Professor Joseph Byrne

Personal statement

Joseph Byrne is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Strathclyde Business School. Previously he was Professor of Economics in Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University from 2013-2021. He was Head of the Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance in HWU and a member of the HWU School of Social Sciences, Management Board, between 2017 and 2019. He was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in the University of Glasgow (2005-2013). In Glasgow he was a member of the Adam Smith Business School Executive Board and Director of Postgraduate Research for the Business School (2010-2013). Before that he was Convener of Postgraduate Research in Economics in Glasgow University. He was an Economics Lecturer in the University of Strathclyde, From 2003 to 2005. He was a Senior Research Officer in the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) in London and worked in NIESR between 2000 and 2003. He has a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, MSc in Economics from the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics based in the University of Glasgow and BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Strathclyde. Research Interests Professor Byrne's research areas include International Finance, Financial Economics and Econometric Applications. He has academic journal publications in Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He has over thirty publications in peer reviewed academic journals. His co-authored book entitled Financial Structure was published by Cambridge University Press. He is interested in supervising PhD students in Economics and Finance. Google Scholar ORCiD RePEc Research Gate Scopus SSRN Recent Working Papers Byrne, J.P. and Sakemoto, R., (2022) 'Commodity Correlation Risk.' Strathclyde Discussion Papers in Economics, No. 22-