Economics Europe
Elected 2004
I study education using the tools of applied economics: schools (choice, competition, accountability), teachers (effectiveness, development, pay), and pupils (motivations, effort, ethnicity)
Spatial economics, International economics, Resource economics
Macroeconomics, institutions as an influence on economic performance, economics of transition. Recent research: models with multiple equilibria, measurement of economic inequality, a proposed paradigm shift in economic theory and instruction