Reader in Economics

Contact Details

• Tel: 0116 252 2898
• Email: aa10@le.ac.uk
• Office: AC004, Astley Clarke Building
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Biography

Curriculum Vitae (updated October 2011)

Research Interests

• Behavioural Economics

PhD Supervision

• James Cannam 
• Narges Hajimoladarvish
• Samuel Smithers

Teaching

• EC3070: Financial Derivatives
• EC7088: Mathematical Methods for Economics
• EC7094: Behavioral Finance

Current Administrative Responsibilities

• Director and Admissions Tutor for BSc Degrees in Economics
• Undergraduate Learning and Teaching Committee

Most Recent Publications

• (2012) 'Behavioral Economics'.  Forthcoming in the Encyclopaedia of Human Behavior, Second edition, Elsevier (with Sanjit Dhami).
• (2011) Hyperbolic Punishment Functions.  Forthcoming in the Review of Law and Economics (Berkeley Electronic Press Journals) (with Sanjit Dhami).
• (2011) Strategic Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction and Optimal Institutional Design when there is the Possibility of a Zero Lower Bound on Interest rate (with Sanjit Dhami).  Forthcoming in Oxford Economic Papers.  Most read Full-Text article in OEP for July 2011 (http://www.feedage.com/feeds/2199453/oxf-econ-pap-most-read-full-text-articles).
• (2011) Probability Weighting Functions in "Wiley Encyclopaedia of Operations Research and Management Science", John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey (with Sanjit Dhami).
• (2010) Learning to cooperate without awareness in multiplayer minimal social situations, with Andrew Colman, Briony Pulford and David Omtzigt, Cognitive Psychology 61, 201-227, doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.05.003.
• (2010) Social Preferences and Redistribution Under Direct Democracy, with Sanjit Dhami, European Economic Review 54, 743-759.
• (2010) Optimal income taxation in the presence of tax evasion: Expected utility versus prospect theory, with Sanjit Dhami, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 75, 313-337. 

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