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Alexander Mihailov

  • Director of the Group for Economic Analysis at 91µ¼º½Ìý(GEAR)
  • Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) Coordinator
  • Convener of Conversations online sessions for Economics students

Areas of interest

  • International macroeconomics and finance
  • Monetary theory and policy
  • Political macroeconomics and socioeconomic dynamics
  • Information and learning

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested to supervise research students working on the topics included in my areas of interest.

Teaching

  • Advanced Macroeconomics (undergraduate)
  • International Economics (undergraduate)

Research centres and groups

  • Committee Member and Communications Lead:
  • Member: American Economic Association; Bulgarian Macroeconomics Association; Econometric Society; European Economic Association; Royal Economic Society
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  • Associate Editor: Open Economics Review; Economic Thought; Krakow Review of Economics and Management

Background

I am an Associate Professor in Economics at the 91µ¼º½ and Director of the Group for Economic Analysis at 91µ¼º½Ìý(GEAR). I am also External Affiliate at the Centre for International Macroeconomic Studies (CIMS) at the University of Surrey and member of the editorial board ofÌýOpen Economies Review. I have been employed by the University of Essex, theÌý°ä°ùé²¹ÌýInstitute of Applied Macroeconomics at the University of Lausanne, and the Research Department of the Bulgarian National Bank.

I have held part-time academic positions at the University of Warwick, City University London, Studienzentrum Gerzensee and Sofia University, and short-term visiting appointments at the University of Lille and El Colegio de Mexico (Colmex). I am co-founder and co-organiser of the annual European Workshop on Political Macroeconomics (EWPM) and the Lille-91µ¼º½ Workshop on International Finance.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Lausanne (2004). I work, and have published, in the areas of international macroeconomics and finance, monetary theory and policy, political macroeconomics and socioeconomic dynamics, information and learning.



Academic qualifications

  • PhD in Economics (2004) and MSc in Economics (1998), University of Lausanne
  • Diploma/MSc in International Economics (1991), University of National and World Economy, Sofia

Major research grants

  • July 2010 – June 2012.ÌýÌýBritish Academy Small Research Grant, as principal investigator, onÌýEvaluating Methods of Forecasting Inflation for Policy-Based Decision Making; resulting paper entitled “Inflation Forecasting Using the New Keynesian Phillips Curve with a Time-Varying Trendâ€�, with Stephen McKnight and Fabio Rumler, inÌýEconomic Modelling, Vol. 87, May 2020, 383-393.
  • July 2010 – September 2011.Ìý 91µ¼º½ Board for Research in the Social Sciences Pump-Priming Small Grant, as principal investigator, onÌýThe Rise and Fall of Communism: A Tale of Discovering the Equity-Efficiency Trade-off; resulting paper entitled “The Grand Experiment of Communism: Discovering the Trade-off between Equality and Efficiency,â€� with Etienne Farvaque and Alireza Naghavi, inÌýJournal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 174, No. 4, December 2018, 707-742.
  • August 2009.Ìý Research Visit at the CEPS/INSTEAD, Differdange, Luxembourg, co-funded by the IRISS / European Commission 6th Framework Programme, as co-investigator at par, onÌýIntergenerational Transmission of Inflation Aversion: Theory and Evidence, with Etienne Farvaque; one resulting paper (empirical) published asÌý“Who Supports the ECB? Evidence fromÌýEurobarometerÌýSurvey Data,â€� with Etienne Farvaque and Muhammad Azmat Hayat,ÌýThe World Economy, Vol. 40, No. 4, April 2017, 654-677 (lead article); another resulting paper (theoretical), “Intergenerational Transmission of Inflation Aversion: Theory and Evidence,â€� with Etienne Farvaque (August 2008, last revised January 2012); superseded by “A Theory of the Intergenerational Dynamics of Inflation Beliefs and Monetary Institutions,â€� with Etienne Farvaque, February 2014, revised August 2023.

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