Other Scientific Activities
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Founding Editor and Associate Editor of Economics Bulletin (EB). EB is a new electronic letters journal, with a distinguished international board of Associate Editors. EB welcome contributions in all areas of economics Click here for a recent article describing EB from the Royal Economic Society Newsletter and here for an article about the publication. Editor of the Journal of Public Economics Theory (JPET), published by Blackwell. The Association for Public Economic Theory (APET) is the association sponsoring JPET. APET sponsors an international conferences primarily focused on public economics and related topics. Guest editor of special issue of Games and Economic Behavior in honour of Martin Shubik. Click here for more information. Research Project:
Multijurisdictional Economies; Trade and Tax/Amenity Competition. This research project is sponsored by the ESRC as part of its research programme.
Understanding the Evolving Macro Economy,directed by Mark Taylor.
Other Responsibilities and Links
Director, Warwick Centre for Public Economics
Member: Royal Economics Association Committee on Women
PhD Course Leader
Member: Graduate committee
Member: MIR@W Committee
Advisory Board: Institute of Health
Warwick representative in the Coalitions, Groups and Networks" NetworkConferences
PET 06 Hanoi, sponsored by the National University of Economics of Vietnam
Coalition Theory Network, 11th workshop 19 - 21st January 2006
Socio-Economic Dynamics
Pet 05 Marseilles in conjunction with the Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet and sponsored by GREQAM-IDEP & Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II), was held in Marseilles, June 16 -18th, 2005. Watch here for updates and further information.
Public Economics and Economic Theory, Rio de Janeiro. A small APET sponsored workshop on Public Economics and Economic Theory was held in Rio de Janeiro on December 14th, 2004. The organizing committee consisted of Paulo Monteiro (Chair), Mario Pascoa and Myrna Wooders. The focus was on public economic theory, externalities, and mechanism design. The tentative list of speakers included Carlos Herves, Mario Pascoa, and Ben Zissimos.
PET 04 Beijing, sponsored by the University of Peking Guanghua School of Management, was held at the University of Peking August 25th-29th, 2004. The keynote speakers were Nobel Laureates James Heckman (University of Chicago), Dan McFadden (University of California -Berkeley), and James Mirrless (Oxford University).
PET 03 chaired by Thomas Nechyba, was held at Duke University, June 12-15th, 2003. Plenary speakers included Peter Diamond, Hugo Sonnenschein and James Poterba.
MIR@W Day, February 24,2003 on Culture, Evolution and Memes, featuring Susan Blackmore, author of The Meme Machine
PET 02 International APET conference on public economics Paris 1 (Pantheon\Sorbonne) July4th-6th 2002
PhD Paris Jamboree - 22/23 March 2002
European Science Foundation Workshop on Local Public Goods, Politics and Multijurisdictional EconomiesMIR@W DAY on Bargaining and Other Topics in Game Theory and Mathematical Economics, November 2001
