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Prof Ciaran Driver holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Ireland. He obtained an MA in Systems from Lancaster University Business School and an MSc in Economics (with distinction) from the University of London. His PhD, awarded by the CNAA in 1984, was externally supervised from the University of Cambridge.
His main research specialisms are capital investment and other forward commitments under risk as well as the political economy and external effects of investment.
Previous posts have included economic advice on employment and investment policy at the National Economic Development Office and consultancies to a range of organisations, including the OECD and DTI.
He is an external associate of the Centre for Econometric Analysis, Cass Business School London and a consultant professor at Syracuse University.
For PhD opportunities supervised by Professor Driver go to http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/42861713.DOC
Recent publications include:
- Driver, C and J Munoz Bugarin (2009) "Capital investment and unemployment in Europe: neutrality of not" Journal of Macroeconomics doi:10.1016/j.jmacro.2009.03.003
- Driver, C, Temple, P, Urga, G, Real options - delay vs. pre-emption: Do industrial characteristics matter?, INT J IND ORGAN, 2008, Vol: 26, Pages: 532 - 545
- Driver, C, Varieties of Governance, RECH ECON LOUVAIN, 2008, Vol: 74, Pages: 425 - +
- Driver, C, and C. Oughton, Dynamic Models of Regional Innovation: explorations with British time-series data, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2008, Vol:1 http://cjres.oxfordjournals.org/archive/
- Driver, Ciaran F. & Hall, Stephen G., 2008. "Production Constraints and the NAIRU," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, vol. 2(11). http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/journalarticles/2008-11[Downloadable!]
- Driver, C, Temple, P, Urga, G, Contrasts between types of assets in fixed investment equations as a way of testing real options theory, J BUS ECON STAT, 2006, Vol: 24, Pages: 432 - 443, ISSN: 0735-0015
- Driver, C, Temple, P, Urga, G, Identifying externalities in UK manufacturing using direct estimation of an average cost function, ECON LETT, 2006, Vol: 92, Pages: 228 - 233
- Driver, C, Shepherd, D, Capacity utilisation and corporate restructuring: a comparative study of the US, UK and other EU countries, CAMBRIDGE J ECON, 2005, Vol: 29, Pages: 119 - 140
- Driver, C, Temple, P, Urga, G, Profitability, capacity, and uncertainty: a model of UK manufacturing investment, OXFORD ECON PAP, 2005, Vol: 57, Pages: 120 - 141
A list of selected journal articles and working papers may be obtained at http://ideas.repec.org/e/pdr12.html
Books edited and authored include:
- C Driver and P Temple (eds) Investment,Growth and Employment, Routledge 1999
- C Driver and D Moreton Investment, Expectations and Uncertainty, Basil Blackwell 1992, translated into Spanish as Inversión, Expectativas e Incertidumbre by the Colegio de Economistas de Madrid
- C Driver and P Dunne (eds) Structural Change in the UK Economy, Cambridge University Press 1992
- C Driver Towards Full Employment, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1986
SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS
G.F. Thompson and C.Driver (2008) "Stakeholder Champions: How to Internationalize the Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda" in A Zakhem et al (eds) Stakeholder Theory: Essential Readings in Ethical Leadership and Management, Amhurst NY Prometheus Books
J. Tidd and C. Driver (2006; 1999) "Measuring innovation by market and financial indicators" in J. Tidd (ed) From Knowledge Competence to Strategic Competence: measures of technological, market and organisational innovation, Chapter 5, ICP.
C Driver, A Kilpatrick and B Naisbitt (2001) Chapter 3 of David Greenaway and Douglas Nelson (2001) Globalization and Labour Markets, Part I "The Employment Effects of UK Manufacturing Trade Expansion with the EEC and the Newly Industrialising Countries", Edward Elgar
C. Driver (1999)"Why firms invest less but adopt higher capital intensity as the capital stance tightens: the makings of an unemployment problem", invited contribution to P Arestis et al (Eds 1999) Essays in Honour of Bernard Corry and Maurice Peston, 80-89 Edward Elgar, Vol. III.
C. Driver and NESC Secretariat (1998) "Econometric analysis of investment and risk", Private Sector Investment in Ireland, Chapter 4, pp.49-56; "Perceptions and management of risk in Irish firms", Private Sector Investment in Ireland, Chapter 5, pp.57-66. ISBN 1-898724-25-3.
C. Driver (1997) "Fixed Investment in the UK" in A.J.Buxton et al Britains Economic Performance, Routledge, Revised 2nd Edition.
C. Driver (1996) "Tightening the reins: the capacity stance of UK manufacturing firms 1976-95" in J Grieve Smith and J Michie (Eds) Creating Industrial Capacity: towards full employment, Oxford University Press, 75-92.
C. Driver (1994) "Investment Theory" in M. Sawyer and P. Arestis (eds) The Elgar Companion to Political Economy, Edward Elgar.
C. Driver (1994) "The case of fixed investment" Chapter 7 in A.J. Buxton et al. (eds) Britain's Economic Performance, Routledge, 128-143.
C. Driver (1992) "A legacy of capital shortage" in J. Michie (ed) The Economic Legacy Academic Press, 88-90.
C. Driver (1992) "The pace of regional and structural change in the UK economy", 117-37, in Driver and Dunne (eds) CUP.
B. Corry, C. Driver and others The Impact of Mass Hong-Kong Immigration to the UK, The Hong Kong/UK Economy Research Group, 1989.
C. Driver "The Employment Effects of Expanding Service Industries" in T S Barker and P Dunne (Eds 1988), The British Economy after Oil: Manufacturing or Services? Routledge, 83-100.
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