Professor of Finance, University of Liverpool
Professor Costas Milas works on issues related to sovereign credit rating decisions. He also works on Monetary Policy issues (such as interest rate setting behaviour) related to the UK, US and Eurozone economies, respectively. He is also researching on debt policies pursued by the Eurozone peripheral economies (Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain and Portugal).
He holds an MSc (Economics and Finance) and a PhD (Economics) degree from Warwick University. He also holds a BSc (Statistics) from the Athens University of Economics and Business. Before joining Liverpool in 2011, he worked for the Universities of Warwick, Sheffield, Brunel, City and Keele.
Jun 20, 2024 05:29 am UTC| Economy
The British economy has a serious productivity problem that will have to be addressed by the next government. According to data from the OECD (the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), productivity...
Sep 26, 2023 03:55 am UTC| Economy Central Banks
The Bank of England (BoE) has been strongly criticised for failing to predict the surge in inflation. Had it done so, it could have reacted more quickly and prevented inflation from rising as high as 11% in autumn...
Mar 12, 2020 17:31 pm UTC| Economy
With the British public increasingly anxious about the COVID-19 pandemic and business leaders confidence in the economy sinking, it comes as no surprise that the UK budget is a targeted effort to alleviate the economic...
How Brexit uncertainty is hurting the UK economy in four charts
Sep 06, 2019 07:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
Each day brings with it new drama in UK politics and the course of Brexit and its playing havoc with the UK economy. The following four graphs show the extent that the UK is at risk of a recession and I conclude that the...
Brexit uncertainty has hurt UK economy – extending Article 50 could hurt it even more
Mar 01, 2019 14:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy
Three years on from its vote on EU membership and the UK still has little idea what its future relationship with the EU might turn out to be. Under pressure from europhile members of her cabinet, Theresa May has finally...
What moves markets more, Twitter or traditional news?
Dec 16, 2018 13:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Economy
Can a single tweet make a countrys currency depreciate by 16%? Apparently it did on August 10, when Donald Trump tweeted that US tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminium would rise sharply. Amid 36,100 retweets, and calls by...