Dr Joseph Byrne

- Senior Lecturer (Economics)
telephone: 01413304617
email: Joseph.Byrne@glasgow.ac.uk
Select Recent Output
Byrne, J.P. and Fiess, N., (2013) ‘International capital flows to Emerging and Developing Countries: national and global determinants.’ Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series A. Revise and Resubmit.
Byrne, J.P., Fazio, G. and Fiess, N., (2013) ‘Primary commodity prices: co-movements, common factors and fundamentals.’ World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper 5578. Journal of Development Economics, vol. 101, pp. 16-26. link
Byrne, J.P., Kontonikas, A. and Montagnoli, A., (2013) ‘International evidence on the New Keynesian Phillips Curve using aggregate and disaggregate data.’ Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Forthcoming. link
Byrne, J.P., Kortava, E. and MacDonald, R., (2013) ‘A new approach to testing for Pricing-to-Market.’ Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 32, pp. 654-667.link
Byrne, J.P., Fazio, G. and Fiess, N., (2012) ‘Interest rate co-movements, global factors and the long end of the term spread.’ Journal of Banking and Finance, vol. 36(1), pp. 183-192. link
Byrne, J.P, Fazio, G. and Fiess N., (2009) ‘The global side of the investment-saving puzzle.’ Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 41(5), pp. 1033-1040. link
Research interests
International finance, macroeconomics, financial economics
RePEc: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pby6.html
Google Scholar: "author:joseph author:p author:byrne"
Background
Joe is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and the University of Glasgow Business School's Director of Postgraduate Research. He joined Glasgow in September 2005, and was previously a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde and a Senior Research Officer at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London. He holds an Economics PhD from the University of Strathclyde and further economics degrees from the Universities of Glasgow/Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics (MSc) and Strathclyde (BA Hons).
Joe Byrne has worked jointly on the following research grants:
Blake, A., Byrne, J.P., Weale, M. (2001). Nowcasting with Disaggregate Employee Employment Data. Eurostat, Luxembourg; €30,000. Co-Investigator. Principal Investigator: M. Weale.
Barrell, R., Byrne, J.P., Davis, E.P. (2001). The Structure and Determinants of Financing Patterns in the G7 Countries. Commissariat Général du Plan, Paris, France; £17,000. Co-Investigator. Principal Investigator: R. Barrell/E.P. Davis.
Barrell, R., Byrne, J.P. and Dury, K. (2000). Do (Small) Differences Matter? The Structure and Consequence of Macroeconomic Differences Between Members of the Economic and Monetary Union. Economic and Social Research Council, Research Grant Report (R022250166; £88,042). Co-Investigator. Principal Investigator: R. Barrell.
Pain, N., Byrne, J.P. and Ashworth, P. (2003). Networks, Multinational Firms and UK Export Performance. Economic and Social Research Council, Research Grant Report (R000223590; £41,040). Co-Investigator. Principal Investigator: N.Pain.
Current PhD students
Thesis title: The effect of fiscal and monetary policies disturbances on the term structure of interest rates in closed and open economies".
Co-supervisor - Professor Ronald MacDonald
Thesis title: Yield Curve Analysis
Co-supervisor - Dr Dimitris Korobilis
Thesis title: Technological spillovers for foreign capital in models of economic growth.
Co-supervisor - Dr Antonios Siganos
Thesis title: Globalization and monetary policy.
Co-supervisor - Dr A Kontonikas
Thesis title: Destination country’s currency pegging and exporters’ price-setting behaviour: a non-linear approach.
Co-supervisor - Professor Ronald MacDonald
Thesis title: Causal relationships between financial development and economic growth in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
Co-supervisor - Dr Alberto Paloni
Thesis title: Foreign Exchange Intervention
Co-supervisor - Professor Ronald MacDonald
Thesis title: FX Forecasting
Co-supervisor - Dr Dimitris Korobilis
Thesis title: Equilibrium exchange rate models in transition economies.
Co-supervisor: Professor Ronald MacDonald
Thesis title: Monetary policy and financial stability.
Co-supervisor: Professor Ronald MacDonald
Undergraduate Honours: Government and the Economy; International Finance (course coordinator)
Postgraduate: International Finance and Money (course coordinator); Monetary Policy and the Role of Central Banks (course coordinator)
Referee activities
Applied Economics, Canadian Journal, Economic Inquiry, Economica, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of International Development, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (x2), Journal of Macroeconomics (x2), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (x2), Oxford Economic Papers (x2), Oxford University Press (Publishers), Pearson Education (Publishers), Review of World Economics (x2), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy (x2), Southern Economic Journal and World Economy.
