CBS Faculty
Roger Clarke
Professor of Microeconomics, Cardiff Business School.
Office: B09b
Aberconway Building Cardiff Business School,
Aberconway Building,
Colum Drive,
Cardiff CF1 3EU
Telephone: +44 (0)29 2087 5204
Fax: +44 (0)29 2087 4419
Email Address: ClarkeRP@cardiff.ac.uk
Research Interests
Industrial economics, competition policy, privatisation and regulation
Recent publications and research in progress
(a) Books
R. Clarke and E.J. Morgan (eds), New Developments in UK and EU Competition Policy (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2006).
R. Clarke, P. Dobson, S.W. Davies and M. Waterson, Buyer Power and Competition in European Food Retailing (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2002).
R. Clarke, S.W. Davies and N. Driffield, Monopoly Policy in the UK:
Assessing the Evidence (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 1998).
(b) Papers
Roger Clarke and David Collie, ‘Maximum-revenue versus optimal-welfare export taxes: a delegation game’, forthcoming in Review of International Economics, 2008.
Roger Clarke and David Collie, ‘Welfare in the Nash equilibrium in export taxes under Bertrand duopoly, forthcoming in Bulletin of Economic Research, 2008.
Roger Clarke and Luo Lei, ‘Profitability of mergers in the long run – evidence for the UK, France and Germany, 1992-2003’, Working Paper, September 2007.
Roger Clarke and David Collie, ‘Export taxes under Bertrand duopoly’, Economics Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 6, 2006, pp. 1-8 at http://www.economicsbulletin.com.
Roger Clarke and David Collie, ‘Optimum-welfare and maximum-revenue tariffs under Bertrand duopoly’, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol. 53, 2006, pp. 398-408.
Roger Clarke, ‘Technical barriers to trade’ in A.K. Vaidya (ed) Globalisation: Encyclopedia of Trade, Labour and Politics, vol. 1, (ABC-CLIO: Santa Barbara, 2006).
Roger Clarke and David Collie, ‘Product Differentiation and the Gains from Trade under Bertrand Duopoly’, Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 36, 2003, pp. 658-73.
Halim Mohd Noor, Roger Clarke and Nigel Driffield ‘Multinational enterprises and technological effort by local firms: a case study of the Malaysian electronics and electrical industry’, Journal of Development Studies, vol. 38, 2002, pp. 129-41.
Roger Clarke, ‘Buyer power and competition in food retailing in the UK’, Briefing Notes in Economics, no. 50, September/October 2001.
Paul Dobson, Roger Clarke, Stephen Davies and Michael Waterson ‘Buyer power and its impact on competition in the food retail distribution sector of the European Union,’ Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, vol. 1, 2001, pp. 247-81.
Curriculum Vitae
Date of Birth: 28th January 1949.
Nationality: British.
Qualifications
B.Sc. (Econ) with first class honours in Economics, Aberystwyth, 1970.
M.A. in Economics, Essex University, 1971.
Ph.D. in Economics, Leicester University, 1977.
Appointments
Research Officer at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London, 1973-75 and Visiting Consultant, 1975-78.
Temporary Lecturer in Economics, Reading University, 1975-76.
Lecturer in Economics, Sheffield University, 1976-88.
Visiting Associate Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA, 1986-87.
Visiting Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, 1987-88.
Professor of Microeconomics, Cardiff Business School, University of Wales, 1989-present.
Professional work
(a) Journals
Member of the International Editorial Board of the International Journal of the Economics of Business (1994-) and a member of the Advisory Board of Managerial and Decision Economics (1990-). Acted as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics (1983-92).
Acted as a referee for various journals: Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Industrial Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Bulletin of Economic Research, Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, Managerial and Decision Economics, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, International Review of Applied Economics, Review of Industrial Organisation, International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research, Journal of Trade and Economic Development, International Economic Journal.
(b) Study Group
Joint co-ordinator of the ESRC Network of Industrial Economists (previously the ESRC Industrial Economics Study Group) 1984-87 and 1990-96.
(c) RAE Panel
Member (Economics) of the Business and Management Panel for the
HEFCE Research Assessment Exercise, 1996.
(d) Other Work
Consultant to various government departments and other groups including Office of Fair Trading, Department of Trade and Industry, Central Statistical Office, Economists Advisory Group, NERA, Queen’s University, Belfast and Government of Cyprus.