Paul Grout
Professor of Political Economy
Contact Details
Room: 2.4
Telephone: 0117 33 10712
E-mail: P.A.Grout@bristol.ac.uk
Teaching
Office Hours: Monday and Tuesday 11:30-12:30
ECONM 1014: MSc Economics for Finance and Management
ECONM 2037: MSc Law and Economics
ECONM 1020: MSc Public Organisation
Research Interests
- Public Organisation
- Law and Economics
- Finance
CMPO Working Papers
Selected Publications
Selected Recent Articles
- 'Competitive Planned Obsolescence', RAND Journal of Economics, (with I Park) (2005)
- 'The Impact of Regulation on Market Risk', Journal of Financial Economics, (with A Zalewska) (2006)
- 'Governance Reform in Legal Service Markets', Economic Journal, (with I. Jewitt and S. Sonderegger) (2007)
- ‘Measuring the Rate of Return for Competition Law’, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, special issue on Forensic Economics in Competition Law Enforcement (with A Zalewska) (2008)
- 'Profitability Measures and Competition Law' (with A. Zalewska) in W.D.Collins (ed.) Issues in Competition Law and Policy, (American Bar Association) (2008)
Selected Other Journal Articles
- 'A Rawlsian intertemporal consumption rule', Review of Economic Studies (1977)
- 'On minimax regret and welfare economics', Journal of Public Economics (1978)
- 'On equal plans with an infinite horizon', Journal of Economic Theory (with C Birchenhall) (1979)
- 'Welfare economics of decision making with changing tastes', Review of Economic Studies (1982)
- 'Imperfect information, markets and public provision of education', Journal of Public Economics (1983)
- 'Investment and wages in the absence of binding contracts: a Nash bargaining approach', Econometrica (1984)
- 'A theoretical approach to the effect of trade union immunities on investment and employment', Economic Journal (1985)
- 'Employee Share Ownership and Privatisation: Some Theoretical Issues', Economic Journal (1987)
- 'Auditor professional judgement: implications for regulation and the law', Economic Policy (with I D Jewitt, C Pong and G Whittington) (1994)
- 'The Private Finance Initiative: an Economic Assessment', Oxford Review of Economic Policy (1997) [Reprinted in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: The Economics of Public Private Partnerships Grimsey and Lewis (eds).]
- ‘Public and private sector discount rates in public-private partnerships’ Economic Journal, (2003) Reprints: ‘The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: The Economics of Public Private Partnerships’ Grimsey and Lewis (eds) Edward Elgar (2005) and ‘Public-Private Partnerships: An Introduction’ ICFAI Books (forthcoming)
- 'Privatisation of utilities and the asset value problem', European Economic Review, (with A Jenkins and A Zalewska) (2004)
