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Research

WORK EXPERIENCE

1976 Employed as a Research Assistant in the Department of Economics at The City University.

1977-1979 Part time class tutor in Mathematical Economics for 2nd year undergraduates at The City University.

1979-1981 Full-time Research Officer in the Department of Social and Economic Studies, Imperial College, also regular teaching in macro and micro Economics at undergraduate level.

1981-1982 Research Officer at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, engaged on a project on the macroeconomic impact of North Sea Oil with Sir Fred Atkinson.

1982-1987 Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, working on general macroeconomic and econometric research and the production of the forecast which appears in the review.

1987-1990 Economics Division of the Bank of England. February 1989, head of the Modelling Group within the Bank (a group which specialises in long term research projects). November 1989 promoted to Economic Adviser with managerial responsibilities for the Public and Personal sectors.

1990-1995 Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School as Director of Research and Professorial fellow.

1995-2005 Professor of Economics, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine.

2005- Professor of Economics, University of Leicester

ACADEMIC AND COMMERCIAL CONSULTANCY

1988-1989 The ESRC Macro Modelling Bureau at Warwick

1990-1992 The Bank of England

1991 The Trustee Savings Bank

1991 Standard and Chartered Bank

1992 Hill Samuel Bank

1992-1993 The Philippines Development Agency

1992- 1998 The MEET project, a network of Eastern European academics

1993-1994 The International Monetary Fund, visiting scholar

1994- Lecture Course at the Queens University Belfast

1995-1999 Visiting Professor, London Business School

1996- Visiting consultant to the Bank of Greece

1999- Visiting Professor at the University of Pretoria

1999- Member of the Governing Body of the Macroeconomics and Data Research Centre, University of Gdansk, Poland

1999-2001 Team leader for the European Economic Expertise service of the European Union to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Contract No. RF33 contract value 400,000 Euros.

1999- Member of the Governing Body of Econometric Research South Africa

2000-2002.1 Oxford Economic Forecasting, research consultant

2000-2001 Visiting Professor at the Rheinisch-Westfalisches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen, Germany

2000-2002 Research Associate, the Centre for International Macroeconomics, Oxford University

2000- Member of the Governing Body of the Romanian Centre of Economic Modelling (RCEM)

2001-2001 Team leader for the European Economic Expertise service of the European Union to the Ministry of Economics in Russia contract No. RF10

2003- Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research

2003/4 Consultant to HM Customs and Excise

2004/5 Consultant to the Office of National Statistics

2007 Consultant to the European Central Bank

EDITORIAL INTERESTS, COMMITTEES & OTHER

1985-1987 Member of the Editorial Board of the National Institute Economic Review.

1990-1999 Associate editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

1991- Editor of the John Wiley series of books in Financial Economics and Quantitative Analysis.

1990- Programme committee member of the IFAC working group on Modelling and Control of National and Regional Economies.

1992-2000 Steering Committee of the ESRC, Money, Macro and Finance Study Group.

1992- Member of H.M. Treasurys panel of academic advisors

1993-1998 Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Economic Modelling.

1993- Steering committee member of United Nations Project LINK.

1995- Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Finance and Economics

1996-2000 Member of the ESRC Grants Board

1997 Member of the ESRC ROPA award panel

1998- Associate Editor of Applied Financial Economics

1998 Member of the ESRC ROPA award panel

1998- Editor, Economic Modelling, with Peter Pauly

1999 Awarded the honour of being the first distinguished author of the Journal of Applied Econometrics (vol. 14, pg.455, 1999)

1999 Member of the UN expert group on Policy Models for Low Income and Least Developed Countries

1999- Member of the advisory board of the Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics, South Bank University

2000- Member of the editorial board of the South African Journal of Economics

EXTERNAL EXAMINING

1990-1994 External examiner at Kingston University for the BSc degree in Economics.

1992-1996 External examiner at the Guildhall University for the MSc in Forecasting and Econometrics.

