We have research interests in the following broad areas:

• Money, Banking, and Finance
• Environmental Economics
• Work and Well-being
• Methodology and Economic Thought

Much of the research is collaborative with other disciplines at Stirling and with economists at other Scottish universities through the programmes of the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) (see summary diagram showing linkages in pdf format)

The research interests page provides more detail on contributors to each area and the specific topics of the research.

Within each research area, members are encouraged to pursue interests as individuals if they wish but much of our published output comes from collaborative ventures, which have been successful in attracting significant external funding and achieving publication in high-quality journals.

A lively research culture is fostered by weekly workshops at which staff and research students present their work, by weekly seminars by visiting speakers and by inviting visitors to work in Stirling.

We publish working papers in the Stirling Economics Discussion Paper series. Some other papers are available on RePEc.

Selected recent publications

Alagidede, P & Panagiotidis,T (2009),"Modeling Stock Returns in Africa’s Emerging Equity Markets". International Review of Financial Analysis, 8(1-2), 1-11

Becker, S O, & Woessmann, L (2009), "Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(2), 531-596.

Bell, D N F & Hart, R A (2003), "Wages, hours and overtime premia: Evidence from the British Labor Market", Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 56, 470-480.

Blanchflower, D, & Oswald, A (2004), "Money, sex and happiness: An empirical study", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 106, 393-415.

De Vries, F P, & Dijkstra, B R (2006), "Location choice by households and polluting firms: An evolutionary approach", European Economic Review, 50, 425-446.

Dow, S C (2009), ‘David Hume and Modern Economics’, Capitalism and Society, 4(1), Article 1.

Finus, M (2003), "The Oslo protocol on sulphur reduction: The great leap forward?", Journal of Public Economics, 87, 2031-2048.

Ghosh D (2007), "The Metamorphosis of Lewis’s Dual Economy Model", Journal of Economic Methodology, 14(1), 5-25

Hanley, N D, Colombo, S, & Calatrava-Requena, J (2007), "Testing choice experiment for benefit transfer with preference heterogeneity", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89, 135-151.

Hart, R A (2006), "Worker-job matches, job mobility and real wage cyclicality", Economica, 73, 287-298.

King, D, Pashley, M, & Ball, R (2004), "‘An English Assessment of Scotland’s Education Spending Needs", Fiscal Studies, 25(4), 439-66.

Bellas, A & Lange, I (2008), "Impacts of Market-based Environmental and Generation Policy on Scrubber Electricity Usage", The Energy Journal, 29(2), 151-164

Montagnoli, A (2006), "Optimal monetary policy and asset price misalignments", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 53, 636-654.

Recent major research grants