post

Senior Lecturer in Economics

responsibilities

Course Leader: MSc Economics, MSc International Economics, MSc International Economics and Finance Graduate Diploma in Economics

brief biography

Chris has been with London Metropolitan University since 1999. He has published numerous papers in refereed academic journals in the following areas: macroeconometrics (modelling consumer behaviour, exchange rates and wages), international business (modelling firm performance, regional development and small and medium sized enterprise share), econometrics (spurious correlation/significance) and banking (modelling international bank ratings).

key teaching areas

• Quantitative Research Methods
• Microeconomics

research interests

• Modelling and predicting international bank ratings
• Spurious correlation
• Consumer behaviour
• Empirical applications

Recent Publications

• Stewart C., Bellotti T. and Matousek R.: A Note Comparing Support Vector Machines and Ordered Choice Models’ Predictions of International Banks’ Ratings, Decision Support Systems, 51, 682 – 687, 2011.
• Stewart C., Cerrato M. and de Peretti C.: Is the consumption-income ratio stationary? Evidence from linear and nonlinear panel unit root tests for OECD and non-OECD countries, forthcoming in The Manchester School.
• Stewart C., Bellotti T. and Matousek R.: Are Rating Agencies' Assignments Opaque? Evidence from International Banks, Expert Systems With Applications, 38, 4206 – 4214, 2011.
• Stewart C.: A note on spurious significance in regressions involving I(0) and I(1) variables, Empirical Economics, 43(3), 565 – 571, 2011.
• Stewart C., Maria Caporale G. and Matousek R.: EU Banks Rating Assignments: Is There Heterogeneity Between New And Old Member Countries?, forthcoming in Review of International Economics, 19(1), 189 – 206, 2011.
• Stewart C. and Matousek R.: A Note on Ratings of International Banks, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 17, 2, 146 - 155, 2009.

professional practice and consultancy

Chris has acted as a sub-consultant for Ecotec Consulting Ltd on various projects including those comissioned by the Department of Transport, the Environment Agency and British Waterways, the Evaluation of Business Link Yorkshire and Humber and the Evaluation of Business London.

He has also been an external examiner for MSc Business and Economic Forecasting and PhD students at Kingston University.