Riccardo D'Orsi

Profile

I am a Postgraduate Researcher and Teaching Assistant in Economics at Leeds University Business School, awarded both the Leeds Doctoral Scholarship and the Leeds Postgraduate Scholarship for Publication. I hold an MA in International Political Economy from King's College London and a bachelor’s degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences from the University of Trieste, which I completed by spending my final academic year at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) as an exchange student.

My teaching portfolio includes both undergraduate and postgraduate courses such as LUBS2610 Intermediate Macroeconomics, LUBS5134M Econometrics, LUBS1951 Economic Theory and Applications, and LUBS1940 Economics for Management. Previously, I worked as a research assistant in Political Economy at King's College London, focusing on growth models in advanced economies since the global financial crisis.

Research interests

My area of work focuses on open-economy monetary theory, positioning itself at the intersection of international macroeconomics and finance. My PhD dissertation investigates how liquidity pressures originating in global financial markets may differently contribute to domestic financial instability and unevenly shape economic development across world regions. By unpacking the cyclical unfolding of expectations in global financial markets against the background of the hierarchical nature of the international monetary and financial system, my research identifies concrete ‘temporal’ and ‘spatial’ conditions that enable general implications for development prospects across different units of analysis to be drawn. These scenarios are formally tested within a two-country stock-flow-consistent (SFC) macroeconomic model, thus complementing the analytical inquiry with a quantitative analysis. Using model simulations, I demonstrate that through capital flow adjustments, changing global financial conditions can have persistent effects on interest and exchange rates, feeding into domestic economic activity and undermining the development trajectories of countries subordinated in their monetary and financial positions.

Qualifications

• PhD Economics, University of Leeds (submitted)
• MA International Political Economy, King's College London
• Exchange year, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
• BSc International and Diplomatic Sciences, University of Trieste

Research groups and institutes

• Applied Institute for Research in Economics