Staff

Dr Nigel F.B Allington

Position(s):

• Affiliated Lecturer
• Member, Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy (CCEPP)

Contact information:

Telephone: +44 (0)1223 (3)37168
Email: nfba2

Publications:

Recent Publications of Nigel F. B. Allington

2011

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2011), Thatcherism and Brownism: Macroeconomic Policy under Two Policy Regimes, London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2011), “The Control of Inflation Under Mrs Thatcher: Inflation Targeting versus Import Price Targeting”, in Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  editors, Thatcherism and Brownism: Macroeconomic Policy Under Two Policy Regimes, London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.

Allington, N.F.B. and Peele, G. (2011), The Efficiency of United Kingdom Politicians: Evidence from Three Parliaments, Volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Allington, N.F.B. and Peele, G. (2011), “The Political Responses to the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom and the United States of America”, paper prepared for the Conference on the Financial Crisis to be held at Grenoble, September.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2011), Cambridge Essays in Applied Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2011) “The Causes and Consequences of the South East Asian and Other Financial Crises”, in Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2011) “Economic and Monetary Union”, in Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2011) “Economic Growth”, in Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Allington, N.F.B. (2011) “Nominal Convergence, Real Convergence and the Single European Currency”, in Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2011) “Asset Prices and the Conduct of Monetary Policy”, in Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Allington, N.F.B. and O’Shaughnessy, N.J. (2011), “The Economics of Higher Education”, in Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2011), "Measuring the Reaction of United Kingdom Monetary Policy to House Prices: A Heteroskedastic Approach". Working Paper Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research, being updated for publication in a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2011), "Measuring the Reaction of United Kingdom Monetary Policy to the Stock Market: A Heteroskedastic Approach". Working Paper Cambridge Centre for Research in Economics and Public Policy, being updated for publication in a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2011), “An Implausible People’s Hero: William Beveridge and the Causes and Cures for Unemployment”, conference paper under preparation for publication in a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2011), “’The Second Thing We Should Do, Let’s Kill All the Accountants.’ Rent-Seeking Behaviour and Economic Growth: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Lawyers and Accountants on Economic Growth”, conference paper under preparation for publication in a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2011), “Real Convergence between the Regions of the EU: Sigma Convergence Augmented for Regional Spillovers”, conference paper under preparation for publication in a journal.

Allington, N.F.B., McCombie, J.S.L. and M. Pike (2011), “Lessons not Learnt: From the Collapse of Long-Term Capital management to the Subprime Crisis”, Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research Mimeo, to be submitted to the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

Allington, N.F.B. and O’Sullivan, P.J. (2011), “The Asymmetry between Consumer Lending and Business Lending:  An Epicycle on the Credit Theory of the Business Cycle”, under preparation for a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and Moore, B.M. (2011), “Geographical Clustering and Employment Growth: A United Kingdom Sectoral Analysis”, under preparation for a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. (2011), “After the Financial Crisis: The Recovery of Manufacturing and Construction in the USA”, in West, J. editor, The United States of America and Canada, fourteenth edition, London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.

2010

Allington, N.F.B. and Thompson, N.W. editors (2010), English, Irish and Subversives Amongst the Dismal Scientists, Emerald Press, pp.401.

Allington, N.F.B. and J.S.L. McCombie and M. Pike (2010), “The Failure of the New Macroeconomic Consensus: From Non-Ergodicity to the Efficient Markets Hypothesis and Back Again”, forthcoming, International Journal of Public Policy, in press.

Allington, N.F.B. (2010), “A Double Dip Recession in the United States? Manufacturing and Construction in the USA in the Wake of the Financial Crisis”, in West, J. editor, The United States of America and Canada, thirteenth edition, London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, London, pp.150-160.

Allington, N.F.B. and J.S.L. McCombie (2010), “The Taylor Rule and the Conduct of European Monetary Policy: An Assessment of the Period 1999-2009”, Working Paper Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research, under review with journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and G. Peele (2010), “Moats, Duck Houses and Bath Plugs: Members of Parliament, the Expenses Scandal and the Use of Web Sites”, Journal of Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp.385-406.

Allington, N.F.B. and J.S.L. McCombie (2010), “The Taylor Rule and the Conduct of European Monetary Policy: An Assessment of the period 199-2009”, Working Paper Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research, under review with a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and J.S.L. McCombie (2010), “Beta and Sigma Convergence in the European Union”, Working Paper Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research, under review with a journal.

Allington, N.F.B., Moore, B.M. and T. Marsh (2010), “Growth of Employment in the Regions of the UK: The Impact of the Birth and Death of Firms”, Working Paper Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research. Submitted to a journal

Allington, N.F.B. and Noel W. Thompson (2010), “Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman: Champion of the Neglected British Epigones”, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, pp.1-35.

Allington, N.F.B. (2010), “John Rooke: Rent, Distribution, Money and Repeal of the Corn Laws”, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, p.243-302.

Allington, N.F.B. and J.S.L. McCombie (2010), “The Impact of the Sub-Prime Crisis on the Transition and central Asian Economies: Causes and Consequences”, in Arestis, P., Sobreira, R and J. Oreiro (editors), An Assessment of the Global Impact of the Financial Crisis, London: Palgrave MacMillan, in press.

Allington, N.F.B. and J.S.L. McCombie (2010), “The American Sub-Prime Crisis: How Long Do Recessions Last After a Financial (Banking) Crisis?”, Paper Presented at 6th International Conference, Developments in Economic Theory and Policy, University of Bilbao, July.

Allington, N.F.B. (2010), ‘Das Jeremy Bentham Problem? Sympathy and Self-Interest in the Economics of Jeremy Bentham”, in the final stages of preparation for publication in a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2010), “Real Convergence between the Regions of the EU: Sigma Convergence Augmented for Regional Spillovers”, in the final stages of preparation for publication in a journal.

