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Dr Lilit Popoyan

Lilit

Lecturer in Business Analytics & Innovation

Email: l.popoyan@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Room 2.35, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End Campus

Profile

Roles:

Biography:

Lilit Popoyan is a Lecturer in Business Analytics & Innovation with a strong emphasis on policy-relevant quantitative research analysing a nexus between macroeconomic policy, financial regulations, financial stability, sustainable finance and climate change, production networks, and macroeconomic dynamics.

Lilit holds a PhD in Economics from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa (Italy) and studied finance at the University of Pisa (Italy) and Yerevan State University (Armenia). Before joining Queen Mary, University of London, Lilit was an assistant professor in Economic Policy at the University of Naples "Parthenope".  She is also an associate researcher at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) and one of the founding members of the ABM4Policy research group. She serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination (JEIC) and leads the "Agent-based Models and Networks" research stream at the Centre for Quantitative Methods (CQM) at QMUL. 

Teaching

Postgraduate Teaching:

  • BUSM229 - Sustainable Finance and ESG Performance
  • BUSM221 - Capstone Project in Supply Chain and Logistics Analytics

Lilit holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP).

Research

Research Interests:

Research interests

Lilit conducts quantitative research concentrating on financial and macroeconomic stability from the policy design perspective. She uses complex system analysis, agent-based and opinion dynamics models, network and data science methods to study the interplay between financial regulations and innovation, financial stability, sustainable finance and climate change, production networks, and macroeconomic dynamics

Centre and Group Membership

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal articles

  • Errichiello, G., Falcone, P. M., & Popoyan, L. (2025). Navigating climate policy: The influence of lobbying trends and narratives in Europe. Environmental Science & Policy, 163, 103974.
  • Bardoscia, M., Carro, A., Hinterschweiger, M., Napoletano, M., Popoyan, L., Roventini, A., & Uluc, A. (2025). The impact of prudential regulation on the UK housing market and economy: Insights from an agent-based model. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 229.
  • Galanis, G., Napoletano, M., Popoyan, L., Sapio, A., & Vardakoulias, O. (2025). Defining just transition. Ecological Economics, 227, 108370.
  • D’Orazio, P., & Popoyan, L. (2023). Do monetary policy mandates and financial stability governance structures matter for the adoption of climate-related financial policies? International Economics, 173, 284-295.
  • Iliopoulos, P. T., Galanis, G., Kumar, A., & Popoyan, L. (2022). Sectoral market power in global production: a theoretical and observational study.Advances in Complex Systems, 25(02n03), 2240005.
  • D’Orazio, P., & Popoyan, L. (2022). Realising central banks’ climate ambitions through financial stability mandates.Intereconomics, 57(2), 103-111.
  • Popoyan, L., Napoletano, M., & Roventini, A. (2020). Winter is possibly not coming: Mitigating financial instability in an agent-based model with interbank market. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 117, 103937.
  • Popoyan, L. (2020). Macroprudential Policy: a Blessing or a Curse? Review of Economics and Institutions,11(1-2).
  • Duca, J. V., Popoyan, L., & Wachter, S. M. (2019). Real estate and the great crisis: Lessons for macroprudential policy. Contemporary Economic Policy, 37(1), 121-137.
  • D’Orazio, P., & Popoyan, L. (2019). Fostering green investments and tackling climate-related financial risks: Which role for macroprudential policies? Ecological Economics, 160, 25-37.
  • D'Orazio, P., & Popoyan, L. (2019). Dataset on green macroprudential regulations and instruments: Objectives, implementation and geographical diffusion. Data in brief, 24, 103870.
  • Popoyan, L., Napoletano, M., & Roventini, A. (2017). Taming macroeconomic instability: Monetary and macro-prudential policy interactions in an agent-based model .Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 134, 117-140.

Book Chapters:

  • Popoyan, L., & D’Orazio, P. (2025). A tale of two crises: Monetary policy and financial (in) stability implications of climate change and pandemics. In Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Financial In/Stability (pp. 139-164). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • D'Orazio, P., Popoyan, L., & Valente, M. (2023). 4 Green central banking in times of climate uncertainty. Environmental Finance and Green Banking: Contemporary and Emerging Issues, 64.
  • Popoyan, L., & Galanis, G. (2022). 11. Mind the gap: Monetary policy and financial regulations for supporting green finance. Central banking, monetary policy and the Environment, 234.

 

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