Dr
Robert
Gillanders
Academic biography
Rob Gillanders is a Professor of Economics at Dublin City University Business School and Co-Director of the DCU Anti-corruption Research Centre (DCU ARC). He holds a PhD in Economics from University College Dublin. Prior to working at DCU he worked in Finland at Hanken School of Economics and Aalto University.
He is Co-PI of the Irish Research Council funded project Corruption, Gender, and Sustainable Development (COGS) and serves on the Irish Government's Advisory Council against Economic Crime and Corruption. From 2019 to 2022 he served as Ireland's Local Research Correspondent on Corruption as part of an EU wide network.
Rob's main research focus is the causes and consequences of corruption. He is also interested interested in how institutions influence enterprises and the business environment.
Rob's research has been published in journals such as The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Public Choice, Social Science & Medicine, Governance, The Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Development Studies, Energy Policy, International Interactions, and International Tax and Public Finance
Rob is interested in working with graduate students in his specific research areas and in the fields of Development, Political Economy, and Public Economics more generally.
You can find his full CV and links to his working papers here
Research interests
Rob Gillanders is a Professor of Economics at Dublin City University Business School and Co-Director of the DCU Anti-corruption Research Centre (DCU ARC). He holds a PhD in Economics from University College Dublin. Prior to working at DCU he worked in Finland at Hanken School of Economics and Aalto University.
He is Co-PI of the Irish Research Council funded project Corruption, Gender, and Sustainable Development (COGS) and serves on the Irish Government's Advisory Council against Economic Crime and Corruption. From 2019 to 2022 he served as Ireland's Local Research Correspondent on Corruption as part of an EU wide network.
Rob's main research focus is the causes and consequences of corruption. He is also interested interested in how institutions influence enterprises and the business environment.
You can find him on Twitter @robgillanders. You can also access his research via IDEAS/RePEc and ResearchGate.