1994-1998 External Examiner for Leicester University

1994-1998 External Examiner Birkbeck College, London

1995-1999 External Examiner The City University

1996 -2000 External Examiner Surrey University

2000-2003 External Examiner at Cardiff Business School

1999 –2001 External Examiner at Reading University

2003-2006 External Examiner Warwick University

2006- External Examiner University of Mauritius

Examiner for PhD students in London, Aarhus University, Guildhall University, Leicester University, Newcastle University, Lisbon University, City Univeristy, Cambridge, Southampton, Birckbek, Queen Marys and Oxford.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Co-applicant (with James Mitchel) on ESRC grant number RES-000-220610 Combination of density forecasts March 2004-2006

Principal investigator on ESRC grant No. L138250122, Fluctuations and Long Term Prosperity 1999-2004, Held at the National Institute

‘Macroeconomic Model: Further Development’ EU TACIS programme project RF10, with the Russian ministry of Economics, 400,000 euros, 2001

‘International Property Rights’ ESRC ROPA award No PR1645, £80,000, 2001-2002.

`Research Network for Development Policy Analysis (in Africa)’ United Nations G(DESA) Mo 9825-ROA-6, Organising Committee member, $1,325,000

`EMU and the Nature of Shocks in Europe’ British-German Academic Research Collaboration Programme, ARC project No.944, £2200.

`Assistance to Establish a Financial Model to analyze and Monitor Macroeconomic policy scenarios for 1999 and beyond’ with the Russian Federation, European Expertise Service, Tacis ACE Project Number RF33 1999-2000, total value of project 400,000 ECU.

Econometric Inference into the macroeconomic Dynamics of East European Economies (MEET IV) European Commission PHARE ACE grant P96-6138-R 1997-1998, Total value of the award 80,000 ECU.

Structural Change and Spillovers in the Eastern European Reform Process: Implications for Economic Integration and Policy Cooperation V, EC ACE96 159,532 ECUs May 1997- Sept 1998, Grant No. p96-6221-R

Macroeconomic Modelling in a changing world, ESRC £680,040 Oct 1995-1999 Global Institutions and Economic Policy Co-Ordination, ESRC £150,670 april 94-March 97

Structural Change and Spillovers in the Eastern European Reform Process: Implications for Economic Integration and Policy Cooperation III, EC ACE94, 155,000 ECUs May 1995- April 1996

Structural Change and Spillovers in the Eastern European Reform Process: Implications for Economic Integration and Policy Cooperation IV, EC ACE94, 155,000 ECUs May 1996- April 1997

Professional Mobility of R&D Personnel in the context of Conversion EC Tacis ACE 60,000 ECUs, April 1995- Sept 1996

Inflation and Unemployment in Economies in Transition EC ACE 95 55,000 ECUs, June 1996- Dec 1997

International Agreements on CO2 Emissions; Impact Design and Sustainability, ESRC, £104,580, Oct 1991- Sept 1994

Macroeconomic Modelling and Policy Analysis for the UK and World Economies, ESRC, £699,930, Oct 1991-Sept 1995.

Structural Change and Spillovers in the Eastern European Reform Process: Implications for Economic Integration and Policy Cooperation I, EC ACE92, 155,000 ECUs May 1992- April 1993

Structural Change and Spillovers in the Eastern European Reform Process: Implications for Economic Integration and Policy Cooperation II, EC ACE93, 155,000 ECUs Dec 1993- Nov 1994

Modeling Economy-Energy-Environment Linkages: A European Panel Approach, EC DGXII, 150,000 ECUs, Dec 1992-Feb 1994

One of the three named researchers in the application by the National Institute to the ESRC Modelling Consortium. 1986-1990 £900,000.

Disequilibrium Modelling of UK Labour Markets, ESRC £50,000, 1984-1985.

Completed PhD Students

Dirk Willenbockel, registered 1991 completed 1994, LBS

Laurence Boone, registered 1992, completed 1995, LBS

Miguel St. Aubyn, registered 1992 completed 1995, LBS

Nick Taylor, registered 1992 completed 1996, LBS

Anna Zalewska-Mitura, registered 1993,completed 1997, LBS

Nicos Economu, registered 1992, completed 1996, LBS

Christopher Allen, registered 1992, completed 1996, LBS

Miguel Campos Cruz, registered 1994, completed 1998, LBS