Centre for Governance and Resilience

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The centre investigates how public policies, corporate strategies, regulatory frameworks and innovation adapt to today's compounding global shocks.

Climate change, geopolitical disruption and technological acceleration increasingly interact, producing systemic risks that cut across governments, firms, infrastructure and supply chains, ultimately affecting individuals' welfare. Meeting these calls for adaptive governance, institutions, regulation and organisational practice capable of anticipating, absorbing and adjusting to shocks as they materialise, rather than static rules or fixed structures.

Adaptive governance is not designed in the abstract, however. It is built and tested where innovation meets implementation, through three connected drivers: digital transformation, which changes the information and coordination capacity available to governments and firms; innovation, which generates new ways of anticipating and responding to shocks; and supply chains, which carry those responses into the real economy. 

Understood through a governance lens, these drivers are what let resilience be engineered rather than hoped for, at both macro and micro level. Holding a comparative perspective across advanced, emerging and developing economies, and integrating governance research with advanced quantitative methods, the centre aims to bridge research and practice.

The Centre for Governance and Resilience brings together three established research communities at Queen Mary Business School: the Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR), the Public Management and Regulation Group (PMRG) and the Computational and Quantitative Methods (CQM) cluster. Building on CGR’s work on globalisation, supply chains and sustainability, PMRG’s work on public management and regulation, and CQM’s expertise in computational methods, the centre offers a single home for research on how governance can adapt to systemic change, and a base for the collaborative projects and funding applications that this research makes possible.

Directors

Dr Federica Liberini Director Political economy and public economics, Media and Digital Economy

Dr Zeynep Gürgüç deputy Director Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Climate Change Mitigaiton, Digital Innovation

Events and Communications Assistant: Redwan Shahid

Steering Committee

Prof Brigitte Granville CGR Founding Member Macroeconomics, monetary policy and political economy

Dr Giorgos Galanis CQM Founding Member Macroeconomics, inequality and complexity economics

Prof Gary Schwarz PMRG Founding Member Public management, leadership and organisational performance

Dr Po Yin Wong   Labour, development and environmental economics

Dr Lilit Popoyan   Agent-based macroeconomics, financial regulation and sustainable finance

Dr Georg von Graevenitz   Economics of innovation, patents and science policy

Dr Kamran Sarmadi   Logistics, transportation and robust optimisation

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Core Members

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Affiliated PhD Students

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External Fellows

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Past PhD Students

CGR Working Paper Series

Galanis, G., 2022. A Baseline Model of Behavioral Political Cycles and Macroeconomic Fluctuation.

Gouzoulis, G., Iliopoulos, P. and Galanis, G., 2022. EU-induced Financialisation and Its Impact on the Greek Wage Share, 1999-2021 . GLO Discussion Paper.

Gutiérrez-Romero, R. and Salgado, N., 2023. New trends in South-South migration: The economic impact of COVID-19 and immigration enforcement. Applied Geography, p.102939. 

Gutiérrez-Romero, R., 2022. Violence in Guatemala pushes adults and children to seek work in Mexico. arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.12796.

Lastauskas, P., Prosukute, A. and Zaldokas, A., 2021. How do firms adjust when trade stops.

Wong, P.Y., Kuralbayeva, K., Anderson, L.O., Pessoa, A.M. and Harding, T., 2023. Individual Pay for Collective Performance and Deforestation: Evidence from Brazil.

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Peer Reviewed Publications

2023

• Carattini, S., Fankhauser, S., Gao, J., Gennaioli, C., and Panzarasa, P., 2023. What Does Network Analysis Teach Us About International Environmental Cooperation?, Ecological Economics, 205:107670

• Gutiérrez-Romero, R., 2023. The contrasting effects of ethnic and partisan identity on performance evaluation, Political Behavior.

• Meng, C.C., 2023. The price paid: Heuristic thinking and biased reference points in the housing market, Journal of Urban Economics, 134, p.103514.

2022

• Alzahrani, A.I., Al-Samarraie, H., Eldenfria, A., Dodoo, J.E., Zhou, X. and Alalwan, N., 2022. COVID-19 and people's continued trust in eHealth systems: a new perspective, Behaviour & Information Technology, pp.1-17.

• Aman, Z., Granville, B., Mallick, S.K. and Nemlioglu, I., 2022. Does greater financial openness promote external competitiveness in emerging markets?, The role of institutional quality. International Journal of Finance & Economics.

• Blazsek, S. and Haddad, M.F.C., 2022. Score-driven multi-regime Markov-switching EGARCH: empirical evidence using the Meixner distribution. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics.

