Economics and Finance people

This page lists all people in the School of Economics and Finance. You can also view academic staff, support staff, teaching assistants, visitors, or PhD students.



Academic staff

Jose-Miguel Albala-Bertrand
Senior Lecturer
Room number: W309
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8820
Office hours: Tuesday 13:00-15:00
Expertise: Development Economics, Macroeconomics and Economics of Disasters
Reader
Room number: CB303
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8821
Office hours: Tuesday 15:30-17:30
Expertise: Microeconomic Theory
Ghazala Azmat
Lecturer
Room number: CB313
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8847
Office hours: Wednesday 11:00-12:00, Thursday 11:00-12:00
Expertise: Labour Economics; Contracts, Incentives, and Organizations; Public Policy
Richard Baillie
Professor
Room number: CB314
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8051
Expertise: Time series analysis, Econometrics and International Finance
Francis Breedon
Professor
Room number: W303
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8845
Office hours: Monday 15:30-16.30
Expertise: Foreign exchange and bond markets particularly in the area of market microstructure
Andrea Carriero
Reader
Room number: E302
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8050
Office hours: Thursday 17:00-19:00
Expertise: Applied Econometrics, Financial Econometrics, Forecasting, Large Datasets, Term Structure
Francesca Cornaglia
Lecturer
Room number: CB316
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8419
Office hours: Thursday 14:00-15:00
Expertise: Applied Microeconomics
Renato Faccini
Lecturer
Room number: W407
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5885
Expertise: Macroeconomics, Labour market dynamics
Giulio Fella
Senior Lecturer
Room number: W302
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8823
Office hours: Monday 10:00-12:00
Expertise: Macroeconomics and Theoretical Labour Economics
Marcelo Fernandes
Professor
Room number: W312
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8824
Office hours: Tuesday 11:00-13:00
Expertise: Empirical Finance, Financial Econometrics, and Empirical Market Microstructure
Ana Galvao
Senior Lecturer
Room number: W315
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8825
Office hours: Tuesday 11:00-12:00, Friday 11:00-12:00
Expertise: Applied Macroeconomics and Forecasting
Liudas Giraitis
Professor
Room number: CB301
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8826
Office hours: Friday 14:00-16:00
Expertise: Time-Series Econometrics
Professor
Room number: CB312
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8827
Office hours: Monday 14:00-16:00
Expertise: Econometric Theory
Randi Hjalmarsson
Reader
Room number: W305
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8839
Office hours: Thursday 14:15-15:45
Expertise: Economics of Crime
Erik Hjalmarsson
Professor
Room number: W408
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8831
Office hours: By appointment only (not teaching this semester)
Expertise: Empirical Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice, Empirical Market Microstructure, Volatility Modeling and Estimation, Financial Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics
Alfonsina Iona
Lecturer
Room number: W320
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8422
Office hours: Monday 12:00-14:00 or by appointment (please email)
Expertise: Capital Structure, Corporate Investment, Corporate Governance and Financing constraints.
George Kapetanios
Professor, Head of School
Room number: CB302
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8698
Office hours: Tuesday 12:45-14:15
Expertise: Econometrics and Macroeconomics
Marika Karanassou
Reader
Room number: CB304
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8822
Expertise: Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics and Empirical Finance
Winfried Koeniger
Reader
Room number: W314
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8420
Office hours: Tuesday 11:30-12:30, Wednesday 11:30-12:30
Expertise: Macroeconomics
Senior Lecturer
Room number: W306
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8832
Office hours: Monday 14:00-16:00
Expertise: Time-Series Econometrics
Leone Leonida
Senior Lecturer
Room number: CB317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8833
Office hours: Tuesday 11:00-13:00
Expertise: Corporate Finance and Growth
Yioryos Makedonis
Lecturer
Room number: W311
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8834
Office hours: Tuesday 12:00-13:00, Thursday 12:00-13:00
Expertise: Mathematical Economics, Macroeconomics, and Environmental Economics
Rachel Male
Lecturer
Room number: W410
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8835
Office hours: Wednesday 15:00-17:00
Expertise: Applied Macroeconomics and Development Economics
Marco Manacorda
Professor
Room number: W318
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8836
Office hours: Thursday 14:00-15:00
Expertise: Labour Economics
Xavier Mateos-Planas
Professor
Room number: E302B
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8841
Office hours: Wednesday 15:00-16:00
Expertise: Macroeconomics
Radoslawa Nikolowa
Lecturer
Room number: W409
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 3996
Office hours: Tuesday 13:00-15:00
Expertise: Organization Theory, Contract Theory, Secondary Fields: Industrial Organization, Labor Economics
Paola Paiardini
Teaching Fellow
Room number: W415
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5869
Office hours: Tuesday 12:00-14:00
Expertise: Market Microstructure, Financial Markets
Barbara Petrongolo
Professor
Room number: W412
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8421
Office hours: Monday 14:00-15:00
Expertise: Labour Economics
Director of MSc in Business Finance
Room number: W413
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8828
Office hours: Wednesday 13:00-14:00 and Friday 12:00-13:00
Expertise: Political Economy of Finance, Financial Crises, Economics of Developing Countries
Christopher Tyson
Lecturer
Room number: CB315
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8851
Office hours: Please see website.
Expertise: Microeconomic Theory
Roberto Veneziani
Senior Lecturer
Room number: W308
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8852
Office hours: Wednesday 12:00-14:00
Expertise: Microeconomic Theory and Political Economy
Leon Vinokur
Lecturer
Room number: W414
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8103
Office hours: Fridays 12:00-13:00 (Mile End) and Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 (CCLS)
Expertise: Environmental Economics
Guglielmo Volpe
Senior Lecturer
Room number: W310
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8853
Office hours: Monday 12:00-13:00, Tuesday 11:00-12:00
Expertise: Economic Education and Growth Theory
Nicolaas Vriend
Professor
Room number: W411
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8854
Office hours: Tuesday 12:00-13:00, Friday 14:00-15:00.
Expertise: Microeconomic and Game Theory, Economic Dynamics
Martin Weale
Room number: W418
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5872
Andriy Zapechelnyuk
Lecturer
Room number: W319
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 3997
Office hours: Monday 15:00-17:00
Expertise: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory


