Tim Worrall • Hallsworth Research Fellow • The University of Manchester

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Primary Affiliation The University of Manchester, Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy, Economics, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities.
Other Affiliations Chief Examiner for Corporate Finance, Institute of Financial Services, School of Finance, London • Senior Fellow of the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis, Rimini • Visitor, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics, Behaviour, Incentives and Contracts Programme, Edinburgh.
Career History Educated at Liverpool and Essex Universities and graduated with a PhD in Economics from Liverpool University in 1983. Previously a member of Professor Frank Hahn's ESRC project on Risk, Information and Quantity Signals in Economics at Cambridge University 1983-85 and part of the DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 178 on the Internationalization of the World Economy at Konstanz and Kiel Universities, 1987-1990. Also Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Reading University and Liverpool University and Professor of Economics at Keele University 1996-2008.
Professional Service Secretary, Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics (CHUDE) • External Examiner at University of Birmingham and University of Essex.
Research Interests My principal research interests (with corresponding JEL classification) are: Game Theory and Bargaining Theory (C7) • Market Structure and Pricing (D4) • Information and Uncertainty (D8) • Intertemporal Choice and Growth (D9) • Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment and Investment (E2) • Financial Markets (G1) • Corporate Finance and Governance (G3) • Regulation and Industrial Policy (L5). My main areas of current research are in limited commitment, principal-agent problems and contract theory, risk and uncertainty and network design.
Teaching Interests My primary teaching interests are in economic theory, industrial organisation, game theory, asset pricing, derivatives and risk management.