updated August 2011
Full CV
Education
2000-03 University of Durham, BA Economics, First Class (Hons.).
2003-04 University of Warwick, MSc Economics.
2004-07 University of St Andrews, PhD Economics, Thesis Title: Towards the Microfoundations of Finance and Growth, Supervisors: Prof. Charles Nolan and Dr. Gary Shea, Examiners: Prof. John Driffill (Birkbeck); Prof. David Ulph (St Andrews).
Positions Held
2002 Bank of England, Economic Assistant in the Structural Economic Analysis Division, Undergraduate Scheme.
2003 EKOS Consulting, Summer Internship.
2004- Research Affiliate/Associate, Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis.
2007- Lecturer in Economics, University of St Andrews.
Papers and Publications
‘Finance and Growth: A Critical Survey’, Economic Record, 2006, 82(259), pp. 481-90, link.
‘Efficiency, Depth and Growth: Quantitative Implications of Finance and Growth Theory’, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008, 30(4), pp. 1550-68, link.
‘Infrastructure Finance and Industrial Takeoff in England’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42(6), lead article, pp. 985-1010, link.
‘Contracting Institutions and Development’, 2009, CDMA Working Paper 0904, link.
‘Institutions and the Scale Effect’, 2009, CDMA Working Paper 0906, link.
‘Finance and Balanced Growth’, 2010, CDMA Working Paper 1012, link.
‘Transaction Costs and Institutions’, 2011, with Charles Nolan, CDMA Working Paper 1103, link.
Works in Progress
‘A Simple Theory of Elites’, with Charles Nolan.
‘Spatial Takeoff’
‘Finance and Growth in Space’
‘Debt, Equity and Coalitions in Economic Development’.
‘Financial Coalitions, Infrastructure and Growth in the UK’, with Gary Shea.
Presentations
March 2007, Koç University, Turkey; April 2007, Economic History Society, Exeter; April 2007, Royal Economic Society, Warwick; September 2007, CDMA, St Andrews; September 2007, MMF, Birmingham; February 2008, Exeter; February 2008, SIRE/CEFS Conference, Glasgow; March 2008, Royal Economic Society, Warwick; June 2008, ISNIE Annual Conference, Toronto; May 2009, University of Stirling; December 2009, SIRE Forum, Dundee; April 2010, Scottish Economic Society; September 2010, MMF, Cyprus University of Technology; November 2010, University of Oxford; November 2010, University of Edinburgh; November 2010, University of Newcastle; November 2010, University of Leicester.
Courses
‘Modern Theories of Macrodynamics and Growth’, with Prof. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (LSE) and Prof Phillipe Aghion (Harvard), RES Easter School, 2005.
‘Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for Dynamic Programming’, with Prof. Kenneth L. Judd (Stanford), cemmap, 2010.
Research Interests
Growth theory, finance and growth, economic history, contract theory, institutions and elites.
Refereeing
Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Fiscal Studies, Manchester School.
Duties
2004-10, CDMA Webmaster.
2008, Organizer, 2nd St Andrews Workshop in Applied Microeconomics.
2008, Co-Organizer, SIRE Forum for Young Researchers.
2009-, School IT Strategy Group.
2010-, School seminar organiser.
2010-, Associate Examiner, University of London International Programmes.
2011-, School Research Committee, member.
2011, Co-Organizer, SIRE/CDMA Workshop in Economic Growth.
Teaching
Econometrics (Junior/Senior Honours); Institutions (Senior Honours); Financial Regulation (Senior Honours) Central Banking (MSc), Financial Intermediation (MSc), Money and Banking (MSc).
Research Funding
2004-06 £26,400 from CDMA: Full PhD Studentship.
2006-08 £131,500 (non fEC) from Shell Foundation: ‘Private Sector Finance and the Support of Infrastructure as a Source of Economic Growth’, joint with Charles Nolan and Gary Shea.
Computer Skills
MATLAB, Stata, Eviews, PcGive, LaTeX, RePEc archiving, Dreamweaver.
Referees
Professor Thorsten Beck, Professor of Economics and Chairman, European Banking Center
Department of Economics, Tilberg University
P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands
Email: T.Beck@uvt.nl
Professor Panicos Demetriades, Professor of Financial Economics
Department of Economics, University of Leicester
University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Email: pd28@le.ac.uk
Professor Charles Nolan, Bonar-MacFie Chair of Political Economy
Department of Economics, University of Glasgow
Adam Smith Building, Glasgow, G12 8RT, UK
Email: Charles.Nolan@glasgow.ac.uk
