Archived Discussion Papers
This list combines archived discussion and working papers in four separate series:
- Department of Economics Discussion paper series (ECON, DP)
- Surrey Centre for International Economic Studies Working paper series (SCIES)
- Surrey Energy Economics Discussion paper series (SEEDS)
A hyperlink indicates that the full text of the paper is available in pdf format.
| ECON 01/98Year | Title | Authors | Series |
| 2007 | The Determinants of Base Pay and the Role of Race in Major League Soccer: Evidence from the 2007 League Season | Barry Reilly & Robert Witt | DP 19/07 |
| The Credibility Problem Revisited: Thirty Years On From Kydland and Prescott | Paul Levine, Joseph Pearlman & Bo Yang | DP 18/07 | |
| Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union: Can Fiscal Cooperation Be Counterproductive? | Luisa Lambertini, Paul Levine & Joseph Pearlman | DP 17/07 | |
| Estimating DSGE Models Under Partial Information | Paul Levine, Joseph Pearlman & George Perendia | DP 16/07 | |
| Growth and Welfare Effects of East-West European Migration | Paul Levine, Emanuela Lotti, Joseph Pearlman & Richard Pierse | DP 15/07 | |
| What Macroeconomics Conditions Best Explain Southeast Asian Capital Flows? | Alex Mandilaras & Helen Popper | DP 14/07 | |
| Foreign Exchange Pressures in Latin America: Does Debt Matter? | Graham Bird & Alex Mandilaras | DP 13/07 | |
| Revisiting Mrs. Machlup's Wardrobe: The Accumulation of International Reserves, 1992-2001 | Graham Bird & Alex Mandilaras | DP 12/07 | |
| Channel Trading and Imperfect Competition: Good Trades and Bad Trades | Paul Levine & Neil Rickman | DP 11/07 | |
| Optimal Administered Incentive Pricing of Spectrum | Paul Levine & Neil Rickman | DP 10/07 | |
| Monetary Policy Coordination Revisited in a Two-Block DSGE Model | Paul Levine, Joseph Pearlman & Richard Pierse | DP 09/07 | |
| Monetary Rules in Emerging Economies with Financial Market Imperfections | Nicoletta Batini, Paul Levine & Joseph Pearlman | DP 08/07 | |
| Robust Monetary Rules Under Unstructured and Structured Model Uncertainty | Paul Levine & Joseph Pearlman | DP 07/07 | |
| Spectrum Property Rights Versus A Commons Model: Exploitation of Mesh Networks | Paul Levine, Klaus Moessner & Neil Rickman | DP 06/07 | |
| Anglo-Dutch, Split-Award Spectrum Actions with a Downstream Market | Parimal Bag, Paul Levine & Neil Rickman | DP 05/07 | |
| The IMF:A Bird's Eye View of its Role and Operations | Graham Bird | DP 04/07 | |
| Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education | Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg & Lindsey MacMillan | DP 03/07 | |
| The IMF'S Role in Mobilizing Private Capital Flows: Are There Grounds for Catalytic Conversion? | Graham Bird & Dane Rowlands | DP 02/07 | |
| The Analysis of Catalysis: IMF Programs and Private Capital Flows | Graham Bird & Dane Rowlands | DP 01/07 | |
| 2006 | Lobbies, Delegation and the Under-Investment Problem in Regulation | Joanne Evans, Paul Levine & Fransesc Trillas | DP 20/06 |
| Labour Market and Investment Effects of Remittances | Stephen Drinkwater, Paul Levine & Emanuela Lotti | DP 19/06 | |
| What Determines the Implementation of IMF Programs? | Ozlem Arpac, Graham Bird & Alex Mandilaras | DP 18/06 | |
| Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the UK | Stephen Drinkwater, John Eade & Michal Garapich | DP 17/06 | |
| Explaining IMF Arrangements: Was Asia Different? | Graham Bird & Dane Rowlands | DP 16/06 | |
