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Spiros Bougheas

Professor of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Spiros has been a member of staff at the University of Nottingham since 1999. He is a Professor in Economics. His research interests include systemic risk in financial markets, financial contracting and international financial architecture. His publications include papers in Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Member, Steering Committee and Management Committee - GECOMPLEXITY - COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action IS1104: The EU in the New Complex Geography of Economic Systems: Models, Tools and Policy, 2012- http://www.gecomplexity-cost.eu

CV available here in pdf format. Spiros' Facewall page.

Selected Publications

  • BOUGHEAS, S., HARVEY, D., KIRMAN, A. and NELSON, D., 2024. Systemic Risk in Banking, Fire Sales, and Macroeconomic Disasters Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. (In Press.)
  • BOUGHEAS, S., COMMENDATORE, P., GARDINI, L. and KUBIN, I., 2023. Dynamic Investigations of an Endogenous Business Cycle Model with Heterogeneous Agents Computational Economics: Special Issue - Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems. (In Press.)
  • BOUGHEAS, S, 2022. Contagion in Networks: Stability and Efficiency Mathematical Social Sciences. 115, 64-77
  • AMISSAH, E, BOUGHEAS, S, DEFEVER, F and FALVEY, R, 2021. Financial System Architecture and the Patterns of International Trade European Economic Review. 136, 103751

Working Papers:

1. Technology Gap, Foreign Direct Investment, and Market Structure (with D.

Greenaway, K. Jangkamolkulchai and R. Kneller), GEP Research Paper 2008/6,

University of Nottingham

2. Structural Adjustment, Turnover and Career Progression (with C. Davidson, R.

Upward and P. Wright), GEP Research Paper 2008/23, University of Nottingham;

Gecomplexity Discussion Paper 14/2015, ISCH COST Action IS1104

3. Organizational Forms for Global Engagement of Firms (with H. Görg), GEP

Research Paper 2008/33, University of Nottingham, Kiel Working Papers 1448,

Kiel Institute for the World Economy

4. The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on European Banking Efficiency (with

H. Alzubaidi), CFCM Working Paper 03/11, University of Nottingham

5. NGOs and Donors' Funding: Evidence from Uganda (with A. Isopi

and T. Owens), CREDIT Working Paper 22/04, University of Nottingham,

CESifo Working Paper no. 10055

6. Fire Sales and Ex Ante Valuation of Systemic Risk: A Financial Equilibrium

Networks Approach (with A. Spencer), CFCM Working Paper 22/04, University

of Nottingham; National Institute of Economic and Social Research Discussion

Paper No. 544; CESifo Working Paper No.10111, University of Munich

7. Financial Development, Cycles and Income Inequality in a Model with Good and

Bad Projects (with P. Commendatore, L. Gardini and I. Kubin), CFCM Working

Paper 22/05, University of Nottingham; CES-ifo Working Paper No. 10135,

University of Munich; National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Discussion Paper No. 545

Other Writings

1. The Economy on Ice: Preventing Economic Contagion. NIESR Blog, April 4

2020:

https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/economy-ice-preventing-economic-contagion

2. Unfair Policies, Costly Consequences. NIESR Blog, June 8 2020:

https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/unfair-policies-costly-consequences

3. What is systemic risk and how does it lead to a banking crisis? The Conversation,

March 22 2023:

https://theconversation.com/what-is-systemic-risk-and-how-does-it-lead-to-a- banking-crisis-202174

Publications:

Edited Volumes

1. (2017) The Economy as a Complex Spatial System: Micro, Meso and Macro

Perspectives (with P. Commendatore, I. Kubin, A. Kirman, M. Kopel and G.-I.

Bischi), Springer, Heidelberg

2. (2018) Special Issue: Review of International Economics - Macro and Micro

Perspectives on Location, Innovation, Trade, Migration and Regional

Growth (with P. Commendatore and I. Kubin), Wiley, UK

Journal Articles

1. (1994) Asset and Currency Prices in an Exchange Economy with Transactions

Costs, Journal of Macroeconomics 16, 99-107

2. (1998) Long-term Financial Contracts and Technological Choice, Bulletin of

Economic Research 50, 61-71

3. (1999) Infrastructure, Transport Costs and Trade (with P. Demetriades and E.

Morgenroth), Journal of International Economics 47, 169-89

4. (1999) The Effect of Divorce Costs on Marriage Formation and Dissolution

(with Y. Georgellis), Journal of Population Economics 12, 489-98

5. (1999) Contagious Bank Runs, International Review of Economics and

Finance 8, 131-46

6. (2000) Infrastructure, Specialization and Economic Growth (with P. Demetriades

and T. Mamuneas), Canadian Journal of Economics 33, 506-22

7. (2002) Market-Based Reforms of Public Schooling Quasi-Markets: Some

Unpleasant Dynamics (with N. Adnett and P. Davies), Economics of Education

Review 21, 323-30

8. (2002) Optimism, Education and Industrial Development, Research in Economics

56, 199-214

9. (2003) The Economics of Professional Sports Leagues: Some Insights on the

Reform of Transfer Markets (with P. Downward), Journal of Sports Economics

4, 87-107

(2005) Reply: The Economics of Professional Sports Leagues: Some Insights

on the Reform of Transfer Markets (with P. Downward), Journal of Sports

Economics 6, 114-16

(2006) Reprinted in B. Gerrard (ed.), The Economics of Association Football,

Edward Elgar, U.K.

