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Dr Alban Asllani

Senior Lecturer In Economics & Finance

Senior Lecturer

Economics

Department of Business Entrepreneurship & Finance , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law

Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics

Areas Of Interest

  • Informal and Shadow Economy
  • Political Economy
  • Development Economics
  • Transition Economics
  • Energy Economics
  • Regulatory and Institutional Economics
  • Financial Markets
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OVERVIEW

Dr Alban Asllani is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance at the University of East London. Alban is the module leader in various Economics modules at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has over 8 years of teaching experience in Economics related courses at university undergraduate or postgraduate level in UK and abroad at the capacity of lecturer or module leader. 

Alban has taught a wide range of economics modules including: Introduction to Economics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Economic Policy, Intermediate Micro and Macro, Business Economics, International Financial Markets, International Economics and Globalisation. Alban’s experience goes beyond teaching. He has over 6 years of experience working in the financial sector in the UK and 3 years of experience working as economist in the office of Chief Economist at UK’s energy regulator Ofgem.

MOST RECENT RESEARCH

Current research

  • Dimitraki, O., Emmanouilidis, K., & Asllani, A. (2024). Examining the Military Spending Economic Growth Nexus in the Presence of Informality: Evidence from the Balkan Peninsula. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, (0).
    https://doi.org/10.1515/peps-2024-0029
  • Asllani, A., Schneider, F. (2024). “A review of the driving forces of the informal economy and policy measures for mitigation: an analysis of six EU countries”. International Tax Public Finance. 
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-024-09842-z 
     

PUBLICATIONS

Journals

  • Dimitraki, O., Emmanouilidis, K., & Asllani, A. (2024). Examining the Military Spending Economic Growth Nexus in the Presence of Informality: Evidence from the Balkan Peninsula. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, (0). https://doi.org/10.1515/peps-2024-0029
  • Asllani, A., Schneider, F. (2024). “A review of the driving forces of the informal economy and policy measures for mitigation: an analysis of six EU countries”. International Tax Public Finance. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-024-09842-z
  • Aliu, F., Asero, V., Asllani, A. and Kučera, J. (2023), "Spillover effects and transmission of shocks in Visegrad equity markets", Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-07-2023-0395
  • Aliu, F., Asllani, A. and Hašková, S. (2023), "The impact of bitcoin on gold, the volatility index (VIX), and dollar index (USDX): analysis based on VAR, SVAR, and wavelet coherence", Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-04-2023-0187
  • Schneider, F., and Asllani, A. (2022), Taxation of the Informal Economy in the EU – Part 2: Review on the main drivers of the shadow economy and policies attempting to reduce its size: the case of six EU countries, Publication for the Economic and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee on tax matters (FISC), Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies, European Parliament, Luxembourg. Print ISBN 978-92-846-9902-5 | https://doi.org/10.2861/646341
  • Schneider, F., and Asllani, A. (2022), Taxation of the Informal Economy in the EU – Part 1: Latest Shadow Economy Estimates and Key Findings of Country Case Studies, Publication for the Economic and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee on tax matters (FISC), Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies, European Parliament, Luxembourg. Print ISBN 978-92-846-9902-5 | https://doi.org/10.2861/646341
  • Asllani, A. (2018) ‘Measuring the size and development of the informal economy in the countries of the Balkan peninsula using structural equation modelling approach’. PhD thesis. University of Bedfordshire. https://uobrep.openrepository.com/handle/10547/623264, URI http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623264
  • Asllani, A., Misini, S., Bytyqi, K. (2015), People’s Motives in Utilizing the Freedom of Movement within the EU as A Result of Visa Liberalization: The Case of Kosovo and Policy Recommendations. Conference Edited Book, ICESOS 2014, p. 7, Cambridge Publishing. ISSN 2303-4564.
  • Asllani, A. (2013), Estimating Money Demand Function using Co-integration Analysis: The case of Canada (1960-2005); European Scientific Journal, June Vol 9, No 16 (2013), ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431
  • Asllani, A., Misini, S., Bytyqi, K. (2013), Socio-economic Impact of the EU Visa Liberalization for Kosovo and Peoples Motives in Utilising the Freedom of Movement within the EU, European Perspectives Journal (Journal on European Perspectives of the Western Balkans), Vol. 5 No. 2(9), pp 15 - 42, October 2013, ISSN1855-7694 c 2013 European Perspectives, UDK: 327 (4)

PUBLICATIONS

Conferences

  • Ourania Dimitraki, Kyriakos Emmanouilidis, Alban Asllani (2024). Examining the Military Spending Economic Growth nexus in the presence of Informality: Evidence from the Balkan peninsula. 47th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference – Berlin, Germany, April 18-20, 2024. Organised by EBES, Global Labour Organisation, and in collaboration with FOM University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.
  • Asllani, A., (2018), ‘The size and development of informal economy in Kosovo and other Balkan Countries, International Conference on the Economic Sustainability of Balkan Countries and the Euro-Integration Challenges, Organised by AAB College (Kosovo), University of Durres (Albania), FON University (North Macedonia), University of Osijek (Croatia), Institute for Scientific Research and Development (Montenegro).
  • Asllani, A., Misini, S., Bytyqi, K. (2014), ‘People’s Motives in Utilizing the Freedom of Movement within the EU: The Case of Kosovo and Visa Liberalization with the EU’. International Conference on Economic and Social Studies (ICESoS’14), International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. April, 2014.

MODULES

  • EC4006 - Fundamentals of Economics
  • EC5011 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • EC5012 - International Economics
  • FN7022 - Bank Credit Management and Investment Management

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