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Dorian Owen
Dorian's research interests are mainly in the areas of empirical modelling of economic growth, applied econometrics and sports economics. Current interests include the effects of social capital and social divergence on economic performance, the fundamental determinants of economic growth and development, and competitive balance and sports' attendance. He has previously taught at the University of Reading (UK) and the University of Canterbury and his teaching at Otago has included econometrics, monetary economics and macroeconomics.
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Current Teaching
Selected Publications"Bridging the barriers: knowledge connections, productivity, and capital accumulation", (with R Q Grafton and T Kompas), Journal of Productivity Analysis 28(3), 2007, 219-231. "Total factor productivity, per capita income and social divergence", (with R Q Grafton and S Knowles), The Economic Record 80(250), 2004, 302-313. "Uncertainty of outcome and Super 12 attendance: application of a general-to-specific modeling strategy", (with C R Weatherston), Journal of Sports Economics 5(4), 2004, 347-370. "Are educational gender gaps a brake on economic development? Some cross-country empirical evidence", (with S Knowles and P K Lorgelly), Oxford Economic Papers, 54(1), 2002, 118-149. "The effect of female and male schooling on economic growth in the Barro-Lee model", (with P K Lorgelly), Empirical Economics, 24(3), 1999, 537-557. "Education and health in an effective-labour empirical growth model", (with S Knowles), The Economic Record, 73(223), 1997, 314-328. "Inference on productivity differentials in multi-sector models of economic growth", (with W R J Alexander and P Hansen), Journal of Development Economics, 51(2), 1996, 315-325. "Health capital and cross-country variation in income per capita in the Mankiw-Romer-Weil model", (with S Knowles), Economics Letters, 48(1), 1995, 99-106. "Testing for financial buffer stocks in sectoral portfolio models", Review of Economics and Statistics, 72(2), 1990, 286-295. "Unorganized money markets and 'unproductive' assets in the new structuralist critique of financial liberalization", (with O Solis-Fallas), Journal of Development Economics, 31(2), 1989, 341-355. Money, Wealth and Expenditure: Integrated Modelling of Consumption and Portfolio Behaviour, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, xi+210. "Dynamic models of portfolio behavior: a general integrated model incorporating sequencing effects", American Economic Review, 71(1), 1981, 231-238.
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BSc(Hons),
MSc, PhD (Wales) |