2009

Allington, N.F.B. (2009), “A Jobless Recovery in Manufacturing? Manufacturing and Construction in the USA During the 2009 Financial Crisis”, in West, J. editor, The United States of America and Canada, twelfth edition, London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, pp.141-150.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2009), “Productivity Growth and Unemployment under Mrs Thatcher Reconsidered”, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policy, Volume 5, Number 3, pp.244-54.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2009), “The Thatcher Experiment 1979-1990: Did it Lead to an Economic Renaissance in the UK?”, in Philip Arestis and John S. L. McCombie (editors), Unemployment Past and Present, Palgrave MacMillan.

Allington, N.F.B. (2009), “The American Sub-Prime Crisis and its Consequences”, in Cambridge Responses to the Financial Crisis, Marshall Society, University of Cambridge; also published in Downing College, Downing Association Newsletter and College Record.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2009), “Productivity Growth and Unemployment under Mrs Thatcher Reconsidered”, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policy, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp.244-54.

Allington, N.F.B. and Jones, C. (2009), Introduction to Economics, third edition, London: Pearson Educational, pp.642.

2008

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2008), “Productivity Growth and Unemployment under Mrs. Thatcher Reconsidered”, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, Volume 5, No. 2, pp.244-254.

Allington, N.F.B., Kattuman, P. and Waldemann, F. (2008), "One Market, One Money, The Lowest Price”, Discussion Paper Judge Business School, to be submitted to the American Economic Review in 2011.

Allington, N.F.B. and Peele, G. (2008), “Politicians’ Use of Web Pages and Blogs”, paper presented to the Study of Parliament Group Conference, Wroxton Hall, August.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2008), “Productivity Growth and Unemployment under Mrs. Thatcher Reconsidered”, paper presented at Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research, Downing College, September.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2011), “An Implausible People’s Hero: William Beveridge and the Causes and Cures for Unemployment”, paper presented at Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research, Downing College, September, now in preparation for publishing as a journal article.

2007

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2007), "Nonsense Upon Stilts: An Assessment of the European Stability and Growth Pact and How It Might be Reformed", in McCombie, J.S.L. and Gonzalez, C.R., The European Union: Current Problems and Prospects, Palgrave MacMillan.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2007), "Measuring the Reaction of United Kingdom Monetary Policy to House Prices: A Heteroskedastic Approach". Working Paper Cambridge Centre Economic and Public Policy Research, being updated for publication in a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and Morgan, P.I. (2007), “Lies, Damned Lies and Public Sector Pay: Regional Public Sector Pay and the Measurement of Productivity Changes”, Paper now updated and under review with a journal.

Allington, N.F.B., Morgan, P.I. and B. Scott-Ladd (2007), “A Comparison of Public Sector Reforms and Trends in Pay and Employment in Great Britain and Australia”, Paper presented at British Management Conference, Cardiff University and currently being updated for publication in a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and P.J O’Sullivan (2006), Introduction to Economics, second edition, Pearson Publishing, pp.630.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L.  (2009), “The Thatcher Experiment 1979-1990: Did it Lead to an Economic Renaissance in the UK?”. Paper presented at Unemployment: Past and Present Conference, Downing College, September.

Allington, N.F.B. and Peele, G. (2007), “Early Day Motions in the Last Three Westminster Parliaments, 1992-2005”, paper presented at Study of Parliament Group Conference, Wroxton Hall, September.

2006

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2006), “Economic Growth, β and σ Convergence in Selected Transition Economies and the European Union”, P. Arestis, M. Baddeley and J.S.L. McCombie, Perspectives on Economic Growth, Edward Elgar.

Allington, N.F.B. and P.J O’Sullivan (2006), Introduction to Economics, Pearson Publishing, pp.580.

Allington, N.F.B. (2006), "One Market One Money: One Price for Goods and Services in the Eurozone", Quarterly Economic Bulletin, pp.20-24.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, (2006), "Measuring the Reaction of United Kingdom Monetary Policy to the Stock Market: A Heteroskedastic Approach". Working Paper Cambridge Centre for Research in Economics and Public Policy. Currently being updated and submitted to a journal.

Allington, N.F.B. and Peele, G. (2006), “The Greenbench: Debates, Questions and Committees in Parliament”, paper presented to the Study of Parliament Group annual conference, Worcester College, Oxford, August.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2006), “William Beveridge: Neo-Classical or Keynesian Macroeconomist?”, paper presented at University of Kansas Post-Keynesian Conference.

2005

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2005), “Stock Market Prices and the Conduct of Monetary Policy under the New Monetary Consensus”, in P. Arestis, M. Baddeley and J.S.L. McCombie, The New Monetary Policy Consensus, Edward Elgar.

Allington, N.F.B., Kattuman, P. and Waldemann, F. (2005), "One Market, One Money, One Price? International Journal of Central Banking, pp.73-115.

(Cited by Baldwin, now Director of the CEPR, London , but formerly of the University of Geneva, as the “best article in the field” in Trade and the Euro.)

Allington, N.F.B. and Peele, G. (2005), “Measuring the Activity Levels of UK Members of Parliament”, paper presented to the Study of Parliament Group Conference, Worcester College, Oxford.

Allington, N.F.B. and McCombie, J.S.L. (2005), “Economic Growth and Beta Convergence in the East European Transition Economies”. Working Paper, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research and Conference Paper for Economic Growth Conference, Downing College, September.

Allington, N.F.B., Kattuman, P. and Waldemann, F. (2005), "One Market, One Money, One Price?, paper presented at World Econometrics Conference, University College, London.