Contact Details |
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Primary Affiliation |
The University of Edinburgh, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Other Affiliations | Senior
Fellow of the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis, Rimini. |
Career History | Educated at Liverpool and Essex
Universities and graduated with a PhD in Economics from University of Liverpool in 1983. Previously a member of Professor Frank Hahn's ESRC project on Risk,
Information and Quantity Signals in Economics at University of Cambridge, 1983-1985 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, University of Reading
and University of Liverpool, Professor of Economics at Keele University 1996-2008 and Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester, 2008-2011. |
Professional Service |
Member of the Economics and Econometrics Sub-panel of the UK 2021 Research Excellence Framework
• External Examiner at University of Nottingham, 2017-2019
• External Examiner at University of Warwick, 2016-2019
• Member of Royal Economic Society Council, 2016-2021
• Member of Scientific Committee (Economics, Econometrics and Statistics) for the International Guide to Academic
Journal Quality, 2013-2024
• Member of Economic and Social Research Council Peer Review
College, 2010-2018
• Research Assessor, Carnegie Trust, 2014-2018
• External Examiner at the London School of Economics, 2013-2015.
• External Examiner at University of Essex, 2006-2009.
• External Examiner at University of
Birmingham, 2005-2009
• External Examiner M.Sc. Economics, University College London,
2003-2007 • External Examiner at University of Leicester, 2002-2005 •
External Examiner, Postgraduate Certificate in Finance, Birkbeck College London, 2001-2005.
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Research Interests |
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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Teaching Interests |
My primary
teaching interests are in economic theory, industrial organisation,
game theory, asset pricing, derivatives and risk management.
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