Summer School—EEG, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Economic Policies Research Unit—NIPE

Paul Levine received a first-class BSc and a PhD, both in Mathematics, from the University of Manchester. He then taught and researched in the area of applied mathematics at Liverpool Polytechnic and the Polytechnic of North London before joining South Bank Polytechnic in 1972. His move into economics began at South Bank as the result of collaborative research with Sam Aaronovitch into merger activity and a year studying for an MSc in economics (distinction) at Queen Mary College followed in 1977. In 1984 he became a senior research officer at the Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School and was appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Leicester in 1989. In 1994 he moved to the University of Surrey.

 

Bo Yang is a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at London Metropolitan University. He graduated from the University of Hull in 2003. He then completed his MSc degree in Financial Economics at Queen Mary, University of London, where he has been awarded a distinction in the MSc. In 2005, he moved to the University of Surrey to undertake a PhD with a full research scholarship. Bo’s PhD was on the topic of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) modeling. Following the completion of his PhD degree in 2008, Bo was appointed as a research officer to support the research activities of the EU-funded project “The Modelling and Implementation of Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy Algorithms in Multi-Country Econometric Models”.

Paul Levine and Bo Yang

9^thSummer School—EEG, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Economic Policies Research Unit—NIPE