| The Implementation of IMF Programs: A Conceptual Framework | Graham Bird | DP 15/06 | |
| Measurement, Technological Capability, and Intra-Industry Trade: Evidence from the EU | Ali Choudhary, Paul Temple & Lei Zhao | DP 14/06 | |
| Mind the Gap: A Comment on Aggregate Productivity and Technology | Ali Choudhary & Vasco Gabriel | DP 13/06 | |
| Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales, 1991 - 2001 | Kenneth Clark & Stephen Drinkwater | DP 12/06 | |
| The Dynamic Wage Bargaining Problem | Renuka Metcalfe | DP 11/06 | |
| Terminal Conditions in Forward-Looking Economics Model | Richard Pierse | DP 10/06 | |
| Optimal Control in Nonlinear Models: A Generalised Gauss-Newton Algorithm with Analytic Derivatives | Richard Pierse | DP 09/06 | |
| Central Bank Independence and the "Free Lunch Puzzle": A New Perspective | Ali al-Nowaihi, Paul Levine & Alex Mandilaras | DP 08/06 | |
| Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Latent Separability | Ian A. Crawford | DP 07/06 | |
| Reaction Functions of Bank of England MPC Members: Insiders Versus Outsiders | Christopher Spencer | DP 06/06 | |
| The 24/7 Society and Multiple Habits | Ali Choudhary & Paul Levine | DP 05/06 | |
| Public Debt Maturity and Currency Crises | Paul Levine, Alexandros Mandilaras & Jun Wang | DP 04/06 | |
| The Dissent Voting Behaviour of Bank of England MPC Members | Christopher Spencer | DP 03/06 | |
| Robust Estimates of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve | Luis Martins & Vasco Gabriel | DP 02/06 | |
| Price Regulation and the Commitment Problem: Can Limited Capture be Beneficial? | Paul Levine, Neil Rickman & Francesc Trillas | DP 01/06 | |
| 2005 | A Note on: Jury Size and the Free Rider Problem | Parimal Kanti, Paul Levine & Christopher Spencer | DP 17/05 |
| The Hazaard of Beign an English Football League Manager: Empirical Estimates from the 2002/3 Season | Ray Bachan, Barry Reilly & Robert Witt | DP 16/05 | |
| Consensus Formation in Monetary Policy Committees | Christopher Spencer | DP 15/05 | |
| On the Stability of the Wealth Effect | Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bagco & Vasco Gabriel | DP 14/05 | |
| IMF Quotas: Constructing an International Organisation Using Inferior Building Blocks | Graham Bird & Dane Rowlands | DP 13/05 | |
| A Nonparametric Test of Stochastic Dominance in Multivariate Distributions | Ian Crawford | DP 12/05 | |
| The IMF and the Mobilization of Foreign Aid | Graham Bird & Dane Rowlands | DP 11/05 | |
| Identifying Externalities in UK Manufacturing Using Direct Estimation of an Average Cost Function | Ciaran Driver, Paul Temple & Giovanni Urga | DP 10/05 | |
| Should it be Curtains for Some of the IMF's Lending Windows? | Graham Bird & Dane Rowlands | DP 09/05 | |
| Contrasts Between Classes of Assets in Fixed Investment Equations as a Way of Testing Real Option Theory | Ciaran Driver, Paul Temple & Giovanni Urga | DP 08/05 | |
| Bi-Polar Disorder: Exchange Rate Regimes, Economics Crises and the IMF | Graham Bird & Dane Rowlands | DP 07/05 | |
| The Viability of Economics Reform Programs Supported by the International Financial Institutions | Graham Bird, Wolfgang Mayer & Alex Mourmouras | DP 06/05 | |
| Over-optimism and the IMF | Graham Bird | DP 05/05 | |
| Explaining the Diversity of Industry Investment Responses to Uncertainty Using Long Run Panel Survey Data | Ciaran Driver, Paul Temple & Giovanni Urga | DP 04/05 | |
