CHAIR IN ECONOMICS
Willingness to take PhD students: Yes
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Liverpool Labour Contact Theory | |
Master of Economics, University of Essex | |
Bachelor of Economics, University of Liverpool |
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Educated at Liverpool and Essex Universities and graduated with a PhD in Economics from Liverpool University in 1983. Previously a member of Professor Frank Hahn's ESRC project on Risk, Information and Quantity Signals in Economics at Cambridge University 1983-85 and part of the DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 178 on the Internationalization of the World Economy at Konstanz and Kiel Universities, 1987-1990. Also Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Reading University and Liverpool University, Professor of Economics at Keele University 1996-2008 and Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester, 2008-2011.
My principal research interests (with corresponding JEL classification) are: Game Theory and Bargaining Theory (C7) • Market Structure and Pricing (D4) • Information and Uncertainty (D8) • Intertemporal Choice and Growth (D9) • Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment and Investment (E2) • Financial Markets (G1) • Corporate Finance and Governance (G3) • Regulation and Industrial Policy (L5). My main areas of current research are in limited commitment, principal-agent problems and contract theory, risk and uncertainty and network design.
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My primary teaching interests are in economic theory, industrial organisation, game theory, asset pricing, derivatives and risk management.
Research output: Working paper
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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