Elisabetta Bertero

Lecturer in Finance; Departmental Tutor

Research interests

• Sub-sovereign debt
• The financial role of the state: the interaction between governments and financial markets
• Budget constraint and state-owned firms
• International finance

Selected papers

• 'Hardening a soft budget constraint through "upward devolution" to a supranational institution: the case of the European Union and Italian state-owned firms' with Laura Rondi, Ownership and Governance of Enterprises: recent innovative developments, ed L Sun, London: Palgrave/ MacMillan 2003

• 'Fa differenza il cambiamento dell'assetto proprietario, da pubblico a privato?', Economia Pubblica vol 33, no 2, 2003

• 'An international economic perspective on the results of the 2001 Italian elections', Italy: politics and policy, ed R Leonardi and M Fedele, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003

• 'Does a switch of budget regimes affect investment and managerial discretion of state-owned enterprises? Evidence from Italian firms' with Laura Rondi, Journal of Comparative Economics vol 30, no 4, pp 836-863, 2002

• 'Does a change in the ownership of firms, from public to private, make a difference?', First Milan European Workshop: papers and proceedings December 2002

• 'Financial pressure and the behaviour of public enterprises under soft and hard budget constraints: evidence from Italian panel data' with Laura Rondi, Journal of Public Economics 2000, vol 75, pp 73-98

• 'Investment, cash flow and managerial discretion in state-owned firms' with Laura Rondi, CERIS/ CNR working paper no 10, 2000

Teaching

• Office Hours (internal LSE access only)

Lectures/classes

• AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance
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• FM472 International Finance
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• MG101 Core Business Disciplines I: Finance and Operations Management
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Other webpages

• LSE Experts