RESEARCH GROUP:
Money, Macroeconomics and Finance
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Franchise extension and public sector capital; information cascades and revolutions; gradual franchise extension; open economy macroeconomics with intertemporal optimisation and staggered wage setting; monetary policy; fiscal policy; local government finance; economics and philosophy.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
(with C.J. Ellis), 'Corruption and transparency in a growth model.' International Tax and Public Finance, 13(2 - 3), May 2006, pp. 115 - 149.
(with P.J.N. Sinclair), 'On risk aversion and investment - a theoretical approach.' Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 162 (4), December 2006, pp. 601 - 26.
(with C.J. Ellis), 'The economic evolution of democracy. 'Economics of Governance, published online September 2008.
(with N. Rankin), ‘A Further Contribution towards Explaining why Disinflation through Currency Pegging may Cause a Boom: the Role of Forward-Looking Wage Setting’, Journal of International Money and Finance, 30, April 2011, pp. 516 - 536.
(with C.J. Ellis), ‘Information Cascades and Revolutionary Regime Transitions’, Economic Journal, 121 (553) June 2011, pp. 763 - 792.
Monetary Policy, Wiley, February 2012.
'Altruism and economics.' In Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, second edition, (edited by R. Chadwick), Academic Press, 2012.