Dr Svetlana Makarova

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Economics

Svetlana Makarova Email
s.makarova@ssees.ucl.ac.uk

Phone Number
020 7679 8821

Fax
020 7679 8777

I was born in Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg), educated at the Leningrad State University as a mathematician, and obtained my PhD in mathematics from the Leningrad Branch of Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. After several years of teaching mathematics I began to work at the Department of Economics of the St. Petersburg State University and decided to put my ideas into practice in the fields of applied economics and econometrics. My mathematical education was complemented by participation in a series of international Summer Schools in Economics, at first as a participant and later on as a resource person. Positions as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester (1998) and as Research Fellow (1998-1999) at Central and East European Economic Research Center at the Warsaw University (Poland) were also a part of my research training in economics. Since 1998 I have been actively working and publishing in the area of nonstationary time series econometrics and in inflation modelling.

Before joining SSEES in September 2007 I taught mainly at the Department of Economics of European University of St. Petersburg. I also delivered various courses in time series econometrics for postgraduate students at Warsaw University and at a number of international Summer Schools in Economics in Belgium, Ukraine and Russia. During the period September 2004-September 2007 I was in close collaboration with the National Bank of Poland (which is the Polish Central Bank) where I worked as a part-time Senior Researcher.

Research Interests
The policy-oriented part of my research is in modelling inflation and timing of monetary policies under inflation targeting. Currently I am working on nonlinear inflationary persistence, inter-country VAR modelling of East European economies and evaluation of secondary real effects of a monetary policy under inflation targeting. As a team leader, I was involved in the series of INTAS projects focused on econometrics modelling of East European Economies. The current INTAS project, where I collaborate with scholars from Poland, Russia, Ukraine and UK, is in progress and is devoted to inter-country East European modelling.

My theoretically oriented fields of experience are in the nonlinear and nonstationary modelling of economic time series. In this area, I have recent papers in Journal of Econometrics and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. I have also presented papers at the Econometric Society European Meetings in 2002, 2003, 2006 and conferences Computing in Economic and Finance in 2002, 2005, 2006.

Teaching and supervision
I am doing tutorials for Introduction to Economics (BA) and will be teaching Advanced Quantitative Methods (MA) in the second term.

Recent Publications

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