Tim Worrall 

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Education

BA in Economics, University of Liverpool, 1978
MA in Economics Essex University, 1979
Phd in Economics, University of Liverpool, 1983

Past Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, 1986
Temporary Lecturer, University of Reading, 1987
Lecturer, University of Liverpool, 1990-95.
Professor, Keele University 1996-2008

Past Research Experience

Research Officer, Cambridge University , 1984-6
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Univerisitaet Konstanz, 1988-89
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut fuer Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 1990

Publications

"Limited Commitment Models of the Labour Market'" (with Jonathan Thomas), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, November, 2007, Volume 54 (5) pages.750--773.
[ doi:10.1111/j.1467-9485.2007.00440.x ]

"Unemployment insurance under moral hazard and limited commitment: Public versus private provision" (with Jonathan Thomas), Journal of Public Economic Theory, February, 2007, Volume 9 (1) pages 151-181.
[ doi:10.1111/j.1467-9779.2007.00302.x ] 

"Mutual insurance and limited commitment: Theory and evidence from village economies" (with Ethan Ligon and Jonathan Thomas), Review of Economic Studies (JSTOR), 69 (2002), pp.209-244. 
[ doi:10.1111/1467-937X.00204 ]

"Gift-giving, quasi-credit and reciprocity" (with Jonathan Thomas), Rationality and Society (SAGE), 14.3 (2002), pp. 307-351. PDF. eprint.
[ doi:10.1177/1043463102014003003 ]

"Mutual insurance, individual savings and limited commitment" (with Ethan Ligon and Jonathan Thomas), Review of Economic Dynamics (SCIENCE DIRECT), Volume 3(2), April 2000, pp.216-246. 
[ doi:10.1006/redy.1999.0081 ]

"Foreign direct investment and the risk of expropriation" (with Jonathan Thomas), Review of Economic Studies (JSTOR), 61 (1994), pp.81-108.
[ doi:10.2307/2297878 ] (JSTOR)

"The welfare implications of costly monitoring in credit markets" (with Brian Hillier), Economic Journal (JSTOR), 104 (1994), pp.350-362.
[ doi:10.2307/2234755 ]  (JSTOR)

"Income fluctuation and asymmetric information: An example of a repeated principal-agent model" (with Jonathan Thomas), Journal of Economic Theory, 51 (1990), pp.367-390.
[ doi:10.1016/0022-0531(90)90023-D ]

"Debt with potential repudiation", European Economic Review, 34 (1990), pp.1099-1109.
[ doi:10.1016/0014-2921(90)90025-T ]

"Self- enforcing wage contracts" (with Jonathan Thomas), Review of Economic Studies (JSTOR), 55 (1988), pp.541-554. 
[ doi:10.2307/2297404 ] (JSTOR)