New to the Business School – Eliana Lauretta

Dr Eliana Lauretta is a post doc international fellow who joined the Business School on the 1st of October.

Eliana received her PhD from Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. She recently has finished her PhD receiving the title of Doctor in Economic Policy – Quantitative Models for Policy Analysis (QMPA).

Eliana has been PhD Visiting Research and Teaching Assistant respectively at the Accounting and Finance Department and at the Department of Economics of the University of Birmingham between 2012 and 2014.

She has been component of the FINCRIS research group with Prof. Andy Mullineux and Tom Sorrel, a project research funded by AHRC: Responsibilities, Ethics and the Financial Crisis (fincris.net)

Her research interests include Money, Credit and Financial System, Monetary and Structural Policy, Theory and Empirics of Economic Growth and Economic Growth Policies, Economic Development, Innovation and Business Cycle, Micro-foundation, Networks, Agent-Based modelling and simulation. Specifically, the focus of her research is on the links between Financial System and Economic Growth and how this relationship can affect the business cycle. She has a particular expertise and interest in the regulation of the relationship between financial institutions and economic growth in the macro view to restore a proper good economic cycle.

She has presented her work at important international conferences and Workshops as the WEHIA - Annual Workshop on the Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents -  in Iceland, EAEPE - European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy European - in France and ISS – International Schumpeter Society - in Germany.

She’s happy to have joined the vibrant academic community of the Business School and is determined to contribute to its high quality research output.