Mr Edgar Cooke

Role

• Dphil Student in Economics
• Associate Tutor

Interests: Applied microeconometrics, international trade (particularly, Regional trade agreements, trade preferences, heterogeneous firms, fdi, trade liberalisation, trade and growth and gravity modelling), global financial crisis and wage distribution and health access as well as poverty among households in Ghana.

For my Dphil, I am working on the impact of trade preferences on the exports of developing countries. The working title is, "Four Essays on Trade Preferences of the USA
and Exports of Developing Countries"

My supervisors are Michael Gasiorek and Barry Reilly

Qualifications

• Msc International Economics, University of Sussex (2009)
• MPhil Economics, University of Ghana (2006)
  
• BA Economics with Political Science, University of Ghana (2003)

2009/2010 - Associate tutor in:

• Microeconomcs 2 (2nd year undergrads/postgrad diploma) - autumn term
• Advanced Microeconomics (2nd year undergrads/postgrad diploma) - spring and summer terms

2010/2011

• Associate Tutor: Microeconomics 2 (2nd year undergrads) - autumn term
• Associate Tutor: Advanced Microeconomics (2nd year undergrads) - spring and summer terms
• Associate Tutor: The World Economy since 1945 (1st year undergrads) - spring and summer terms
• Lecturer: Introduction to Mathematics and Finance for Economists (1st year undergrads/postgrad diploma) - autumn term
• Facilitator: Stata workshop (working with data) for DPhils organised by the Doctoral School - autumn term

2011/2012

• Tutor - Economics primer for post graduate diploma students (September 2011)
• Tutor - Maths pre-session for Msc students (26 September - October 4, 2011)
• Associate Tutor: Microeconomics 2 (2nd year undergrads and pgdip students) - autumn term
• Associate Tutor: Introduction to Mathematics and Finance for Economists (1st year undergrads) - autumn term

2012/2013

• Associate Tutor for IMFE and Microeconomics II
• Tutor: Stata workshops for the Msc Analytical Methods course

Selected Working Papers

2010

• Antwi-Asare, Theodore, John Cockburn, Edgar F. A. Cooke, Ismaël Fofana, Luca Tiberti and Daniel K. Twerefou (2010), Simulating the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis and Policy Responses on Children in Ghana, Innocenti Working Paper No. 2010-05, UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa, Dakar, and UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence (available at: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/601)
• The Impact of Trade Preferences on Exports of Developing Countries: The Case of the AGOA and CBI Preferences of the  USA. Paper presented at University of Sussex DPhil Conference - November 12, 2010.

2011

• The impact of trade preferences on exports of developing countries: the case of the AGOA and CBI preferences of the USA. Revision of the papers of the same title presented at the sussex DPhil conference and in Nottingham. A version of this paper was presented at a Development Economics Seminar at Nottingham University on March 2, 2011 and also at the 2011 CSAE conference at Oxford. The paper is (available at: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35058/)
• American trade policy towards Sub Saharan Africa - A meta analysis of AGOA. Paper presented at the 5th MAER-Net colloquium in Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, September 16 - 18, 2011 (conference website: http://www.hendrix.edu/maer-network/default.aspx?id=40672). (Available at: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32500/)

Student Consultation

• Office hour: Tuesday 16.00GMT - 18.00GMT (in NAB 244) or by appointment