| Revealed Preference Analysis of Characteristics Models | Laura Blow, Martin Browning & Ian Crawford | DP 03/05 | |
| Beneficial Collusion in Corruption Control: The Case of Nonmonetary Penalties | Mehmet Bac & Parimal Kanti Bag | DP 02/05 | |
| Favouritism and Financial Incentives: A Natural Experiment | Neil Rickman & Robert Witt | DP 01/05 | |
| 2004 | Everyone's a Winner? Union Effects on Persistence in Private Sector Wage Settlements: Longitudinal Evidence from Britain | Donna Brown, Peter Ingram & Jonathan Wadsworth | DP 11/04 |
| Institutions and Long-Run Growth in the UK: The Role of Standards | Paul Temple, Robert Witt & Chris Spencer | DP 10/04 | |
| Strategic Procurement, Openness and Market Structure | Maria Garcia-Alonso & Paul Levine | DP 09/04 | |
| Robust Inflation-Forecast-Based Rules to Shield Against Indeterminacy | Nicoletta Batini, Alejandro Justiniano, Paul Levine & Joseph Pearlman | DP 08/04 | |
| Can Risk Aversion in Firms Reduce Unemployment Persistence? | Ali Choudhary & Paul Levine | DP 07/04 | |
| Migration and Labour Market Differences: The Case of Wales | Stephen Drinkwater & David Blackaby | DP 06/04 | |
| The Transition from Welfare to Work | Robert J. Lemke, Robert J. Witt & Ann Dryden Witte | DP 05/04 | |
| Connecting People | Ali Choudhary | DP 04/04 | |
| Liability, Insurance and Defensive Medicine: New Evidence | Paul Fenn, Alastair Gray & Neil Rickman | DP 03/04 | |
| Indeterminacy with Inflation-Forecast-Based Rules in a Two-Bloc Model | Nicoletta Batini, Paul Levine & Joseph Pearlman | DP 02/04 | |
| Shareholder Value or Competitive Advantage? Evidence from Hurdle Rates | Ciaran Driver & Paul Temple | DP 01/04 | |
| 2003 | Estimating the Willingness to Move within Great Britain: Importance and Implications | Stephen Drinkwater | DP 12/03 |
| Are Performance Conditions on Executive Options Driven by Fundamentals? | Ali Choudhary & J. Michael Orszag | DP 11/03 | |
| The Implementation of IMF Programmes: A Conceptual Framework and a Policy Agenda | Graham Bird | DP 10/03 | |
| Have Industrial Relations in the UK Really Improved? | Stephen Drinkwater & Peter Ingram | DP 09/03 | |
| Pay Settlements and Nominal Wage Rigidity in Britain | Donna Brown, Peter Ingram & Jonathan Wadsworth | DP 08/03 | |
| Determinants of Employee Crime in the UK | Neil Rickman & Robert Witt | DP 07/03 | |
| Price Regulation, Investment and the Commitment Problem | Neil Rickman & Paul Levine | DP 06/03 | |
| Go West? Assessing the Willingness to Move from Central and Eastern European Counties | Stephen Drinkwater | DP 05/03 | |
| Independent Utility Regulators: Lessons from Monetary Policy | Paul Levine, Jon Stern & Francesc Trillas | DP 04/03 | |
| Self-Stabilizing Firms and Unemployment Persistence | Ali Choudhary & Paul Levine | DP 03/03 | |
| The Immigration Surplus Revisited in a General Equilibrium Model with Endogenous Growth | Paul Levine, Emanuela Lotti & Joseph Pearlman | DP 02/03 | |
| The Economics Impact of Migration: A Survey | Stephen Drinkwater, Paul Levine, Emanuela Lotti & Joseph Pearlman | DP 01/03 | |
| 2002 | Back from the Dead? The Return of Energy Policy | Colin Robinson | SEEDS 104 |
| 2000 | An Empirical Analysis of the Long-run Energy Demand in Japan: 1887-1998 | Yasushi Ninomiya | SEEDS 103 |
| Efficiency and Performance in the Gas Industry | David Hawdon | SEEDS 102 | |
| A general approach to the solution of nonlinear rational expectations models | Andrew P. Blake and Richard G. Pierse | ECON 4/00 | |
