Research Institute for Social Sciences

The group is currently focusing on the following research areas:

• Empirical Finance
• Applied Economics and Econometrics
• Economics of Ageing and Retirement.

Full details of the research interests of our academics are available through our Members List

Please view the supervision tab for more details on the topics we welcome from PGR applicants

The economics and finance group wishes to supervise PhD dissertations in the following the general areas. We present here some project titles and the general lines of enquiries we believe could be pursued. If you are interested in any of these projects or in projects that are related to one or more of them, do not hesitate to contact us directly (in the first instance you may want to contact David Leece.

Empirical Finance

• The Dynamics Of Sovereign Risk And The Price Of Risk In Bond And CDS Markets (Alena Audzeyeva)

• Investigation Of Sovereign Credit Rating Transitions (Alena Audzeyeva)
  

Applied Economics and Econometrics

• Linked Trade and Environmental Agreements (Shiva Sikdar)

• Health, Economic Wellbeing, and the MDGs: Evidence using Cross-Country Regional Analysis (Jami Husain)

• Debt sustainability and the political economy of debt and deficits. (Gabriella Legrenzi)

• International Business Cycles and Spill-over effects (Robin Bladen Hovell)

• Costs of Recession (Robin Bladen Hovell, Elizabeth Symons)

• Macroeconomic management and the Sustainability of the Euro (Robin Bladen Hovell)

• Mortgage/Housing Market Economics and Finance (David Leece)
  

Economics of ageing and retirement (includes Actuarial research…)

• Pricing Social Security commitments (Alena Audzeyeva)

• Retirement And Informal Care-Giving (Roman Raab)

• Retirement Decisions And Asset Accumulation. (Roman Raab)

• Solvency And Sustainability Of Pension Systems.  (Roman Raab)
  

Detailed information on PhD projects can be found here       

For further details on how to apply, please visit these pages

Keele Working Papers Series 2011

2011.1.     Husain, M.J. , October 2011,  “Revisiting the Preston Curve: An Analysis of the Joint Evolution of Income and Life Expectancy in the 20th Century”, 28 pages.

2011.2.    Boado-Penas, M-d-C. , October 2011, Models of the Actuarial Balance of the Pay-As-You-Go Pension System. A Review and some Policy Recommendations”  with C. Vidal-Meliá (University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain) and J. Sakamoto  (Nomura Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan), 24 pages.

2011.3.    Lanot, G., October 2011, “Loan Characteristics and Selectivity, Unobserved Heterogeneity and the Performance of United Kingdom Securitised Sub-Prime Loans”, with D. Leece (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK), 37 pages.

2011.4.    Bladen-Hovell, R. and P. Lawrence, November 2011,  “Financial Liberalisation and Access to Credit by Ghanaian Households”  with J. Yeboah, 25 pages.

2011.5.    Lanot, G. and P., Sousounis, December 2011,   “The Minimum Wage and the Completion of Apprenticeship Training over the Business Cycle”, 21 pages.

2011.6.    Husain, M.J. , December 2011,  “The Preston-Curve and the Contribution of Health to Economic Well-Being: Evidence from the Micro-Data of Bangladesh”, 60 pages.

2011.7.    Husain, M.J. , December 2011,  “Alternative Estimates of the Effect of the Increase of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth”, 43 pages.

2011.8.    Raab, R., December 2011,  “Labour Supply Incentives and Retirement in Ireland” with B. Gannon (University of Leeds, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences), 26 pages.

2011.9.    Raab, R., December 2011, “Income and Wealth of Irish Retirees: New Evidence from Survey Data” with E. O'Shea (Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland), 24 pages.

External Seminar Programme 2012-13

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External Seminar Programme 2012-13 Semester Two

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