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Dr. Erez Yerushalmi is a Professor of Economics at Birmingham City Business School. He is the Department of Accountancy, Finance and Economics (AFE) Academic Lead for Research. He was formally the Director of the Centre for Applied Finance and Economics (CAFÉ).

Since 2010, Erez has served as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I) on numerous projects, securing over £7.2 million in external funding from organizations such as GSK, GIZ, EU CEDEFOP, UNESCO, Wellcome Trust, CCA, WoAH, NIHR among a few. More than £300K of this funding directly contributed to his salary.

Since 2018 at BCU, Erez has worked on five projects totalling £698K and secured funding for two internal BCU PhDs.

Prior to BCU, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research (IER) at the University of Warwick (and remains an honorary research associate), and is a RAND Europe Associate. He teaches Industrial Economics, Advanced Economic Theory, and Macroeconomics.

His research focuses on applied policy analysis and development economics. Research topics: Health Economics, labor modelling, environmental economics, cost-benefit analysis, infrastructure and transportation assessment, energy modelling and forecasting.

He has over 25 years of professional experience in economic research and consulting and 10 years in project management. He has extensive experience in quantitative economic modelling, econometric forecasting, and is a specialist in applied computable general equilibrium (CGE) models.

Erez holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick, UK.