10. (2003) Is R&D Financially Constrained? Theory and Evidence from Irish

Manufacturing Firms (with H. Görg and E. Strobl), Review of Industrial

Organization 22, 159-74

11. (2003) International Aspects of Public Infrastructure Investment (with P.

Demetriades and E. Morgenroth), Canadian Journal of Economics 36, 884-910

12. (2004) Internal vs External Financing of R&D, Small Business Economics 22,

11-7

13. (2004) On the Trade-off between Work-Related Training and Labor Mobility:

The Role of Firing and Exit Costs (with N. Adnett and Y. Georgellis), Journal

of Economics 82, 49-70

14. (2004) German Apprenticeship Training, Earning Profiles and Labour Turnover:

Theory and Empirical Evidence (with Y. Georgellis), Labour 18, 233-63

15. (2004) The Impact of Firm-Specific Characteristics on the Response to Monetary

Policy Actions (with P. Mizen and C. Yalcin), Central Bank Review 4, 1-29

16. (2006) Trade Credit, Bank Lending and Monetary Policy Transmission (with S.

Mateut and P. Mizen), European Economic Review 50, 603-29

17. (2006) Access to External Finance: Theory and Evidence on the Impact of

Monetary Policy and Firm-Specific Characteristics (with P. Mizen and C.

Yalcin), Journal of Banking and Finance 30, 199-227

18. (2006) Financial Predation by the 'Weak' (with S. Thananittayaudom),

International Journal of Business and Economics 5, 231-44

19. (2007) Income Distribution, Imperfect Capital Markets and the Choice of

External Finance: A Financial Equilibrium Approach, Quarterly Review of

Economics and Finance 47, 507-20

20. (2007) Tough Love or Unconditional Charity? (with I. Dasgupta and O.

Morrissey), Oxford Economic Papers 59, 561-82

21. (2007) Trade and the Distribution of Human Capital (with R. Riezman),

Journal of International Economics 73, 421-33

(2013) Reprinted in R. Riezman (ed.), International Trade Agreements and

Political Economy, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

22. (2008) Administración de los Apuros Financieros Bancarios: Dilema entre la

Liquidez y los Riesgos de la Solvencia [Managing Banking Financial Distress:

Trade-Offs between Illiquidity and Insolvency Risks], (with A. Ruiz-Porras), El

Trimestre Económico (Special Issue on 'Economic Theory in Latin America')

75, 215-33

23. (2008) A Model of the Interaction between Banking Crises and Currency Crices,

(with M. Bleaney and I. Skamnelos), Journal of International Money and

Finance 27, 695-706

24. (2009) Corporate Trade Credit and Inventories: New Evidence of a Tradeoff from

Accounts Payable and Receivable, (with S. Mateut and P. Mizen), Journal of

Banking and Finance 33, 300-7

25. (2009) The Impact of Financial Market Imperfections on Trade and Capital

Flows, (with R. Falvey), Econoquantum (Conference Proceedings of 1st

International Workshop on Contemporary Economic Theory: Topics on

Development Economics, University of Guadalajara: September 2009) 6, 91-110

26. (2011) Repayment versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending

Contracts, (with I. Dasgupta and O. Morrissey), Journal of Institutional

and Theoretical Economics 167, 247-65

27. (2011) Financial Constraints, the Distribution of Wealth and International Trade

(with E. Amissah and R. Falvey), World Economy (Special Issue: China

and the Global Financial Crisis) 34, 707-24

28. (2011) Optimal Education Policies and Comparative Advantage (with R. Kneller

and R. Riezman), Pacific Economic Review 16, 538-52

29. (2012) Skilled Worker Migration and Trade: Inequality and Welfare (with D.

