School staff
Dr Christopher Spencer BA (Hons) (UEA), MSc (UEA), PhD (Surrey)
Lecturer
- +44 (0)1509 222715
- BE.2.06 (Sir Richard Morris Building)
- Publications
- C.G.Spencer@lboro.ac.uk
Module Organiser:
ECB001 : Intermediate Macroeconomics (Tutorials Semester 1)
ECP154 : Developments in Financial Markets (Semester 2)
ECP254 : Banking and Financial Markets (Semester 2)
Research Interests:
In addition to the role of role of committees in setting monetary policy, Christopher's research interests include EMU and EU enlargement, applied economics and macroeconomics.
Key Publications:
"Inflated Ordered Outcomes," Economics Letters, forthcoming (with Robert Brooks and Mark N. Harris)
"A decade of dissent: explaining the dissent voting behavior of Bank of England MPC members," Public Choice, Vol 146(2), pp.413-442, October 2011 (with Mark N Harris and Paul Levine).
"How forward-looking is the Fed? Direct estimates from a `Calvo-type' rule," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 104(2), pages 92-95, August 2009. (with Vasco Gabriel and Paul Levine)
"The Policy Choices and Reaction Functions of Bank of England MPC Members," Southern Economic Journal, Southern Economic Association, vol. 76(2), pages 482-499, October 2009. (with Mark N. Harris)
“A note on: jury size and the free rider problem” (with Parimal Bag & Paul Levine), (2005), Economics Bulletin, vol. 4(3), pages 1-12.
“Standards and Long-Run Growth in the UK” (with Paul Temple and Rob Witt) (2005), in The Empirical Economics of Standards, UK Department of Trade and Industry Economics Paper No.12 .
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