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Public economics, health economics, microeconometrics and the measurement of inequality and well-being.
PhD Supervision Interests
Public economics, health economics, microeconometrics and the measurement of inequality and well-being.
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His principal research interests lie in the fields of management accounting and control. He has special research interests in the emerging and historical management control issues in developing nations. His recent research has focused on cultural political economy of management accounting and control in developing nations.
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Tim Barmby is a labour economist with interests in the structure of incentives and labour supply in particular. He has published in the Economic Journal, on the labour supply of the self-employed as well as the Journal of Labor Economics and the Journal of Human Resources. He is presently working on models of self-employed taxi drivers, models of piano competitions, as well as finishing a book on the economics of absenteeism with John Treble.
Tim’s research interests are in applied Personnel and Labour Economics, in particular the empirical modelling of the incentive effects of labour contracts. He has published widely in the Labour Economics area, with papers in the Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, The Economic Journal and Labour Economics amongst others. He has held grants from the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust and private industry and has been an academic visitor at Curtin University in Western Australia, CEPS/INSTEAD in Luxembourg, Vrije Universiteit and the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam, Centre for Labour Market and Social Research (CLS) at the University of Aarhus, CentER for Economic Research at Tilburg University, and Monash University.
PhD Supervision Interests
Tim is presently supervising four PhD students: two, Ross Campbell and Nigel Wu, working on topics in personnel economics, Minh Ha Nguyen on the survival of new start-ups and David Cooper on taxi drivers' labour supply.
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Labour and regional economics.
PhD Supervision Interests
Economics of Education, Employment Contracts, Regional Inequality
PhD Supervision Interests
Volatility of financial time series; Asset Pricing; Corporate Finance.
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New Issues market; Agency relationships in banking and finance; Privatised utilities.
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(1) Technology adoption and diffusion in supply networks (in particular the adoption of RFID technologies in supply chains; and inter-organisational use of Internet technologies) and (2) New Product/Service Development and open innovation (in particular supplier/customer involvement in NPD; organising NPD)
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Corporate governance and its effects on innovation and economic performance. Technology transfer and its impact on industrial (or firms’) development. Banking and financial systems, and the implication of their role for policy and strategy.
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Miguel's research interests lie in game theory as part of empirical economics.
Mostly, he uses experimental methods to study strategic thinking in non-cooperative games.
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Ben’s interests are in the relationships between individual decision making, institutions, and theories of governance related particularly to environmental issues. Past research has included work on multi-criteria analysis, environmental valuation, industrial organisation, and agri-environmental policy design, and more broadly addressed theories of human agency and social organisation.
PhD Supervision Interests
Environment-agriculture interactions; environmental policy design; environmental management.
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Professor Dawson has published over 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters. His has a long research history in the area of organizational change where he has published a number of books including: Organizational Change, London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 1994. More recently, he has co-authored a number of journal articles including Dawson, P. and Buchanan, D. (2005) ‘The way it really happened: competing narratives in the political process of technological change’, Human Relations, 58(7): 845-865. He also has an interest in technology and has co-edited a four volume series of books on Technology and Organisations: Critical Perspectives on Business Management, London: Routledge, 2000.
PhD Supervision Interests
Management of Change, New Technology at Work, Cellular manufacturing.
Research Interests
- Commercial real estate investment
- Management and valuation of real estate
- Property index construction
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Her main research interests are labour and regional economics, and she has published in Regional Studies.
PhD Supervision Interests
Labour Economics
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A graduate of Ruskin and Balliol Colleges, Oxford and of the University of Leeds, his main area of research is in labour economics.
PhD Supervision Interests
Labour Economics
PhD Supervision Interests
Relationships between the financial and real economy; Expected share return and volatility; predictability of returns.
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Artificial Intelligence, data mining, machine learning and their applications in various domains (business, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics etc)
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David Heald’s research interests include government accounting reform, public expenditure planning, financing devolved government, and the economic regulation of business. As well as researching on public policy, he has also been involved in the development and scrutiny of public policy – notably, through his roles as specialist adviser to the Treasury Committee of the UK House of Commons (1989-2010) and to the Public Accounts Commission (2002-08). On the nomination of the Head of the UK Government Economic Service, he was a member of the Financial Reporting Advisory Board to HM Treasury from 1 August 2004 to 31 July 2009. He has been a member of the Audit Commission's Technical Advisory Group since 2003. During academic year 2010-11, he is on research leave, holding a Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Government Support Research Fellowship on the topic of “Improving the quality of public expenditure”.
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House prices, valuing and pricing leases, workings of commercial real estate markets, household formations and homeownership.
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Real estate indices, role of real estate in portfolios, housing submarkets, hedonic valuation models, indirect real estate investments, financial policy of companies. Curriculum Vitae
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Property valuation and investment, land development process and compulsory purchase compensation.
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Economics of Entrepreneurship, Behavioral Finance/Economics, Corporate Finance, Personnel Economics.
PhD Supervision Interests
Future of work, work-life balance, industrial democracy and employee participation.
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His principal research interests lie in the fields of Applied Macroeconomics, Empirical Growth, Fiscal Policy, Energy and Labour Economics. He has also work on Financial Development, Institutional Economics, Business Cycles' turning points and Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance.
