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Prof. Huw Dixon

Dixon, H's picture Fellow

Research interests: 

Monetary policy, nominal rigidity, imperfect competition and bounded rationality

Education: 

1977-80  Balliol College, University of Oxford. B.A., P.P.E (Phil/Econ).

1980-84  Nuffield College, PhD Economics

Employment: 

1983-1984      Temporary Lecturer, Hertford College, Oxford. 

1984-1987      Lectureship in economics, Birkbeck College, London. 

1987-1991      Readership, Essex University. 

1991-1992      Professor, University College Swansea, University of Wales.

1992- 2006     Professor, York University. 

2006 -             Professor, Cardiff Business School. 


1991-2001         Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (U.K.)

1996-2001         Member, Council of Royal Economic Society.

2000-                 Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Studies ifo (Munich).       

2020-                  Fellow, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

Additional information: 

Recent Publications

Huw Dixon, Kul Luintel and Kun Tian, (2020)The impact of the 2008 crisis on UK prices: what we can learn from the CPI microdata.  Cardiff Working paper No E2014/7. Forthcoming, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Huw Dixon and Anthony Savagar (2019) Firm entry, Excess Capacity and Aggregate Productivity, European Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.103339.

Marts Aoi, Huw Dixon and Anthony Savagar, Labor Responses, Regulation, and Business Churn, forthcoming Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Huw Dixon (2019), Almost-Maximization as a Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Static, Dynamic and Evolutionary Perspectives, Review of Industrial Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-019-09727-0. Online September 2019.

Huw Dixon and Peng Zhou (2018), The Determinants of Price Rigidity in the UK: Analysis of the CPI and PPI Microdata and Application to Macrodata Modelling, The Manchester School, Online 11 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12263 5

Huw Dixon and Kun Tian (2017), What We Can Learn about the Behavior of Firms from the average Monthly Frequency of Price-Changes: An Application to the UK CPI Data, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 79, 6 (2017) 0305–0349.

Dixon, Huw & Pourpourides, Panayiotis M., (2016), "General Equilibrium with monopolistic Firms and Occasionally Binding Cash-in-Advance Constraints," Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 50, Pages 72-85.

Keshab Bhattarai and Huw Dixon (2014), Equilibrium Unemployment in a General Equilibrium Model with Taxes, (joint with Keshab Bhattarai ), The Manchester School, 82 (S1), September 2014 pages 90-128.

Paulo Brito, Luís Costa and Huw Dixon (2013), Non-Smooth Dynamics and Multiple Equilibria in a Cournot-Ramsey Model with Endogenous Markups, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,  Volume 37, Issue 11, November 2013, Pages 2287–2306.

Paulo Brito and Huw Dixon (2013), Fiscal policy, entry and capital accumulation:  hump-shaped responses, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 37, Pages 2123–2155.

Huw Dixon and Herve le Bihan (2012), Generalized Taylor and Generalized Calvo price and wage-setting: micro evidence with macro implications, Economic Journal, vol. 122, pages 532-554, May (2012). 

Blog posts by Prof Huw Dixon

The Lockdown Weighted inflation CPILW for December 2020
Dixon, H's picture 20 Jan 2021, Dixon, H
The Lockdown Weighted inflation CPILW for November 2020
Dixon, H's picture 16 Dec 2020, Dixon, H
The Lockdown Weighted inflation CPILW for September 2020
Dixon, H's picture 26 Oct 2020, Dixon, H
The Lockdown Weighted Inflation CPILW For July 2020 And The Prospects For Inflation
Dixon, H's picture 19 Aug 2020, Dixon, H
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