Economics and Business Staff Public Engagement and Activity

Details of recent public engagement, outreach, media appearances and activities of SSEES Economics & Business colleagues

March 2024

• Dr Elodie Douarin published an article, co-written with Hinks, Tim; (2024) Individualism, Universalism and Climate Change. Journal of Institutional Economics (online, Cambridge University Press).
• Dr Pawel Bukowski published an article in the Economics Observatory on 'What next for Poland’s economy?'
• On 4 March, Dr Marco Ranaldi chaired the CNET event, a book launch of 'Visions of Inequality' by Branko Milanovic.

February 2024

• Prof Yuemei Ji published a VoXEU column: 'A two-tier system of reserve requirements to fight inflation more fairly and effectively: Answers to our critics' on 12 February. On 1 February, Yuemei also published the CEPR Working Paper: 'How to conduct monetary policies. The ECB in the past, present and future'
• Dr Elodie Douarin presented a working paper on "Terrorism and tax morale" co-authored with Luca Andriani and Gaygysyz Ashyrov on the 7th of February in the research seminar series of the departmenr of Economics and Finance, Brunel University. On 13th February in the work in progress seminar series of the Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi" Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Dr Douarin also presented preliminary results on post conflict political participation in Kosovo (with Julie Litchfield and using data collected thanks to a BA grant) on the 23rd of January in the 1st seminar series on Governance, Insitutions and Sustainability at Birbeck University and on the 8th of February at the Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association 2024 in St Gallen.

January 2024

• Dr Pawel Bukowski published a report on Polish inequality (in Polish): 

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• Dr Serena Merrino presented a working paper 'The distributional effects of macroprudential policy' at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Conference on 'Central Banks for the Common Good' (19 January)
• Prof Slavo Radosevic has been appointed member of the EC Joint Research Centre group 'Experts on a Fair and Sustainable Economy' for 2024-2025. First meeting of the group took place on line on January 11 2024 to be followed by an in person meeting in Seville 
• Prof Radosevic has been asked by the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) to assess actors, capacities and policies in S&T & Innovation parks in Uzbekistan and Mongolia. He already has conducted field visit to Uzbekistan organised by the Uzbek Ministry of Innovative Development. This work builds on his previous work on Uzbekistan for the UN ECE  and will feed into his forthcomin g academic publications on the challenges of innovative development in the former Soviet Union economies.  
• Dr Pawel Bukowski was interviewed on Inequality: Wzrosty gospodarcze w Polsce sprzyjają nierównościom, bo głównie najbogatszym [PL], Radio TOK FM, January 2024 and Od 2020 roku prawie 5 mld osób zubożało, pięć najbogatszych podwoiło fortuny. Raport Oxfam [PL], OKO Press,  January 2024..
• Dr Pawel Bukowski wrote an article, 'Six Myths about Inequality in Poland' for Notes from Poland, 24 January 2024
• Dr Pawel Bukowski published the Working Paper Income Inequality in the 21st Century Poland, with Pawel Chrostek (Ministry of Finance PL), Filip Novokmet (University of Bonn), Marek Skawinski (Ministry of Finance PL). CEP Discussion Paper No. 1966. Available also as MF WP and LSE III WP.

December 2023

• On 8 December 2023, Dr Yuemei Ji gave an online research seminar “Fighting inflation more effectively without transferring central banks’ profits to banks” at the National Bank of Ukraine.
• Dr Serena Merrino presented a working paper 'The distributional effects of macroprudential policy' at the South Africa Rserve Bank Policy Dialogue in Pretoria (4 December 2023)
• Dr Svetlana Makarova organised a session “Macroeconomic uncertainty and textual analysis” and presented a paper entitled “Economic uncertainty measures, experts and ChatGPT” at the 17th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2023), Berlin, (16-18 December)
• Prof Julia Korosteleva has been awarded GBP 10,000 for the UCL-ZJU strategic partnership grant on “Dual transition of manufacturing firms in Europe and China: towards inclusive and sustainable innovation and production” (jointly with Prof Slavo Radosevic, Dr Randolph Bruno and Prof Jun Jin from Zhejiang University), December 2023-August 2024;
• Prof Slavo Radosevic gave Presentation of the paper: Institutionalising experimentation in innovation policy: Challenges and solutions in upscaling, Webinar: Unlocking Innovation: Regions as Pioneering Laboratories of Policy Experimentation on12 December 2023 Inter_Reg Europe
• On 6 December, Prof Slavo Radosevic gave Presentation of the paper 'EU Single Market as a Tool of 'Green Socieconomic Transformation (Green Growth): Oxymoron or Strategic Advantage? at European Commission DG GROW Fellowship 2023, BRussles, Closing event, 6 December 2023,
• On 12 December 2023, Dr Yuemei Ji presented in the SUERF (The European Money and Finance Forum) webinar “Expanding Zero-Interest Minimum Reserve Requirements: aims, effects, and side-effects".

