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David Ulph studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford (where he held a Snell Exhibition). He held academic appointments at Stirling University and University College London (UCL), before becoming a Professor at the University of Bristol where he was also Head of Department. He then moved back to UCL as Professor and Head of Department. While at UCL he became Executive Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE), which, amongst other things, designed the UK auction for 3G licences that raised around £22bn in revenue. He has served on various ESRC committees, and on the Council and Executive Committee of the Royal Economic Society. He has raised over £2m in research income from various UK and international research councils, and has participated in and directed a number of European research projects funded by the European Commission. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the European Economic Association in recognition of his contribution to Economics in Europe. In 2001 he took up a 5-year appointment as Director of Analysis in the Inland Revenue, which, following a merger with HM Customs and Excise, has now become HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). He was responsible for leading a team of around 320 analysts advising the Chancellor, Ministers, HM Treasury and HMRC on all aspects of tax policy and tax administration. He rejoined academia in October 2006 as Professor and Head of School of Economics and Finance at St Andrews.

He has a wide range of research interests in economics, but the main areas of current research are:

• economics of innovation particularly links between competition and innovation, and the role of knowledge and information sharing;
• taxation, particularly the issues of tax avoidance and tax policy;
• environmental economics, particularly climate change;
• economics of third sector/civil society.

• (with H.M. Neary) "Strategic Investment and the Co-Existence of Labour Managed and Profit-Maximising Firms", Canadian Journal of Economics, 1997, 97, 308-328.
• (with A. Ulph) "Global Warming, Irreversibility and Learning", Economic Journal, 1997, 107, 636-650.
• (with Y. Katsoulacos) "Endogenous Spillovers and the Performance of Research Joint Ventures", Journal of Industrial Economics, 1998.
• (with A. Ulph) "Labour Markets, Bargaining and Innovation", European Economic Review, 1998.
• (with N. Menezes-Filho and J. Van Reenen) "The Determination of R&D: Empirical Evidence on the Role of Unions ", European Economic Review, 1998,
• (with N. Menezes-Filho and J.Van Reenen) "R&D and Union Bargaining: Evidence from British Companies and Establishments" Industrial and Labour Relations Review, 1998.
• (with M. Pemberton) "Measuring Income and Measuring Sustainability" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2001, 103, 25-40.
• (with A. Ulph) "Strategic Innovation with Complete and Incomplete Labour Market Contracts", Scandinavian Journal of Economics,2001, 103, 265-282.
• (with R. Owen) "Sunk Costs, Market Access, Economic Integration and Welfare", Review of International Economics, 2002, 10, 539-555
• (with J. Beath, R. Owen, R, and J. Poyago-Theotoky) "Optimal incentives for income-generation in universities: the rule of thumb for the Compton tax", International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 2003, 21, 1301-1322
• "A General Non-Cooperative Model of Household Behaviour", L'Actualite Economique: Revue d'Analyse Economique, 2006, 82..
• "Dynamic Competition for Market Share and the Failure of the Market for Skilled Labour", in A. Booth and D. Snower (eds.) Acquiring Skills, 1996, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp 83-107
• (with A. Ulph) "Trade, strategic innovation and strategic environmental policy - a general analysis", in C. Carraro, Y. Katsoulacos and Xepapadeas (eds.), Environmental Policy and Market Structure, 1997, Kluwer. Dordrecht, pp 181-208.
• (with A. Ulph) "Who Gains from Learning about Global Warming", in E. van Ierland and K. Gorka (eds) Economics of Atmospheric Pollution, 1996, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 31-67.
• "Environmental Policy and Technological Innovation", in C. Carraro and D. Siniscalco (eds.) New Directions in the Economic Theory of the Environment, 1997, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp 43-68.
• (with Y. Katsoulacos) "Technology Policy: A Selective Review with Emphasis on European Policy and the Role of RJVs" in J. Poyago-Theotoky (ed.) Competition, Cooperation, research and Development, 1997, Macmillan, pp 13 -38.
• (with Y. Katsoulacos and A. Ulph) "Environmental Policy and the Welfare Performance of Research Joint Ventures", in C.Carraro and G. Metcalf (eds.) Behavioural and Distributive Effects of Environmental Policy , 2001, Chicago University Press pp 309-346.
• (with Y. Katsoulacos) "The Economics of Research Joint Ventures", Fteschrift for Emanuel Drandakis. 2002.