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Recent publications

Some recent, or forthcoming, publications by members of staff include the following (for details of all publications refer to the individual staff pages)

Forthcoming Papers (as of September 2009):

• Pierre-Richard Agénor, "Schooling and Public Capital in a Model of Endogenous Growth" is forthcoming in Economica; "Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps," (with J. Aizenman) is forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics. "Contracting Models of the Phillips Curve," (with N. Bayraktar) forthcoming in Journal of Macroeconomics.
• Michele Berardi, "Learning in a Credit Economy", joint work with Tiziana Assenza (Catholic University of Milan), is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
• Michele Berardi, "Heterogeneous Expectations, Sunspot Equilibria and their Fragility", Economics Letters, forthcoming.
• Michele Berardi, "Should Monetary Policy Respond to Private Sector Expectations?", in Cappello, M., Rizzo, C. (editors), Central Banking and Globalization, Nova Publishers, 2010, forthcoming.
• Keith Blackburn and Gonzalo Forgues-Puccio, "Why is corruption less harmful in some countries than in others?" is forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation.
• Ken Clark "Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales 1991-2001," with Stephen Drinkwater, is forthcoming in Research in Labor Economics.
• John M. Fry Regression: Linear Models in Statistics, (jointly with N.H. Bingham) is forthcoming in Springer, Undergraduate Mathematics Series.
• Alastair R. Hall "Generalized Method of Moments," accepted for publication in Volume on Financial Econometrics (Ole Barndorff-Nielsen and Eric Renault eds.) in the Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance.
• Alastair R. Hall "Contemporaneous and Long Run Canonical Correlations in the Linear IV Model: Implications for Instrument Selection," with Gunce Eryuruk and Kalidas Jana, is accepted for publication in Economics Letters.
• Alastair R. Hall "A Comparative Study of Three Data-based Methods of Instrument Selection," with Gunce Eryuruk and Kalidas Jana, is accepted for publication in Economics Letters.
• Emranul Haque "Corruption Clubs: Endogenous Thresholds in Corruption and Development" is forthcoming in Economics of Governance.
• Roger Hartley "Risk aversion in symmetric and asymmetric contests," joint paper with Richard Cornes , is forthcoming in Economic Theory.
• Mika Kortelainen "Firm and Industry Level Profit Efficiency Analysis Using Absolute and Uniform Shadow Prices" (jointly with Timo Kuosmanen, Timo Sipiläinen and Laurens Cherchye) is forthcoming in European Journal of Operational Research.
• Leonidas Koutsougeras and Sjur D. Flåm "Private Information, Transferable Utility, and the Core," is forthcoming in Economic Theory.
• Paul Madden "Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony," forthcoming in Economic Theory (jointly with Leo Kaas); "Inequality in the Relative Differential Sense with Continuous Distributions," forthcoming in Journal of Economic Inequality (jointly with Zhengli Gu).
• Kyriakos Neanidis and Dimitrios Varvarigos"The Allocation of Volatile Aid and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence" is forthcoming in the European Journal of Political Economy.
• Kyriakos Neanidis "Business Cycle Synchronization of the Euro Area with the New and Negotiating Member Countries" is forthcoming in the International Journal of Finance and Economics (jointly authored with Denise Osborn and Christos Savva).
• Denise Osborn "Business Cycle Synchronization of the Euro Area with the New and Negotiating Member Countries" (jointly authored with Kyriakos Neanidis and Christos Savva) is forthcoming in the International Journal of Finance and Economics.
• John Salter "Adam Smith and the Grotian Theory of Property," is forthcoming in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
• Johannes Sauer "Water Communities in the Republic of Macedonia: An Empirical Analysis of Membership Satisfaction and Payment Behaviour," (with M. Gorton) is forthcoming in World Development.
• Paul Schweinzer "Sequential Bargaining with Common Values" is forthcoming in Journal of Mathematical Economics.
• Dan Rigby "Environmental Regulation and Industry Location in Europe", (joinly authored with Abay Mulatu, Reyer Gerlagh and Ada Wossink) has been accepted for publication in Environmental and Resource Economics.
• Ada Wossink "Environmental Regulation and Industry Location in Europe", (joinly authored with Abay Mulatu, Reyer Gerlagh and Dan Rigby) has been accepted for publication in Environmental and Resource Economics.
• Ada Wossink "A Technique for Assessing Environmental Impact Risks of Agricultural Systems," (jointly with Olha Sydorovych, Charlie Raczkowsky, Nancy Creamer, Shuijin Hu, Melissa Bell, Cong Tu, is forthcoming in Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.
• Horst Zank "On Probabilities and Loss Aversion," in forthcoming in Theory and Decision. "Consistent Probability Attitudes," is forthcoming in Economic Theory.

