Prof L. Alan Winters

Biography

L Alan Winters CB 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.

My office and feedback time is Wednesday 9-10:00. Jubilee Room 280.

Iacovone, Leonardo, Rauch, Ferdinand and Winters, L Alan (2013) Trade as an engine of creative destruction: Mexican experience with Chinese competition. Journal of International Economics, 89 (2). pp. 379-392. ISSN 0022-1996

Loke, Wai Heng and Winters, L.Alan (2012) Why Is Open Regionalism Not Always Good? Journal of Economic Integration, 27 (3). pp. 437-465. ISSN 1225-651X

Walmsley, Terrie L, Winters, Alan and Ahmed, Amer (2011) The impact of the movement of labour: results from a model of bilateral migration flows. Global Economy Journal, 11 (4). ISSN 1524-5861

Overman, Henry G and Winters, L Alan (2011) Trade and Economic Geography: The Impact of EEC Accession on the UK. Manchester School, 79 (5). pp. 994-1017. ISSN 1463-6786

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). pp. 1053-1072. ISSN 0378-5920

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 1467-9361

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, Gasiorek, Michael, López González, Javier, Holmes, Peter, Méndez Parra, Maximiliano, Rollo, Jim and Shingal, Anirudh (2009) Innocent bystanders: implications of an EU-India free trade agreement for excluded countries. Commonwealth Secretariat. ISBN 9780850928952

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, Princeton, pp. 855-859. ISBN 9780691128122

Winters, L. Alan (2009) Skilled Labor Mobility in Post-War Europe. In: Skilled Immigration Today. Oxford University Press, New York., pp. 53-80.

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. 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

Winters, L Alan, ed. (2007) The WTO and poverty and inequality. Critical perspectives on the global trading system and the WTO, 1 & 2 . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN 9781843763055

Winters, L. Alan (2005) The European agricultural trade policies and poverty. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 32 (3). pp. 319-346. ISSN 0165-1587

Winters, L. Alan (2004) Trade Liberalisation and Economic Performance: An Overview. Economic Journal, 114 (493). F4-F21. ISSN 0013-0133

Cooke, John, Evans, Phil, Findlay, Lucy, Gray, Kevin, Jensen, Olivia, de Jonquières, Guy, Mardsen, Phillip, Orozco, Claudia, Paemen, Higo, Page, Sheila, Roberts, Christopher, Ruttley, Philippe, Razeen, Sally and Winters, L.Alan (2003) Expanding WTO Rules? Should there be WTO rules on competition, investment, trade facilitation and transparency in government procurement? A Federal Trust Report on the Singapore Issues. Technical Report. Federal Trust for education and research, London.

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. ISBN 1-898128-67-7

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

Winters, L. Alan (1999) Summing Up II. In: International Trade Policy and the Pacific Rim. MacMillan for International Economics Association, pp. 400-405. ISBN 9780312218010

Winters, L. Alan (1998) Assessing Regional Integration Arrangements. In: Trade: Towards Open Regionalism. World Bank Latin American and Caribbean studies . The World Bank, Washington D.C., pp. 51-68.

Winters, L. Alan (1997) Lebanon's Euro-Mediterranean Agreement: Possible Dynamic Benefits. In: Pathways to Integration. Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies, pp. 33-54. ISBN 9781886604117

Winters, L. Alan (1996) The Uruguay Round: A Milestone for Developing Countries. In: The Uruguay Round and the Developing Countries. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-29. ISBN 9780521586016

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

Winters, L. Alan (1995) The Liberalisation of European Steel Trade. In: European Union Trade with Eastern Europe: Adjustment and Opportunities. Centre for Economic Policy Research, pp. 201-235. ISBN 9781898128175

Winters, L Alan, ed. (1995) Mitsui lectures in economics. Mitsui lectures in economics . Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

Winters, L. Alan (1993) The Political Economy of Industrial Countries' Agricultural Policies. In: Current Issues in Agricultural Economics. Current Issues in Economics . Palgrave MacMillan, United Kingdom, pp. 11-31. ISBN 9780312090913

Winters, L. Alan (1990) Digging for Victory: Agricultural Policy and National Security. World Economy, 13 (2). pp. 170-191. ISSN 0378-5920

Baldwin, RE and Winters, L. Alan (1989) Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv. Springer, pp. 441-662.

Winters, L. Alan (1988) "Comment" (on Smith and Kierzkowski). In: Issues in US EC Trade Relations. Chicago University Press, for the National Bureau of Economic Research. ISBN 9780226036083

Winters, L. Alan (1987) An Empirical Intertemporal Model of Developing Countries' Imports. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 123 (1). pp. 58-80. ISSN 0043-2636

Loke, Wai-Heng and Winters, L Alan Why open regionalism is not always good. Journal of Economic Integration. (In Press)