Completed:
June 2011 Zlatko Nikoloski - Essays in Development Economics
October 2010 Gian Fazio – Entrepreneurship, innovation and competition. Current position: private business, USA
September 2009 Beata Manthey - Regional Labour Markets in Poland and Spain. Current postion: analyst Citibank
April 2008 Jong-Kyu Lee (ORS award) – Economic growth in transition countries. Current position: researcher, Samsung Institute.
December 2007 Venla Sipila – Russian financial crisis of 1998. Current position: senior analyst, Global Insight.
September 2003 Kate Bishop – Internationalisation and performance in CIS manufacturing companies. Current position: researcher, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (previously at Imperial College, Office of National Statistics and UCL)
June 2003 Milan Nikolic – Inflation in Russia. Current position: lecturer, University of Surrey. Thesis published as a book by Palgrave Macmillan.
January 2002 Roman Zyla – Bureaucracy, Corruption and Small Enterprises in Ukraine. Current position: World Bank, researcher.
In progress:
At Aston University:
2012- Alena Pivavarova - FDI in Russia
(with Prof. Nigel Driefield and Dr. Yama Temouri)
Continuing at UCL:
2007- Chiara Amini (CEELBAS scholarship) – Institutions as Determinants of FDI
(joint supervision with Dr Christopher Gerry)
2009 - Daphne Ahtanasouli - Freedom from Corruption and Economic Performance
2010 - Anna Rebmann - Entrepreneurship and Institutions
2010 - Paulina Stepien - Entreprneurship and Trust
(last three: joint supervision with Dr Julia Korosteleva)
PhD examiner: Aston Business School, Birkbeck College, Brunel University, Imperial College London, Kings College, London School of Economics, University of Leeds, University of Leicester, University of Staffordshire (x2)
Teaching:
• Courses taught at Aston Business School
o BA Emerging and Transitional Economies (1/2 unit) [from 2012-2013]
o BA International Perspectives in Organisations(1/2 unit)
• Other Courses taught previously:
o MA Corporate Governance (1/2 unit)
o MA Economics of Transition (1/2 unit)
o BA Emerging Market Economies (1 unit)
o MA EU Enlargement, Human Resource Development and Institution Building in
Eastern Europe (College of Europe, Brugge)
o BA Topics in Microeconomics (SSEES, until 2005; 1/2 unit, 2nd year; contents:
labour, models of the firm)
o BA Introduction to Economics (SSEES, Catholic University of Lublin)
o BA Applied Economics (SSEES)
o BA Intermediate Microeconomics (Catholic University of Lublin)
o BA Public Choice (Catholic University of Lublin)