PhD Supervision Catherine would welcome applications from students with an economics background who wish to pursue research in the following areas:
Economic reform and regulation
Economics of energy
Consumer behaviour
The role of consumers in competition policy
Publications
Refereed Articles
Public Utility Pricing in Britain, European Journal of Marketing, 13(4), pp 247-259, 1979
Fairer Charges? Electricity, (with Michael Gibson) Public Money, pp 6-7, March 1983
Energy Pricing and Gas Supply, Public Money, p 13, June 1983
Gas Supply, Public Money, pp 6-7, (with Michael Gibson), December 1983
Competition in UK Gas Distribution, Energy Policy, 13(2), pp 37-50, February 1985
Standing Charge Rebates, (with Michael Gibson) Energy Policy, 14(3), pp 262-271, June 1986
Gas Industry Privatisation - Is the Regulatory Framework Adequate? Public Money (also published in CIPFA Energy Yearbook pp 48-55), June 1986
Economic Regulation of Private Water (with Paul Herrington) in Public Finance and Accountancy, pp 13-17, June 1987
Economic Regulation of Private Monopolies through Price Constraints (with Ian Bradley) in Journal of Industrial Economics, pp 99-106, September 1988
Average Revenue Regulation and Regional Price Structure, (with Ian Bradley) in Regional Science and Urban Economics, 21(1), pp 89-108, 1991
Regulation of the UK Gas Industry - Incentives and Responses Since Privatisation in Annals of Public and Co-operative Economics, 63(2), pp 189-206, 1992
Gas transportation: a comment in Utilities Policy, 2(4), pp 330-332, October 1992
Le industrie energetiche inglesi tra privatizzione e ristrutturazione (with Richard Green) in Energia, XV(1), pp 26-35, March 1994
Transportation charges in the gas industry, Utilities Policy, 4(3), pp 191-197, 1994
Liberalisation and divestiture in the UK energy sector (with Richard Green) in Fiscal Studies, 16(1), pp 75-89, February 1995
Privatizing British Gas in Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, 10(2), pp 77-80, 1995
Competition in the British Domestic Gas Market:efficiency and equity (with Ruth Hancock) in Fiscal Studies, 3(16), pp 81-105, August 1995
Structure, regulation and interconnection: a comparative study of the UK Energy market, in Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy, 5(2), pp 249-260, December 1995
Interconnection pricing: telecommunications and energy compared, in Rivista internazionale di Sceinze sociali CIII, 1, 1995
Malmquist Indices of productivity change in the gas industry (with Tom Weyman-Jones), in Applied Economics, 28(1), pp 29-39, January 1996
Efficiency and ownership in electricity distribution: a non-parametric model of the Turkish experience (with Necmiddin Bagdadioglu and Tom Weyman-Jones); Energy Economics, 18(1-2), pp 1-23, April 1996
Competition and Regulation in the UK Gas Industry in Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 13(1), pp 47-63, March 1997
Undue Discrimination and Cross-Subsidies: Price Structures in UK Utilities, Utilities Law Review, 8(5), pp 191-200, September 1997
Distributional Effects of Liberalising UK Residential Utility Markets (with Ruth Hancock), Fiscal Studies, 19(3), pp 295-320, 1998
Regulation and access pricing: comparison of regulated regimes (with Gianni de Fraja), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 46,(1), pp 1-16, February 1999
New Gas in Old Pipes: Opening UK Residential Gas Markets to Competition (with Matthew Bennett), Utilities Policy, 8(1), pp 1-15, March 1999
UK utilities: past reform and current proposals (with Eleni Markou), Annals of Public and Co-operative Economics, 70(3), pp 371-416, September 1999
