School staff
Bettina Becker Diplom (Bonn), MSc (LSE), PhD (Birkbeck)
Lecturer
- Personal Research Site
- +44 (0)1509 222719
- BE.2.09 (Sir Richard Morris Building)
- B.Becker@lboro.ac.uk
Module Organiser:
ECC124 : Econometric Modelling 2 (Semester 2)
ECP150 : International Money (Semester 2)
ECP206 : Research Methods (semester 1)
Research Interests:
International Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, R & D
Key Publications:
‘Small and medium-sized enterprises and regional economic growth in Brazil’ (with T. Cravo and A. Gourlay), Small Business Economics, forthcoming.
‘Ten years of European Monetary Union: Introduction’, Economic Modelling 26 (4), July, 2009, pp. 741-743. Guest editor’s introduction to special issue.
‘A new look at economic convergence in Europe: A common factor approach (with S.G. Hall), International Journal of Finance and Economics 14 (1), January, 2009, pp. 85-94.
‘What determines industrial R&D expenditure in the UK?’ (with N. Pain), The Manchester School 76 (1), January, 2008, pp. 66-87.
‘Measuring convergence of the new member countries’ exchange rates to the Euro’ (with S.G. Hall), Journal of Financial Transformation 19 (2), 2007, pp. 20-25.
‘Macroeconomic policy in Europe: Experiments with monetary responses and fiscal impulses’ (with R. Barrell, J. Byrne, S. Gottschalk, I. Hurst und D. van Welsum), Economic Modelling 21 (5), September, 2004, pp. 877-931.

