Biography
It’s a while since I published any research, but my main areas of interest used to be financial market efficiency studies using new computing techniques such as neural networks and genetic programming. I also used to have a keen interest in the methodology of economics and I retain a keen interest in what mathematical models actually mean – if anything. My PhD is on GDP growth modelling. Many years ago I was a mainstream economist (rather than a financial economist) with an intense interest in growth, structural change and deindustrialization.
Qualifications
1993 – PhD Economics. University of Paisley
1985 – BA (Hons) Economics, University of Strathclyde
Background
Paisley College of Technology 1985-90 Part time Tutorial Assistant. Also during that period, Glasgow College of Technology and Stirling University.
Cousins Stephens Consulting 1990-91.
Paisley University 1991-2001
University of Northumbria 2002-2004 and 2007-2008
University of East London 2004-2007
Areas of interest
- Market Efficiency
- Methodology
- Mathematical Models
- Genetic Programming
- Neural Networks
- GDP growth
- Economic structural change.