• September 2005: My talk at HMT on policy-making.

  • July 2005: A review of the Lisbon Agenda for WIFO on 'Economic Policies for Growth and Employment', a short summary paper on 'The Old Economics of the New Economy' and a lecture on "European Economic Reform: The Lisbon Agenda". A paper on 'Migration within England and Wales and the Housing Market' now published in Economic Outlook.

  • April 2005: My talk on ‘The World Economy’ at HEC Paris and on ‘Global Imbalances’ at Templeton.

  • March 2005: The House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee published its report on UK Employment Regulation, on which I was a special advisor.

  • February 2005: My paper with James Proudman and Stephen Redding on 'Technological Convergence, R&D, Trade and Productivity Growth' has finally appeared in the European Economic Review.

  • October 2004: A paper for Economic Outlook on 'Why do Employment Rates Differ Across the Regions of Britain?'.

  • July 2004: A short paper and a lecture on house price bubbles.

  • April 2004: My paper with Iain McLean and Christopher Wlezien on 'Public Expenditure in the English Regions: Measurement Problems and (Partial) Solutions' has just appeared in Political Quarterly.

  • February 2004: A talk on fair trade and a talk on public infrastructure.

  • September 2003: Our final report to the ODPM/HMT 'Identifying the flow of domestic and European expenditure into the English regions'.

  • August 2003: A submission to the Barker Review of Housing Supply.

  • April 2003: A new paper on Business-University Collaborations. My presentation from the 2003 Royal Economic Society Conference on Regional Employment Evolutions. A short note 'In defence of fees'.

  • February 2003: My paper on UK productivity performance has now appeared in Economica. A short lecture on 'The case for fees'.

  • January 2003: My paper with Chris Wallace on 'Macroeconomic Performance in the Bretton Woods Era, And After', has now appeared in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Winter 2002 issue.

  • November 2002: A short paper on 'The Time-Inconsistency of Hell'.

  • August 2002: My chapter on Economic Growth for the Open University 2nd year macroeconomics textbook.

  • February 2002: The latest version of our Welsh earnings paper has appeared in Regional Studies.

  • July 2001: The definitive version of our paper on British Earnings and Unemployment has just been published by the Journal of Applied Econometrics. A discussion of Blanchflower and Oswald on happiness, and a lecture on the Good Life.

  • January 2001: Read my discussion on the 'The Evolution of Happiness' from the American Economic Association Conference 2001.

  • November 2000: Read my book chapter on 'The Economics of Good Government'. This was written for the Perm Project, a book on Government to be distributed to Perm University (and other Russian Universities).

  • June 2000: Mis-measurement of the regional divide may have denied some UK regions access to European Union Funds. June's papers in the Economic Journal, New Economy and Roof are now available.