John Bennett

Profile :

John Bennett is the Director of the Centre for Economic Development and Institutions (CEDI). He worked formerly at the University of Wales, Cardiff and Swansea. He has held visiting posts at Washington University (St Louis) and Queens' University, Kingston, Ontario. He is a Research Fellow of the IZA (Bonn) and DARRT (Bologna) and is Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics.

Research Interests:

Small firms and informality in developing economies; privatisation; corruption.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

'Informal production and labour market segmentation,' Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, forthcoming.

'Contracting out public service provision to not-for-profit firms,' with Elisabetta Iossa, Oxford Economic Papers 62 (2010) 715-739.

'Commercial Activity as Insurance for Not-For-Profit Firms,' with Elisabetta Iossa and Gabriella Legrenzi, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 81 (2010) 445-465.

'Informal firms in developing economies: entrepreneurial stepping stone or consolation prize?' Small Business Economics 34 (2010), 53-63.

'Entrepreneurial entry in a developing economy,' in Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar, ed., Labour Markets and Economic Development, 157-175, Routledge, Abingdon (2009), with Saul Estrin.

'Privatization methods and economic growth in transition economies,' Economics of Transition, 15 (2007) 661-683, with Saul Estrin and Giovanni Urga.

'The choice of privatization method in a transition economy when insiders control a firm,' European Journal of Political Economy, 23 (2007) 806-819, with Saul Estrin and James Maw.

'Building and Managing Facilities for Public Services', Journal of Public Economics, 90 (2006) 2143-2160, with Elisabetta Iossa.

'Delegation of Contracting in the Private Provision of Public Services' Review of Industrial Organization, 29 (2006) 75-92, with Elisabetta Iossa.

'Why did transition economies mass privatize?' with Saul Estrin and James Maw, Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005), 567-575.

'Privatization, partial state ownership, and competition,' with James Maw, Journal of Comparative Economics 31 (2003) 58-74.

'The role of commercial non-profit organizations in the provision of public services,' with Elisabetta Iossa and Gabriella Legrenzi, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 19 (2003) 335-347.

'Reversing the Keynesian asymmetry,' with Manfredi La Manna, American Economic Review 91 (2001) 1556-1565.

'Monetary policy and credit in China: a theoretical analysis,' with Huw Dixon, Journal of Macroeconomics 23 (2001) 297-314.