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Kul Luintel

Professor Kul Luintel

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Overview

Kul Luintel has been Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School (CARBS) since September 2006. He has served two terms as Head of the Economics Section (Department), from September 2012 to September 2015 and from August 2022 to August 2025, and has also been a member of the Management Board of CARBS, contributing to strategic decisions governing the school. He is a seasoned academic with extensive knowledge and experience in academic management.

Before joining Cardiff, he held professorial positions at Swansea University (January 2005–August 2006) and Brunel University (October 2001–December 2004).

Kul served as a member of CHUDE (Conference of Heads of UK Departments of Economics) during his two headship terms and was a member of its Executive Committee from 2014 to 2016. At CARBS, he was the Senior Representative to the Research Committee from 2008 to 2013, playing a key role in preparations for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). Recognized as one of CARBS’s 'REF Gurus,' he made significant contributions to developing research impact cases and research environment templates, as well as moderating REF submissions from other schools.

His research interests include R&D and innovation, endogenous growth, macroeconomics, finance, regional development, and applied econometrics.

His research has been published in leading journals, including The Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Research Policy, Journal of Development Economics, Economica, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Journal of International Money and Finance, Economics Letters, The Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Macroeconomics, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money.

He is a member of the Royal Economic Society, American Economic Association, European Economic Association, Canadian Economics Association, the Money, Macro and Finance Group, and Beta Gamma Sigma, an international honour society.

Kul has held visiting positions at Malaga University (2016 and 2018), CESifo Institut – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, University of Munich (2016), University of Jyväskylä (2015), and CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain (2005). He has also undertaken research visits to Keio University, Kobe University, and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo.

Kul received his MPhil (1990) and PhD (1993) from the University of Glasgow.

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Research

PhD supervision research interests

  • CEO compensation and firm performance
  • Empirical (econometric) work using time series and panel data econometrics
  • Event studies
  • Exogeneity of money; spot and forward market efficiency
  • Financial policies, financial sector development and economic growth
  • Financial sector development and economic growth
  • Financial structure and economic growth
  • Fiscal integration and fiscal solvency; Real Exchange Rate Behaviour
  • International fisher effect
  • Knowledge spillovers and endogenous growth; knowledge and productivity
  • Modelling company cash holding
  • Modelling exchange rate behaviour
  • Modelling ideas production
  • Purchasing power parity
  • Stockmarket anomalies

Research interests

  • Applied econometrics
  • Banking productivity
  • Block trade
  • Executives' option
  • Exogeneity of money
  • Financial development, financial structure and economic growth
  • Fiscal integration and fiscal solvency
  • Ideas production, knowledge spillovers and endogenous growth
  • International finance: Fisher relationship, spot & forward markets
  • R& D and productivity
  • Real exchange rate behaviour

Teaching

Teaching commitments

  • Advanced financial theory
  • Development finance
  • Econometrics/Advanced econometrics
  • Financial theory and corporate policy
  • Financial markets and instruments
  • International finance
  • Macroeconomics and models of economic growth

Biography

Professional memberships

  • American Economic Association
  • Canadian Economics Association
  • Royal Economic Society
  • Southern Economic Association

Contact Details

Email LuintelK@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 75534
Campuses Aberconway Building, Room S09, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU