| About Me: |
Visiting Lecturer, City University, Course ECM106 - Quantitative Methods for Competition and Regulation |
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Independent consultant |
| Research Interests: |
Non-market valuation, Discrete choice modelling, Economic regulation, Demand modelling, Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Water, Environment, Transport, Post |
| Resources: |
emlcclogit.ado, A stata program for estimating latent class logit models via the EM algorithm, based on Train (2008) "EM Algorithms for Nonparametric Estimation of Mixing Distributions", Journal of Choice Modelling, 1(1), 40-69 |
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emlcclogit.sthlp, Stata help file for the above |
Working Papers: |
An Assessment of the Non-market Benefit of the Water Framework Directive for Households in England and Wales, (with William Baker, Kevin Andrews, Giles Atkinson, Ian J Bateman, Sarah Butler, Richard T Carson, Jo East, Yves Gueron, Rob Sheldon and Kenneth Train |
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The Demand for Longer Distance Rail Travel in Great Britain: Some New Evidence, (with Ian Jones and John Cubbin) |
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Incentive Pay and Product Market Competition, (with Simon Burgess) |
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Incentives in Organisations: A Selective Overview of the Literature with Application to the Public Sector, (with Simon Burgess) |
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The Use of Incentive Schemes in the Public and Private Sectors: Evidence from British Establishments, (with Simon Burgess) |
| Published Reports: |
Carrying Out Willingness-to-Pay Surveys, Report to UK Water Industry Research, October 2011, (with NERA Economic Consulting and Accent Market Research) |
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The Social Value of the Post Office Network, Report to Postcomm, 5 August 2009, (with NERA Economic Consulting and Accent Market Research) |
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Public Preferences for WFD Outcomes, Report to DEFRA, April 2008, (with Accent Market Research |
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The Benefits of Water Framework Directive Programmes of Measures in England and Wales, Report to DEFRA, (with NERA Economic Consulting and Accent Market Research |
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Estimating Customers’ Willingness To Pay For Service Quality: The Example Of Water Service Reliability In London, in Voll, S.P. and M.J.King (eds) The Line in the Sand: The Shifting Boundary Between Markets and Regulation in Network Industries, 27 August 2007, (with Bill Baker) |
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Screening of Water Pricing Policies, Cost Recovery Mechanisms and Economic Instruments for Inclusion in Programmes of Measures and in Relation to Article 9 of the Water Framework Directive, (with NERA Economic Consulting) |
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Financial and Strategic Review of Northern Ireland Water Service, Report of External Advisors to the DRD, 9 February 2006, (with UBS, RBS, NERA, Halcrow, and Deloitte) |
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Review of Seasonal Adjustments, A Report for Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 20 December 2004, (with NERA Economic Consulting) |
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Estimating Opex and Capex Efficiency, A Report for Water UK, 1 July 2004, (with NERA Economic Consulting) |
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Research on Long-Term Fare Elasticities, A Report for the Strategic Rail Authority, 1 November 2003,, (with NERA Economic Consulting and City University) |
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A Framework Methodology for Estimating the Impact of Household Metering on Consumption - Further Analysis, A Report for UK Water Industry Research,, (with NERA Economic Consulting) |
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A Framework Methodology for Estimating the Impact of Household Metering on Consumption, A Report for UK Water Industry Research,, (with NERA Economic Consulting) |