Professor Robin Bladen-Hovell

Room: CBA 2.015 · Keele University · Keele · Staffs · ST5 5BG UK
Tel: +44 (0)1782 733112 · Fax: +44 (0)1782 717577  E-Mail: r.c.bladen-hovell@econ.keele.ac.uk

Robin Bladen- Hovell obtained his BSc. from University College of Swansea and his MA from The University of Manchester. He has been lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Manchester.  He was Managing Editor of The Manchester School 1994 - 1997 and is currently an Associate Editor. His research interests are in international macroeconomics, financial liberalisation and development, and the determinants of training.

Teaching Interests and Experience

Current Teaching

Semester one

• Eco-30024: Economics of the EU

Semester 2

• Eco-10001: Macroeconomics I
• Eco-20013: Contemporary Issues in Economics
• Eco-30014: Economic and Business Forecasting

Previous Teaching Experience at Keele

• Eco-10001: Introduction to Economics
• Eco-20006: Statistics for Economics and Finance (aka Quantitative Methods II)
• Eco-20014: Topics in Applied Finance
• Eco-30002: Macroeconomics III
• Eco-30013: International Finance
• Eco-30012: Corporate Finance
• Fin-40002: Financial Markets
• Fin-40005: International Finance and Derivatives

at Manchester

• Level II Macroeconomics
• Level III International Trade and Monetary Systems
• Level III Monetary Economics: Theory and Policy
• MSc Macroeconomics
• MSc International Monetary Systems

External Examining

External examiner duties have been undertaken for:

• Swansea; undergraduate and MSc economics 2000-03
• Coventry: undergraduate economics 1997-2000
• Manchester: undergraduate economics 2001-04
• Loughborough: undergraduate economics 2003-07

Research

Research Interests: 

• International macroeconomics
• Business Cycles and turning point prediction
• Financial Liberalization and Growth
• Labour Markets and the determinants of training

Details of current work in these areas may be found by clicking here.

Research talks

• Excess volatility in developing equity markets
• The relevance of long-term finance: Evidence from the OECD

PhD Supervision

Current Lead Supervisor

Panos Sousounis - "Determinants of training in the UK: an investigation using BHPS panel data", expected completion date 2008.

Josie Yeboah - "Financial liberalization and individual behaviour in formal and informal credit markets of Ghana", expected completion date 2008.

Abdullah Al-Dekhail - "Stock market behaviour in an oil-producing economy: a study Saudi Arabia", expected completion date 2010.

Recently completed:

Petar Bozhinov - "Constant relative risk aversion and rent seeking games", completed 2006, examiners Clive Fraser (Leicester), Tim Worrall (Keele).

Edgar Morgenroth - "The significance of international spill-over effects from public infrastructure", completed 2002, Rod Falvey (Nottingham), Gauthier Lanot (Keele).

Fabiano Vergari - "Finance and development; an analysis of the role of equity markets and the banking sector in developed and lesser-developed countries", completed 2001, examiners Chris Green (Loughborough), Tim Worrall (Keele).

M.Phil Supervision

Scott Brindley, "An assessment of the role of finance in the growth and development process", completed 2003, examiners Victor Murinde (Birmingham), Elizabeth Symons (Keele).

Selected Publications

"The Road to EMU", in M.J Artis and F. Nixson (2007), The Economics of the EU, 4th Edition, Oxford University Press.

"Government Spending and Taxation", M. Sawyer ed. (2007), The UK Economy, 16th Edition, Oxford University Press.

An Introduction to Economics, with Artis, M.J. and R. Cornes, Macmillan, forthcoming.

Administrative Duties

Current

Chairperson of University Standards Committee 2007 -

Member of School Learning and Teaching Committee 2007 -

Previous

Head of Economics, 1997 - 2001; 2004-2005

Head of Computer Science 2002 - 2003

MSc Course Director 2003 - 2005

Member of University Quality Assurance Committee 2002 - 2003

Curriculum Vitae

A curriculum vitae is available here.