Dr Tim Worrall
Dr Worrall is Senior Fellow of the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis and Secretary of the Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics.
- Areas of interest
- Contract theory
- Risk and uncertainty
- Network Design
- Game theory
Research Interests
Contract Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Network Design.
Background
Educated at Liverpool and Essex Universities and graduated with a PhD in Economics from Liverpool University in 1983. Previously a member of Professor Frank Hahn's ESRC project on Risk, Information and Quantity Signals in Economics at Cambridge University 1983-85 and part of the DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 178 on the Internationalization of the World Economy at Konstanz and Kiel Universities, 1987-1990. Also Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Reading University and Liverpool University, Professor of Economics at Keele University 1996-2008 and Hallsworth Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester 2008-11.
His principal research interests (with corresponding JEL classification) are:
- Game Theory and Bargaining Theory (C7);
- Market Structure and Pricing (D4);
- Information and Uncertainty (D8);
- Intertemporal Choice and Growth (D9);
- Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment and Investment (E2);
- Financial Markets (G1);
- Corporate Finance and Governance (G3);
- Regulation and Industrial Policy (L5).
His primary teaching interests are in economic theory, industrial organisation, game theory, asset pricing, derivatives and risk management.
Selected Publications
- Limited commitment models of the labour (with Jonathan Thomas), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, November, 2007, Volume 54 (5), pages 750-773.
- 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.
- Gift-giving, quasi-credit and reciprocity (with Jonathan Thomas), Rationality and Society, August, 2002, Volume 14, (3), pages 307-351.
- Mutual insurance and limited commitment: Theory and evidence from village economies (with Ethan Ligon and Jonathan Thomas), Review of Economic Studies, January, 2002 69 (1), pages 209-244.
- Mutual insurance, individual savings and limited commitment (with Ethan Ligon and Jonathan Thomas), Review of Economic Dynamics April, 2000, Volume 3 (2), pages 216-246.
Other Information
Senior Fellow of the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis, Rimini. Secretary, Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics.
Office Hour(s)
Monday 15.00 - 16.00
Tuesday 14.00 - 15.00
This article was published on Oct 1, 2012