tax morale in transition economies: A theoretical model’

2018 June Corporate Behaviour and Institutional Constraints – Multidisciplinary Perspectives

on Institutional Dysfunctions and Firm Behaviour, King’s College London ‘’ 2018 June The Regional Studies Association Conference, 2018 “Deep Economic

Integration, Foreign Investment and International Trade: the Effects of Membership of the European Union”, Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

2018 January 4th Geography of Innovation Conference: ‘The Benefits from Foreign Direct

Investment In A Cross-Country Context: A Meta-Analysis’ 2017 June 2nd World Congress of Comparative Economics, HSE Saint Petersburg:

'Determinants of productivity gap in the EU: A multilevel perspective 2017 April Academy of International Business United Kingdom and Irish Chapter, Henley

Business School, University of Reading: 'Gravitating Towards Europe: The Effects of EU Membership on FDI Inflows'

2016 June Academy of International Business Global Conference, New Orleans: ' The

Benefits from Foreign Direct Investment in a Cross-Country Context: A Meta-Analysis'

2016 March Academy of International Business, United Kingdom and Irish Chapter, Birkbeck,

University of London, Department of Management: ' The Benefits from Foreign Direct Investment in a Cross-Country Context: A Meta-Analysis'

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2015 June 1st World Congress of Comparative Economics, Rome: 'Which are the EU countries benefitting from Foreign Direct Investment? A Meta-Regression Analysis'

2015 June Centennial Conference of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies:

'Total Factor Productivity across Europe: Specialisation and Catch up’

2015 April Academy of International Business UK - Ireland chapter, Manchester Metropolitan University: 'Which are the EU countries benefitting from Foreign Direct Investment? A Meta-Regression Analysis'

2015 February 2nd European Trade Union Institute-European Association for Comparative

Economic Studies workshop, Brussels, Belgium: 'Which are the EU countries benefitting from Foreign Direct Investment? A Meta-Regression Analysis'

2014 September European Association for Comparative Economic Studies bi-annual Conference,

Budapest, Hungary: 'Technology Choices and Growth' & 'The Joint Impact of Labour Policies and the Great Recession on Unemployment in Europe'

2014 June Public Economics Conference, Marseille, France: 'The Political Economy of Rule

of Law Enforcement' 2013 September Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network (MAER-Net) Colloquium

Greenwich, London, UK: 'Foreign Direct Investment and Economic performance in Low Income Countries'

2013 June SSEES, UCL: Transition Economics meets New Structural Economics Workshop

'Technology Choices and Growth: Testing New Structural Economics in Transition Economies' (presenter and organiser)

2013 June Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti Affiliates Conference, Naples University, Italy:

'Institutional Quality and Multinational Corporation Investment: Evidence from Russia'

2013 March Aston Business School International Business Academy, Birmingham, UK: 'The

impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Performance in the Enlarged Europe: a Meta-Regression Analysis'

2012 June Copenhagen, Campbell Colloquium, Denmark: 'A Reassessment of the

Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Performance', poster presentation

2011 June University of Birmingham, CREW & Department for International Development

event 'Foreign Direct Investment in Low Income Countries’ paper presented “A Reassessment of the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Performance”, (presenter and organiser)

2011 September Lisbon Meeting Conference, Nova University, Portugal: 'Supply and Demand of

Rule of Law and Institutions'

2011 September Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network (MAER-Net) Colloquium, Oxford, UK: 'The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment in Low Income Countries: a META regression analysis'

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2010 October Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network (MAER-Net) Colloquium, Hendrix College, Arizona, USA: 'The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment in Low Income Countries: a META-regression analysis'

2010 August European Association for Comparative Economic Studies, Tartu, Estonia: 'The

Effects of Institutions on Enterprise Productivity in Russia' 2010 January Association for Comparative Economic Studies/Allied Social Science

Associations meeting, Atlanta, USA Session on Productivity, Labour and Firm Restructuring: 'The Effects of Institutions on Enterprise Productivity in Russia'

2009 December Italian Association of Law and Economics, Florence, Italy: 'Supply and Demand

of Rule of Law in Institutionally Weak Economies'

2009 November Research Unit in Complexity and Economics (UECE), Lisbon, Portugal: 'Supply and Demand of Rule of Law in Institutionally Weak Economies'

2009 April Firm-Level Data Analysis in Transition and Developing Economies European

Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland: Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: a Cross Regional Analysis'

