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Dr Michael Harrison

Senior Lecturer

Economics and Finance

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

Michael is a senior lecturer in Economics and Finance at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law. His teaching spans modules in microeconomics, central banking and econometrics. He is research active in the areas of high frequency trading, market microstructure, and green finance.

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OVERVIEW

Michael joined UEL in 2017 and is currently a senior lecturer in economics and finance. His research focuses on non-cooperative interaction in financial markets characterised by the presence of high-frequency and algorithmic traders. He is also currently working on issues surrounding the availability of green finance to support European firm's ESG goals. 
Michael has recently participated in interdisciplinary research projects focusing on financial crime, sustainable FinTech, and challenger banks. In addition, Michael is very experienced in media engagement and has appeared on the BBC One show and contributed to articles published in the Daily Express, New Law Journal and the Conversation.

Before obtaining his PhD at UEL, Michael obtained a master's degree in Economics from the University of Birmingham. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is recognised as a Certified FinTech Professional by the Global Academy of Finance and Management.

CONFERENCES AND MEDIA

Selected Conferences

  • Organised Crime Businesses, not Organised Crime Gangs. Serious and Complex: National Policing and Crime Conference 2024 (Stoke-On-Trent, UK). With Coxhead, J., and Allen, C.
  • The need for operationalising situational crime prevention using forensic science to disrupt the organised crime business profiteering landscape. 7th Global Webinar on Forensic Science: Global Scientific Guild Conference 2023. With Coxhead, J.
  • The new UK 'Challenger Banks': do we trust them? New Digital World DBMR Virtual Conference 2021. With Mingazova, D.
  • High-Frequency Trading: New Challenges in Financial Markets. Online Presentation at Fatima Al-Fihri University (2020).
  • Temporal asymmetries in the efficiency of financial markets characterised by algorithmic traders. IFABS Conference 2019 (Angers, France).

Selected Media Items

TEACHING

Current

  • EC5010 - Fundamentals of Microeconomics
  • EC6011 – Applied Econometrics and Introduction to Programming
  • FN5011 – Central Banks and Prudential Regulation
  • Dissertation Supervision
  • Number of PhD Students: 2

 

Previous

  • EC5011 – Fundamentals of Macroeconomics
  • FN6022 – Foundations and Application of FinTech
  • FN7230 - Bloomberg Trading Game

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