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1. Sustainable international development themes include: (a) economic empowerment/poverty alleviation; (b) environmental protection, (c) sustainable and affordable electricity and other energy forms (petroleum products)
2. The economics of carbon capture and storage.
3. The economics of oil and gas exploration and production.
Research Interests
North Sea Oil and Gas Economics
• Economic modelling of exploration and field development
• Economic modelling effects of royalty and taxation on exploration and development decisions
• Modelling of aggregate medium and longer term activity levels including, investment, production, gross revenues, taxation and net cash flow
• Risk analysis of exploration and development decisions including Monte Carlo and FORM/SORM techniques
• Economics of cluster developments
• Prospects for UK gas supply and demand including effects of Interconnector, Climate Change Levy and Norwegian imports
• Economics of field decommissioning including timing, costs and tax reliefs
• NTS capacity cost charges and economics of marginal gas fields in the UKCS
• Analysis of Production Decline Rates in the UKCS
Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas
International Petroleum Economics
• Lessons from development of UK gas and oil for possible pace of development of oil and gas in Sakhalin
• Comparative studies of impact of royalties and taxation in North Sea countries compared to other petroleum provinces
• The portfolio approach to investment in exploration and development compared to the project approach
PhD Supervision Interests
North Sea Economics, International Petroleum Economics
Research Interests
Primary: Asset Pricing – Theory and Empirics, Empirical Finance
Secondary: Financial Econometrics, Applied Econometrics
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Application of mathematical and statistical techniques to management-related problems.
PhD Supervision Interests
Operational research, particularly combinatorial and stochiastic optimisation and simulation. His most recent work has concentrated on stochiastic optimisation, looking at supervisor-searcher algorithms applied to simulation optimisation problems.
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Property investment, property economics
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Gender, work and family; academic work and practices; health and well being; digital data sharing; qualitative research
PhD Supervision Interests
Gender, work and family; academic work and practices; health and well being; digital data sharing; projects using qualitative research approaches
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Econometrics, operational research, macroeconomics, and the economics of energy, the environment and health.
PhD Supervision Interests
Modelling and Estimation of Time Series Processes, Structural and Forecasting Models of Demand for Energy and for Alchohol, High and Low Frequency Information in Forecasting, Private and Public Health Care Provision
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Corporate Finance, particularly the sources of corporate debt
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Principal research interests are in the areas of health economics and well-being, labour economics transport economics and open economy macroeconomic modelling.
PhD Supervision Interests
Macroeconomics, Labour Economics and Health Economics
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Healthcare management, the managrement of change and innovation and in the sociology of work and family life.
PhD Supervision Interests
Health care management; Management of innovation; Sociology of work organisation, gender and family life.
Research Interests
• The economics of regional government
• Regional development agencies in the UK, particularly Scottish Enterprise
• The impact of universities on their local economies
• The role of public-private partnerships in urban regeneration
• The relationship between the welfare state and economic growth
PhD Supervision Interests
Economics of Regional Government, Regional Development Agencies in the UK, Impact of High Technology on the Scottish Economy
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Strategy, Organizational Economics, Science and Innovation
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Agricultural policy and farm household behaviour, Energy Economics. Economics of Rural and Regional Labour Markets. Personal homepage
PhD Supervision Interests
Agricultural and Energy Economics, Economics of Spatial Labour Markets.
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He is engaged in a research programme, funded by the British Academy, investigating the impact of merger between HM Customs and Excise and the Inland Revenue, with a colleague at the University of Newcastle.
PhD Supervision Interests
Issues relating to the management of change; impact of change on managers’ perceptions of job, work, career, and organization.
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Regional economic development; causes of differential rural economic performance; rural-urban interactions; farm household adjustment.
PhD Supervision Interests
Regional and Urban economics; Agricultural economics.
PhD Supervision Interests
International harmonisation of financial reporting practises; Segment reporting; Comparative financial accounting.
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Empirical models of real estate valuation and prices, real options, time series models
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David's research priorities include the application of institutional and transaction cost economics, and behavioural and social theories, to principles of property investment and market analysis. Recently completed comparative research involved the application of transaction cost economics to systems of institutional investment in the UK and the US isolating comparative cost differences in the enforcement of incomplete contracts. This work involved the application of social capital theory in explaining transaction (enforcement) costs disequilibrium in comparative investment markets.
Research Interests
Theoretical labour economics with emphasis on contracts, labour mobility and trade unions. A further interest includes the economics of epidemiology.
PhD Supervision Interests
Labour Economics, Labour Market Contracting, Economic Role of Trade Union Leaders
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Interorganizational process innovations; technology adoption in supply networks (particularly RFID).
PhD Supervision Interests
Supply chain management, innovation in operations, business process improvement
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Empirical Consumer Research – The everyday experiences of elderly consumers in residential care homes, sustainable consumption of aquatic produce and the development of environmentally focussed school grounds.
Consumer Theory - Actor-Network-Theory, consumer materiality, social culture and death studies.
Qualitative Research Methods - Depth interviews, introspection, focus groups, ethnographic research and hermeneutic data analysis.
Further Interests - Social and cultural anthropology, sociology, critical marketing, sports marketing, marketing communications and retailing.
PhD Supervision Interests
Qualitative Consumer Research that aims to explore any aspect of: (1) Ageing; (2) Religion; or (3) Quality of life.
Research Interests
Natural resource and environmental economics; including environmental regulation,
environmental valuation, and the design of environmental markets. Experimental economics;
especially experimental studies of bargaining, auctions, and individual choice. Industrial
economics; especially the design of auctions and other markets and applications of the
theory of real options
PhD Supervision Interests
Wage Determination, Unemployment, Statistical Analysis
Research Interests
E-Commerce, Online Trust, Web Content Accessibility, Consultant-client Relationships.
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His principal research interests lie in the fields of labour economics, applied microeconometrics, and health economics. In particular, his research has focused on wage equation models, human capital theory and the role of trade unions and seniority policies on individuals' earnings profiles. He has also work on job satisfaction, obesity and general health issues. Personal homepage
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