Nelson), World Economy (Special Issue: Immigration) 35, 197-215

30. (2012) Cost Padding in Regulated Monopolies (with T. Worrall), International

Journal of Industrial Organization 40, 331-341

31. (2013) Risk Taking in Social Settings: Group and Peer Effects (with J. Nieboer

and M. Sefton), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 92, 273-83

32. (2013) On the Political Economy of High Skilled Migration and International

Trade (with D. Nelson), European Economic Review 63, 206-24

33. (2013) Endogenous Participation in Imperfect Labor and Capital Markets

(with R. Upward), Economics Bulletin 33, 2454-64

34. (2014) Pooling, Tranching and Credit Expansion, Oxford Economic Papers 62,

557-79

35 (2015) Risk Taking and Information Aggregation in Groups (with J. Nieboer and

M. Sefton), Journal of Economic Psychology 51, 34-47

36. (2015) The Open Economy Balance Sheet Channel and the Exporting

Decisions of Firms: Evidence from the Brazilian Crisis of 1999 (with P. Mizen

and S. Silva), Oxford Economic Papers 67, 1096-1122

37. (2016) Lead-Lag Relationships and Institutional Ownership: Evidence from an

Embryonic Equity Market (with V. Arjoon and C. Milner), Research in

International Business and Finance 38, 262-276

38. (2017) Do Psychological Fallacies Influence Trading in Financial

Markets? Evidence from the Foreign Exchange Market (with M. Bleaney and. Z.

Li), Journal of Behavioral Finance 18, 344-357

39. (2018) Entrepreneurial Migration in an Integrated World (with R. Falvey)

Scandinavian Journal of Economics 120, 1171-1201

40. (2018) Systemic Risk and the Optimal Seniority Structure of Banking

Liabilities (with A. Kirman), International Journal of Finance and Economics

23, 47-54

41. (2018) Foreign Currency Borrowing, Exports and Firm Performance: Evidence

from a Currency Crisis (with H. Lim, S. Mateut, P. Mizen and C. Yalcin ),

European Journal of Finance 24, 1649-1671

42. (2019) Portfolio Sales and Signaling (with T. Worrall), Journal of

Banking and Finance 99, 182-191

43. (2021) Financial System Architecture and the Patterns of International Trade

(with E. Amissah, F. Defever and R. Falvey), European Economic Review 136,

Article 103751

44. (2021) A Theory of Outside Equity: Financing Multiple Projects (with T. Wang),

Journal of Corporate Finance 69, Article 102025

45. (2022) Contagion in Networks: Stability and Efficiency, Mathematical Social

Sciences 115, 64-77

46. (Forthcoming) Dynamic Investigations of an Endogenous Business Cycle Model

with Heterogeneous Agents (with P. Commendatore, L. Gardini and I. Kubin),

Computational Economics (Special Issue: Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex

Systems)

47. (2024) System Risk in Banking, Fire Sales, and Macroeconomic Disasters (with

D. Harvey, A. Kirman and D. Nelson) Journal of Economic Dynamics and

Control 168, Article 104975

Contributions in Edited Volumes

1. (2015) Complex Financial Networks and Systemic Risk: A Review (with A.

Kirman), in P. Commendatore, S. Kayam and I. Kubin (eds.), Complexity and

Geographical Economics: Topics and Tools, Springer, Heidelberg

2. (2016) Bank Insolvencies, Priority Claims and Systemic Risk (with A. Kirman), in

P. Commendatore, M. Matilla-Garcia, L. Varela and J. Canovas (eds.), Complex

Networks and Dynamics: Social Economic Interactions, Springer Heidelberg

3. (2017) Product and Labor Market Entry Costs, Underemployment and

International Trade (with R. Riezman), in B. Christensen and C. Kowalczyk

(eds.), Globalization: Strategies and Effects, Springer, Heidelberg

4. (2017) Introduction (with P. Commendatore, I. Kubin, A. Kirman, M. Kopel and

G.-I. Bischi), in S. Bougheas, P. Commendatore, I. Kubin, A. Kirman, M. Kopel

and G.-I. Bisch (eds.), The Economy as a Complex Spatial System: Micro,

Meso and Macro Perspectives, Springer, Heidelberg

5. (2017) Systemic Risk and Macroeconomic Fat Tails (with D. Harvey and A.

Kirman), in S. Bougheas, P. Commendatore, I. Kubin, A. Kirman, M. Kopel and

G.-I. Bisch (eds.), The Economy as a Complex Spatial System: Micro, Meso

and Macro Perspectives, Springer, Heidelberg

6. 2017) Looking Ahead, Part II (with A. Kirman), in S. Bougheas, P.

Commendatore, I. Kubin, A. Kirman, M. Kopel and G.-I. Bisch (eds.), The

Economy as a Complex Spatial System: Micro, Meso and Macro

Perspectives, Springer, Heidelberg

Policy Papers

1. (2020) The Economy on Ice: Meeting the Economic Challenges during and after

the COVID-19 Crisis, National Institute of Economic and Social Research https://www.niesr.ac.uk/publications/economy-ice-meeting-economic-challenges-during-and- after-covid-19-crisis

Book Reviews

1. (2001) Economic Transformation, Democratization and Integration into the

European Union: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective by H. Gibson (ed.),

World Economy 24, 739-40

2. (2003) Greece's Economic Performance and Prospects by R. Bryant, N. Garganas

and G. Tavlas (eds.), World Economy 26, 262

3. (2005) Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics by J. Stiglitz and B.

Greenwald, Journal of International Development 17, 696-7

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