Biography
Richard Foltyn joined the Adam Smith Business School as a Lecturer in Economics in September 2020. He obtained his PhD from the Institute for International Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University and holds a Master’s degree from the Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna.
Research interests
Richard is a member of the Schools Macroeconomics research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Heterogenous-agent macroeconomics
- Household finance
- Inequality
Supervision
Supervisory interests
- Heterogenous-agent macroeconomics
- Household finance
- Inequality (in terms of wealth, earnings, health)
- Macroeconomic modelling using micro data
- Quantitative macroeconomics
Teaching
MRes
- Topics in Macroeconomic Theory 2 (ECON5098)
Post-graduate (PGT)
- Machine Learning in Finance with Python (ECON5130)
Undergraduate
- Advanced Macroeconomics (ECON4040)
Past teaching
- Government Debt and the Macroeconomy (ECON4033)
- Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (ECON9007)
- Macroeconomics (ECON5019)
- Business Cycles: Theory, Evidence and Macroeconomic Policy (ECON5118)