November 2023

• Dr Yuemei Ji contributed to Vox EU column, 28 November 2023: “Inflation then (1979-85) and now (2020-23): Why it is easier to fight inflation today.”
• Prof Slavo Radosevic participated at Expert Workshop 'Challenges for cohesion: looking ahead to 2035'   Brussels, 23 November 2023, project coordinated by The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) European Commission. 
• Prof Svetlana Makarova Organises a session “Macroeconomic uncertainty and textual analysis” and presenting a paper entitled “Economic uncertainty measures, experts and ChatGPT” at the 17th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2023), Berlin, 16-18 December 2023.
• Prof Slavo Radosevic was interviewed by Carlota Perez as part of the Chris Freeman Centenary Lecture Series on 30 November 2023. 
• On 20-21 November, Prof Slavo Radosevic attended a Meeting of International Advisory Board of Belgrade Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade 20-21 November 2023. He also gave a presentation, 'Transformative EU innovation policy and implications for Serbia' at the European Convent workshop in Belgrade on November 20, 2023 
• Prof Nauro Campos published a book chapter titled 'Euro Crises, the Productivity Slowdown and the EMU ' in The Cambridge Handbook on European Monetary, Economic and Financial Market Integration (Cambridge University Press, 2023) 
• Dr Pawel Bukowski gave an interview on Inequality: Polska jest krajem dużych nierówności dochodowych [PL], Parkiet TV, November 2023.
• Dr Elodie Douarin presented her work at ARC 2023 - the Annual Research Conference organised by the European Commission on the theme of "European integration, Institutions and Development".European Commission - Annual Research Conference 2023 (europa.eu). Elodie's presentation is titled: Political participation in post-conflict settings: Gendered effects of victimisation and (Informal) institutional barriers". Watch a summary of the paper. 
• Dr Sangaralingam Ramesh published a new book: The Political Economy of India's Economic Development: 5000BC to 2022AD, Volume I: Before the Indus Civilisation to Alexander the Great (Palgrave Studies in Economic History), Palgrave Macmillan
• Prof Yuemei Ji published the paper 'Fighting Inflation More Effectively without Transferring Central Banks’ Profits to Banks, CESifo Working Paper No. 10741. On 7 November, she wrote a column for Vox EU 'Unremunerated reserve requirements make the fight against inflation fairer and more effective'
• Dr Alberto Prati presented some of his published and ongoing studies  at the "Memory and Subjective Well-being" Webinar for the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. He showed how memory dynamics can help improve the collection, interpretation and analysis of satisfaction data. Watch his presentation (YouTube)

October 2023

• Prof Slavo Radosevic and co-authors published a paper, 'Technological profiles, upgrading and the dynamics of growth: Country-level patterns and trajectories across distinct stages of development' in Research Policy (Volume 52, Issue 8)
• Dr Pawel Bukowski was a panelist at the SSEESing Now event ''SSEES-ing Poland’s new post-election landscape', hosted at UCL SSEES on 18 October 2023. 
• On 18 October, Yuemei Ji gave a keynote on "To Tame Inflation Without Subsidizing Banks" at the Liquidity Workshop of the Central Bank of Austria and the Financial Market Authority. She also participated in a panel discussion on "Monetary Policy, Market Environment and Liquidity Risk".
• Prof Julia Korosteleva gave an expert evaluation of the state of the Belarusian economy for the construction of the index of Belarus resilience for Belarus Centre of New Ideas. (15^th October 2023)
• Prof Slavo Radosevic gave a seminar presentation on institutionalising experimentation in innovation policy: challenges and solutions in upscaling at the Austrian Productivity Board, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, October 11, 2023
• On 10 October, VoxEU published a column on Dr Pawel Bukowski's project on Spatial Wage Equality across North America and Western Europe. 
• Morgan K. and S. Radosevic (2023) published a journal paper,  ‘Institutional capacity building: Learning from S3 to catalyse innovation partnerships’, In Schwaag Serger S., Soete L. and Stierna J. (eds), The Square: Putting place-based innovation policy for sustainability at the centre of policymaking, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023, doi:10.2760/135706, JRC131244.