Incentive Contracts in Utility Regulation (with Matthew Bennett), Revue d'Economie Industrielle special edition on The Economics of Contracts, 92(2/3), pp 361-384, 2000
Efficiency and Productivity Studies in Incentive Regulation of UK Utilities, Revista del Rosario (Colombia), 3(2), pp 11-24, November 2000
Incumbent and Entrant Response to Regulated Competition: Signalling with Accounting Costs and Market Prices (with Jesus Otero), Journal of Business and Economics, 53(2-3), pp 209-223, 2001
Price Discrimination in a Regulated Market with Entry: the residential UK electricity market (with Jesus Otero), Bulletin of Economic Research, 53(3), pp 161-175, July 2001
New Accountabilities in Utilities: fifty years of legal accountability in the gas industry (with Lynne Conrad), Energy Policy, 29, pp 1357-1361, 2001
Generating Efficiency: Economic and Environmental Regulation of Public and Private Electricity Generators in Spain (with Pablo Arocena), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 20(1), pp 41-69, January 2002
Left Out in the Cold? The Impact of new energy tariffs on the fuel poor and low income households (with Matthew Bennett and Dudley Cooke), Fiscal Studies, 23(2), pp 167-194, June 2002
Charges, Costs and Market Power in the Deregulated UK electricity Retail Market (with Evens Salies), The Energy Journal, 25(3), pp 19-35, 2004
Incentive Regulation and Efficient Pricing Structures (with Monica Giulietti), Annals of Public and Co-operative Economics, 76(1), pp 1121-138, 2005
Social Consequences of Energy Market Liberalisation in the UK in Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 21(1), pp 128-144, 2005
Consumer Choice and Industrial Policy: a study of UK Energy Markets (with Monica Giulietti and Mike Waterson), The Economic Journal, 115(506), pp 949–968, October 2005
Introducing competition and deregulating the British domestic energy markets: a legal and economic discussion (with Michael Harker), Journal of Business Law, pp 244-268, May 2007
Measuring Potential Gains from Mergers among Electricity Distribution Companies in Turkey using a Non-Parametric Model (with Necmiddin Bagdadioglu and Thomas Weyman-Jones), The Energy Journal, 28(2), pp 83-110, 2007
Does Ownership Unbundling Matter? Evidence from UK Energy Markets (with Steve Davies), Intereconomics, 42(6), 297-301, November/December 2007
Service Quality in Regulated Monopolies (with Bitten Brigham and Lin Fitzgerald), Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 79(2), pp 197-225, 2008
The Future of Retail Energy Markets, The Energy Journal, special edition in honour of David Newbery, 125-147, 2008
The Impact of Electricity Market Reform on Consumers (with Khac Pham), Utilities Policy, special edition on reform in South East Europe, 17, 1, 43-48, 2009
The Distribution of Individual Personal Tax Compliance Costs in the U.K. (with Laurence Mathieu and Francis Antwi), Applied Economics, 42, 3, 351-368, 2010
Do Consumers Switch to the Best Supplier? (with Chris M. Wilson), Oxford Economic Papers, 62: 647-668, 2010
Innovation and regulation in energy supply (with Elizabeth Hooper), Economic Affairs, 2, June, 13-20, 2010
Current working papers
Non-discrimination clauses in the retail energy sector (with Morten Hviid), CCP working paper 10-18, http://www.uea.ac.uk/ccp/CCP_Working_Paper_10_18
Gain or Pain: Does consumer activity reflect expected costs and potential benefits? (with Catherine Ball and Tina Chang), CCP working paper 08-15, http://www.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.104668!ccp08-15.pdf , under revision
How Far Does Economic Theory Explain Competitive Nonlinear Pricing in Practice?
