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Alex has studed economics at the University of Warwick and the University of Durham and has previously worked at the Bank of England and EKOS Consulting as a summer intern. He obtained his PhD at the University of St Andrews and started a Lectureship in Economics in 2007.

• EC3203 Advanced Macroeconomics
• EC4201 Economic Analysis (PMT)
• EC5608 Financial Intermediation (PMT)
• EC5801 Money & Banking (PMT)

Economic growth, finance and growth, institutions.

2006-08: Shell Foundation Grant No. 21401, 'Private Sector Finance and the Support of Infrastructure as a Source of Economic Growth', £131,500, joint with Charles Nolan and Gary Shea.

• (2006), 'Finance and Growth: A Critical Survey', Economic Record, 82(259), pp. 481-90. (download)
• (2008), 'Efficiency, Depth and Growth: Quantitative Implications of Finance and Growth Theory', Journal of Macroeconomics, 30(4), pp. 1550-68. (download)
• (2010), 'Infrastructure Finance and Industrial Takeoff in England', Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 42(6), pp. 985-1010, lead article. (download)
• (2012), 'Contracting Institutions and Development', Review of Economics and Institutions, 3(3), (download)
• (forthcoming), 'Finance and Balanced Growth', Macroeconomic Dynamics, (download working paper)

• (2006), 'Finance and Growth: A Critical Survey', CDMA Working Paper 0507. (download; longer version than published)
• (2009), 'Institutions and the Scale Effect', CDMA Working Paper 0906. (download)
• (2011), 'Transaction Costs and Institutions', with Charles Nolan, CDMA Working Paper 1103. (download)
• (2012), 'Spatial Takeoff during the First Industrial Revolution', revise and resubmit.

• 'Finance and Growth in Space'
• 'Debt, Equity and Coalitions in Economic Development'.
• 'A Simple Theory of Elites', joint with Charles Nolan.
• 'Financial Coalitions, Infrastructure and Growth in the UK', joint with Gary Shea.