Dr Eugenia Vella
Department of Economics
Lecturer in Economics
+44 114 222 9658
Full contact details
Department of Economics
Room 433
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT
- Profile
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Eugenia graduated from the Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) with BSc in International and European Economic Studies. She gained her MSc and PhD in Economics from the same institution.
During her graduate studies, she also spent two academic terms at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as a visiting PhD student. For her PhD thesis she received funding from the EU under the ‘Hrakleitus II’ PhD Research Funding Programme. She held a Max Weber Postdoctoral fellowship (2013-14) and a Jean Monnet Postdoctoral fellowship (2014-15) at the European University Institute in Florence. She joined the Department of Economics at Sheffield in September 2015 to take up the position of Lecturer.
In 2018 Eugenia was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Commission to work on a macroeconomics research project ‘Fiscal Consolidation, Unemployment and Labour Mobility in the Euro Area.'
- Research interests
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Eugenia's research interests lie in the area of macroeconomics of labour markets, fiscal policy, environment and economic growth. Her recent research has focused on the macroeconomic effects of fiscal consolidation by considering aspects such as tax evasion and corruption, migration, and fiscal multipliers for the disaggregated components of government spending. For her research on tax evasion and fiscal consolidation she received in 2014, jointly with Evi Pappa (EUI), a Research Grant from the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- "Roads to prosperity without environmental poverty: The role of impatience". Economics Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Fiscal Consolidation in a Low-Inflation Environment: Pay Cuts versus Lost Jobs. International Journal of Central Banking, 14(3), 7-52. View this article in WRRO
- The Government Wage Bill and Private Activity. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 79, 21-47. View this article in WRRO
- Fiscal consolidation with tax evasion and corruption. Journal of International Economics, 96, S56-S75. View this article in WRRO
- Productivity effects of public capital maintenance: Evidence from U.S. states. Economic Inquiry, 53(1), 72-90. View this article in WRRO
- Green Spending Reforms, Growth, and Welfare with Endogenous Subjective Discounting. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 19(6), 1240-1260. View this article in WRRO
- Public Capital Maintenance, Decentralization, and US Productivity Growth. Public Finance Review, 39(6), 784-809.
- "Roads to prosperity without environmental poverty: The role of impatience". Economics Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching activities
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"My primary goal in teaching is to convince students that the course material is relevant to their daily lives and important for their academic and professional development. I find that an outward display of my enthusiasm for the particular subject matter at hand and teaching in general has positive effects on learning and students’ appreciation of the course material."
"I accomplish my main teaching goal by training students to think critically about relationships between the material covered in class and their own real world observations, and by encouraging argumentation to develop the oral and written communication skills that are valued in the labour market. A secondary teaching goal of mine is to ensure that all of my students benefit from the classroom experience. To ensure that students appreciate and understand the course material, I make a special effort to elicit real-world experiences that draw connections between the lives of students and the conceptually challenging concepts of economics."