Jolian McHardy

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Dr. Jo McHardy

Room 431
Telephone 0114 22 23460
Fax +44 114 222 3458

email : j.mchardy@shef.ac.uk

Dr. Jo McHardy has a BA and PhD from the University of Sheffield and an MSc from Warwick. He joined the Department of Economics at Sheffield in 2004, having previously held a post at the University of Hull.

Professional Standing

Jo is an affiliate of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Research interests:

  • Oligopoly theory, networks and welfare
  • International and regional labour migration
  • Competition and regulation in land and air passenger transport

Current research projects

  • Oligopoly theory, networks and welfare
  • Asset Selling Strategies (with T. Biswas, University of Hull)
  • The Economics of UK Immigration (with G. Popli, University of Sheffield)
  • Trends and Balances of Intra-UK Migration (with T. Biswas and M. Nolan, University of Hull)
  • Network Regulation and Competition (with M. Reynolds and S. Trotter, University of Hull)
  • Economics of Corruption (with M. Dietrich, University of Sheffield, and A. Sharma, Imperial College, London)

PhD supervision

Christine Valente – The Land Transfer Programme in South Africa: Impact on beneficiary welfare (with Paul Mosley and Jenny Roberts).

Mike Reynolds - A theoretical exploration into the incentives for and effects of transport integration (with Steve Trotter).

Jenny Willson – A Study of Mothers' Return to the Labour Market Post a Childbirth Period (with Andy Dickerson).

Jo is interested in supervising in the following areas: welfare losses, network modelling, economics of migration, transport economics.

Teaching

  • ECN212 Further Mathematical Methods for Economics.
  • ECN342 Mathematical Economics.
  • ECN6530 Advanced Mathematical Economics

Administrative Roles

  • Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes
  • Director of PGT Admissions
  • Director of UG Admissions
  • Chair of PGT Learning & Teaching Committee
  • Chair of Sheffield Economics Forum
  • Knowledge Transfer & External Relations Group
  • Undergraduate Learning & Teaching Committee

Selected Publications

Recent Conference Presentations

Knowledge Transfer, Policy Advice and Consultancy


17 March 10