Biography
Expertise Summary
Saileshsingh Gunessee is an Assitant Professor in Economics in NUBS China. He joined NUBS China after completing his PhD in Economics at the School of Economics of the Univeristy of Nottingham in 2007. His research covers the areas of ‘Taxation’, ‘Foreign Direct Investment & Multinationals’ and ‘Experimental & Behavioural Economics’. He is now working on tax evasion experimentally, corporate taxation in China, location choice of Multinationals in China, and looking at corruption in China conceptually and experimentally. He also did work on tax competition, SME financing and Chinese consumer behaviour. Some of these works has led to a great affinity towards micro data and the use of microeconometrics to analyse such data. He teaches Managerial Economics at the postgraduate level and Introductory Econometrics at the undergrduate level. He has also taught Research Methods and Microeconomics at all levels.
Teaching Summary
Sailesh has taught mostly in the area of microeconomics. He also taught and is teaching modules in Research Methods (Quantitative side of course) and Econometrics. (read more: I guess there will be a link to take us to the ‘Teaching & Learning’ page)
Research Summary
Sailesh has research interests in several areas, namely, taxation, public economics, international economics, experimental economics, and behavioural economics. (read more: I guess there will be a link to take us to the ‘Research’ page)
Adminstrative Roles
Sailesh has (and had) the following administrative roles at NUBS China:
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Data Resources Coordinator
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Divisional Research Director, Economics and Information Systems
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BA Business Economics course tutor
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Coordinator, International Centre for Behavioural Business Research (ICBBR) in China
Teaching and Learning
Sailesh has taught mostly in the area of microeconomics. He also taught and is teaching modules in Research Methods (Quantitative side of course) and Econometrics.
This academic year, he is teaching:
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Managerial Economics
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Introductory Econometrics
Research
Sailesh has research interests in several areas, namely, taxation, public economics, international economics, experimental economics, and behavioural economics. He has been working in several areas some of which are related. His main work at the moment has been to study the location choice mutinationals in China using microeconometric tools looking at various aspects such as the role of government, inter-city spillovers, ethnic networks, and industrial agglomeration. He is also colloborating with colleagues in NUBS-UK and in Hong Kong on a project about corruption in China. Another collaborative project he is working on is individual tax evasion using the experimental methods.
Sailesh is interested in supervising PhDs in an any of these areas: taxation, behavioural economics, experimental economics, international economics. He is currently supervising PhDs in the area of corporate taxation, foreign direct investment and fiscal competition.
Recent Conferences attended:
Zhejiang University College of Economics and GEP joint conference on ‘Trade Costs, Economic Geography and Firm Heterogeneity’, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China , May 2011.
The 3rd GEP Conference in China on ‘Enterprise and Labour Market Adjustment in China’s Transition’, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, November 2010.
Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) workshop, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, May 2010.
Publications
Published and Forthcoming Papers:
“Strategic Tax Competition: An Experimental Study”, Public Finance Review, March 2010, vol. 38(2), 217-243.|
“The Applicability of Financial Theories of Capital Structure to the Chinese Cultural Context: A Study of Privately-Owned SMEs”, mimeo, University of Nottingham Business School China. (with Alex Newman and Brian Hilton), accepted forthcoming International Small Business Journal.| Link|.
Unpublished Papers:
“Chinese Consumer Ethnocentrism: A Field Experiment” (with Bi, X-G., Hoffmann, R., Hui, W., Larner, J., Ma Q-P., and Mattison Thompson, F.,), draft version, revise and resubmit