Visitors

Erricos Kontoghiorghes
Visiting Professor
Expertise: Computational Statistics and Econometrics, Linear Models, Statistical Model Selection, Matrix Computations and Parallel Algorithms
Jesse McDougall
Visiting Professor
Dario Patti
Visiting Lecturer
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Gerry Perez
Visiting Professor
Vicky Pryce
Visiting Professor
Damiano Silipo
Visiting Professor
Room number: W416
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8820
Office hours: Friday 10:00-12:00
Giles Spungin
Visiting Professor
Room number: W414
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8139
Office hours: by appointment
Peter Westaway
Visiting Professor


Support staff

IT User Support Officer
Room number: CB313
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5874
Postgraduate Programme Manager
Room number: CB309
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 7356
Administrative Assistant
Room number: CB309
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5871
Student Support Manager
Room number: CB309
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8849
IT/Web Support Officer
Room number: CB307
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8052
James Kilvington
Undergraduate Programme Manager
Room number: CB309
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 7355
Nick Owen
Postgraduate Programme Support Officer
Room number: CB307
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 7298
PA to Senior Management
Room number: CB309
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8846
Sarah Riley
Finance MScs Programme Manager
Room number: CB309
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8848
Director of School Administration
Room number: CB311
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8850
MSc IT Specialist
Room number: W304
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8855


PhD students

Konstantinos  Baltas
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Expertise: Financial Econometrics; Efficiency in the Banking Sector; Market imperfections; Greece
Tommaso Colussi
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Expertise: Labour Economics, Migration and Applied microeconomics
Antonello d'Alessandro
PhD Student
Room number: W304A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8842
Expertise: Macroeconometics
Vessela Daskalova
PhD Student
Room number: E304
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8843
Expertise: Microeconomic and Game Theory, Economic Dynamics, Experimental Economics
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Expertise: Quantitative Macroeconomics; Testing Permanent Income Hypothesis
Gustavo Fruet Dias
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Expertise: Forecast macroeconomic variables using large datasets, Factor models, Iterative Estimation and Heteroscedastic models
Nathalie Gimenes Sanches
PhD Student
Room number: E304
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8843
Expertise: Econometrics of Auctions, Nonparametric Statistics, Quantile Regression
Nils-Holger Gudat
PhD student
Room number: W317
Expertise: Household Debt and Heterogeneous Agent Models
Stella Hadjiantoni
PhD Student
Room number: W304A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8842
Expertise: Numerical and computational econometrics, Computational statistics, Linear models estimation, Matrix computations
PhD Student
Room number: W304A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8842
Expertise: Corporate Finance, Banking crises, Market equilibrium, Banking competition and efficiency
Sujeetha Jegajeevan
PhD student
Room number: W304A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8842
Office hours: Friday 13:00-14:00
Expertise: Macroeconometrics
Jinu Lee
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Mohaimen Mansur
PhD Student
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Expertise: Term structure of interest rates, Affine models, Factor models; Bayesian analysis
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8842
Sarah Mouabbi
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Expertise: Macroeconometrics
Michael Neumann
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Expertise: Financial Econometrics, Empirical Finance, Asset Pricing
Fotis  Papailias
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Expertise: Time Series Analysis; Bootstrap; Long Memory Models
Andrea  Pinna
PhD Student
Room number: E304
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8843
Expertise: Banking, Financial crises, Contagion, Repo, Haircut, Originate to distribute
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Expertise: Monetary policy in developing countries
Georgios Saravelos
PhD Student
Cristina Scherrer
PhD Student
Room number: W317
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8844
Expertise: Market Microstructure, Price Discovery, Mispricing, Integrated Volatility
PhD Student
Room number: E304
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8843
Expertise: Forecasting, Real-time Data, Learning


Teaching assistants

Giuseppe Ambrosini
Teaching Assistant
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Antonio Bianchini
Teaching Assistant
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Arsenio Dellorco
Teaching Assistant
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Annalisa Marini
Teaching Assistant
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Marianna Marra
Teaching Assistant
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Loris Orrico
Teaching Assistant
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Fabio Pinelli
Teaching Assistant
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Sergio Scicchitano
Teaching Assistant
Room number: E302A
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840
Teaching Assistant
Room number: W408
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8840