Economics: People, Markets & Firms
Economics: People, Markets and Firms
We are an interdisciplinary research community with a focus on conducting research on different topics in economics and finance.
Key themes
Labour, Health and Education Economics
We work primarily in empirical and theoretical microeconomics. Our research areas include links between the labour market and other outcomes such as marriage or political attitudes, search theory, discrimination, and inequality in the labour market and beyond.
Spatial, Urban, Regional, International and Industrial Economics
We focus our research on the behaviour of households, firms, and local governments, often with a spatial dimension. Current research includes work on firm strategy and market structure, economic integration, the location of foreign direct investment, innovation and R&D, urban structures and spatial spill-overs, the housing market, the airline industry, and online markets.
Behavioural and Experimental Economics
Research within this theme is led by the Behavioural and Experimental Northeast Cluster (BENC), a joint initiative between Newcastle University Business School and Durham University Business School.
BENC is a research cluster that promotes and facilitates experimental and behavioural research.
Finance, Financial Economics and Financial Econometrics
This theme encompasses a range of applied and theoretical subtopics including:
- Bank regulation and financial stability
- Econometric techniques for detecting asset price bubbles
- Modelling financial markets and contagion effects
- Modelling and forecasting asset price volatility
Previous research undertaken has direct practical relevance for financial institutions such as investment banks and central banks, and for the wider economy.
Applied Time Series Econometrics
Research within this theme focuses on developing improved econometric methods for modelling and forecasting economic time series.
Projects undertaken typically involve a theoretical contribution as well as a simulation analysis of the proposed methodology and an empirical application.
Current research interests include:
- Bayesian modelling
- Big data analytics
- Forecast evaluation techniques
- Modelling commodity prices
- Nonparametric modelling
- Unit root and stationarity testing
- Spurious regression
- Testing for nonlinearity in economic time series
Previous research undertaken has relevance for international organisations such as UN agencies.
Macroeconomics, Policies and Institutions in Open Economic Systems
Our members research all areas of macroeconomics and, in particular:
- Macroeconomic modelling
- Applied macroeconomics
- Applied macroeconometrics
- Modelling of microeconomic behaviour with macroeconomic implications
- The origin and functioning of national and international institutions
- The sources of economic fluctuations and the deep roots of growth and development
- The development of national strategies for growth
- The design and implementation of fiscal and monetary policies in the economy and an interconnected world
- The development and functioning of the global economy
- The process of (dis)integration of countries and regions in the international economy
Through our research we aim to connect with national and international policymakers to inform the research agenda and develop research with impact.
We contribute to the Business School mission by promoting research that can help to understand the future of work in globally connected economies and inform the decision-making process of private and public leaders.
Professor John Sessions
Professor of Economics - The Sir David Dale Chair
Email: john.sessions@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 1912 081843
T&R Members
Dr Robert Anderson
Lecturer in Economics
Email: robert.anderson@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1667
Dr David Barlow
Lecturer
Email: david.barlow@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1664
Dr Roberto Bonilla Trejos
Lecturer in Economics
Email: roberto.bonilla@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1675
Professor Nils Braakmann
Professor of Economics
Email: nils.braakmann@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1669
Professor Susan Chilton
Professor of Economics
Email: susan.chilton@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1641
Dr Diemo Dietrich
Chair Board of Studies and Co-lead Research & Impact
Email: diemo.dietrich@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1564
Dr Barbara Eberth
Lecturer in Economics; Senior Tutor in Economics (UG)
Email: barbara.eberth@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: 01912081609
Dr Anastasios Evgenidis
Lecturer in Economics
Email: anastasios.evgenidis@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)203 752 2320
Professor Giorgio Fazio
Prof of Macroeconomics
Email: giorgio.fazio@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1642
Professor Atanu Ghoshray
Professor of Economics
Email: atanu.ghoshray@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)191 2081654
Dr Jonathan Jones
Lecturer - Economics; DPD for BA (Hons) Economics and Business Management (LN12)
Email: jonathan.jones@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1550
Dr Francis Kiraly
Lecturer in Economics
Email: francis.kiraly@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1670
Dr Sara Maioli
Senior Lecturer in Economics and Director of Post-Graduate Research
Email: sara.maioli@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1665
Dr Jytte Seested Nielsen
Reader in Economics
Email: jytte.nielsen@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1672
Dr Melanie Parravano Baro
Lecturer in Economics
Email: melanie.parravano@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1509
Dr Smriti Sharma
Lecturer in Economics
Email: smriti.sharma@ncl.ac.uk
Dr Grega Smrkolj
Lecturer in Economics, Academic Lead for Education, Enhancement and Employability in Economics
Email: grega.smrkolj@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1698
Dr Wessel Vermeulen
Lecturer in Macroeconomics
Email: wessel.vermeulen@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 2081691
Professor Colin Wren
Professor of Applied Microeconomics
Email: colin.wren@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1644
T&S Members
Dr Xueqi Dong
Lecturer in Economics
Email: xueqi.dong@ncl.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Michael Jones-Lee
Emeritus Professor
Email: michael.jones-lee@ncl.ac.uk
Dr Roxana Radulescu
DPD - Combined and Joint Honours Programmes in the Business School
Email: maria-roxana.radulescu@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1552
PhD Students
Newcastle-based:
- Natasha Auch (registered in AFRD)
- Morgan Beeson
- Elena Benedetti (registered in AFRD)
- Kerry Bray
- Min Deng
- Martin Enilov
- Eduardo Gonzalo
- Erin Graybill
- Saule Kemelbayeva
- Scott Kirkman
- Ana Noveria
- Rafiz Ramli
- Yacoub Sleibi
- Putu Sudiana
- Neha Tengur
- Sze Nie (Janys) Ung
- Joe Willoughby (registered in ECLS)
- Nichola Williams
- Nazila Wilson
- Yunwei Xiao
- Ge Yu
- Yichen Zhu
London-based:
- Abu Jafar Bilal
- Sheikhani Murtaza Mohsin