Perman Roger Mr

Biographical Information

A graduate of Manchester, Leicester and London (Birkbeck College) Universities, he was formerly Lecturer at Dundee Institute of Technology and Visiting Research Fellow in the Fraser of Allander Institute. His major research interests and publications are in the fields of applied econometrics and environmental economics. He teaches Business Economics and econometrics in France, and has undertaken economic consultancy work in Albania, Iraq, Russia, and the Ukraine. Current research includes structural convergence of European economies and applied cointegration analysis. He has recently jointly written texts in Environmental Economics, Business Economics, and the economics of strategy.

Publications

Books

Perman, R.J., Y. Ma, J. McGilvray and M. Common (2005) "Natural Resource and Environmental Economics" (Russian edition), Addison Wesley Longman.

Perman, R.J., Y. Ma, J. McGilvray and M. Common (March 2003) "Natural Resource and Environmental Economics" (Third edition), Addison Wesley Longman. [Fourth edition currently under preparation, with new additional co-author, Dr David Maddison, UCL.]

Perman, R.J., Y. Ma, J. McGilvray and M. Common (2002) "Natural Resource and Environmental Economics" (Chinese edition), Addison Wesley Longman.

Chapters in Books

Holden, D.R. and R. J. Perman (2006) "Recent developments in unit roots and cointegration analysis", in W. Rao ed., "Unit Roots and Cointegration for the Applied Economist", Macmillan. (Accepted for publication, expected date of publication December 2006)

Byrne, J.P and R. J. Perman (2006) "Unit Roots and Structural Breaks: A survey of the literature", in W. Rao ed., "Unit Roots and Cointegration for the Applied Economist", Macmillan. (Accepted for publication Expected date of publication December 2006)

Perman, R.J. (2005) "Evolving Directions in Environmental and Ecological Economics".  In "Valuation and Green Accounting of Tropical Forest Assets". (Edited by Hou Yuanzhao, Chinese Academy of Forestry. Published by International Tropical Timber Organisation, and the Chinese Academy of Forestry. ITTO PD 39/98 Rev. 2(M), May 2005, pages 182-197.

Perman, R. J. and D. Stern (2003) "Economic Growth and Environmental Development", in Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO, 2003. Online publication available, with subscription, at http://www.eolss.net/

Perman, R.J. (2001) "New Directions in Environmental Economics". Chapter 1 in "Forest Environmental Value Accounting". International Symposium on Forest Value Accounting, Beijing, China, October 9-12 2001. Published by International Tropical timber Organisation, and the Chinese Academy of Forestry. ITTO PD 39/98 rev. 2(M), pages 16-22.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Perman, R. J. and C. Tavera (2006) "Testing for convergence of the Okun's Law coefficient in Europe". Accepted for publication by Empirica, expected date of publication Spring 2006.

Perman, R. J and C. Tavera and. (2005) "A cross-country analysis of the Okuns Law coefficient convergence in Europe". Applied Economics, Vol. 37, Number 21, December 2005, pages 2501-2513.

Perman, R. J. and David Stern (2003) "Evidence from panel unit root and cointegration tests that the Environmental Kuznets Curve does not exist". Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 47(3), 2003, pages 325-347.

Other Publications

Perman, R. J. and C. Tavera (expected 2006) "Structural Convergence of the Sacrifice Ratio in Europe". Working Paper in progress.

Perman, R. J. and C. Tavera (expected 2006) "A structural VAR simulation of the welfare consequences of Structural Convergence of the Okun's Law coefficient in Europe". Working Paper in progress.