2009 January 3rd Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics, Ancona, Italy:

'Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis' & 'Joining Longitudinal and Cross-Section Data for the Estimation of the Determinants of Consumption in Nicaragua'

2008 December SSEES at University College of London, UK, European Association for

Comparative Economic Studies – Managing Economic Transition network: 'Rule of Law, Quality of Institutions and Information'

2008 October School of Local Development, Trento, Italy, International Organisation for

Economic Cooperation and Development United Nations Development Programme Conference on Globalisation and Localism: Apparent Antithesis: 'Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis'

2008 August Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia International bi-annual European

Association for Comparative Economic Studies Conference: 'Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis'

2008 March London School of Economics, UK Working Group 'New Researchers on Varieties

of Capitalism': 'Labor Markets Policies and Outcomes: Cross Country Evidence for the EU-27'

2006 June European Association of Evolutionary Political, Economy Symposium on 'Social

and Political Economy of Labour' State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia: 'Labour Markets and Globalisation: Latin American vs. Asian Experience'

2006 March Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Seminars, Pisa, Italy: 'Joining

Longitudinal and Cross-Section Data for the Estimation of the Determinants of Consumption in Nicaragua'

2005 November European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy Annual Conference,

Bremen, Germany: 'Unique Equilibrium in a Model of Rule of Law'

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2005 May University of California Berkeley, USA, Development Seminar Department of

Economics, University of California, USA: 'Targeted versus Universal Public Policies in Nicaragua: Assessing the Effect on Growth and Inequality Using Micro-Data'

2002 May Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance International Conference,

Rethymno, University of Greece: 'The Effects of Macro Announcements on the Term Structure and the Exchange Rates: Some International Evidence'

Academic Supervision Ph.D. supervision

2017-present Georgios Apostolakis, SSEES UCL, MPhil, Open Innovation and Innovation

Systems: An empirical comparative study (joint supervisor with Prof. Slavo Radosevic)

2016-present Aigul Bekberdiyeva, SSEES UCL, MPhil, Stock market returns and the impact of

the oil crisis on Kazakhstan and Russia: a comparative analysis (joint supervisor with Dr. Eugene Nivorozhkin)

2015-2018 Marialena Petrakou, SSEES UCL and ‘The Bartlett’ UCL, Ph.D. in Regional

Development, The role Absorptive Capacities for Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers into the European Union (joint supervisor with Prof. Nicholas Phelps) (now Loan officer at European Investment Bank)

2014-present Kirill Osaulenko, SSEES UCL, Ph.D. in Strategic Management (part-time),

SSEES, UCL Corporate Governance in Russia: A Longitudinal Study 2010-2012 Samuel Mwaura, University of Birmingham, Ph.D. in Management,

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Firm Performance (joint supervisor with Prof. Lisa De Propris, University of Birmingham) (now Lecturer at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow),

2006-2009 Simona Valmori University of Bologna, Ph.D. in Economics Three essays on

Gender and Development Economics (2nd supervisor with Prof. Hartmut Lehmann, University of Bologna) (now post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Bologna)

Ph.D. External and Internal VIVA Examination 2019 October School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), external examiner,

PhD ‘The Dynamics of Reforms of Large State-Owned Enterprises in China: A Theoretical and Political-Economy Analysis’, Candidate Jim Huangnan Sheng

2019 October Brunel University, external examiner, PhD ‘Foreign Direct Investment, Chinese-

foreign relationship and Labour Market’, PhD Candidate Hao Wang 2019 May Charles University, Prague, external examiner, PhD ‘Foreign Direct Investment

and Economic Growth’, Candidate Arshad Hayat

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2018 July University College London, internal examiner, PhD ‘The Repercussions of Financial Integration on Macroeconomic Performance, Poverty, and Financial Fragility in Developing Economies’, Dr. Saim Amir Faisal Sami

2016 August University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, external examiner, PhD. 'The Role of

Financial Market Development in Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment in Selected African Economies' Dr. Patrica Lindelwa Rudo Makoni

2015 March University College London, internal examiner, M.Phil. 'The Impact of Financial

Integration on Output Growth Volatility: A Sector Level Framework' Filip Tarlea

2014 November University of Greenwich, London, external examiner, Ph.D. 'Essays on Meta-Regression analysis on Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Markets', Dr. Sridevi Yerrabati

2012 July University College London, external examiner, Ph.D. 'Essays in Development

Economics: Poverty, Foreign Direct Investment and Human Capital', Dr. Chiara Amini

Updated September 2019