Microeconomic theory, contract theory, labour economics, personal sector finance.
Representative Publications
(forthcoming 2009) 'Labour Turnover and Firm Performance: Evidence from the 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey' (with Sarah Brown and Christopher Martin), Economic Modelling.
(2008) 'Mortgages and Financial Expectations: A Household Level Analysis', Southern Economic Journal, 74(3), pp.857-878 (with S.Brown and K.Taylor)
(2006) 'Costly State Verification with Varying Risk preferences and Liability', Journal of Economic Surveys, 20(1), pp.71-109 (with P. Simmons)
(2005) 'Debt and Financial Expectations: An Individual and Household Level Analysis', Economic Inquiry, 43(1), 100-120 (with S. Brown, K. Taylor and S.Wheatley Price)
(2004) 'Rational Bubbles in U.K. House Prices', Southern Economic Journal, 70(4), 777-795 (with L. Sarno)
(2001) 'Privatisation or Competition? A Lesson learnt from the Chinese Enterprise Reform' Economics of Planning, 34(1), 37-51(with G. Liu)
(2000) 'Efficiency Wages and Firm-Union Bargaining' Economics Letters, 69(2), 181-185 (with C. Martin)
Current Teaching
EC3075: Mathematical Approaches to Economics
EC3000: Advanced Microeconomics
Current Administrative Duties
Equal Opportunities Officer
Examinations Officer
Acting Sub-Dean (Undergraduate Student Progression, Semester 1), Faculty of Social Sciences