| Crime causation: economic theories | Ann Dryden Witte and Robert Witt | ECON 3/00 | |
| Public debt and inflation: the role of inflation-sensitive instruments | Alexandros Mandilaras and Paul Levine | ECON 2/00 | |
| Patient Choice and Primary Care | Heather Gage and Neil Rickman | ECON 1/00 | |
| Moving towards competition in water: lessons from Gas and Electricity regulation | Colin Robinson | SEEDS 101 | |
| UK privatisation: retrospect and prospect | Clare Spottiswoode, Eileen Marshall, Michael Parker and Frank Cronin | SEEDS 100 | |
| Modelling technical progress: an application of the stochastic trend model to UK energy demand | Lester C. Hunt, Guy Judge and Yasushi Ninomiya | SEEDS 99 | |
| 1999 | Regional variations of the demand for arms trade: an empirical study of global panel data | Fotis Mouzakis | ECON 2/99 |
| The influence of uncertainty of investment in the UK: a macro or micro phenomenon? | Paul Temple, Ciaran Diver and Giovanni Urga | ECON 1/99 | |
| Regulatory reform of the UK Gas market - the case of the storage auction | David Hawdon and Nicola Stevens | SEEDS 98 | |
| Estimating the demand for energy in Jordan: a Stock-Watson dynamic OLS (DOLS) approach | Ahmed Al-Azzam and David Hawdon | SEEDS 97 | |
| Catalysis of direct borrowing: the role of the IMF in mobilising private capital | Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands | SCIES 99/7 | |
| IMF lending: how is it affected by economic, political and institutional factors? | Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands | SCIES 99/6 | |
| Does IMF conditionality signal policy credibility to markets? | Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands | SCIES 99/5 | |
| Does the World Bank catalyse other financial flows? | Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands | SCIES 99/4 | |
| The catalyzing role of policy-based lending by the IMF and the World Bank: fact or fiction? | Graham Bird, Antonella Mori and Dane Rowlands | SCIES 99/3 | |
| Do the multilaterals catalyse other capital flows? What evidence does the case study evidence show? | Graham Bird, Antonella Mori and Dane Rowlands | SCIES 99/2 | |
| Reforming the IMF: long term lessons from short-term crises | Graham Bird | SCIES 99/1 | |
| 1998 | The policy of power and the power of policy: energy policy in Honduras | Lester C. Hunt, Claudio Salgado and Andy Thorpe | SEEDS 96 |
| Efficiency considerations in the Electricity supply industry: the case of Iran | Ali Emami Meibodi | SEEDS 95 | |
| Economic models of OPEC behaviour and the role of Saudi Arabia | Nourah A. Al-Yousef | SEEDS 94 | |
| Growing at different rates | Thomas Krichel | ECON 01/98 | |
| Modelling Saudi Arabia behaviour in the world oil market 1976-1996 | Nourah A. Al-Yousef | SEEDS 93 | |
| The socio-economic impact of renewable energy technologies | Hayley Myles | SEEDS 92 | |
| Pressure groups and political forces in Britain's privitisation programme | Colin Robinson | SEEDS 91 | |
| Mutual deposit taking: a welfare analysis | Alistair Milne | SCIES 98/2 | |
| Bank capital and risk taking | Alistair Milne and A. Elizabeth Whalley | SCIES 98/1 | |
| 1997 | The welfare economics of rural to urban migration: the Harris-Todaro model revisited | Thomas Krichel and Paul Levine | ECON 02/97 |
| Fiscal policy after Maastricht | Marco Catenaro | ECON 01/97 | |
| Environmental information and the demand for super unleaded petrol in the UK | Roger Fouquet | SEEDS 90 | |
