Professor Tom Weyman-Jones

BSc Econ (London), MSc Econ (London), PhD (Melbourne)

  • Emeritus Professor of Industrial Economics

Expertise: efficiency and productivity analysis; economic regulation; energy economics

  • PhD supervision in the fields of efficiency and productivity analysis and energy: supervisor for 3 research students Loughborough Business School and 2 research students in School of Civil and Building Engineering
  • Module contributor - CVP317: Energy: Society, Economics, and Policy for MRES

Research interests

  • efficiency and productivity analysis using stochastic frontier econometrics and mathematical programming;
  • the theory of regulation in industrial organization;
  • the theory and practice of energy economics.

Member of the Centre for Productivity and Performance, Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University.

Associate Editor, Journal of Productivity Analysis.

  • ‘Ownership Structure, Institutional Organisation, and Measured X-Efficiency’, American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, vol 82, 2, May, pp. 439-46, 1992, (co-author K. Button).
  • ‘X-Efficiency and Technical Efficiency’, Public Choice, 80: pp.83-104, 1994, (co-author K. Button).
  • ‘Allocative & Technical Efficiency in UK Building Societies: a comparison of nonparametric and stochastic frontier approaches’, The Manchester School, LXIV, 1, March, pp 22-37, 1996, (co-author L. Drake).
  • ‘The Behaviour of the Firm under Alternative Regulatory Constraints’, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, May, 45 (2) May, 133-57, 1998, (co-authors: P. Burns and R. Turvey).
  • ‘Relative National Efficiency and Country Size: evidence for developing countries’, Review of Development Economics, 7(1), 1-14, 2003, (co-author: C. Milner).
  • ‘Determining the contribution of technical, efficiency and scale change to productivity growth in the privatized English and Welsh water and sewerage industry: 1985-2000’, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 28, 127-39, 2007, (co-authors: D. Saal and D. Parker).