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• Academic

  • Paul Allanson
  • Martin Chalkley
  • Monojit Chatterji
  • Yu-Fu Chen
  • John Dewhurst
  • Martin Jones
  • Sushil Mohan
  • Hassan Molana
  • Catia Montagna
  • Carlo J. Morelli
  • Dennis J. Petrie
  • Bill Russell
  • Paul T. Seaman
  • Yin Zhang

• Support

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  • Adele Ferrier

Professor Hassan Molana

Contact:
h.h.molana@dundee.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1382 384375
Fax:+44 (0)1382 384691
Postal Address:
Economic Studies
University of Dundee
Perth Rd
Dundee
DD1 4HN

Professor 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. He is Professor of Economics at Economic Studies at the University of Dundee. His previous posts have been Senior Lecturer in Economics (University of Glasgow) and Research Officer (University of Southampton).

External Affiliations

• Member of the Royal Economic Society and the Scottish Economic Society
• Associate Editor of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy
• Member of the Steering Committee of RES Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics (CHUDE)
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics
• Deputy Course Director, Bachelor of Finance, Faculty of Law and Accountancy, University of Dundee

Research

• The theoretical foundations of the personal sector's allocation of funds and empirical regularities concerning the composition of personal consumption and wealth
• The role of the personal sector in transmitting macroeconomic policy effects
• The effectiveness of expansionary macroeconomic policies in the presence of market distortions
• Globalisation and the welfare state

Teaching

• Macroeconomics (Scottish Graduate Programme, MSc Economics)
• Microeconomics (2A)
• International Finance
• Econometrics (Scottish Graduate Programme, MSc Economics)

Recent publications

• “Expansionary Effects of Welfare State Policies in a Small Open Economy”, with C. Montagna,. forthcoming, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2008.
  
  
• Foreign Direct Investment, Tax Competition and Social Expenditure, with H. Görg and C. Montagna, forthcoming, International Review of Economics and Finance, 2007
  
  
• Aggregate Scale Economies, Market Integration, and Optimal Welfare State Policy with C. Montagna, in Journal of International Economics, 2006, 69, 321–340
  
  
• "Is Monetary Discipline a Precondition for the Effectiveness of Iran's Export Promotion Policies?”, with Amir Mozayani, forthcoming in Journal of International Development
  
  
• "Can Portfolio Adjustments Explain Deviations of Consumption from Permanent Income? An Empirical Study of UK Data ", with R. MacDonald, forthcoming in North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2004
  
  
• "Fiscal Policy and the Composition of Private Consumption: Evidence from the US and Canada" (2002) with J. Malley, International Economic Journal vol. 16, 139-158
  
  
• "Market Structure and Fiscal Policy Effectiveness" (2001) with J. Zhang Scandinavian Journal of Economics vol. 103
  
  
• "Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in a model of Imperfect Competition with Transaction Money" (2000) Australian Economic Papers vol. 39
  

• "Market Structure, Cost Asymmetries and Fiscal Policy Effectiveness" (2000) with C. Montagna, Economics Letters, Vol. 68
  

Research Papers

• Monopolistic Competition, Efficiency Wages and Peverse Effects of Demand Shock (2000) with J. Malley, University of Dundee Discussion Paper no. 122
  
  
• Cumulative Causation, Capital Mobility and the Welfare State (2002) with C. Montagna, University of Dundee Discussion Paper no. 128
  
  
• Efficiency Wages, Unemployment and Macroeconomic Policy (2002) with J. Malley, University of Dundee Discussion Paper no. 126
  
  
• The Life-Cycle- Permanent- Income Model: A Reinterpretation and Supporting Evidence, (2002) with J. Malley, University of Dundee Discussion Paper no. 138
  
  
• Welfare State, Market Imperfections and International Trade (2003) with C. Montagna, University of Dundee Discussion Paper No. 146
  
  
• 2007: Foreign Direct Investment, Tax Competition and Social Expenditure, with H. Görg and H. Molana, University of Dundee Discussion Paper no. 198