| Monetary union: the ins and outs of strategic delegation | Paul Levine and Joseph Pearlman | SCIES 97/6 | |
| Domestic procurement, subsidies and the arms trade | Mary Carmen Garcia-Alonso and Paul Levine | SCIES 97/5 | |
| Conditionally, credibility and catalysis: a theory discredited | Graham Bird | SCIES 97/4 | |
| How important is sound domestic macroeconomics in attracting capital inflows to developing countries? | Graham Bird | SCIES 97/3 | |
| The catalytic effect of lending by the international financial institutions? | Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands | SCIES 97/2 | |
| Is Asian growth a threat to the West? | Paul Levine | SCIES 97/1 | |
| 1996 | Contingent fees and litigation settlement | Neil Rickman | ECON 09/96 |
| The arms trade: some theories and econometrics | Paul Levine, Fotis Mouzakis and Ron Smith | ECON 08/96 | |
| Are higher long-term unemployment rates associated with higher crime? | Robert Witt, Alan Clarke and Nigel Fielding | ECON 07/96 | |
| Common stochastic trends, cycles and sectoral fluctuations: a study of output in the UK | Anthony Garratt and Richard G. Pierse | ECON 06/96 | |
| Explaining breast cancer mortality in England: the effect of socio-economic factors and health care services | Heather Gage and Roger Fouquet | ECON 05/96 | |
| The role of screening in reducing invasive cervical cancer registrations in England | Roger Fouquet and Heather Gage | ECON 4/96 | |
| Crime, regions and the labour market | Robert Witt, Alan Clarke and Nigel Fielding | ECON 3/96 | |
| Population health outcome indicators and public health policy formation in England | Heather Gage and Roger Fouquet | ECON 2/96 | |
| The level and power of the bootstrap t-test in the trend model with AR(1) errors | John C. Nankervis and N. E. Savin | ECON 1/96 | |
| Buffer stock saving with uninsurable income shocks | Alistair Milne and A. Elizabeth Whalley | online 9604 | |
| New analysis of a model of time to build | Alistair Milne and A. Elizabeth Whalley | online 9603 | |
| Dynamic aspect of growth and fiscal policy | Thomas Krichel and Paul Levine | online 9601 | |
| Petrol price asymmetries revisited | Barry Reilly and Robert Witt | SEEDS 89 | |
| UK energy policy: findings from two surveys | Peter J G Pearson and Roger Fouquet | SEEDS 87 | |
| The effectiveness of conditionality and the political economy of policy reform: is it simply a matter of political will? | Graham Bird | SCIES 96/0 | |
| The rise and fall of the SDR: the political economy of an international reserve asset | Graham Bird | SCIES 96/9 | |
| Phases of imitation and innovation in a North-South endogenous growth model | David Currie, Paul Levine, Joseph Pearlman and Michael Chui | SCIES 96/8 | |
| Independent but accountable: Walsh contracts and the credibility problem | Ali al-Nowaihi and Paul Levine | SCIES 96/7 | |
| Does precommitment raise growth? Dynamic aspects of growth and fiscal policy | Paul Levine and Thomas Krichel | SCIES 96/6 | |
| The arms trade and the stability of regional arms races | Paul Levine | SCIES 96/5 | |
| External financing and balance of payments adjusting in developing countries: how to get the right mix | Graham Bird | SCIES 96/4 | |
| Can neoliberalism survive in Latin America? | Graham Bird and Ann Helwege | SCIES 96/3 | |
| Financing constraints and reordering rules | Alistair Milne | SCIES 96/2 | |
| Recidivism and borrowing from the IMF: how to kick the habit | Graham Bird | SCIES 96/1 |