OVERALL RESEARCH INTERESTS

Development, bankruptcies, informational asymmetry and signalling, taxation, standards, law abidance, macroeconomics,altruism, transition economies and political economics interface. The contents of a recent lecture given in Slovakia at Banska Bystrica and Liptovsky Mikulas can be seen at: Lecture April 2007.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Details on many of my publications, some of which are downloadable, can be found at: http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/phu121.htm

Book: Business Regulation and Public Policy: The Costs and Benefits of Compliance, (December, 2008) Joint editor with Andre Nijsen, Christoph Muller Kees van Paridon and Roy Thurik Springer

Journal Papers:

Be Known By The Company You Keep: Citations - Quality or Chance? (2007) Scientometrics, Vol 71, pp. 231-238

with Paul Mosley (2008) Aid Volatility, Policy and Development, World Development, Vol. 36, pp. 2082-2102.

with Paul Mosley (2008) The Macroeconomic Impact of Aid Volatility, Economics Letters, Vol. 99, pp. 486-489.

with Chris Hudson (2008) Guaranteeing Quality in the EU: Who Gains Most?, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 33, pp. 283-298.

with Phil Jones (2008) Corruption and Military Expenditure: At “No Cost to the King”, Journal of Defence and Peace Economics, Vol. 19, pp.387-403.

with D. Webber, M. Boddy, (2009) Regional productivity differentials in England: Explaining the gap, Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 88, pp. 609-621.

with Marta Orviska (2009) Dividing or uniting Europe? Internet usage in the EU, Information and Economic Policy, Forthcoming.

Selected ones since 2003

With Marta Orviska: Tax Evasion, Civic Duty and the Law Abiding Citizen, European Journal of Political Economy, 2003, Vol. 19, pp. 83-102.

with P. Jirojanakul & S. Skevington: Predicting Young Children's Quality of Life, Social Science and Medicine, 2003, Vol 57, pp. 1277-88.

with M. Orviska and A. Caplanova: Eastern European Attitudes to Integration with Western Europe, Journal of Common Market Studies, 2004, Vol. 42, pp. 271-88.

with P. Mosley and A. Verschoor: Aid, Poverty Reduction and the New Conditionality, Economic Journal, 2004, Vol. 114, pp. F217-F243.

Institutional Trust and Subjective Well-Being Across the EU: Kyklos, 2006, Vol. 59, pp. 43-62.

TEACHING

ES10007 Introductory Macroeconomics

ES30027 Econometrics 1

ES30028 Econometrics 2 (2012+ VERSION)

ES30028 Econometrics 2 (OLD VERSION)

Research Methods in Economics & Finance Part II (OLD VERSION)

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