Welcome to Eric Smith's

Reader in Economics
Department of Economics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex CO4 3SQ
Tel: +44 1206 872756
E-mail: esmith@essex.ac.uk
General Information
- Director of First Year Studies 2003-2004
- Courses Taught Autumn 2003: none
- Courses Taught Spring 2003: EC111, EC934
- Office: 5B.325
- Office Hours: Monday 3:00-4:00pm and Tuesday 10.00-11.00am
Course Materials
TBA
Some Recent Papers and Publications
- Intermediated Search, Economica, (forthcoming)
- The Low Skill Trap, (with Ken Burdett), European Economic Review, 46:1439-1451
- Tax Competition, Income Differentials and Local Public Services, (with Tracy Webb), International Taxation and Public Finance, 8:675-91
- Distributional Dynamics Following a Technological Revolution, (with David Andolfatto), Canadian Journal of Economics, 34, 739-59
- Asset Accumulation and Short Term Employment, (with Martin Browning and Thomas Crossley), mimeograph
- A Picture of Long Term Unemployment in England and Wales, (with Melvyn Coles and Paul Jones), mimeograph
- Limited Duration Employment, mimeograph
For further details see my CV :
Place of Birth: New York City, NY
BA, Williams College 1983
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1990Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Writes: Left
Major League Totals: N/A