Hassan Molana

Hassan Molana graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Tehran, an MA in Economics from the University of Essex, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton. His previous posts have been Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Economics (University of Glasgow) and Research Assistant (Universities of Southampton and Essex).

External Affiliations

• Associate Editor of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy and the Bulletin of Economic Research
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics
• Associated Researcher, Globalisation and Industry Dynamics, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus
• Member of the Steering Committee of Macroeconomics, Financial Linkages and the Regions Programme of the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics

• The effectiveness of expansionary macroeconomic policies in the presence of market distortions
• Globalisation and the welfare state
• Computable general equilibrium analysis

• Macroeconomics (Scottish Graduate Programme, MSc Economics)
• Microeconomics (EC21001)
• Econometrics (Scottish Graduate Programme, MSc Economics)

Recent publications

• "Subsidies as Optimal Policy Stimuli", with C. Montagna and C.Y. Kwan, Bulletin of Economic Research (In Press).
• "Wage determination, Globalisation and the Social Value of Leisure", with J. Drud Hansen, C. Montagna and J. Ulff-Moller Nielsen, Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012 (in press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec. 2012.01.001).
• "On the Causal Relationship between Trade-Openness and Government Size: Evidence from 22 OECD Countries", with C. Montagna and M. Violato, International Journal of Public Policy, 2011, Vol.7, 226-249.
• "Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix for Libya", with J. Dewhurst and J. Kerwat, Journal of North African Studies, 2011, Vol. 16, 143-160.
• "Development of standardised methods for analysis of changes in antibacterial use in hospitals from 18 European countries: the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) longitudinal survey 2000 to 2006", with F. Ansari, H. Goossens and P. Davey, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2010, Vol. 65, 2685-2691.
• "Viability of Keeping a Fixed Exchange Rate in an Oil Exporting Country: Some Results for Libya from a Computable General Equilibrium Model" with Dewhurst and Kerwat, in the Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2009, Vol. 5, No. 3, Article 2: http://www.bepress.com/rmeef/vol5/iss3/art2/
• "Foreign Direct Investment, Tax Competition and Social Expenditure", with H. Gorg and C. Montagna, International Review of Economics and Finance, 2009, Vol. 1831-37.
• "Output, Unemployment and Okun,s Law: some evidence from the G7" with J. Malley, Economics Letters, 2008, Vol. 101,113-115.
• "Fluctuations in the International Currency Reserves of Less Developed Countries: HIPC vs non-HIPC" with A. Boakye, Global Business & Economics Anthology, 2008, Vol. 1, 173-183.
• "The Relationship between Output and Unemployment with Efficiency Wages", with Jim Malley, German Economic Review, 2007, Vol. 8: 561-577.
• "Expansionary Effects of Welfare State Policies in a Small Open Economy", with C. Montagna, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2007, Vol. 18: 231-246.
• "Welfare State, Market Imperfections, and International Trade", with C. Montagna, Open Economies Review, 2007, Vol. 18: 95-118.
• "The Life-Cycle-Permanent-Income Model: A Reinterpretation and Supporting Evidence", with J. Malley, Empirical Economics, 2006, Vol. 31: 1025-1041.
• "Aggregate Scale Economies, Market Integration and Optimal Welfare State Policy", with C. Montagna, Journal of International Economics, 2006, Vol. 69: 321-340.

Research Papers

• 2010: "Environmental Degradation and the limits of LOV", with Y-F Chen and C. Montagna, University of Dundee Discussion Paper N. 234.
• "Inflation Uncertainty, Exchange Rate Depreciation and Volatility: Evidence from Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania", with K. Osei-Assibey, Dundee Discussion Paper 246.