About
Paulo Regis an Associate Professor in the Department of Banking and Finance in Southampton Business School. Paulo has been recognised as Fellow by the Advance HE (FHEA), UK, since 2015.
Paulo's research interests include Financial Development, Innovation, Infrastructure Economics and the Chinese Economy, such as the study of macro-prudential policy, systemic risk, access to finance, and economic integration. Paulo is interested in supervising PhD students in any of these areas.
Paulo has published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Economics Letters, among others.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Financial Development (access to finance of SMEs)
- Financial regulations and systematic risk in the banking sector
- The Chinese economy and the public sector
- Innovation and product space
Current research
Paulo's main interest is in Financial Development. In particular, Paulo has conducted research in access to finance of SMEs. The availability of credit, are crucial for the efficient realization of a firm’s investment possibilities, affecting the generation of employment and sustained growth of firms. Furthermore, he is working on an ongoing project with data on SMEs of over one hundred developing countries.
He is also interested in the effect of some financial regulations in the banking sector. Paulo is particularly interested in studying systematic risk. Macroprudential policy has increasingly become part of the regulatory and supervisory framework of monetary authorities. The analysis of this new type of banking regulation provides new tools to understand systemic risk of the banking sector.
Paulo has some projects related to the Chinese economy and public finance. His most recent research project is on infrastructure investment. The government has invested massively in trains in China. We look at the effect of this new infrastructure in regional development across Chinese cities. In the past, Paulo has been involved in other projects in this area (e.g. tax competition, economic integration with Asia).
A third area of research is innovation. One topic which Paulo has studied in the past is the concept of product space and how innovation can lead to specialization on new products. From the perspective of less developed countries, the idea of product space can explain why some countries has difficulties in gaining specializations in new products that may help them to develop. A second project which is ongoing is the effect of local leaders in promoting local innovation.
Publications
Pagination
Teaching
Paulo is Module leader of MANG6299: Quantitative Finance.
Biography
Paulo Regis joined the Southampton Business School in September 2019 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Banking and Finance, where he lectures in the subject areas of Quantitative Finance and Quantitative Methods (for PHD students).
Paulo is the Director of Sudies of MSc International Banking and Financial Studies. He has been recognised as Fellow by the Advance HE (FHEA), UK, since 2015.
Previously he held an academic position (Associate Professor) at Xi'an-Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU). He joined XJTLU in 2008, soon after obtaining his PhD from the University of Nottingham (UK). He contributed to the development of its research activities, as well as leading the design of the undergraduate and graduate programmes in Economics.
Paulo has published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Economics Letters, among others.