Dr Baseerit Nissah

Senior Lecturer in Finance

Building: William Morris Building
Room: WM220

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Qualifications:

• 2009, Ph.D., University of Leicester
• 2002, MSc, University of Warwick
• 2001, BA (Hons), Financial Economics, Coventry

Research Interests:

• Applied Econometrics, time series and panel data analysis using integration and  cointegration techniques
• Economic growth – determinants of growth

Selected Outputs:

Publications

• “Thresholds Effects in the Debt-Growth Relationship”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, under consideration by referees.
• “Investigating the Debt-Growth Relationship for Developing Countries; A Multi-Country Econometric Analysis”, PhD Thesis, Uni. of Leicester, Dept. of Economics March 2009. available on: http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4811

Working Papers

• “Developing Countries’ Vulnerability to Debt Crisis; A Multi-County Empirical Analysis of Shocks” (K Lee)
• “Assessing Debt Sustainability of Developing Countries; a Panel Cointegration Approach”
• “Identifying and Analysing the Debt-Growth Channels; a Panel Cointegration Study”.
• “Towards Perception Maps; Evaluating Public Confidence in Policing Services in Derry/Londonderry” (J Binner, J Whittle, W Simm, M A Ferrario, B Lam and Z Zhao)

Conference Papers

• June 2010 “Mapping Public Confidence in Policing using Qualitative Dataset”, 8^th Manchester Crime Mapping Conference, 10-11 June 2010 Manchester (J Binner, J Whittle, W Simm, M A Ferrario, B Lam and Z Zhao).
• March 2010 “VoiceYourView: Collecting Real-time Feedback on the Design of Public Spaces” UbiComp 2010, Sep 26 – Sep 29, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• July 2007 “Debt Sustainability: Identifying a Country’s Vulnerability to Debt Crisis” Poster Presentation presented at the Research Methods Festival, St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
• May 2006 “Assessing Debt Sustainability of Developing Countries; a Panel Cointegration Approach”, paper presented at Leicester PhD conference; discussant Prof. Stephen Hall
• May 2005 “Thresholds in Debt-Growth Relationship” paper presented at PhD conference at the Uni. of Leicester; discussant Dr Rodney Strachan

Research Students:

PhD - Advisor for two students

Teaching:

• Quantitative Methods (postgraduate level)
• International Economics (third level three undergraduate)
• Advance Economics Issues (third level three undergraduate)
• Undergraduate and postgraduate Dissertations supervisor