Newcastle University

Introduction

Sara Maioli joined Newcastle University Business School in October 2006 as a lecturer in Economics. After undergraduate studies in economics and business at the University of Brescia (Italy) she gained an MSc in Economics and Finance at the University of Glasgow and a PhD in Economics at the University of Strathclyde. In 2003 she joined the School of Economics of the University of Nottingham, where she worked for 3 years as research fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP).

Previous Positions

Nov. 2003-Sept. 2006: Research fellow, Centre for Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham.

Sept. 2002-Dec. 2002: Research Fellow, Ente Einaudi, Rome.

Research Interests

My research interests relate to applied microeconometrics, international economics and applied industrial organisation.

Other Expertise

2008-2009: Visiting lecturer in International Finance at Grenoble School of Management.

2002-2007: Visiting lecturer in micro and business economics, Groupe Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse (Toulouse Business School).

2006: Short-Term EU Expert in Romania for the project ref. EuropAid/120943/D/SV/RO ‘Strengthening the Administrative Capacity of the Romanian Parliament’.

Funding

Co-Investigator (with S. Girma and H. Görg) for the project “Longitudinal micro-data study of Business Support Programmes” funded by DTI, December 2004 – April 2005, (Amount: £44,560).

Undergraduate Teaching

- The British Economy (ECO1015)
- Fair Trade (BUS3043)
- Economics of Development, Transition and Reform (ECO3027)

Postgraduate Teaching

- International Finance (NBS8249)

• Boulhol H, Dobbelaere S, Maioli S. Imports as Product and Labour Market Discipline. British Journal of Industrial Relations 2011, 49(2), 331-361.
• Hudson R, Maioli S. A Response to “Reflections on a Global financial Crisis”. Critical Perspectives on International Business 2010, 6(1), 53-71.
• Gong Y, Gorg H, Maioli S. Employment effects of privatisation and foreign acquisition of Chinese state-owned enterprises. International Journal of the Economics of Business 2007, 14(2), 197-214.
• Geishecker I, Görg H, Maioli S. The Labour Market Impact of International Outsourcing. In: Greenaway, D; Upward R; Wright, P, ed. Globalisation and Labour Market Adjustment. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2008, pp. 152-173.
• Görg H, Girma S, Maioli S. Longitudinal Microdata Study of selected DTI Business Support Programmes and Intermediary Organisations. London: UK Department of Trade and Industry, 2005.