Prof L. Alan Winters

Biography

L Alan Winters is Professor of Economics in the University of Sussex. He is a Research Fellow and former Programme Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and Fellow of IZA, Munich. From 2004 to 2007 he was Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank, the world's largest and leading group of development economists, and was previously Division Chief and Research Manager (1994-99) and Economist (1983-85) in the Bank. He has also worked previously in the Universities of Cambridge, Bristol, Wales and Birmingham.  He has been editor of the World Bank Economic Review and associate editor of the Economic Journal, and is about to become editor of The World Trade Review; he serves on several editorial boards. He has also advised, inter alia, the OECD, DfID, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Commission, the European Parliament, UNCTAD, the WTO, and the Inter-American Development Bank.

L Alan Winters is one of the world's leading specialists on the empirical and policy analysis of international trade and development, and has recently also worked on migration and the brain drain. He has published over two hundred articles and thirty books in areas such as regional trading arrangements, non-tariff barriers, European Integration, transition economies' trade, international labour mobility, agricultural protection, trade and poverty, and the world trading system. He has also published on small economies, global warming, pricing behavior and econometrics.

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Overman, Henry G and Winters, L Alan (2011) Trade and Economic Geography: The Impact of EEC Accession on the UK. The Manchester School, 79 (5). 994¿1017.

Winters, L Alan, Lim, Wonhyuk, Hanmer, Lucia and Augustin, Sidney (2010) Economic growth in low income countries: what G20 can do to help raise and sustain it? In: Towards the Consolidation of the G20: From Crisis Committee to Global Steering Committee. Korean Development Institute and Brookings, pp. 288-295.

Green, Tim and Winters, L. Alan (2010) Economic crises and migration: Learning from the past and the present. World Economy, 33 (9). Pages 1053-1072. ISSN 03785920

Hertel, Thomas W, Keeney, Roman, Ivanic, Maros and Winters, L. Alan (2009) Why Isn't the Doha Development Agenda More Poverty Friendly? Review of Development Economics, 13 (4). pp. 543-559. ISSN 13636669

Anderson, Kym and Winters, L Alan (2009) Challenge of Reducing International Trade and Migration Barriers. In: Global Crises, Global Solutions, (Copenhagen Consensus 2008). Cambridge University Press, pp. 451-503.

Hoekman, Bernard and Winters, L. Alan (2009) Multilateralizing preferential trade agreements: a developing country perspective. In: Multilateralizing Regionalism: Challenges for the Global trading System,. Cambridge University Press,, pp636-680.

Winters, L. Alan (2009) Freer trade and higher incomes ¿ how much do we know? In: Is Free Trade Fair Trade? The Smith Institute,, pp. 12-23.

Winters, L. Alan (2009) Making the Economic Partnership Agreements more poverty friendly. Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy,, 2 (2). pp.1-26.

Winters, L. Alan (2009) North-South Trade. In: The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy. Princeton University Press, pp. 855-859. ISBN 9780691128122

Winters, L. Alan (2009) Skilled Labor Mobility in Post-War Europe. In: Unset Oxford University Press, New York,, pp53-80..

Anderson, Kym and Winters, L Alan (2009) The challenge of reducing international trade and migration barriers. In: Global Crises, Global Solutions: Costs and Benefits. Cambridge University Press, pp. 451-503. ISBN 9780521517218

McKenzie, David, Pilar Garcia, Martinez and Winters, L. Alan (2008) Who is coming from Vanuatu to New Zealand under the new Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) program? Pacific Economic Bulletin, 23 (3). pp. 205-228. ISSN 0817-8038

Commander, Simon, Chanda, Rupa, Kangasniemi, Mari and Winters, L Alan (2008) The Consequences of globalisation: India's software industry and cross border labour mobility. The World Economy, 31 (2). pp. 187-211. ISSN 0378-5920

Venables, Anthonty J, Winters, L Alan and Yueh, Linda (2008) Economic Integration in Asia: European Perspectives. In: Economic Intergration in East Asia: Perspectives from Neo-Classical and Spatial Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 143-172. ISBN 9781847209122

Bourguignon, Francois, Coyle, Diane, Fernàndez, Raquel, Giavazzi, Francesco, Marin, Dalia, O'Rourke, Kevin, Portes, Richard, Seabright, Paul, Venables, Anthony, Verdier, Thierry and Winters, L Alan (2002) Making Sense of Globalization: A Guide to the Economic Issues. Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Davies, S, Gasiorek, Michael, Davidson, R, Lyons, B, Ulph, D, Vaughan, R and Winters, Alan (2002) The impact of a single currency in Europe on product markets: theory and evidence. In: European Integration and the Functioning of Product Markets. Commission of European Communities/Edward Elgar Publishers, pp. 33-102. ISBN 9781843763932

Kaminski, Bartlomiej, Wang, Zhen Kun, Winters, L Alan, Sapir, André and Székely, Székely P (1996) Export Performance in Transition Economies. Economic Policy, 11 (23). pp. 421-442. ISSN 0266-4658