Biography

B Ec (Hons) Economics, La Trobe University
MCom Economics, University of Melbourne

Joanne Evans graduated with a BEc (Hons) in Economics from LaTrobe University (Australia) in 1994. She went on to obtain a MCom in Economics from the University of Melbourne in 1997. In 2000 she moved to the University of Hull (UK) to undertake a PhD. During her doctoral studies she held a position as a graduate teaching assistant. She joined the Department of Economics at the University of Surrey in 2004.

Research Interests

Jo's principal research interests are in regulation of utilities. She also has a more general interest in the application of microeconometics across a variety of microeconomic areas. She has worked on electricity regulation and (in 2003) gave evidence to the House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee on British Electricity Trading and Transmission Arrangements (Pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Electricity (Trading and Transmission) Bill).

Publications

• International Handbook on the Economics of Energy,(Edited), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, September 2009, ISBN 1-84720-352-6 (with Lester C. Hunt)

• “Lobbies, Delegation and the Underinvestment Problem in Regulation”, 2008 International Journal of Industrial Organization, 26 (1) (with P. Levine and F. Trillas).

• "Military Expenditure and Migration in Europe"; Defence and Peace Economics, 18(4), 305-316, 2007 (with P. Levine).

Teaching

Spring 2013

MAN1071 Business Economics

ECO3014 Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

ECOM038 Energy Regulation and Policy

Departmental Duties

Senior Professional Placement Tutor