Michael HARRISON
Michael Harrison, Senior Lecturer in Economics,
is a graduate of the Universities of Lancaster and Dublin,
and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, London
and Trinity College, Dublin. He has held visiting positions
at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester, The Queen's
University of Belfast, the University of the West Indies
and Senshu University, Japan, where he was a visiting
professor.
He served as Co-Director of the Royal Irish
Academy/British Council Socio-economic Quantitative Methods
Research Network, as a member of the Irish Life Investment
Managers' Quantitative Analysis Steering Group and has undertaken a variety of consultancies. He is
the current Director of Business, Economic and Social Studies Programme in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. His current teaching is in the area of quantitative
methods and his main research interests are statistics
and econometrics, in which he has published papers in such
journals as Applied Economics, Biometrika, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of the American Statistical
Association, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the Royal
Statistical Society, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics, Public Choice, Review of Economics and Statistics, as well as in books and Irish academic journals. His current research includes work on nonlinearity, random field regression, and testing in censored and truncated models. His latest paper appeared recently in Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.
