Dr Gaia Garino

Principal Teaching Fellow in Economics

Contact Details

• Tel: 0116 252 2882
• Email: gg44@le.ac.uk
• Office: AC114, Astley Clarke Building
• Office Hours: Please email to arrange an appointment

Biography

Curriculum Vitae 

Research Interests

• Microeconomic theory
• Contract theory
• Labour economics
• Personal sector finance 

Supervision Interests

Willing to supervise PhDs in areas of applied microeconomic theory such as contract theory, intertemporal consumer choice, applied general equilibrium, labour microfoundations and personal sector finance.

Teaching

• EC1001: Macroeconomics
• EC3000: Advanced Microeconomics
• EC3075: Advanced Mathematical and Statistical Methods

Administrative Responsibilities

• Member of the Macroeconomics Syllabus Sub-Committee

• Departmental Representative to the College of Social Sciences International Strategy Group

Most Recent Publications

• (2013) “Household Debt and Attitudes towards Risk", Review of Income and Wealth, 59(2), pp. 283-304 (with Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor)
• (2009) “Labour Turnover and Firm Performance: Evidence from the 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey”, Economic Modelling, 26(3), 689-695 (with Sarah Brown and Christopher Martin)
• (2008) 'Mortgages and Financial Expectations: A Household Level Analysis', Southern Economic Journal, 74(3), pp.857-878 (with S.Brown and K.Taylor)
• (2006) 'Costly State Verification with Varying Risk preferences and Liability', Journal of Economic Surveys, 20(1), pp.71-109 (with P. Simmons) 

Selected earlier publications