Teaching

(Undergraduate Course at LSE)  2023 - 2024 

The course provides an overview of the main developments in monetary and financial history from 800 to the eighteenth century, taking the students from the simple beginnings of medieval European monetary history to the emergence of the complex financial arrangements characterising the modern world. Historical developments in major European and non-European countries (England, Spain, Italy, France, Germany) will be discussed and compared. The course is designed to introduce students to the main concepts of money and finance (commodity money, inflation and deflation, financial development, financial integration, monetary policy etc.).

(Undergraduate Course at LSE)  2023 - 2024 

The course provides an introduction into monetary and financial history from the 18th century to the present day. It examines the main developments in international monetary architecture and the global financial system since the Glorious Revolution. The course is designed to introduce students to major concepts of money and finance (financial development, financial integration, monetary policy, banking crises etc.) and to provide a long run perspective to the current policy debate.

(Undergraduate Course at LSE Summer School ) 2023, 2024 

The course covers the two waves of financial globalization of 1880-1914 and 1980- 2008 and the de-globalization of finance that happened during the Great Depression. A long run perspective on the 2008 financial crisis and Eurozone crisis will be provided through several historical case studies of stock market crashes, banking panics, currency crises and sovereign defaults. Finally, the course explores how central banks responded to financial crises in different historical periods and covers the main evolutions in monetary policy over the last two hundred years. 

(Postgraduate Course at LSE)  2023

This course surveys long-term processes of growth and development in pre-modern Europe and the wider world. First, it asks if stagnation and poverty were normal conditions in pre-industrial societies and growth an aberration. Second, it addresses debates over the timing and causes of Western economic growth and its connections with the region’s expanding political and military power. Third, it explores the range of alternative development paths within Europe and in other regions of the world, such as premodern China and India, considering both regions’ internal economic dynamics and the impact of interactions with European powers as contact grew over the course of the early modern period.

(Postgraduate Course at LSE)  2023 - 2024 

The course covers first a review of the foundations of descriptive statistics and statistical inference, in the context of the analysis of two-way contingency tables and comparisons of means between two groups. The main topic of the course is linear regression modelling and related methods, including scatterplots, correlation, simple and multiple linear regression, and analysis of variance and covariance. An introduction to binary logistic regression modelling is also included.

(Postgraduate Course at UCL)  2024 - 2025 

This module first introduces the approach and methods of economics and finance theory, applies these to thinking about projects, and then introduces economic and accounting approaches to business performance. The module then uses these concepts relating to projects and firms and measures of performance in order to develop an understanding of the factors affecting the organisation, efficiency, capacity, productivity and profitability of project-based industries and firms (especially project contractors) in general, and construction industries and firms in particular. The term paper develops students’ ability to compare and account for differences in the performance of different project-based businesses.