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Huw Dixon

Huw David Dixon
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Huw Dixon 2005
Born July 1958
Swansea, Wales
Nationality British (Welsh)
Institution Cardiff Business School
(2006–)
University of York
(1992–2006)
Swansea University
(1991–1992)
Essex University
(1987–1991))
Birkbeck College
(1983–1987)
Field Economics
School or
tradition
New Keynesian Economists
Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
Influences James Mirrlees, Don Patinkin, Robert Axelrod, Herbert Simon
Contributions Price Micro-data in Macroeconomic Models, Introducing Imperfect Competition in Macroeconomics, Equilibria in Bertrand–Edgeworth models with Convex Costs,The Evolution of Consistent Conjectures
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Huw David Dixon (/hju: devəd dɪksən/), born 1958, is a British economist. He has been a professor at Cardiff Business School since 2006, having previously been Head of Economics at the University of York (2003–2006) after being a Professor of economics there (1992–2003), and the University of Swansea (1991–1992), a Reader at Essex University (1987–1991) and a lecturer at Birkbeck College (University of London) 1983–1987.

He graduated from his first degree in Philosophy and Economics from (Balliol College, Oxford University) in 1980, and he went on to do his PhD at Nuffield College Oxford under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Sir James Mirrlees graduating in 1984.

Dixon was a fellow of the CEPR from 1991–2001, a member of the Royal Economic Society council (1996–2001), and a fellow of the Ces-ifo institute since 2000. He has been on the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies (1986–1993), the Journal of Industrial Economics. He edited the Controversies section of the Economic Journal (1994-9) and has been the Chair of the Royal Economic Society Conference 1992.

Dixon has a wide scope in terms of the areas of economics he has researched and published in and he has been described as one of Europe's leading economists. The topics include:


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