Recent Publications (since April 2009):

(Please see also our Past News Section for a selection of publications prior to April 2009.)

• Pierre-Richard Agénor, "Infrastructure Investment and Maintenance Expenditure: Optimal Allocation Rules in a Growing Economy," is forthcoming in Journal of Public Economic Theory (Vol. 11, April 2009, 233-250)
• Martyn Andrews, Lutz Bellmann, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward, "The Takeover and Selection Effects of Foreign Ownership in Germany: An Analysis Using Linked Employer-emplyee Data", Review of World Economics (Vol. 145, July 2009, 293-317).
• Chris Birchenhall, "Consumer Heterogeneity and the Development of Environmentally Friendly Technologies" (with Paul Windrum and Tommaso Ciarli) Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Vol 76, May 2009, 533-551).
• Chris Birchenhall, "Environmental Impact, Quality, and Price: Consumer Trade-offs and the Development of Environmentally Friendly Technologies," (with Paul Windrum and Tommaso Ciarli) Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Vol. 76, May 2009, 552-566).
• Ken Clark and Stephen Drinkwater "Immigrant Self-Employment Adjustment: Ethnic Groups in the UK," International Journal of Manpower (Vol. 30, 2009 , 163-175).
• Ken Clark and Stephen Drinkwater "Patterns of Ethnic Self-employment in Time and Space: Evidence from British Census Microdata," Small Business Economics (On-line publication: June 2008).
• Igor Evstigneev, M.A.H. Dempster and K.R. Schenk-Hoppé "Volatility-induced financial growth", Quantitative Finance, 7 (2007), 151-160, has been reprinted in the Handbook Quantitative Fund Management, Chapman and Hall, 2009, 67-84.
• Reyer Gerlagh "The Economics of Geological CO2 Storage and Leakage," (with Bob Van der Zwaan) Climatic Change (Vol. 93, April 2009, 285-309).
• Katsushi Imai, Pasquale Scandizzo and Raghav Gaiha "Option Values, Switches and Wages - An Analysis of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India" forthcoming in Review of Development Economics (Vol. 13, May 2009, 248-263).
• Katsushi Imai, Savings, Risk-coping and Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries: Evidence from India and Kenya, Saarbrücken, VDM Publishing House, May 2009 (ISBN:978-3-639-15990-5, 228 pages).
• Kyriakos Neanidis "Aid Effectiveness: The Role of the Local Elite" (jointly with Luis Angeles) Journal of Development Economics (Vol. 90, September 2009, 120-134).
• Kyriakos Neanidis and Christos Savva "Financial Dollarization: Short-Run Determinants in Transition Economies," Journal of Banking and Finance (Vol. 33, October 2009, 1860-1873).
• Chris Orme and Andreea Halunga "First Order Asymptotic Theory for Misspecification Tests of GARCH Models," Econometric Theory (Vol. 25, April 2009, 364-410).
• Alejandro Saporiti "Strategy-proofness and Single-crossing," Theoretical Economics (Vol 4, June 2009, 127-163).
• Johannes Sauer "Free-Riding on Rent Seeking - An Empirical Analysis," (with Hartley W. Furtan and Maria Skovager Jensen) Public Choice (Vol. 140, September 2009, 479-500).
• Johannes Sauer "Organic Farming in Scandinavia - Productivity and Market Exit," (with Tim Park) Ecological Economics (Vol. 68, June 2009, 2243-2254).
• Johannes Sauer "The Economics of Soil Fertility Management," (with H. Tchale) Review of Agricultural Economics (Vol. 31, Autumn 2009, 535-560).
• Horst Zank "Parametric Weighting Functions," jointly authored with Enrico Diecidue (INSEAD) and Ulrich Schmidt (University of Kiel), Journal of Economic Theory (Vol. 144, May 2009, 1102-1118).
• Horst Zank "Additive Utility in Prospect Theory," jointly authored with Han Bleichrodt (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Ulrich Schmidt (University of Kiel), Management Science (Vol. 55, May 2009, 863-873).