Staff Profile:

Name:

Dr Marina Della Giusta

Job Title:

Senior Lecturer

Responsibilities:

• Director, Postgraduate research in the School of Economics
• Director, MSc International Economic Development MSc International Finance and Economic Development
• Faculty Representative, Equal Opportunities Advisory Group
• Theme leader, Poverty, Exclusion and Access
• Research groups / Centres: Centre for Institutional Performance (CIP)

Areas of Interest:

Development and institutional economics, in particular:

• behavioural foundations (roles of trust, reputation and values in processes of decision making and in market access)
• wellbeing
• gender (economics of prostitution, economics of caring).

I have held research grants from the ESRC, the British Academy, and internationally from the MIUR, and have been involved in the evaluation of international development projects (UN-Inter American Development Bank), of government policy in the UK (Home Office Policing Priority Areas) and of regional policy (South-East England Development Agency and Social Enterprise Berkshire). I am part of the editorial team of the European Journal of Development Research, and a member of the American Economic Association and Royal Economic Society.

Research groups / Centres:

• Centre for Institutional Performance (CIP) 

Publications:

1. ‘Formal and Informal Institutions and Development’ (with Mark C. Casson and Uma S. Kambhampati) World Development Vol 38 (2), 2010.
2. ‘Simulating the Impact of Regulation Changes on the Market for Prostitution Services’, Forthcoming European Journal of Law and Economics. Published online: 26 May 2009
3. ‘What money buys: the demand for prostitution services’ (with Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Isilda Shima and Steinar Stroem) 2009 Journal of Applied Economics, 41 (18): 2261-2278, 2009.
4. ‘Sex, power and reputation: a model of the market for prostitution services’ (with Maria Laura Di Tommaso and Steinar Stroem) 2009 Journal of Population Economics , 22 (2): 501-516, 2009.
5. ‘A model of trust based intermediation’ Cambridge Journal of Economics, 32 (1): 65-81, 2008.
6. Della Giusta, M., M.L. Di Tommaso and S. Stroem Prostitution: A Denied Industry, Series Advances in Feminist Economics, Editor Jane Humphreys, Routledge Economics Books, 2008.
7. Della Giusta, M. and V. Munro Eds. The Supply-Demand Dynamic in Prostitution, Ashgate, 2008.
8. ‘Entrepreneurship and social capital’ (with Mark C. Casson) International Journal of Small Business, 25 (3): 230-244, 2007.
9. Casson, M.C. and M. Della Giusta Eds. The Economics of Networks, Edward Elgar, 2007.
10. Della Giusta, M., U.S. Kambhampati, and R.H. Wade Eds. Critical Perspectives on Globalisation, Elgar Globalisation Series, 2006.
11. ‘Women migrant workers in the UK: social capital, well-being and integration’ (with Uma S. Kambhampati) Journal of International Development, 18 (6): 819-833, 2006.
12. ‘Small Enterprises and Development: Women Entrepreneurs in the Gambia’ (with Christine Phillips) Journal of International Development, 18 (8): 1-15, 2006.

Qualifications:

PhD University of Reading