Prof John Bennett, Director of CEDI Homepage
Formerly at the University of Wales, Cardiff and Swansea. Has held visiting posts at Washington University (St Louis) and Queens' University, Kingston, Ontario. Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Comparative Economics. Research Fellow of the IZA - Institute for the Study of Labour (Bonn, Germany) and DARRT (Development and Reform Research Team), University of Bologna. Recent ESRC research grant (with Elisabetta Iossa) to work on Public-Private Partnerships. Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics.
Current research interests: the informal sector; corruption; entry of firms in developing economies; privatization and public-private partnerships.
Prof Nauro CamposHomepage
CEPR Research Affiliate, a Research Fellow of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets (London Business School) and of the Davidson Institute (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Previously he was Director of Research at CERGE-EI (Prague), Reader and Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle and a Robert McNamara Fellow at The World Bank. He has held visiting posts at Johns Hopkins, Michigan, USC, UCL, Oxford, Bonn and IMF. Has worked primarily on transition and Latin American Economies.
Current research focuses on growth in transition economies; labour markets in transition and developing economies; entry of firms; corruption; political instability.
Dr Ralitza Dimova, Lecturer Homepage
Completed her graduate studies at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, where she obtained her doctoral degree in Economics in January 2005. Has since been part of two different European networks on population ageing and intergenerational transfers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse in Paris, France.
Primary research interests: informal sector in transition; migration and intergenerational transfers; social networks; labour market evolution: transition in general, especially Bulgaria and China.
Dr Jan Fidrmuc, Senior Lecturer Homepage
Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Senior Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn; Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School. Research grants include: Marie Curie Fellowship for ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, an award under the EU 5th Framework Programme, an ACE-Phare reesrach grant, and grants from the Global Development Network.
Recent research focues on: economic models of voting, economic growth, EU enlargement, theory of optimum currency areas, disintegration of countries, regional developments in transition economies.
Dr Sugata Ghosh, Reader Homepage
Formerly at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Recently completed a period as Leverhulme Fellow, in which he conducted research on fiscal policies and endogenous growth in open economies.
Recent research has focused on: endogenous growth and welfare; monetray and fiscal policies; exchange rate determination; the political economy of the provision of public goods; the allocation of foreign aid; primary education in India.
Prof Elisabetta IossaHomepage
Joined Brunel from ECARES, Free University of Brussels, in 1999. Research affiliate of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) at the University of Bristol; economic advisor to the Office of Fair Trading and the Financial Services Authority. Recent ESRC grant (with John Bennett) for research into public-private partnerships
Current research focuses on procurement and public-private partnerships, and on institutions for dispute resolution.
Dr Guy Liu, ProfessorHomepage
Obtained his PhD at Oxford University, and has specialized in the economics of industry, with a particular interest to China’s enterprise reform. Adjoint professor of Sichuan University in China. He also lectures the Chinese economy and industry for the visiting MBA/EMBA program at Oxford University. His research papers have been published widely in internationally leading journals such as the Economic Journal, Journal of Industrial Economics, and Journal of Comparative Economics.
Current research focuses on: privatisation and stock markets in China; corporate governance in China.
Dr Sarmistha Pal, ReaderHomepage
PhD from London School of Economics, and other degrees from Universiteis of calcutta and Cambridge. A development economist who has worked on the interlinkage between labour and credit markets, issues in demography, child and reproductive health and schooling, relationship between growth, inequality and poverty. Research fellow of the IZA (Institute for the Study of Labour), Bonn.
Currently research focuses on fertility and child schooling, social protection for the elderly and economics, politics of the provision of public goods in India and also on the corporate financial issues in East Asia.
Dr Anja Shortland, LecturerHomepage
Obtained an M.Eng from Oxford and a MSc and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Previously worked at the University of Leicester and taught at Oxford, LSE and SOAS. Main research interest is the interactions between political conditions, institutions and economic outcomes.
Research interests include: the political economy of financial development; the economic effects of political regime characteristics, political instability and violence.