Biography

Eliana is Assistant Professor in Finance at the School of Economics, Finance and Accounting (EFA) at Coventry University. She is also a former ASPiRE research fellow of the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI) at Coventry University and continues her collaboration with the research centre. Currently, Eliana is Scholarship Development Lead (SDL) for EFA. Previously, she covered other leadership roles as Communication Lead and Research Enriching Lead (REL) for EFA. Also, she was SIG (Subject Interest Group) Lead for MiMoF (Micro and Modern Finance group). Finally, Eliana was a Post-Doc International Research Fellow at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, between 2014 and 2019. 

Research Interests

• Finance-Growth Nexus
• Money, Credit and Financial System
• Financial Innovation
• Environmental Sustainability and Banking System
• Financial Crisis, Financial (in)stability and Business Cycle dynamics
• Macroeconomics, Behavioural Finance/Economics

PhD Supervision

PhD students are welcome in all the subjects related to Eliana's research interests listed above. In particular for what concerns multidisciplinary research projects which may involve other disciplines such as psychology, anthropology, business management, biology just to list a few.

Currently, Eliana is interested in taking on PhD students in the areas of "banking/financial markets and climate/environmental change," "AI and financial system," "the risk of a cashless economy on democracy" and "the relationship btw money market speculations and financial instability risk"

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) and HEA Fellow

• PhD in Economic Policy – Quantitative Models for Policy Analysis (QMPA)

• Laurea in Business Banking - Economics of Financial Markets and Institutions