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Dorian Owen
Dorian's research interests are mainly in the areas of empirical modelling of economic growth and development, sports economics and applied econometrics. Current interests include the fundamental determinants of economic growth and development, and the effects of different dimensions of competitive balance in sports leagues. He has previously taught at the University of Reading (UK) and the University of Canterbury and his teaching at Otago has included econometrics, macroeconomics and monetary economics.
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Selected Publications"Playoff Uncertainty, Match Uncertainty and Attendance at Australian National Rugby League Matches", (with N King and R Audas), Economic Record (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2011.00778.x), Early View, 2011. "Measuring parity in sports leagues with draws: Further comments", Journal of Sports Economics (doi: 10.1177/1527002510393738), Online First, 2011. "Limitations of the relative standard deviation of win percentages for measuring competitive balance in sports leagues", Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (1), 38-41. "Which institutions are good for your health? The deep determinants of comparative cross-country health status", (with S Knowles) Journal of Development Studies, 46(4), 2010, 701-723. "Bridging the barriers: knowledge connections, productivity, and capital accumulation", (with R Q Grafton and T Kompas), Journal of Productivity Analysis, 28(3), 2007, 219-231. "Total factor productivity, per capita income and social divergence", (with R Q Grafton and S Knowles), Economic Record 80(250), 2004, 302-313. "Are educational gender gaps a brake on economic development? Some cross-country empirical evidence", (with S Knowles and P K Lorgelly), Oxford Economic Papers, 54(1), 2002, 118-149. "The effect of female and male schooling on economic growth in the Barro-Lee model", (with P K Lorgelly), Empirical Economics, 24(3), 1999, 537-557. "Education and health in an effective-labour empirical growth model", (with S Knowles), Economic Record, 73(223), 1997, 314-328. "Inference on productivity differentials in multi-sector models of economic growth", (with W R J Alexander and P Hansen), Journal of Development Economics, 51(2), 1996, 315-325. "Health capital and cross-country variation in income per capita in the Mankiw-Romer-Weil model", (with S Knowles), Economics Letters, 48(1), 1995, 99-106. "Monetary anticipations and the demand for money: further tests of shock-absorber price equations", (with K J Fox), Journal of Macroeconomics, 14(1), 1992, 1-14. "Testing for financial buffer stocks in sectoral portfolio models", Review of Economics and Statistics, 72(2), 1990, 286-295. "Unorganized money markets and 'unproductive' assets in the new structuralist critique of financial liberalization", (with O Solis-Fallas), Journal of Development Economics, 31(2), 1989, 341-355. Money, Wealth and Expenditure: Integrated Modelling of Consumption and Portfolio Behaviour, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, xi+210. "Wealth-composition and cross-equation effects in the U.K. personal sector's expenditure and portfolio behaviour", Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, 54 (1), 1986, 65-98. "Dynamic models of portfolio behavior: a general integrated model incorporating sequencing effects", American Economic Review, 71(1), 1981, 231-238.
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BSc(Hons),
MSc, PhD (Wales) |