Department of Economics

Academic Staff

Prof. Gianni De Fraja
Professor of Economics

Room: Astley Clarke Building, AC106
Telephone: 0116 252 3909
E-mail: econhod@le.ac.uk or defraja@le.ac.uk

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Public Economics, Economics of Education, Regulation, Game Theory.

Representative Publications

• The Origin of Utility: Sexual Selection and Conspicuous Consumption, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, forthcoming.
   
• Must Try Harder. Evaluating the Role of Effort on Examination Results, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming; with Tania Oliveira and Luisa Zanchi.

• Market and Public Provision in the Presence of Human Capital Externalities, Journal of Public Economics, 92, 2008, pp. 962-985.

• The Quest for Quality: A Dynamic Regulatory Mechanism for Optimum Quality, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 17, 2008, pp. 1011-1040; with Alberto Iozzi.

• Could Do Better: The Effectiveness of Incentives and Competition in Schools, Journal of Public Economics, 90, 2006, pp. 189-213; with Pedro Landeras.
   
• Reverse Discrimination and Efficiency in Education, International Economic Review; forthcoming.
   
• The Design of Optimal Education Policies, The Review of Economic Studies, 69, 2002, pp 437-466.
     
• Contracts for Health Services: Quality versus Excess Capacity, Journal of Public Economics, 84, 2002, pp. 199-218; with Dieter Bös.
    
• The Economics of Education: Editors' Introduction, Bulletin of Economic Research, special issue on the "Economics of Education", 54, 2002, pp. 205-208; with Richard Romano.
   
• Walras Retrouvé: Decentralised Trading Mechanisms and the Competitive Price, Journal of Political Economy, 109, 2001, pp. 842-863; with József Sákovics.

Current Teaching

• EC1000: Microeconomics

Current Administrative Duties

• Member of the Undergraduate Learning & Teaching Committee
• Member of the Postgraduate Learning & Teaching Committee
• Member of the Departmental Research Committee
• Thesis Committee Chair