Staff Profile:Dr James Walker
- Name:
- Dr James Walker
- Job Title:
- Lecturer
- Responsibilities:
- Areas of Interest:
- Applied econometrics, Empirical IO, spatial competition and strategy, imperfect competition in international markets, the Domesday Book, business history
- Research groups / Centres:
- .Centre for International Business History (CIBH)
- Publications:
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Outputs to date:
- Walker, James and Francisco Requena-Silvente, (2006), 'Calculating Hedonic Price Indices with Unobserved Product Attributes: An Application to the UK Car Market', Economica, 73, 509-532.
- Requena-Silvente, Francisco and James Walker, (2007), 'Investigating Sales and Advertising Rivalry in the UK Multipurpose Vehicle Market', Journal of the Economics of Business, 59(2), 163-180.
- Walker, James and Francisco Requena-Silvente, (2007), 'Pricing-to-Market Behaviour in a Multi-Product Industry: The Case of the UK Car Market (1971-2002)', Journal of Applied Economics, 37, 219-241.
Recent/forthcoming articles:
- Walker, James and Francisco Requena-Silvente, (2006), 'Calculating Hedonic Price Indices with Unobserved Product Attributes: An Application to the UK Car Market', Economica, 73, 509-532.
- Requena-Silvente, Francisco and James Walker, (2007), 'Investigating Sales and Advertising Rivalry in the UK Multipurpose Vehicle Market', Journal of the Economics of Business, 59(2), 163-180.
- Walker, James and Francisco Requena-Silvente, (2007), 'Pricing-to-Market Behaviour in a Multi-Product Industry: The Case of the UK Car Market (1971-2002)', Journal of Applied Economics, 37, 219-241.
- Requena-Silvente, Francisco and James Walker, (2007), 'Is Inequality Harmful for North-South Intra-Industry Trade Growth?', International Trade Journal, February 2007, XXI(1), 25-52.
- Qualifications:
- MSc LSE; PhD LSE
Current research projects:
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The UK Car Market: My work on the UK car market derives from my Ph.D. thesis with the lengthy if pragmatic title "Determinants of the Decline of British Leyland: The Roles of Product Quality, Advertising and Voluntary Export Restraints (1971-2002)". More...
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The managerial Revolution in British and American retailing: Peter Scott and I examine the factors influencing the efficiency, growth and competitive advantage of large-scale retailing in Britain and the USA during the interwar years, using data assembled from academic/industry surveys. More...
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Analysing the Income and Productive Impacts of Norman Rule in Domesday Britain using the Little Domesday Book: I am examining the nature and scope of the Little Domesday book using a quantitatively enabled, rather than the strictly textual data bases (for example the Domesday Explorer). More...
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Relative Academic Pay: The knowledge based economy is seen as key to UK and European competitiveness. The provision and development of an internationally competitive higher education sector, with high quality teachers and researchers, is acknowledged as central to building such a "knowledge economy". More...