(with Chris Wilson and Stephen Davies), CCP working paper 09-7, https://www.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.118570!ccp09-7.pdf , under revision
Identifying Fuel Poverty Using Objective and Subjective Measures
(with Karl Brazier, Khac Pham, Laurence Mathieu and Wenjia Wang); CCP working paper 07-11
Books and Monographs
Welfare Economics in Theory and Practice, Macmillan, 175 pages, 1977
Britain and Tanzania: The Search for Real Aid, published by the Independent Group on British Aid, 54 pages, 1986
What Price Private Water? (with Paul Herrington), published by Public Finance Foundation, 64 pages, 1987
Privatisation and Regulation (edited with Peter Jackson) Longman 261 pages, 1994
including authorship of 3 chapters: Economic regulation of privatised industries, pp 77 - 98; Privatisation in less developed countries, pp 237 - 254; and Privatisation and regulation: a review of the issues (with Peter Jackson), pp 1 - 34
Social Equity and the Provision of Electricity, a report for the Institute for Public Policy Research, November 1996
Effects of UK Utility Reform: source and distribution (with Eleni Markou), published by the Institute for Public Policy Research and the Public Utilities Reform Group, September 1997
Fuel Poverty in Britain, Expenditure on Fuels 1993-94 to 1995-96 (with Andreas Biermann) published by the Gas Consumers Council, November 1998
Affording Gas and Electricity: Self disconnection and rationing by prepayment and low income credit consumers and Company attitudes to social action (with Dudley Cooke, Alessandra Ferrari, Monica Giulietti and Diane Sharratt), Electricity Association, March 2001
Utility Privatisation and Regulation: A Fair Deal for Consumers? (co-editor with Cecilia Ugaz) and author of two chapters: UK Utility Reform, Distributional Implications and Government Reform (with Alison Young); and Access by the Poor in Latin America's Utility Reform: Subsidies and Service Obligations (with O. Chisari and A. Estache), Edward Elgar, 2003
Assessing the Effectiveness of Potential Remedies in Consumer Markets, a report for the Office of Fair Trading (with Luke Garrod, Morten Hviid and Graham Loomes), 2008
Benchmarking the Performance of the UK framework supporting consumer empowerment through comparison against relevant international comparator countries, a report for the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (with Michael Harker, Pinar Akman, Liza Lovdahl Gormsen and Judith Mehta), 2008
Consumer Choice in the Water Sector (with Kerry Clayton), published by Ofwat as part of their Future Regulation project,
http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/publications/commissioned/rpt_com_1010fplchoice.pdf (2010)
Contributions to Books
Let Justice Flow - A Contribution to the Debate about Development, Church House Publishing, pp 24 - 26, January 1986
Regional Price Discrimination in the Gas Industry, in George Norman (ed): Spatial Pricing and Differentiated Markets, pp 165 - 185, Pion Press: London Papers in Regional Science: volume 16, 1986
Privatising the Electricity Industry - Lessons from Gas (with Michael Gibson) in Saul Estrin and Christine Whitehead (ed): Privatisation and the Nationalised Industries, pp 33 - 50, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1988
Privatisation and Regulation: British Gas (with Michael Gibson) in Christine Whitehead (ed): Reshaping the Nationalised Industries, pp 158 - 178, Policy Journals, 1988
Gas Privatisation: Implications for Pricing Policy and Demand in D Helm, J Kay and D Thompson (ed): The Market for Energy, pp 263 - 278, Clarendon Press, 1989
Partial and Mixed Regulation of Newly Privatised UK Monopolies (with Ian Bradley) in W Weigel (ed): Economic Analysis of Law - A Collection of Applications, pp 212 - 221, Schriftenreihe der Bundeswirtshaftskammer, Wien, 1991
Gas - a review of 1992 in T. Gilland and P. Vass (eds) Regulatory Review 1993 Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries , pp 33 - 44, 1993
Gas regulation and competition: substitutes or complements? in M Bishop, J Kay, C Mayer and D Thompson (eds): Privatisation and economic performance Oxford University Press pp 137 - 161, 1994
Industry structure and access charges in T. Gilland and P. Vass (ed) CRI Regulatory Review 1994, Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries , pp 135 - 150, 1994
Lessons from privatisation - the regulated industries in P. Jackson and M. Lavender (eds) The Public Services yearbook 1995, CIPFA, 1995
The Perfectly Competitive Market, in Mackintosh et al (eds) Economics and Changing Economies, published as Open University course unit and text by Chapman Hall, 1996, pp 215 - 250
