
Professor Euan Phimister
Chair in Economics
- About
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Biography
Euan Phimister holds an appointment as Professor of Economics in the Business School and is also Professor of Development Finance at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa.
He is a resource economist with long standing research interests in household behaviour in imperfect markets. His recent work focusses on links between energy, rural development and finance, including understanding the interrelationships between access to energy, food production and the governance of common resources in Sub-Saharan Africa. A significant proportion of his work has involved economic modelling including current work on modelling debt sustainability in resource rich countries.
In recent years he has been involved in a range of UK Research Council funded inter-disciplinary projects focussed on Sub-Saharan Africa, involving partners from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Uganda.
He has spent over 20 years as full time faculty at Aberdeen and within the Business School he has been Deputy Head of School, School Director of Research and School Director of Resources. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was the first Director of the School's MSc in Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance. He is an Honorary Associate of the James Hutton Institute and is a Panel member for Main Panel A: Sub-panel 6 (Agriculture) in the UK Research Excellence Framework 2020.
External Memberships
REF2014 & REF2021 Agriculture sub-panel member. Associate Editor Journal of Agricultural Economics.
- Research
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Research Overview
Household Economics, Access to Energy and Energy Poverty, Debt Sustainability in Resource Rich Countries, Decision Making in Health, Micro-credit
Current Research
A main focus for his research is on understanding the interrelationships between access to credit, energy and food production and governance of common resources in Sub-Saharan Africa. This builds on long standing work around (farm) household behaviour and imperfect markets and links with current research on micro-credit repayment performance in Turkey. In addition he is also undertaking research on modelling debt sustainability in resource rich countries, on decision making within DCEs in Health and the Environment.
He is currently leading a Global Challenges Research Fund project (RALENTIR) on land and soil degradation in Ethiopia, aiming to improve how land conservation measures are designed so benefits to local communities are increased while safeguarding soil conservation. He is also involved in the development of economic and financial analyses with an international team of ecologists aiming to improve invasive species management in Latin America. Previously, he was PI of an interdisplinary project funded by the ESRC on the water, food energy nexus (IPORE) and Co-I on a NERC-DfiD funded project on building resilience to drought in Ethiopia (BREAD); and PI on a British Academy funded project examining the use of existing large scale datasets in Sub-Saharan Africa with partners in Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda.
- Publications
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Repayment Performance of Joint-Liability Microcredits: Metropolitan Evidence on Social Capital and Group Names
Bulletin of Economic ResearchContributions to Journals: ArticlesEnergy Transition in the UKCS: Modelling the Effects of Carbon Emission Charges on Upstream Petroleum Operations
Energy Economics, vol. 108, 105898Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105898
Changes in soil properties following the establishment of exclosures in Ethiopia: a meta-analysis
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10, 823026Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIdentifying priorities, targets, and actions for the long-term social and ecological management of invasive non-native species
Environmental Management, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 140-153Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAn optimisation model for incentivising the development of marginal oil and gas fields amidst increasingly complex ownership patterns: UKCS case study
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, vol. 207, 109109Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWorker Incentives in the Banking Industry
Journal of Financial Services ResearchContributions to Journals: ArticlesWhat Difference has the Cullen Report made?: Empirical Analysis of Offshore Safety Regulations in the United Kingdom’s Oil and Gas Industry
Energy Policy, vol. 155, 112354Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUnlocking the Economic Viability of Marginal UKCS Discoveries: Optimising Cluster Developments
Energy Economics, vol. 97, 105233Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105233
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From Farm to Kitchen: How gender affects production diversity and the dietary intake of farm households in Ethiopia
Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 268-292Contributions to Journals: ArticlesManagement policies for invasive alien species: Addressing the impacts rather than the species
BioScience, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 174–185Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa139