post

Senior Lecturer in Economics

responsibilities

Course Leader MSc Economics MSc International Economics MSc International Economics and Finance Graduate diploma in Economics

brief biography

Chris has been with London Metropolitan University since 1999. He has published numerous papers in refereed academic journals in the following areas: macroeconomics (consumer behaviour, exchange rates and wages), international business (firm performance, regional development and small and medium sized enterprise share) and econometrics (spurious correlation).

key teaching areas

• Quantitative Research Methods
• Microeconomics

research interests

• spurious correlation
• consumer behaviour
• empirical applications

publications

• Determinants of Returns and Decision Making of Turkish Fund Managers: Survey Evidence from Four Banks, forthcoming in International Review of Business Research Papers, 2007, with Omar Masood.
• Control Mechanisms and Firm Performance in Joint Ventures: Evidence from Greek joint ventures in Eastern Europe, Global Business and Economics Anthology, volume II, 446 - 463, December 2006, with Ioannis-Dionysios Salavrakos.
• Spurious Correlation of I(0) Regressors in Models with an I(1) Dependent Variable, Economics Letters, 91, 2, 184 - 189, May 2006.
• Partner Selection Criteria as Determinants of Firm Performance in Joint Ventures: Evidence from Greek Joint Ventures in Eastern Europe, Eastern European Economics, 44, 3, 60-78, May 2006, with Ioannis-Dionysios Salavrakos.
• Regional Development of Small Firms in Poland, Economic Change and Restructuring, 38, 2, 129 - 146, 2005, with S Ghatak and A Mulhern.
• An International Comparison of Long-Run Consumer Behaviour, European Research Studies, Volume VI, Issue 1-2, 145 - 168, 2003.
• Liquidity Constraints, Precautionary Saving and Aggregate Consumption: An International Comparison, Economic Modelling, 20, 6, 1151 - 1173, 2003, with N Sarantis.
• Long-Term Decline of Small and Medium Size Enterprise Share, Small Business Economics, 21, 215 - 228, 2003, with A Mulhern.
• Determinants of Intended Expansion of Polish SMEs, Journal of Policy Modelling, 25, 287-296, 2003, with S Ghatak and A Mulhern.

professional practice and consultancy

Chris has acted as a sub-consultant for Ecotec Consulting Ltd on projects comissioned by the department of Transport and the Environment Agency. He is also currently an external examiner at Kingston University.