Interaction of regulation and competition in the developing UK gas market, G. MacKerron and P. Pearson (eds) The UK energy experience: a model or a warning?, Imperial College Press, March 1996
The future of regulation in P. Jackson and M. Lavender (eds) The Public Services yearbook 1996-97, CIPFA, 1996, pp 169 - 176
Winners and losers from liberalisation of the domestic energy market and Theory and Background in D. Corry, C. Hewett and S. Tindale (eds), Energy ‘98, IPPR, 1996, pp 1 - 22, 57 - 84
Corporate Governance and Management under Regulation in Regulatory Review 1996, Centre for Regulated Industries, pp 163 - 180, October
UK privatisation - effects on households (with Ruth Hancock) in Arestis, Palma and Sawyer (eds) Markets, Unemployment and Economic Policy: Essays in honour of Geoff Harcourt, 1997
Regulated Industries: Agenda for an Incoming Government in P. Jackson and M. Lavender (eds) The Public Services yearbook 1997-98, CIPFA, 1997, pp 143 - 150
The UK Gas Industry in D. Helm and T. Jenkinson (eds) Competition in Regulated Industries, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp 108 - 131
Competition Policy and Utility Regulation: A Conceptual Framework and its application to Tanzania's Water and Energy Sectors in Mwandosya, M.J., Mbowe, G.F. and Young, P. "Competition Policy and Utility Regulation", 1997
Price Structures in the UK Utilities: Response to deregulation in Glenn Morgan (ed) Regulation and Organizations, Routledge, 1999, pp 230 - 247
Better Energy Services, in Energy Services for the World's Poor, Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme Energy and Development Report 2000, World Bank, April 2000 pp 26 - 33
Gas: Regulating for Social Needs, in C Robinson (ed): Regulating Utilities: New Issues, New Solutions, Edward Elgar, 2001, pp 166 - 186
Gas (with Lin Fitzgerald) chapter in P. Vass (ed): Regulatory Review, Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries, 2001, pp 63 - 74
Incentive Contracts in Utility Regulation (with Matthew Bennett), in Brousseau and Glachant (eds) The Economics of Contract, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp 416 - 439
The Impact of Privatisation on British Consumers, presented at First Milan European Economy Workshop: "The Welfare Impact of British Privatisations, 1979-1997", Università degli Studi di Milano, June 2002
Yardstick Competition and Comparative Performance Measures in Practice, chapter in L. Hunt (ed)., "Energy in a Competitive Market: Essays in Honour of Colin Robinson", Edward Elgar, May 2003
Consumers and Anti-Trust in British Deregulated Energy Markets (with Michael Harker) in Bergmann and Nilsson (eds) "The Pros and Cons of Antitrust in Deregulated Markets", 2004, Swedish Competition Authority, pp 29 - 50
Regulation and Consumer Representation (with Michael Harker and Laurence Mathieu), in D. Parker (ed), International Handbook on Economic Regulation, Edward Elgar, Chapter 10, 2005
Effect of Liberalising UK Retail Energy Markets on Consumers, in Helm, D (ed.), The New Energy Paradigm, OUP, Part III, Chapter 12, pp 348-371, April 2007
Governance and Regulation of Infrastructure Institutions: Literature Survey, in Lee, R (ed.) The Governance of Financial Market Infrastructure, Oxford Finance Group, Part 2 chapter 13, pp 428-446, 2010
Non-Refereed Articles
It's good to be in control, Parliamentary Brief, 2(10), pp 99-100, August 1994
Why gas will now cost more for the poor than for the rich (with R.Hancock) Parliamentary Brief, 1994
Questions of equity and efficiency:Energy privatisation and competition, Public Policy Review, January 1995
Gas is now all about competition, Parliamentary Brief, 3(6), pp 66-67, April 1995
Why two heads are better than one, Parliamentary Brief, 3(9), pp 16-18, Summer 1995
Utility Mergers - Implications for Consumers and Regulators, Public Finance Foundation, November 1995
Efficiency and Equity: the effect of supply liberalisation in the domestic gas market, Energy Utilities, pp 25-27, February 1996
Comment on British Gas TransCo consultative document in Energy Policy, 24(5), pp 373-375, May 1996
An Independent view of the TransCo price review, Gas Business June 1996
The Virtuous Way to Tax the Fat Cats Parliamentary Brief vol 4,7 July 1996 pp 44-46
Regulating for Fairness, New Economy, June 1997
Taking the utilities to market, New Statesman 24.7.98, pp IV-V, August 1998
Subsidy and Reform of Infrastructure Industries, paper for World Bank/Department for International Development conference, June 2000
