Professor Brigitte Granville
Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy

Roles: Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR), MSc Global Business Programme Director.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7446
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, Room 4.25b
Email: b.granville@qmul.ac.uk
Personal homepage: Website

Research interests:

Brigitte’s research interests focus on the application of macro monetary economics to critical contemporary issues. Brigitte is working on a monograph on inflation “Remembering Inflation” for Princeton University Press. She has been part of a team advising Russia 's Ministry of Finance, and has been a major contributor to the analysis of the successes and problems of Russian monetary reforms.

She is a trustee of Effective Intervention (EI), a UK-registered non-governmental organization. Located at the Centre of Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, EI’s main objective is to conduct and apply research on the most effective ways to reduce child mortality in some of the poorest regions of the world.

As a member of the Evian Group and Project Syndicate, she is also committed to disseminating the results of rigorous, world class research to wider audiences.

Brigitte is a visiting professor at Skolkovo Moscow School of Management.

Brigitte was appointed in 2007 a Chevalier des palmes académiques (a Knight in the French Order of Academic Honours).

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Publications:

Journal Articles

  1. Monetary Policy in Russia: Identifying exchange rate shocks (with Sushanta Mallick), Economic Modelling, 2010, 27(1): 432-444. doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2009.10.010.
  2. Do Informal Institutions Matter for Technological Change in Russia? The Impact of Communist Norms and Conventions, 1998–2004, (with Carol Scott Leonard) World Development (2009), doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.10.010.
  3. Monetary and Financial Stability in the Euro Area: Pro-cyclicality versus Trade-off, (with Sushanta Mallick), Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, (2008). doi: 10.1016/j.intfin.2008.11.002.
  4. The Rural Urban Wage Gap in the Industrialization of Russia, 1884-1910 (with Carol Scott Leonard and Leonid Borodkin), European Review of Economic History, Volume 12, Issue 1, April 2008.
  5. Does Inflation or Currency Depreciation Drive Monetary Policy in Russia? (with Sushanta Mallick), Research in International Business and Finance, Vol.20, Issue 2, June 2006: 163-179.
  6. How best to link poverty reduction and debt sustainability in IMF-World Bank Models? (with Sushanta Mallick), 2005, International Review of Applied Economics, Vol.19, N.1, January:67-85. ISSN 0269-2171
  7. Pension Reforms and saving gains in the UK (with Sushanta Mallick), 2004, Journal of Policy Reform, 7(2), June: 123-136. ISSN 1384-1289
  8. Fisher Hypothesis: UK evidence over a century (with Sushanta Mallick), 2004, Applied Economic Letters, 11(2)/10 February: 87-90.
  9. Global Price Transmission from China, (with Sushanta Mallick), Tokyo Club Papers, N.17, 2004: http://www.brookings.edu/index/taxonomy.
  10. Does capital market reform boost savings? Evidence from the UK Pension Reforms (with Sushanta Mallick), Tokyo Club Papers, N.16, 2004: 7-36.
  11. The IMF and The Rouble Zone, Response to Odling-Smee and Pastor, Comparative Economic Studies, XLIV, no.4 (Winter 2002): 59-80
  12. Pharmaceuticals and Digital Deepening: How Discouraging is the Digital Divide for Development? (with Carol Scott Leonard), Tokyo Club Papers, N.15, 2002: 117-157.
  13. Sovereign Debt Crisis Resolution: The Benefits of the ‘uncertainty principle, The Business Economist, vol.33, no. 1, 2002: 23-35
  14. Russia’s post-Communist Economy (with Peter Oppenheimer), World Economics, Volume 2, Number 1, published by NTC publication limited, Henley on Thames, January – March 2001: 149 - 168.
  15. 5.  Information Technology and Economic Performance, Potential for Developing Countries (with Carol Leonard and Julian Manning), Tokyo Club Papers, N.14, 2001: 49-80.
  16. Weimar on the Volga: Causes and Consequences of Inflation in 1990s Russia Compared with 1920s Germany (with Niall Ferguson), Journal of Economic History, Vol.60, No 4, December 2000, Berkeley, USA: 1061-1087.
  17. Bingo or Fiasco, The Global financial situation is not guaranteed, International Affairs, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Vol. 75, number 4, October 1999: 713-728. Reprinted in The International Library of Writings on the New Global Economy, The Political Economy of Financial Crises, Ed. Roy E.Allen, 2004: 79-94. ISBN: 1 84376 106 8.
  18. L’Echec de la Stabilisation Monetaire en Russie, Revue d’etudes comparatives Est-Ouest (CNRS), 1999; vol.30. n.2-3, numero special: Les Economies post-socialistes: une decennie de transformations, Paris, France: 55-81,
  19. Problemy stabilisazii denechnovo obrachenie v Roccii, in Voprocii Economikii, 1, Moscow, Russian Federation, January 1999: 13-32,
  20. Sovremennaia Rocciia y Veimarskaia respoublika: visokaiaa inflatsia y politicheskii crisis, (with Niall Ferguson) in Voprocii Economikii, 5, Moscow, Russian Federation, May 1997: 53 – 70.
  21. Less Inflation, Less Poverty: First Results for Russia (with Judith Shapiro and the assistance of Oksanna Dynnikova), Discussion Paper No 68, RIIA, London, 1996.
  22.  inflatia: vicokaia tsena i nikakoi otdachii, Voprocii Economikii, No 3, 1995, Moscow: 34-44.
  23. Russian inflation Statistics; A pandora's Box, (with Judith Shapiro), DP 53, RIIIA. London, 1994.
  24. La Politique monétaire en Russie ou la Fin d'un Empire, in Version Originale, Paris, 1993.
  25. Russian Monetary Policy in 1992: The Threat to Stabilisation, Business Strategy Review, Spring 1993, Vol.4, Number .1, London Business School, London: 29-44.
  26. Price and Currency Reform in the CIS, Russian and East European Finance and Trade, Spring 1993, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, USA: 3-67.
  27. Convertibility and Exchange Rates in Poland: 1957 - 199O, Soviet and Eastern European Foreign Trade, winter 1991-92, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, USA: 71-97.
  28. Exchange Rate, Trade Regime and Systemic Changes in Poland (joint with J.M.C. Rollo), Tokyo Club Papers n.4, 1990: 101 – 120,

