Senior Lecturer

Contact Details

• Tel: 0116 252 2184
• Email: dv33@le.ac.uk
• Office: AC117, Astley Clarke Building
• Office Hours:

Biography

Curriculum Vitae (updated March 2012) 

Research Interests

• Endogenous growth theory;
• Volatility and economic growth;
• Endogenous cycles;
• Economic growth and environmental quality;
• Environmental economics;
• Demographic change and economic growth;
• Corruption and economic development. 

Teaching

• EC3001: Advanced Macroeconomics
• EC2024: Foundations of Macroeconomic Theory

Administrative Responsibilities

•  Erasmus/Study Abroad departmental coordinator
• Chair of the syllabus committee on macroeconomic modules 

Most Recent Publications

• “Endogenous fertility in a growth model with public and private health expenditures”, forthcoming in the Journal of Population Economics (with Intan Zanariah Zakaria)
• “Intergenerational complementarities in education, endogenous public policy, and the relation between growth and volatility”, forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economic Theory (with Theodore Palivos)
• “Non-monotonic welfare dynamics in a growing economy” (2011), Journal of Macroeconomics 33, 303-312
• “Education and growth: a simple model with complicated dynamics” (2010), International Journal of Economic Theory 6, 367-384 (with Theodore Palivos)

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