September 2023 

• On 29 September 2023 ,Prof Julia Korosteleva delivered an invited online talk on ‘The impact of technology on bank lending decisions’ at Accounting, Finance and Economics Research Seminar organised by the Business School of University of Huddersfield.
• On 28^th September, Prof Julia Korosteleva took part in the UK FCDO roundtable discussion on the impact of the UK sanctions on Belarusian economy. 
• Prof Slavo Radosevic has been appointed a Member of the International Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Sciences Belgrade. Prof Slavo Radosevic (together with Prof Zoran Milutinovic) was one of three keynote speakers at The Third Balkan Studies Conference -Cultural Inheritance and Diversified Development, organised by Balkan Studies Center, Beijing Foreign Studies University, September 19-23, 2023. He also gave two lectures at Beijing University of Foreign Studies, 25-26th September
• Prof Yuemei Ji published the article 'Finance and local economic growth: New evidence from China' in the International Journal of Finance & Economics (25 September 2023). On 5 September, she wrote an OMFIF column: 'Central banks can fight inflation without massive handouts to banks'
• Dr Pawel Bukowski gave a presentation at the at European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference, in Prague. He also gave a presentation at the European Commission in Brussels, DG Urban and Regional Policies.
• Dr Randolph Bruno and co-authors published a paper titled 'The impact of FDI and financial depth on EU regional growth: income and spatial heterogeneity' in the  Economic and business review  (Sept 2023). Dr Bruno also co authored the paper 'The Ripple Effect of sanctions: exploring the impact on global value chains using a gravity model' in the  Italian Economic Journal   
• Radosevic S. and Luc Soete (2023) published a chapter, 'Challenges of Governance and the integration of sustainability in the prioritisation and evaluation of strategies', In Schwaag Serger S., Soete L. and Stierna J. (eds), The Square: Putting place-based innovation policy for sustainability at the centre of policymaking, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023, doi:10.2760/135706, JRC131244.
• On 18 Sep, Yuemei Ji joined a roundtable organized by OMFIF. She shared her view on the political economy implications of profits and losses for the major central banks in the Eurosystem.(https://www.omfif.org/meetings/eurosystem-central-bank-balance-sheets-strains-and-solutions/). On 4 September, she visited the Bundesbank and took part in a panel discussion. The focus of the discussion was how a central bank should address the impact of remunerating central bank reserves on the profits of both commercial banks and central banks.(https://www.bundesbank.de/en/service/dates/professor-paul-de-grauwe-visits-the-bun-desbank-913968)
• Morgan K. and S. Radosevic (2023) published a chapter, ‘Institutional capacity building: Learning from S3 to catalyse innovation partnerships’, In Schwaag Serger S., Soete L. and Stierna J. (eds), The Square: Putting place-based innovation policy for sustainability at the centre of policymaking, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023, doi:10.2760/135706, JRC131244.
• Dr Pawel Bukowski was quoted in the article ' How will Poland pay for election campaign promises?' in  Deutsche Welle (21 Sept 2023)

August 2023

• Prof Slavo Radosevic, G. Tsekouras and P. Wostner (2023)published a working paper, 'Institutionalising experimentation in innovation policy: challenges and solutions in upscaling', JRC134408 Seville: European Commission, https://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/w/institutionalising-experimentation-in-innovation-policy-challenges-and-solutions-in-upscaling
• Dr Pawel Bukowski co wrote the working paper 'Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019.' fofr International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. Co-authors included Bauluz, Luis, Fransham, Mark , Lee, Annie, López Forero, Margarita, Novokmet, Filip, Breau, Sébastien, Lee, Neil , Malgouyres, Clement, Schularick, Moritz and Verdugo, Gregory (2023) 

July 2023

• On 26 July, Prof Slavo Radosevic gave national comment on the EU-Serbia, Conversations on Smart Specialisation (in Serbian) https://eukonvent.org/OBJAVLJEN-PODKAST-POSVECEN-PAMETNOJ-SPECIJALIZACIJI/. ON THE BASIS OF THE PODCAST THE ORGANISERS HAVE PRODUCED THE GUIDE ON SMART SPECIALIZATION (IN SERBIAN).  SEE ИВАНИЋ, В (УРЕД.) (2023). ВОДИЧ ЗА ПАМЕТНУ СПЕЦИЈАЛИЗАЦИЈУ, НАЦИОНАЛНИ КОНВЕНТ О ЕВРОПСКОЈ УНИЈИ, HTTPS://EUKONVENT.ORG/OBJAVLJEN-VODIC-ZA-PAMETNU-SPECIJALIZACIJU/
  AND INTERVIEW: HTTPS://EUKONVENT.ORG/OBJAVLJEN-PRVI-BROJ-CASOPISA-PAMETNI-REGION
• Dr Alberto Prati wrote an article for The Conversation; 'Inflation may be coming down but its unequal effects can still have a big impact on wellbeing' (July 19, 2023)
• Prof Yuemei Ji co-authored a new paper titled 'Towards monetary policies that do not subsidise banks', published by the Centre for European Policy Studies (July 13, 2023)
• On July 4, Dr Elodie Douarin was a panelist at the Workshop on experimental research in post conflict settings, hosted at SSEES. Her presentation was titled 'Gendered Political Participationin Kosovo: the long shadow of sexual violence'

June 2023

• Dr Randolph Bruno, Prof Julia Korosteleva, K. Osaulenko and Prof Slavo Radosevic, published a journal paper, Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Journal, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08985626.2023.2218314