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Remember the cows on the Cow Hill you can see from the Claremont Tower????

 

Hello there! I have just submitted my thesis for a PhD degree in Economics at University of Newcastle upon Tyne - co-supervised by Tim Barmby and Peter Dolton. The main topic is on Personnel Economics - so I'm applying econometric analysis using personnel records of a British bank. My other topic is on the pay of Vice Chancellors / Principals in UK universities. I expect to defend it sometime in Spring 2005. If you would like to take a look at my thesis, click here. If you would like to download the chapters separately, click here, here, here, here, here, then finally, here.

Currently I'm working full time at University of Aberdeen. In the past two year I was hired to work on an ESRC funded project - Competition and Reform: Devolved Government and Public Sector Pay-Setting, run by Bob Elliott, Tony Scott, and David Bell. Staring from September 2004, I'm working on anther ESRC funded project on mobility and unemployment with Harminder Battu and Euan Phimister.

I'd like to think of myself as a personnel economist. If you'd like to take a look at my CV, click here. There are links to the papers I've written inside my CV if my research is of interest to you.

If you want to start using the Labour Force Survey, here is the short introduction I have written.

I have many unhealthy obsessions, some of them old, some of them new. In no particular order, they're:

- Fountain pens, especially Pelikan 400NN with Flexible nibs
- Fountain pen inks, and I love using the discontinued fuschia by Rotring in my black Pelikan M800
- Statalist 
- Carry Tennis's column Since You Asked on Salon.com
- Next Magazine (Hong Kong mag, the editor has a PhD in Econ, Steven Cheung contributes regularly)
- Bought loads of soundtrack CDs when I was a teenager
- Turning my office and part of the economics department into a loss making chili farm (if I'd only bought chilies with the money I spent on the plants...)
- Piano
- Saxophone

 

My other presences on the WWW:
HoPEc
Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen
The Guardian "VCs 'embarrassed' by large pay rises", Friday April 4, 2003
My Staff Page at Aberdeen University

 

 

Schools I went to; Places I worked at [back to top]


Non-news Websites that I visit at least once a year (probably more often) [back to top]

Translators [back to top]

Currency Convertors & Online Payment Services [back to top]


Buy a Book!!! [back to top]
  • ABE.com - Oooh what does it stand for???  It's the Advanced Book Exchange!!  The top search engine for books at many many second hand bookshops!!
  • Amazon.com
  • Amazon.co.uk
  • Gambling Books - Want to do econometrics?  Look no further, here is the place that sells econometrics books on horse racing.
  • Wigtown - Scotland's National Book Town
  • Tesco.com  - yes they sell books as well, but they won't ship the book along with your grocery, you still have to pay for the P&P.
  • Zubal.com - Second hand bookshop in the US, very speedy delivery except that the P&P is rather high ($12.50 per book!), but then I picked up a book coauthored by Cyert and De Groot for $12, what more can I say??

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