Macroeconomics, Growth & Development
The members of the Macroeconomics, Growth & Development Research Group comprise permanent staff, research fellows and PhD students. They are listed as follows:
Staff
- Pierre-Richard Agénor (Professor)
- Michele Berardi (Lecturer)
- Keith Blackburn (Professor)
- George Bratsiotis (Lecturer)
- George Chouliarakis (Lecturer)
- Emranul Haque (Lecturer)
- Kyriakos Neanidis (Lecturer)
- Xiaobing Wang (Lecturer)
Other Related Staff
- Joseph Stiglitz (Professor, Chair Brooks World Poverty Institute)
- Mike Artis (Professor, Director of Manchester Regional Economics Centre)
Research Students
- Koray Alper
- Soyolmaa Batbekh
- Adam Bointon
- Gareth Downing
- Jonathan Powell
- Rashmi Sarmah
- Pham The Anh
- Zhaolu Wang
- Sen Min Wong
- Roy Zilberman
Research
Research within the Macroeconomics Group is both theoretical and empirical, and covers a wide range of topics within the broad areas of economic growth and development, business cycles, and macroeconomic policy. These topics include the following:
- Poverty, inequality and income distribution
- Financial markets and institutions
- Governance and corruption
- Population change and demographic transition
- Labour markets, unemployment and migration
- Fiscal policy and public finance
- Monetary policy and central banking
- Imperfect competition and nominal rigidities
- Volatility and stabilisation policy
- International macroeconomics and the world economy
- Quantitative economic history
- Econometric analysis of yield spreads and the term structure
- Inference and estimation in non-linear modelling
Some of the Group’s research has been supported by external grants from the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust and Bank of England. The Group runs its own Seminar Series, comprising both external and internal speakers, and has connections with other Research Groups (Microeconomics & Mathematical Economics and Econometrics & Applied Economics ).
All members of the Macroeconomics Research Group are affiliated to the Centre for Growth and Business Cycles Research. Agénor and Blackburn are the co-Directors of the Centre.