Dr Alberto Paloni
- Senior Lecturer (Economics)
telephone:
01413304656
email:
Alberto.Paloni@glasgow.ac.uk
404B Gilbert Scott Building, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Biography
Alberto joined Economics in September 1991. He holds a PhD degree and a MSc degree in Economics both from Birkbeck College (University of London) and a first degree in Economics from 'La Sapienza' University of Rome.
Research interests
Alberto is a member of the Finance research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Financial reforms
- Finance, banking and the real economy
- International financial institutions
- Economic development
- Heterodox (post-Keynesian) economics
Supervision
PhD supervision areas
Financial openness in developing countries; Trade liberalisation in developing countries.
Current PhD students
Teaching
Courses taught
Postgraduate:
- International Financial Organisations and Economic Growth in Developing Countries;
- Financial Institutions and Markets in Developing Countries;
- Research Methods;
Undergraduate:
Post-Keynesian Economics (Level 2).
Previously taught
Postgraduate:
- Financial Development and Economic Growth;
- Development Economics;
- International Macroeconomics;
- International Finance and Money;
Undergraduate:
- Development Economics;
- International Finance and Money;
- International Macroeconomics;
- Mathematics for Economists;
- Economics I.
PhD:
- Financial Liberalisation and Industrial Development in Developing Countries;
- Bank Lending to Small and Medium Enterprises;
- Bank Lending and Financial Liberalisation;
- Capital Account Liberalisation in Developing and Emerging Market Economies;
- Monetary Transmission Mechanism;
- Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Countries;
- Inequality and Economic Growth.
Additional information
Referee activities
Academic journals:
- Emerging Markets Finance and Trade,
- International Economic Journal,
- International Review of Applied Economics,
- Journal of Asia Pacific Economy,
- Journal of Development Studies,
- Journal of Economic Studies,
- Journal of Economic Surveys,
- Journal of International Development,
- Review of Development Economics,
- Review of International Organizations,
- Scottish Journal of Political Economy,
- World Development.
Publishers:
- McGraw-Hill, Palgrave, Pearson Education, Routledge
- Social Science Research Unit of the Department for International Development of grant applications for research projects and final research reports
- Economic and Social Research Council of grant applications for research projects
Public speaking
- ‘The forgotten millions, the missing millions and the missing policies’, in a public meeting on ‘An end to poverty: Progress, prospects and policies’, University of Glasgow, 21 April 2006
- 'Making poverty history through trade: truths and rhetoric before the WTO meeting in Hong Kong', St. Matthew's Church, Kilmarnock, 27 November 2005. 'Trade and poverty: Can the WTO meeting in Hong Kong make history?", Henderson Church, Kilmarnock, 20 November 2005. Both meetings where the talks were given were hosted by Des Browne MP, Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury.
- 'Privatisation, poverty and the World Bank; The privatisation of public services in developing countries', University of Glasgow, 1 March 2004. This public meeting was sponsored among others by the Department for International Development.
- 'The changing roles of the IMF and the World Bank' in a public meeting on 'The world of international money', Glasgow, 12 November 2004
Current affiliations
- Member of the Development Studies Association
- External Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in International Trade and Development (CREDIT), University of Nottingham
- Accredited Member of the Higher Education Academy
- Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, 'Roma Tre' University (Rome)
- Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bari