Hassan Molana

University of Dundee

Contact Information

Telephone Number : 01382 344 375

  Email Address : h.h.molana@dundee.ac.uk

Homepage: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/econman/staff/hmolana.html

Department Telephone Number : 01382 344 371

 

Department Fax Number : 01382 344 691

 

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 the Department of 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).

Current Research Interests

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 and Globalisation and the welfare state

Recent Publications

Capital Mobility, Scale Economies and the Welfare State" with C. Montagna, University of Dundee discussion paper, forthcoming

"Cumulative Causation, the Welfare State and International Specialisation" with C. Montagna, presented at the Royal Economic Society Conference at St. Andrews, UK, July 2000 and The European Economic Association Congress at BOlzano, Italy, September 2000, University of Dundee Discussion Paper no. 116

"Monopolistic Competition, Efficiency Wages and Perverse Effects of Demand Shocks", with Jim Malley, University of Dundee Discussion Paper, 1999

"Fiscal Policy and the Composition of Private Consumption: Evidence from the US and Canada" with J. Malley, EPRU Discussion paper, International Economic Journal forthcoming

"Market Structure and Fiscal Policy Effectiveness", with J. Zhang, Scandinavian Journal of Economics forthcoming

"Market Structure, Cost Asymmetries, and Fiscal Policy Effectiveness", with C. Montagna, Economics Letters, forthcoming

"Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in a Model of Imperfect Competition with Transaction Money", Australian Economic Papers, 2000, vol. 39, no.1 pp.56-67

"The Foreign Debt Problem", Economic Review, vol 16, No 3, 1999, pp24-28
"Intertemporal Preferences, Imperfect Competition, and Fiscal Intervention", Manchester School, Vol. LXVI, 1998, pp.159-177

"Permanent Income Hypothesis Revisited: Reconciling evidence, from Canadian, UK and USA aggregate time series data, with the representative consumer behaviour" with J. Malley, University of Glasgow Discussion Paper, 1999

"Does consumption deviate from the permanent income path? An empirical Study of UK data", with R. MacDonald, University of Strathclyde Discussion Paper, 1998

"Consumption and Fiscal Policy: UK evidence from a co-integration approach on substitution between private and public spending on goods and services", 1997, Empirical Economics, vol. 22, 63-81