Alexander Mihailov

Associate Professor in Economics in the School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Reading

I am an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Reading and Director of the Group for Economic Analysis at Reading (GEAR). I am also External Affiliate at the Centre for International Macroeconomic Studies (CIMS) at the University of Surrey and Associate Editor of Open Economies Review. I have been employed by the University of Essex, the Créa Institute of Applied Macroeconomics at the University of Lausanne, and the Research Department of the Bulgarian National Bank.

I have held part-time academic positions at the University of Warwick, City University London, Studienzentrum Gerzensee and Sofia University, and short-term visiting appointments at the University of Lille and El Colegio de Mexico (Colmex). I am co-founder and co-organiser of the annual European Workshop on Political Macroeconomics (EWPM) and the Lille-Reading Workshop on International Finance.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Lausanne (2004). I work, and have published, in the areas of international macroeconomics and finance, monetary theory and policy, political macroeconomics and socioeconomic dynamics, information and learning.