CBS Faculty
Professor James Foreman-Peck
Office: F41
Cardiff Business School,
Colum Drive,
Cardiff, CF10 3EU.
Telephone: +44 (0)29 2087 6395
Fax: +44 (0)29 2087 4419
Email Address: Foreman-PeckJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Director of the Welsh Institute for Research in Economics and Development and former President of the European Historical Economics Society (http://www.eh.net/EHES and http://www.ekh.lu.se/ehes), James Foreman-Peck was awarded his PhD at the London School of Economics. He has been Economic Adviser at H M Treasury concerned with micro-economic policy issues, particularly public service delivery and procurement. Other previous posts include Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, and Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. His books include A History of the World Economy: International Economic Relations since 1850, Public and Private Ownership of British Industry 1820-1990 (with R Millward) and most recently, European Industrial Policy: The Twentieth Century Experience (edited with G Federico).
Current research interests
Current research interests include: fiscal devolution, entrepreneurship, economic growth — especially the contribution of human capital and technology, urban and regional economic policy.
Welsh Economic Policy
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Submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Barnett Formula, 2009 (Updated August 17th 2009)
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Submission to the Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales, October 2009
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Fiscal Devolution and Dependency, a version of which was published in Applied Economics, Volume 41, Issue 7 March 2009, pp815-828
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Valuing Arts Facilities, forthcoming Regional Studies
DATA
The data and model for the Great Depression project, from which the most recent paper is ‘Trade Wars and the Slump’, European Review of Economic History (2007) 11 73-98, are available in the linked files. The Appendices of 'Modelpa' contain the data sources and definitions and the equation list. The spreadsheet 'Interwar2' [excel file] contains the data.
Recent Working Papers
Affiliation
The Julian Hodge Institute of Applied Macroeconomics