MUNRO, Alistair

• 
  • Position:
    Professor
  • Degree:
    D.Phil, University of Oxford
  Specialty:
  Microeconomics (Behavioural public economics, environmental economics and experimental economics)
• Current research interests:
  (1) Experiments on intra-household allocation, (2) mental accounting and public policy, (3) cost-benefit analysis and the environment.
• Professional Career:
  

  1984	College Lecturer, St. John's College, University of Oxford
  1985	Lecturer, University of Stirling, Scotland
  1990	D. Phil, University of Oxford
  1991	Lecturer, University of East Anglia
  1998	Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia
  2000	Reader, University of East Anglia
  2005	Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London
  2008-	Professor, GRIPS

• Selected Publications:
  

  2011	(with C. Jackson, V. Iversen, B. Kebede, A. Verschoor) Do Spouses Realise Cooperative Gains? Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda, World Development, forthcoming.
  2009	Bounded Rationality and Public Policy. Springer Verlag
  2008	(with I J. Bateman and G. L. Poe), Asymmetric Dominance Effects in Choice Experiments and Contingent Valuation, Land Economics, February.84, 1, 115-127.
  2005	An experiment on risky choice amongst households, (with I. Bateman), Economic Journal, 115(502) C176-190.
  2005	Is there loss aversion in buying? An adversarial collaboration (with I Bateman, D Kahneman, C Starmer, R Sugden) Journal of Public Economics, 89: 1561-1580.
  2004	Preference reversal: an experimental investigation of economic and psychological hypotheses (with R. Cubitt and C. Starmer) Economic Journal, 114 709-726.
  2003	On the theory of reference-dependent preferences, (with R. Sugden), Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation 50(4), 407-428.
  1999	Economics of the Public Sector, (with Sara Connolly) Prentice Hall. London.
  1997	(with I. Bateman, B. Rhodes, C. Starmer, and R. Sugden) Does Part-Whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation, Economic Journal,March, 322-332.
  1997	(with I. Bateman, B. Rhodes, C. Starmer, and R. Sugden) A Test of the Theory of Reference-Dependent Preferences, Quarterly Journal of Economics,Vol.112, 2, 479-505.
  1992	Self-selection and Optimal In-kind Transfers, Economic Journal, vol. 102 no. 414 1184-1196.
  1991	The Optimal Public Provision of Private Goods, Journal of Public Economics, 44(2) 239-261.
  1989	In-Kind Transfers, Cash Grants and Labour Supply, European Economic Review, 33, 1597-1604.

• Other notable activities:
  Associate Editor: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2005-
• E-mail: alistair-munro
  
  
• Alistair Munro's personal webpage