Power to the people, Utility Week, pp 22-23, 6th April 2001
Examining Fuel Poverty, Metering International, June 2001
Boon or Bane? Energy Action, issue 84, August 2001
Prepayment Meters: The Consumer Perspective, Energy Action, issue 86, arch 2002
A Fair Deal for Consumers? The Impact of Latin America's Infrastructure Reforms (with Cecilia Ugaz), WIDER Angle, World Institute for Development Economics Research no 1/2002, pp 11-12
Is it too soon to deregulate energy markets?, Energyforum Global Report 2002, pp 78-83
Do Competitive Energy Markets Make Rising Energy Prices Worse for Poor Consumers?", Center for the Study of Energy Markets Research Review, pp 4-5, Spring 2005
Competition Policy and the UK Energy Markets (with Stephen Davies and Cheryl Whittaker), Which? Consumer Policy Review, 17(1), pp 12-18, February 2007
Discussion and Conference Papers not Published Elsewhere
Gas Price Increases, Leicester University Public Sector Economics Research Centre Discussion Paper, April 1980
Distribution Costs in the UK Gas Industry, University of Leicester Economics Department Discussion Paper no. 31, Leicester University, 42 pages, January 1984
Lessons from Gas Privatisation, in Littlechild, SC et al: Energy Privatisation, University of Surrey Discussion Paper, pp 8 - 15, June 1988
Privatisation in Malaysia, University of Leicester Economics Discussion Paper no. 94, 28 pages, December 1988
An Industrial Gas Tariff - The Implications of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission Report, University of Leicester Economics Discussion Paper, no. 97, 27 pages, January 1989
‘The Capital Stock of Cyprus' to the Planning Bureau and Government Officials, Nicosia, September 1990 (published as Leicester University Report, with Mark Maynard)
‘Privatisation and Regulation in the UK Gas Industry' (published as University of Leicester Economics Discussion Paper no 165)
Competitive structure and access pricing in U.K. regulated energy industries proceedings, Regulation of the Energy Industries seminar, Oxford, April 1994
The competitive market for residential gas consumers, with Ruth Hancock, Centre for Management under Regulation Research Paper 97/1, March 1997
Utility Regulation:Fairness for all? Responses to the Government's Green Paper (with Michael Doble and Eleni Markou), Centre for Management under Regulation Research Paper 98/2, May 1998
Quality and Quantity of Regulatory Information (with Begoña Garcia-Mariñoso and Morten Hviid) presented at the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Madrid, August 2002, Centre for Comptition and Regulation working paper 02-5
Spoilt for Choice? The Costs and Benefits of Opening UK Residential Markets, University of California Energy Institute Working Paper 123, February 2004
Considering the problematic of measurement: The Evolution of Performance Measures in the Privatised Water Industry of England and Wales (with Bitten Brigham and Lin Fitzgerald
Organisational response to Regulatory Imperatives: case study of a network industry (with Lin Fitzgerald and Bitten Brigham)
Recent Research Grants
2000 from UNU-Wider to co-edit book on distributional implications of reforming utilities in Latin America
2001 advice to European government on assessing effectiveness of telecommunications regulator (anonymity a condition of grant)
2001 from the Economic and Social Research Council to investigate Social Obligations and Economic Regulation
2001 from energywatch to investigate Issues that Matter to Gas and Electricity Consumers
2003 from Powergen as part of Energy Monitor project; survey of consumer attitudes to renewable energy and other energy conusmption variables
2004 (with Stephen Davies, Morten Hviid Bruce Lyons and others) from the Economic and Social Research Council to establish the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia
2004 (with Wenjia Wang) from the Economic and Social Research Council to Identify Relevant Factors and Complex Patterns in Fuel Poverty
2006 (with Stephen Davies and Cheryl Whittaker) from Which? for an article in the Consumer Policy Review assessing competition policy in the UK energy markets
2006 (with Michael Harker and Pinar Akman) from Energywatch to produce a report providing a balanced overview of the pros and cons of pre-payment meters (PPMs), wherever appropriate and possible distinguishing between gas and electricity
2007 (with Liz Hooper, Laura Jones, Andrei Medvedev and Peter Ormosi) from World Bank to carry out surveys on regulatory quality, utility performance and governance in the energy sectors of Eastern European countries
