Mark Roberts

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  University Park
  Nottingham
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  UK
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• mark.roberts@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Mark works broadly in macroeconomic theory and has published in the areas of rational expectations dynamics and the macroeconomic implications of labour market institutions.

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Research Summary

At present I am conducting research on (1) the effects on economic growth of (a) social security, (b) imperfect competition in the financial sector and (c) macroeconomic volatility; and (2) the… read more

Selected Publications

• ROBERTS, M.A., 2011. Seniority wages and economic growth Japanese Economic Review. 62(4), 431-443
• ROBERTS, M.A., 2011. International factor mobility and long-run economic growth. The Manchester School. 79(S1), 673-690
• ROBERTS, M.A., 2013. The conflating effects of education and financial competition. The Manchester School. (In Press.)
• ROBERTS, M.A., 2009. Financial market competition and economic growth Bulletin of Economic Research. 61(1), 21-46

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Current Research

At present I am conducting research on (1) the effects on economic growth of (a) social security, (b) imperfect competition in the financial sector and (c) macroeconomic volatility; and (2) the maximal sustainable level of public debt.

• ROBERTS, M.A., 2013. The conflating effects of education and financial competition. The Manchester School. (In Press.)
• ROBERTS, M.A., 2011. Seniority wages and economic growth Japanese Economic Review. 62(4), 431-443
• ROBERTS, M.A., 2011. International factor mobility and long-run economic growth. The Manchester School. 79(S1), 673-690
• ROBERTS, M.A., 2009. Financial market competition and economic growth Bulletin of Economic Research. 61(1), 21-46
• ROBERTS, M.A., 2003. Can pay-as-you-go pensions raise the capital stock? The Manchester School. 71(Supplement), 1-20
• FISHER, E.O.N. and ROBERTS, M.A., 2003. Funded pensions, labor market participation, and economic growth FinanzArchiv. 59(3), 371-386
• ROBERTS, M.A., 2002. Central wage setting under multiple technological equilibria: a mechanism for equilibrium elimination Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 104(2), 301-320
• ROBERTS, M.A., STAEHR, K. and TRANAES, T., 2000. Two-stage bargaining with coverage extension in a dual labour market European Economic Review. VOL 44(NUMBER 1), 181-200
• ROBERTS, M. A. and MCCAUSLAND, W. D., 1999. Multiple international debt equilibria and irreversibility Economic Modelling. VOL 16(NUMBER 2), 179-188
• ROBERTS, M.A., 1998. Ruling out non-stationary rational expectations bubbles when agents are non-risk-neutral Applied Economics Letters. 7, 473-5
• ROBERTS, M.A., 1997. The Level of Wage Bargaining as a Firm-Union Choice Scottish Journal of Political Economy. 44, 316-328
• ROBERTS. M.A., 1997. Imperfect information: some implications for modelling the exchange rate Journal of International Economics. 38, 375-383
• ROBERTS, M. A., 1995. The effect of the time-structure of information on the expectational-stability of rational expectations Economics Letters. VOL 57(NUMBER 2), 157-162
• ROBERTS, M.A., 1995. Keynes, the liquidity trap and the gold standard: a possible application of the rational expectations hypothesis The Manchester School. 63(1), 82-92
• ROBERTS, M.A., 1995. The second J-curve and trade account dynamics Applied Economics Letters. 2, 31-33