Books

  1. Remembering Inflation, Princeton University Press, forthcoming
  2. The processes and practices of fairtrade, trust, ethics and governance eds by Brigitte Granville and Janet Dine, Routledge, forthcoming.
  3. Delivering Essential Medicines: The Way Forward eds by Amir Attaran and Brigitte Granville, published by RIIA distributed by Brookings, November 2004.
  4. Sovereign Debt: Origins, Management, and Restructuring, eds by Brigitte Granville and Vinod Aggarval, published by RIIA distributed by Brookings, March 2003.
  5. The Economics of Essential Medicines, ed. by B.Granville, published by RIIA distributed by Brookings, June 2002.
  6. Russia’s post-Communist Economy, eds. by B. Granville and P. Oppenheimer, published by Oxford University Press, August 2001.
  7. Essays on the World Economy and its Financial System, Tokyo Club Papers 13, ed. by B.Granville, published by RIIA distributed by Brookings, October 2000.
  8. The Success of Russian Economic Reforms published by RIIA distributed by Brookings, 1995.

Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): “The Fair Trade Movement, legal support and social implications.” Principal investigator: Professor Brigitte Granville. Start date: 1 October 2006, 36 months, £401,712.

5 Seminars on Essential Medicines; Bridging the Divide between Access and Innovation, September-December 2003: £30,000 by DFID and £60,000 by Accenture

Grant to organise a ‘Working Group on the mechanisms for restructuring of unsustainable sovereign debt’(Tuesday 10 December 2002): about £10,000 by participants which included both officials from the private and public sector.

Grant to attend Research Workshop – “Taxation of Domestic Financial Liberalization”, The World Bank, Washington DC, April 8-9 2002 and to write Taxation of Financial Intermediaries as a source of Budget Revenue: Russia in the 1990s in Taxation of Financial Intemediation, Theory and Practice for Emerging Economies, Patrick Honohan, The World Bank: US$ 5,000.

Book: Delivering Essential Medicines: The Way Forward (with Amir Attaran), 2002: £20,000 by Merck.

Conference on the Economics of Essential Medicines, 10 July 2001: £30,000 awarded by Merck, The Ashden Trust, The World Bank and the International Policy Network.

International Finance, Reform of the International Financial Architecture: Views, Priorities and Concerns of Governments and the Private Sector in the Western Hemisphere and Eastern Europe, March 2001. (http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/finance/pdfs/reform.pdf)  This study was commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and was organised by the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, by Professor Stephany Griffith Jones. I was allocated a grant of about £10,000 to conduct the report on Russia entitled “Russia. International Financial Architecture: Case study” available on http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/Finance/pdfs/IFACasestudyRussia1.pdf.

Postgraduate teaching:

Courses delivered:
BUSM022: The Global Economy
BUSM041: International Macro-Economics & Finance

PhD Supervision:
1st Supervisor for the following students:

Mr Steven Telford
‘An enquiry into the welfare effect of fair trade’

Mr Eshref Trushin
“Evaluation of incentives for R&D in the pharmaceutical industry with applications for neglected diseases”

Miss Ning Zeng
'Insight into monetary policy: inflation persistence, credibility and stability in post world war ii'

Mr Alex Pietrus
‘Strategic partnerships between Africa and China and between Africa and Europe’