Edward Pinchbeck

The Department of Economics
Associate Professor In Economics

Contact details

Email: e.w.pinchbeck@bham.ac.uk

Edward, more commonly known as Ted, is an Associate Professor in Economics at Birmingham Business School. He is an applied micro-econometrician with interests in urban, environmental economics, political economy and economic history. Before joining Birmingham he was Lecturer at City University, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, where he completed his PhD. Previously he spent around 7 years as Economic Advisor in the Government Economic Service where he gained extensive experience of providing economic advice to policy-makers.

Qualifications

PhD in Economic Geography, LSE, 2016
MSc in Real Estate Economics and Finance, LSE, 2012
MSc in Economics, Warwick), 2003
PG CERT Higher Education (Associate level), 2016
RSA CELTA

Teaching

Contemporary Issues in the UK Economy

Extended Essay supervision

Other activities

Ted has been an invited referee for a number of prestigious economics journals including: Econometrica, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Regional Science & Urban Economics.

He is a member of the American Economic Association, the Royal Economic Society, and the Urban Economics Association.

He has organised several groups and conferences. For example, he was on the organising committee for 7th, 8th and 9th Annual SERC (Spatial Economics Research Centre) conferences. He was also the organiser for the London Health Economics Group (LHEG) meetings.

During his time at LSE he was an Advisory Board member for the MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance.

Publications

Gibbons, S., Heblich, S., & Pinchbeck, E. W. (2024). The spatial impacts of a massive rail disinvestment program: the Beeching axe. Journal of Urban Economics, 143, 103691. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119024000615

Pinchbeck, E. W., Roth, S., Szumilo, N. & Vanino, E. (2023) The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Risk Maps and the Housing Market, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725028

Koster H.R.A & Pinchbeck E.W., (2022) How do Households Value the Future? Evidence from Property Taxes. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20200443&&from=f

Pinchbeck, E. W. (2019). Convenient primary care and emergency hospital utilisation. Journal of Health Economics, 68, 102242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102242

Hilber, C. A., Palmer, C., & Pinchbeck, E. W. (2019). The energy costs of historic preservation. Journal of Urban Economics, 114, 103197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2019.103197

Bracke, P., Pinchbeck, E. W., & Wyatt, J. (2017). The time value of housing: Historical evidence on discount rates. Economic Journal, 128(613), 1820-1843. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12501

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