• Carreto, C., Gutiérrez-Romero, R., and Rodríguez, T., 2022. Climate-driven mosquito-borne viral suitability index: measuring risk transmission of dengue, chikungunya and Zika in Mexico, International Journal of Health Geographics, 21 (1), 1-23.

• Dechezleprêtre, A., Gennaioli, C., Martin, R., Muûls, M. and Stoerk, T., 2022. Searching for carbon leaks in multinational companies, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 112, p.102601.

• Esener, C., Granville, B. and Matousek, R., 2022. Choosing the Optimal Tool for Fiscal Adjustment or Living under Fiscal Constraints: Panel Evidence from Selected OECD Countries, Economic Research Guardian, 12(1).

• Gutiérrez-Romero, R., 2022. Conflicts increased in Africa shortly after COVID-19 lockdowns, but welfare assistance reduced fatalities, Economic Modelling, 116.

• Kim, E.-S. and I.-S. Lee., 2022. Scheduling of two-machine flowshop with outsourcing lead-times, Computers and Operations Research, 145, 105864.

• Kim, H.-J., E.-S. Kim, J. Lee, L. Tang and Y. Yang., 2022. Single Machine Scheduling with Energy Generation and Storage Systems, International Journal of Production Research, 60(23), 7033-7052.

• Kim, H.-J., E.-S. Kim and J. Lee., 2022. Scheduling of step-improving jobs with an identical improving rate, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 73(5), 1127-1136.

• Maielli, G., Oh, S.J. and Prevezer, M., 2022. Matching boundaries of GVCs to boundaries of technological platforms: explaining geographical dispersion of innovation in value chains in the case of South Korea. International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development.

• O’Dea, X. and Zhou, X., 2022. Policy concern about university students’ online professionalism in the post-pandemic era in UK context, Policy Futures in Education.

• Wong., 2022. Dynamics in the Returns to Capital: Natural Experimental Evidence from Indonesia, Journal of Development Studies, 2022, Vol.58 - Issue 2.

• Wong., 2022. Who Takes the Hit? Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes after Disasters, Pacific Economic Review, 2022, Vol.27 - Issue 3.

• Zhou, X. and Wolstencroft, P., 2022. A home away from home: building an organic online support community for Chinese students using WeChat, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (24).

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Upcoming Events

Past CGR Seminars

Please see the CGR blog for more details here

CGR Globalisation Lectures

The Globalisation Lecture Series is a prestigious annual series offering a platform to prominent academics and policy-makers to discuss the latest debate in economics and economic policy. The Series has attracted world leading scholars such as Scott Barrett (Columbia), Esther Duflo (MIT), Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia), Alberto Alesina (Harvard), Paul Collier (Oxford) and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics and EHESS).

Past lectures details here

CGR Workshops

The Centre organises various workshops on topics at the intersection of political economy, development and economic policy. The workshops have attracted eminent speakers such as Michael Kremer (Harvard University), Kaivan Munshi (University of Cambridge), Gerard Padro i Miguel (LSE), Sandra Sequeira (LSE), Sabina Alkire (Oxford), Pramila Krishnan (Cambridge), Natalie Quinn (Oxford) and Gaston Yalonetzky (Leeds).

Political Economy and Economic Development (annual since 2016)

Organised by: Dr. Caterina Gennaioli

Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility (annual since 2014)

Organised by: Dr. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

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Past CGR workshops details here

Brown-Bag Seminar Series

The aim of the seminars is to present early-stage papers and receive timely feedbacks from peers to improve papers before submission.

Diversity in Economics Seminar Series

This seminar series discusses research on the obstacles to career progression and discrimination faced by female, ethnic minority and LGBTQA+ members of the academic economics profession.

Seminar details:

The Centre for Governance and Resilience runs a dedicated programme of PhD-focused activity, coordinated by Dr Wong. The programme has three strands:

• PhD Reading Group: a student-led group that meets every two weeks to discuss key papers and ideas relevant to their research.
• PhD Research Clinic: bring work in progress, work through technical research difficulties, and share practical advice with peers.
• Centre PhD Workshop: present more polished work, ahead of the School-wide PhD workshop in late spring.

PhD Reading Group

The Reading Group is an occasion for our PhD students to discuss key papers and ideas relevant to their research, on topics chosen by the students themselves. It meets every two weeks, in person on the Mile End campus. Each session has a presenter and a discussant.

Sessions take place on Wednesdays, 11:00–12:00.

Dates for the 2026/27 academic year:

If you wish to take part in the reading group, please contact Jonas Decker.

Reading group sessions take place in person only.

To plan catering accurately and minimise food waste, each reading group session has a separate registration form and a calendar invite, so you will need to complete a new form for each session you wish to attend.

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